Quotes with food-wise

Quotes 521 till 540 of 611.

  • George Orwell We may find in the long run that tinned food is a deadlier weapon than the machine-gun.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Plato We ought to fly away from earth to heaven as quickly as we can; and to fly away is to become like God, as far as this is possible; and to become like him is to become holy, just, and wise.
    Plato
    Greek philosopher (427 - 347)
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  • Alexander Pope We think our fathers fools, so wise we grow. Our wiser sons, no doubt will think us so.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • Barton Seaver We've become slaves to words like 'local,' 'fresh,' and 'seasonal.' We all want to be Thomas Jefferson's agrarian hero, but sustainable food is a difficult beast.
    Barton Seaver
    American author and chef (1979 - )
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  • Bob Wise Well the first order of government is to preserve the public order and safety.
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  • Abdul Qadeer Khan Well, sometimes if I go out to dinner with my family, people will come up to me and put their hand across my plate for me to shake, sometimes when I have a bite of food in my mouth. I find this a bit disturbing.
    Abdul Qadeer Khan
    Pakistani nuclear physicist (1936 - )
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  • Brigitte Bardot What could be more beautiful than a dear old lady growing wise with age? Every age can be enchanting, provided you live within it.
    Brigitte Bardot
    French fashion model, singer and actress (1934 - )
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  • Carla Hall What I love about 'The Chew' is that we have these celebrities come on, and you get to see them in a different light, cooking or enjoying food, when we usually don't see them in that setting. So it's a lot of fun for their fans to see them be normal people and having that commonality of food.
    Carla Hall
    American chef and television personality (1964 - )
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  • Anne McCaffrey What I used to do between writing fits was feed my kids, ride my horse and go shopping for cat and dog food.
    Anne McCaffrey
    American-Irish writer (1926 - 2011)
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  • Lucretius What is food to one man is bitter poison to others.
    Lucretius
    Roman poet and philosopher (95 - 55)
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  • Caroline Knapp What is this drive to be thinner, prettier, better dressed, other? Who exactly is this other and what does she look like beyond the jacket she's wearing or the food she's not eating? What might we be doing, thinking, feeling about if we didn't think about body image, ever?
    Caroline Knapp
    American writer and columnist
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  • George Bernard Shaw What is wrong with priests and popes is that instead of being apostles and saints, they are nothing but empirics who say ''I know'' instead of ''I am learning,'' and pray for credulity and inertia as wise men pray for skepticism and activity.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Seneca What should a wise person do when given a blow? Same as Cato when he was attacked; not fire up or revenge the insult., or even return the blow, but simply ignore it.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Cass Sunstein What's disgusting about genetic modification of food? I speculate that many people have an immediate, intuitive sense that what's healthy is what's 'natural,' and that efforts to tamper with nature will inevitably unleash serious risks - so-called Frankenfoods. The problem with that speculation is that it's flat-out wrong.
    Cass Sunstein
    American legal scholar (1954 - )
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  • Bhagavad Gita Whatever you do, make it an offering to me - the food you eat, the sacrifices you make, the help you give, even your suffering.
    Bhagavad Gita
    Indian Hindu storybook
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  • John Milton When complaints are freely heard, deeply considered and speedily reformed, then is the utmost bound of civil liberty attained that wise men look for.
    John Milton
    English poet, polemicist and man of letters (1608 - 1674)
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  • Ban Ki-moon When food prices surge, poor families suddenly find themselves unable to afford enough nutritious food. If this happens during the first thousand days of a child's life, the damage to his or her body and mind can be permanent.
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • Desiderius Erasmus When I get a little money, I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes.
    Desiderius Erasmus
    Dutch humanist and philosopher (1469 - 1536)
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  • Bobby Flay When I go to a restaurant, I eat three-quarters of the food in front of me. That cuts my calorie intake by 25 percent.
    Bobby Flay
    American celebrity chef and restaurateur (1964 - )
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  • Billy Joel When I was 19, I made my first good week's pay as a club musician. It was enough money for me to quit my job at the factory and still pay the rent and buy some food. I freaked.
    Billy Joel
    American singer-songwriter and pianist (1949 - )
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All food-wise famous quotes and sayings you will always find on greatest-quotations.com (page 27)