Michael Pollan Quotes

I love cooking. Not for myself alone. Cooking is about giving.

As we give presents at Christmas, we need to recognize that sharing our time and ourselves is such an important part of giving.

If you have only one smile in you give it to the people you love.

Love is cheering and sharing and compassion and giving and receiving. Love is an action thing more than a word thing, that brings comfort or joy or relief to anyone or anything.

By nature, I'm very care-taking. There's something really beautiful about cooking for someone and feeding them.

There's a lot of love in my house. I have the greatest parents ever.

Making a good meal for someone, even if it is nothing complicated, is an expression of love: it is an invitation to share, for one dinner at least, in our common humanity.

I'm nice. I love people. I love kids; I want kids of my own.

I enjoy what I'm able to give my family.

If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels give.

Give a little love to a child, and you get a great deal back.

Really. I'd love to be spoiled on by others.

Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindness, and small obligations given habitually, are what preserve the heart and secure comfort.

You dear women, I say thanks to you. Thank you for being the kind of people you are and doing the things you do.

My father loved people, children and pets.

I've realized that although Valentine's Day can be a cheesy money-making stint to most people, it's a day of expressing love across the world. It doesn't have to only be between lovers, but by telling a friend that you care, or even an old person that they are still appreciated.

Because love encompasses everything, nothing is unimportant, including tonight's dinner menu. Think about it for a minute. If you were pure love, the loving parent of all life, how would you want people to eat?

Every gift which is given, even though is be small, is in reality great, if it is given with affection.

I believe that love and laughter can only happen when one person takes the time to think about what would cause the other person to feel good.

No, honey. This is for you.

Any time you make the transfer of 'I've created something, and I'm giving it to you, and I hope it makes you happy,' that's good.

Without my dad, mum and siblings I wouldn't be here. Everything they did for me, I'm so thankful.

The best way to show someone you love them is to care for the people they love.

My mother was a good woman.

How I show love has always been through food. That, for me, has been the foundation of how I express gratitude for anybody around me.