Food Significance Quotes

The food in the South is as important as food anywhere because it defines a person's culture.

Food is no longer sacred to us: in becoming too efficient we've changed its nature.

Yeah, well, food is always a part of everything.

You know we fixate on the food so much itself: “Oh, the ultimate brownie or the ultimate this or that” -- well, let me tell you something: It’s all poop in about 12 hours, okay? The real power that food has is its ability to connect human beings to each other -- that’s the stuff right there and, to me, everything else is secondary to that.

Food may be essential as fuel for the body, but good food is fuel for the soul.

Food is sort of like the Jewish sense of humor, a defense mechanism. It is one of the things that helped the Jews survive through 2,000 years of an often very harsh Diaspora.

Food is "everyday"-it has to be, or we would not survive for long. But food is never just something to eat. It is something to find or hunt or cultivate first of all.

Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.

Food was always a focus for us, lyrically.

For the Anglo-Saxons, food determined a person's position in society.

If you think of what food is, it's the energy we use to do our daily work. I want people to know about the USDA. This is a very important department. It's not fully appreciated as such.

Food to a large extent is what holds a society together, and eating is closely linked to deep spiritual experiences.

One should not attend even the end of the world without a good breakfast.

The greatest contribution to the Mexican table imaginable

Food still isn't my thing, but I've learned to respect its power and significance.

I was brought up to think a lot about food and have respect for it, both as medicine and something to eat and enjoy.

I have always considered desserts to be of equal importance to the savory food.

What a character eats is a detail - like eye color or a favorite song. But food is also our lifeblood.

'Tampopo's amazing. I think it's an absolutely fantastic movie, but I don't think it captures for me the meaning of food.

To me, what I'm interested in, in the end, is the meaning of food in our lives.

The fact that food plays such an important part in my films has everything to do with my family.

Food is a profound subject and one, incidentally, about which no writer lies.

In Wilson's scale of evaluations breakfast rated just after life itself and ahead of the chance of immortality.

It is part of the novelist's convention not to mention soup and salmon and ducklings, as if soup and salmon and ducklings were of no importance.