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We must change our diet. The planet can’t support billions of meat-eaters.
David Attenboroughborn 1926“Go vegetarian to save wildlife and the planet, Sir David Attenborough urges”. The Independent (26 August 2020)
- Nature
Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many years; take thine ease, eat, drink, and be merry.
The Bible (King James Version)The Gospel of Luke (1611), Luke 12:19 (KJV)In context
- Happiness
A hot dog at the ball park is better than steak at the Ritz.
Humphrey Bogart1899–1957
- Baseball
Avoid at all costs that vile spew you see rotting in oil in screwtop jars. Too lazy to peel fresh? You don’t deserve to eat garlic.
Anthony Bourdain1956–2018Kitchen Confidential (2000)
- Comedy
America’s most dangerous export was never nuclear weapons or Jerry Lewis⁠—or even Baywatch reruns. It was, is, and probably always will be our fast-food outlets.
Anthony Bourdain1956–2018The Nasty Bits (2006)
- America
Tell me what you eat, I will tell you what you are.
Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin1755–1826Physiologie du Goût (1825), Vol. 1, Aphorisms, no. 4 (tr. L. F. Simpson, 1864)
Great chieftain o’ the puddin-race!
Robert Burns1759–1796Address to a Haggis (1786)In context
- Comedy
I do not like broccoli and I haven’t liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it. And I’m President of the United States and I’m not going to eat any more broccoli.
George H. W. Bush1924–2018News conference (22 March 1990)
- Comedy
- Presidency
The best sauce in the world is hunger
Miguel de Cervantes1547–1616Don Quixote (1605–1615), Part II, Chapter VIn context
Whatever happens in a house, robbery or murder, it doesn’t matter, you must have your breakfast.
Wilkie Collins1824–1889The Moonstone (1868), First Period: The Loss of the Diamond (1848), Chapter XIIn context
- Comedy
No fear can stand up to hunger, no patience can wear it out, disgust simply does not exist where hunger is; and as to superstition, beliefs, and what you may call principles, they are less than chaff in a breeze.
Joseph Conrad1857–1924Heart of Darkness (1899), Part IIIn context
- Fear
I’m at an age where I think more about food than sex. Last week I put a mirror over my dining room table.
Rodney Dangerfield1921–2004
- Comedy
We are indeed much more than what we eat, but what we eat can nevertheless help us to be much more than what we are.
ADAdelle Davis1904–1974
“Please, sir, I want some more.”
Charles Dickens1812–1870Oliver Twist (1838), Chapter IIIn context
You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity.
Ralph Waldo Emerson1803–1882The Conduct of Life (1860), Fate
- Animals