Perfect Food Quotes:

Cooking is like love. It should be entered into with abandon or not at all.

- Harriet Van Horne

source: 1956 Vogue, Oct.

topic: Love, Food, Memorable, I Love Food, Food Love

My weaknesses have always been food and men - in that order.

- Dolly Parton

topic: Love, Food, Men, Delicious Food, I Love Food

All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt.

- Charles M. Schulz

topic: Love, Witty, Hurt, Humor Love, Humorous Love

One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.

- Virginia Woolf

source: 1929 A Room of One's Own, ch.1.

topic: Love, Food, Sleep, Hunger For Food, Healthy Living

My momma always said, "Life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get."

- Winston Groom

source: "Fictional character: Forrest Gump". "Forrest Gump", www.imdb.com. 1994.

topic: Life, Motivational, Movie, Favorite Book, 80s And 90s

Chocolate is a perfect food, as wholesome as it is delicious, a beneficent restorer of exhausted power...it is the best friend of those engaged in literary pursuits.

- Justus von Liebig

topic: Perfect, Chocolate, Exhausted, Perfect Food, Wholesome Food

I prefer to regard a dessert as I would imagine the perfect woman: subtle, a little bittersweet, not blowsy and extrovert. Delicately made up, not highly rouged. Holding back, not exposing everything and, of course, with a flavor that lasts.

- Graham Kerr

topic: Food, Perfect, Flavor, Sweets And Desserts, Dessert First

Don't cry over spilt milk.

- Aesop

source: "The Milkmaid and Her Pail". Fable by Aesop published in "Aesop's Fables For Children", 1919.

topic: Regret, Dessert First, Milk, Spilled Milk, Spilt Milk

There are only ten minutes in the life of a pear when it is perfect to eat.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

topic: Food, Perfect, Culinary, Pears, Perfect Food

Black as the devil, hot as hell, pure as an angel, sweet as love.

- Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

topic: Love, Sweet, Coffee, Morning Coffee, Mornings And Coffee

Barbecue sauce is like a beautiful woman. If it's too sweet, it's bound to be hiding something.

- Lyle Lovett

topic: Beautiful, Sweet, Food, Perfect Food, Barbecue

People say that all you get out of sugar is calories, no nutrients...There is no perfect food, not even mother's milk.

- Frederick J. Stare

topic: Mother, Dark, Perfect, Perfect Food

Hunger makes you restless. you dream about food - not just any food, but perfect food, the best food, magical meals, famous and awe-inspiring, the one piece of meat, the exact taste of buttery corn, tomatoes so ripe they split and sweeten the air, beans so crisp they snap between the teeth, gravy like mother's milk singing to your bloodstream.

- Dorothy Allison

source: Dorothy Allison (2005). “Bastard Out of Carolina: A Novel”, p.70, Penguin

topic: Mother, Dream, Air, Perfect Food, Gravy

Most of you have been where I am tonight. The crash site of unrequited love. You ask yourself, How did I get here? What was it about? Was it her smile? Was it the way she crossed her legs, the turn of her ankle, the poignant vulnerability of her slender wrists? What are these elusive and ephemeral things that ignite passion in the human heart? That's an age-old question. It's perfect food for thought on a bright midsummer's night.

- Sybil Adelman

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Love You, Heart, Unrequited Love, Slender, Perfect Food

Perfect food is born of perfect order.

- Daniel Patterson

topic: Order, Perfect, Born, Perfect Food

Mother's milk, time-tested for millions of years, is the best nutrient for babies because it is nature's perfect food.

- Robert S. Mendelsohn

topic: Mother, Baby, Years, Perfect Food

When you acknowledge, as you must, that there is no such thing as perfect food, only the idea of it, then the real purpose of striving toward perfection becomes clear: to make people happy, that is what cooking is all about.

- Thomas Keller

source: "What It Takes" with Alice Winkler, learningenglish.voanews.com. April 20, 2018.

topic: Real, Ideas, Perfect, Making People Happy, Perfect Food

Algae is the perfect food plant. It doubles cell mass every twelve hours, depending on the strain.

- Homaro Cantu

source: "A Willy Wonka Who Wants to Feed the World". Interview with Brandon Keim, www.wired.com. December 30, 2008.

topic: Cells, Perfect, Twelve, Strain, Perfect Food

A meal of bread, cheese and beer constitutes the perfect food.

- Elizabeth I

topic: Beer, Perfect, Meals, Perfect Food, Bread And Cheese