Our Food Quotes
75 quotes by 67 authors
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Why don't we pay more attention to who our farmers are? We would never be as careless choosing an auto mechanic or babysitter as we…
— Michael Pollan
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Everyone has a doctor in him or her; we just have to help it in its work. The natural healing force within each one of…
— Hippocrates
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Our budget works to reduce and eliminate the risk of attacks at our ports, rails, in the skies, our food supply and roads by allowing…
— Jim Ryun
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Infectious disease is one of the few genuine adventures left in the world. The dragons are all dead and the lance grows rusty in the…
— Hans Zinsser
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Foreigners cannot enjoy our food, I suppose, any more than we can enjoy theirs. It is not strange; for tastes are made, not born. I…
— Mark Twain
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There are fewer chemical pollutants in the air. Our drinking water is safer. Our food standards have been raised. We've cleaned up more toxic waste…
— William J. Clinton
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He who made thee is made in thee. He is made in thee through whom you were made.... Give milk, O mother, to him who…
— Saint Augustine
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From the recycling miracles in the soil; an army of predators ridding us of unwanted pests; an abundance of life creating a genetic codebook that…
— Tony Juniper
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We hear much of special interest groups. Well, our concern must be for a special interest group that has been too long neglected. It knows…
— Ronald Reagan
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I strongly believe as a mother, as does my husband, that there are certain contributing factors that lead to autism and some of it is…
— Kelly Preston
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We don’t go further than what Marx called the exchange value of the actual object- we don’t think about the relations that that object embodies-…
— Angela Davis
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It is, of course, one of the miracles of science that the germs that used to be in our food have been replaced by poisons.
— Wendell Berry
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Forests in the tropics are cut to make pasture to raise beef for the American market. Our distance from the source of our food enables…
— Gary Snyder
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All human beings are entrepreneurs. When we were in the caves we were all self-employed . . . finding our food, feeding ourselves. That’s where…
— Muhammad Yunus
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How is it that we do not die of love in seeing that God Himself could do no more than shed His divine blood for…
— Teresa of Avila
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Our food chain is in crisis. Big agribusiness has made profits more important than your health—more important than the environment—more important than your right to…
— John Robbins
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Those externalized costs have always included labor. It is only the decline over time of the minimum wage in real dollars that's made the fast…
— Michael Pollan
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I also believe that it's the right thing to do, to maintain strong consumer confidence in our food systems. And I believe that the consumer…
— Ann Veneman
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Someday we shall look back on this dark era of agriculture and shake our heads. How could we have ever believed that it was a…
— Jane Goodall
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We're only truly secure when we can look out our kitchen window and see our food growing and our friends working nearby.
— Bill Mollison
Who Wrote These Our Food Quotes
67 authors contributed a total of 75 Our Food Quotes, led by these top contributors: