Tom Haverford Food Quotes

I could talk food all day. I love good food. ~ Tom Brady

Local and regional food systems are about opportunity. ~ Tom Vilsack

Food has a unique political power, for several reasons: food links the world's richest consumers with its poorest farmers; food choices have always been a potent means of social signaling; modern shoppers must make dozens of food choices every week, providing far more opportunities for political expression than electoral politics; and food is a product you consume, so eating something implies a deeply personal endorsement of it. But ~ Tom Standage

The lack of access to proper nutrition is not only fueling obesity, it is leading to food insecurity and hunger among our children. ~ Tom Vilsack

The vast amount of waste and sheer stupidity in government - from the Pentagon to the Food and Drug Administration - could fill committee agendas for years. ~ Tom Coburn

Mosquitoes remind us that we are not as high up on the food chain as we think. ~ Tom Wilson

I think steak is the ultimate comfort food, and if you're going out for one, that isn't the time to scrimp on calories or quality. ~ Tom Colicchio

When you get to fifty-two food becomes more important than sex. ~ Tom Lehrer

You have to know the classics if you want to cook modern food. ~ Tom Colicchio

There's a food revolution going on throughout the country. And it doesn't matter if you're down south, up north in Maine, if you're out west in Portland or Seattle. ~ Tom Colicchio

In a voice that sounds the way a can of cheap dog food would sound if a can of cheap dog food could speak, he tells you you are looking well. ~ Tom Robbins

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. ~ Tom Vilsack

Utrip makes it easy for travelers to experience the destination highlights that most interest them, be it food, art or history. Just like a culinary experience, every palate is different, and Utrip is all about personalizing travel for their users. ~ Tom Douglas

As a chef, I had started working with groups like Share Our Strength and various local food banks in New York, raising money for hunger-related issues. And not only me, but the entire restaurant industry has been very focused on this issue. ~ Tom Colicchio

Would you pour sand into the gas tank of your car? Of course not, your car was meant to run on good gasoline. Well, your body works the same way. Your body was meant to run on good food: fruits, vegetables, lean protein, and lots of water. Eat good food! ~ Tom Giaquinto

Let us build a 21st-century rural economy of cutting-edge companies and technologies that lead us to energy and food security. Such an investment will revitalize rural America, re-establish our moral leadership on climate security and eliminate our addiction to foreign oil. ~ Tom Vilsack

Food is a fairly significant aspect of my life. I have struggled mightily with food. With my weight. And I'm conscious of it. So I have a sensitivity to people who struggle with their weight. ~ Tom Vilsack

In New York, I'll walk down the street and someone will say, 'Nice show,' and that's it. If I'm at a food festival, it's open season. ~ Tom Colicchio

My heart is a Latin American food stall and your love is a health inspector from Zurich. ~ Tom Robbins

We are not really privy to all that crazy stuff that goes on in the show. I go to work, eat, and talk about food. The wild things happen when we aren't around. I expected Top Chef to last three or four seasons and we are now shooting season ten. ~ Tom Colicchio

Hunger is a political issue, and there are several things politically that are keeping people hungry - not funding food stamps adequately, not funding school lunches adequately. So there is a political solution to the problem of hunger. ~ Tom Colicchio

In Haverford on the Platte the townspeople still talk of Lucy Gayheart. ~ Willa Cather

Is art influential? It can be - 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' rallied abolitionists, and 'The Jungle' provoked the demand for a safer food industry. ~ Will Shetterly

When you hang with a bunch of 300-pound linemen, you tend to find the places that are the greasiest and serve the most food. ~ Tom Brady

When Nero, with a casual quip, declared 'mushrooms to be the food of the gods, since it was by means of a mushroom that Claudius has become a god',66 it ~ Tom Holland

A hamburger is an icon of layered circles, the circle being at once the most spiritual and the most sensual of shapes. ~ Tom Robbins

I put food on the table
and roof overhead.
But I'd trade it all tomorrow
for the highway instead. ~ Tom Waits

You know what I really love the most in life? Food. Yep, just food. I love the cooking of food, the eating of food, the talking about food, the thinking about food, and the dreaming about food. Food, food, food. That's what I love. Can there be anything more Hobbity than that? I reckon not. ~ Steve Bivans

Music and the arts feed our souls, but a decent wage puts food on the table. Musicians, fans of music, and grassroots political organizations are a potent force to fight for social justice. ~ Tom Morello

The way humans hunt for parking and the way animals hunt for food are not as different as you might think. ~ Tom Vanderbilt

Greitens later wrote in his book, The Heart and the Fist. ~ Tom Manion Tom Sileo

I travel around and hear from so many kids. Their parents say they were always very picky but they watch the show and they want to try stuff. The show is entertainment, but I think it has done so much for the public perception of what food can be. ~ Tom Colicchio

Where do I get my seriousness? You can't help but grow up fast when your parents get divorced. You see your mother go to get food stamps and she's making fifty dollars too much to get them, with four kids to support. ~ Tom Cruise

Eat, as nobody is watching. Enjoy food like that's the only thing left in your world. ~ Nikita Dudani

There's a certain fast-food approach to the whole music thing that's changed the role it plays for us all. You are doing it while you are doing other things. Not that that is new - people have had music on in the background as long as there has been music. ~ Tom Waits

Bhrigu meditated and found that food is Spirit. From food all things are born, by food they live, towards food they move, into food they return. ~ Shree Purohit Swami

It felt like religious kitsch, as tacky as a black velvet painting, the kind of fantasy that appealed to people who ate too much fried food, spanked their kids, and had no problem with the theory that their loving God invented AIDS to punish the gays. ~ Tom Perrotta

I fell in love with literature and stayed lovesick all my life. ~ Tom Stoppard

I'll take my clothes off - whatever the job requires. ~ Tom Felton

A couple of months ago, I was down in Florida for the Food and Wine Festival. And this journalist grabbed me and said, 'How does it feel to be a TV guy? You're no longer in the restaurant business.' And I laughed. I asked him, 'How long do you think it takes me to do a season?' He said, 'Well, 200 days.' And I was like, '200 days? Try 20!' ~ Tom Colicchio

Soup is just a way of screwing you out of a meal. ~ Jay Leno

There's probably no subject with quite so many conflictin' opinions about it as there are about food, and 'tis better to swap bubble gum with a rabid bulldog than challenge a single one o' the varyin' beliefs your average human holds about nutrition. ~ Tom Robbins

My sisters like cooking at my place. It has a bit more room, and the food tastes a little bit better. A big pot of spaghetti and sauce, some warm French bread - works all the time. I think I've been eating pasta for 26 years. ~ Tom Brady

If your version of pub food is microwaving a pie and some baked beans, then yeah, it's really complicated cooking. But if it's just about getting the best out of simple ingredients, then it's not. ~ Tom Kerridge

We ought to know about our culinary past. Food and identity is terribly important ... I don't mean we should go out and eat historic dishes, but we should know what makes us different ... self-confident nations have that sense of where they come from. ~ Tom Jaine

Every English village seems to have a particular day when some local tradition is celebrated - and the celebratory food is often pie. ~ Janet Clarkson

While everyone else is in the spa, im gonna shower because im Tom Daley ~ Tom Daley

Life's too short, make the most of it. ~ Tom Cassell

I did the first HBO special ever in 1975 at Haverford College. Cable was new then: HBO was a Time-Life entity, with maybe 400,000 or 500,000 subscribers and maybe 50 employees. ~ Robert Klein

I'm a big fan of Caribbean food, Spanish food, Dominican food - like rice and beans. Hot sauce just adds a different layer of boom to the food, you feel me? ~ Theophilus London

Breath Properly, Stay Curious, and Always Eat Your Beets! ~ Tom Robbins

Art is a creed, not a craft. ~ Tom Wolfe

I resent when I go out to dinner and they try to sell me the healthy food for the same price as the good food. ~ Jim Gaffigan

There's a lot of people who don't like Tom Brady and I'm OK with that. ~ Tom Brady

If we can get people to focus on fruits and vegetables and more healthy foods, we'll be better in terms of our healthcare situation. ~ Tom Vilsack

Even if you don't eat at a fast food restaurant, you're now eating food that's produced by this system. ~ Joel Salatin

You know most of the food that Americans hold so dear - things like hamburgers and hot dogs - were road food, but even before they were road food, they were peasant food. ~ Alton Brown

I do love Italian food. Any kind of pasta or pizza. My new pig out food is Indian food. I eat Indian food like three times a week. It's so good. ~ Jennifer Love Hewitt

Food redistribution is one of the best win-win solutions for food waste avoidance. Food companies can often save money by donating food rather than paying the £80 or so per tonne in landfill tax and disposal costs. ~ Tristram Stuart

I love food, all types of food. I love Korean food, Japanese, Italian, French. In Australia, we don't have a distinctive Australian food, so we have food from everywhere all around the world. We're very multicultural, so we grew up with lots of different types of food. ~ Hugh Jackman

Like all food, whether you're talking about Persian food, or Chinese food, or Swedish food, it's always a reflection of wars, trading, a bunch of good and a bunch of bad. But what's left is always the food story. ~ Marcus Samuelsson

The security of people and nations rests on four pillars - food, energy, water and climate. They are all closely related, and all under increasing stress ~ Tom Burke

I like food. I like eating. And I don't want to deprive myself of good food. ~ Sarah Michelle Gellar

I love food. I'm a big food person. I'm really passionate about eating good food all the time. ~ Dreama Walker

She thought of the things that lovely young women usually think about when they are relaxing in treetops and unhampered by underwear. ~ Tom Robbins

If we can't arrange our own happiness, it's a conceit beyond vulgarity to arrange the happiness of those who come after us. ~ Tom Stoppard

[I]t's an honor to be a food stamp president. Food stamps feed the hungry. Food stamps save the children. Food stamps help the farmer. Food stamps help the truck driver. Food stamps help the warehouse. Food stamps help the store. Food stamps hire people and feed people. Food stamps save people from starvation and malnutrition ... Give President Barack Obama a big hand. Show your love. Show your appreciation. ~ Jesse Jackson

From zoning to labor to food safety to insurance, local food systems daily face a phalanx of regulatory hurdles designed and implemented to police industrial food models but which prejudicially wipe out the antidote: appropriate scaled local food systems. ~ Joel Salatin

But it's so hard to dance that way when it's cold and there's no music. ~ Tom Waits

Jazz, to me, is one of the inherent expressions of Negro life in America: the eternal tom-tom beating in the Negro soul - the tom-tom of revolt against weariness in a white world, a world of subway trains, and work, work, work; the tom-tom of joy and laughter, and pain swallowed in a smile. ~ Langston Hughes

Food during my early years was a very difficult issue for me. I grew up in an addictive family. My mother had serious problems with alcohol and prescription drugs. I was an overweight kid. I can remember back in those days there weren't the strategies that there are today to deal with those issues. ~ Tom Vilsack

A pie, like a building, requires construction after all. ~ Janet Clarkson

Excuses tell me two things about a person; they aren't honest with themselves, or others, and they believe I can't see they are lying to both of us - Tom too tall Cunningham ~ Tom Cunningham

How can a nation be called great if its bread tastes like kleenex? ~ Julia Child

If I could be anywhere, where would I be? ~ Tom Felton

There is nothing in the world that good food cannot fix. ~ Kevin Kwan

Your diet is a bank account. Good food choices are good investments. ~ Bethenny Frankel

But maybe that's how it is with art. You suffer, and in the end, everyone thinks it's cool. ~ Tom Dolby

There are four kinds of food that every person consumes every day. In
Buddhism, we call these kinds of food the Four Nutriments. They are edible food; sense impressions; volition; and consciousness, both individual and collective. ~ Thich Nhat Hanh

I guess when you smile, it's just joy coming out of you. ~ Tom Hiddleston

husband, Dave, my daughter, and I had moved out of Cen- ter City and into a house in Haverford that I refused to call a McMansion, even though that's exactly what it was, but I loved Ellie's pediatrician so much that 1'd never even tried to find a suburban replacement. ~ Jennifer Weiner

One thing that makes me very happy is to see the growing activism among chefs in America. Chefs like Tom Colicchio, Bill Telepan, and Rachel Ray and food writers like Michael Pollan have gone to Congress, indeed sometimes even have testified before Congress, have lent this support to Mrs. Obama's effort to combat childhood obesity. ~ Jose Andres

The 'role of the theatre' is much debated (by almost nobody, of course), but the thing defines itself in practice first and foremost as a recreation. This seems satisfactory. TOM STOPPARD 1993 ~ Tom Stoppard

1052The power of one hundred proud men cannot influence the world as much as of one humble servant of God. Tom Krause ~ Tom Krause

I just love food, especially my mom's Bulgarian cooking. Taco Bell is my favorite fast food restaurant. I also love Italian food. ~ Leah LaBelle

At the World Food Programme we have recognized what a valuable tool food aid can be in changing behaviour. In so many poorer countries food is money, food is power ... ~ Catherine Bertini

Without such a thing as fast food, there would be no need for slow food, ~ Michael Pollan

It is more important to be free than to be happy. ~ Tom Robbins

We all have negative thoughts. They are impossible to avoid. But ongoing negative thoughts...That's a choice. ~ Tom Cunningham

One of the keys for being a positive influence on other people is to keep your complaints and negativity in your head and out of your mouth. ~ Tom Cunningham

I also try to eat as much raw food and clean food as possible. ~ Kirsty Gallacher

I don't eat fast food any more, not since I got cancer. ~ Paul Henderson

Many countries have food safety systems from farm to table. Everybody involved in the food supply is required to follow standard food safety procedures. You would think that everyone involved with food would not want people to get sick from it. ~ Marion Nestle

Tell everyone to vote: Tom Savini for Governor on 'The Walking Dead'! ~ Tom Savini

I love Italian food; it's soulful like French food. Italian food is original and homey; it's market-driven, but also can be locally sourced. ~ Daniel Boulud

If I were a girl for a day I would try to sleep with Tom Kaulitz. ~ Tom Kaulitz

The past can never be changed, but the future, by the Grace of God, can be.--Tom Blubaugh ~ Tom Blubaugh

Chinese food in Texas is the best Chinese food in the United States except Boston. ~ John Updike

What I have is a general and very personal knowledge of food. I know which food I enjoy. I know which food I hate. I know how food makes me feel ~ Jim Gaffigan

It's simple - I love food. I am travelling all-year round, so I have the chance to eat every food possible, so I am really lucky with that. ~ Stanislas Wawrinka