My mother is a strong, wonderful woman. I could never be anything she didn't want me to be.
How can there be too many children? That is like saying there are too many flowers." ~ Mother Teresa of Calcutta
Blaming mother is just a negative way of clinging to her still.
No one is blessed to love more than one to the peak level except mother!
Everybody has a Big Momma: the mother or the grandmother who tells it like it is, keeps it real with them, isn't afraid to tell you the truth about yourself.
My father was also a principal of a school and mother was a curriculum advisor. Both were educators.
My father is an atheist. My mother is Buddhist. They encouraged my siblings and me to take the best part of other religions to make our own belief system.
It's really important to teach people how to get food, how to grow it, how to pick it, how to prepare it and what's safe to eat.
We are stronger as a group than an individual. Think in a cooperative and communal way, set up local food hubs and create growing communities.
I wish that the world's food was spread evenly on everybody's plate, and that no-one got more or less than anyone else.
If you really want to make a friend, go to someone's house and eat with him... the people who give you their food give you their heart.
Even though I grew up as a Sephardic Jew in Brooklyn where we ate Syrian food and went to temple, it was still America.
Modern agriculture has been accurately described as a way of turning oil into food. As the price of oil continues to rise, so will the price of food.
Temptation is like a knife, that may either cut the meat or the throat of a man; it may be his food or his poison, his exercise or his destruction.
Woe to us if we get our satisfaction from the food in the kitchen and the TV in the den and the sex in the bedroom with an occasional tribute to the cement blocks in the basement!
I cannot wait to see the day that one day we will have a chef that will become the secretary of food of the United States of America.
Public and private food in America has become eatable, here and there extremely good. Only the fried potatoes go unchanged, as deadly as before.
Every party is the same, too many people, too little food, and you have to wait around. I'm extremely bored with parties.
Even the other kids who people made fun of made fun of me. That's where I stood on the school food chain.
A first date should be elegant. In comfortable surroundings. A place with excellent food, where you can talk easily and get to know each other.
Someone has to take the garbage out, someone has to cook the food, and someone has to clean the dishes. I want to do all of that.
