Meat Quotes - Page 16

• The interesting thing is, while we die of diseases of affluence from eating all these fatty meats, our poor brethren in the developing world die of diseases of poverty, because the land is not used now to grow food grain for their families.

  Jeremy Rifkin

  Land, Interesting, Poverty

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• Let there be more corn and more meat and let there be no hydrogen bombs at all.

  Nikita Khrushchev

  Hydrogen Bomb, Bombs, Corn

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• I don't eat much meat, fish, or poultry.

  Carol Burnett

  Poultry, Fishes

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• I have been following a vegan diet now since the 1980s, and find it not only healthier, but also much more attractive than the chunks of meat that were on my plate as a child.

  Neal Barnard

  Children, Vegan, Attractive

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• Dinner was meat - not hunks of meat, as in Australia, but pathetic scraps of meat, as in Britain - which the girls upstairs transformed into edible dishes by heating it in secret ways and adding bits of stuff to it.

  Clive James

  Funny, Girl, Humorous

  Clive James (2013). “The Complete Unreliable Memoirs”, p.286, Pan Macmillan

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• The peace we seek, founded upon decent trust and cooperation among nations, can be fortified not by weapons of war but by wheat and cotton, by milk and wool, by meat and timber, and by rice. These are words that translate into every language.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  War, Wheat, Milk

  Address to the American Society of Newspaper Editors, delivered 16 April 1953, Statler Hotel, Washington, D.C.

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• Wake up meat head, don't pretend that you are dead.

  Ringo Starr

  Friendship, Wake Up

  Song: Back Off Boogaloo, 2007

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• Tradition, thou art for suckling children, Thou art the enlivening milk for babes, But no meat for men is in thee.

  Stephen Crane

  Art, Children, Men

  Stephen Crane (1963). “Whilomville stories. The black riders, and other lines”

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• It may be doubtful, at first, whether a person is an enemy or friend. Meat, if not properly digested, becomes poison; But poison, if used rightly, may turn medicinal.

  Sakya Pandita

  Enemy, Poison, May

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• I'm really still a child of the Forties. I still think about it a lot, about the repercussions of armed conflict. Until 1953 we had rationing. We couldn't buy meat, we couldn't buy pleasurable goods like cigarettes and sweets. I didn't starve - my family were lucky - but I knew what it was like standing in line waiting for foodstuffs.

  Eric Burdon

  Sweet, Children, Thinking

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• Being a public person doesn't necessarily mean you're a piece of meat for everybody.

  Elle Macpherson

  Mean, Pieces, Persons

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• Primarily I'm a meat man, although once in a while I toy with a few vegetables.

  Nat King Cole

  Men, Vegetables, Toys

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• The thing that you're faulted on today is not that you are too tough, or not that you aren't careful. It's that you might have been too soft. People want that red meat now because you have to keep up with the mood and the mood today is harsh. It really is.

  Mark Russell

  People, Want, Might

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• Because I'm so known as a meat-chef, when I talk about Meatless Monday some people look at me like I've lost my mind. I'm like, look, I'm not saying beef and pork is bad, I love it and I eat it six days a week.

  Michael Symon

  Monday, People, Mind

  "Meat Man Michael Symon Does Meatless Monday (Really!)". Interview with Peggy Neu, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 31, 2012.

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• I love lamb shank. It's my favorite thing. You don't have it in America. It's a younger meat - it just falls off the bone - it's kind of like a roast. I really like blackened cod too.

  Natasha Bedingfield

  Fall, America, Lambs

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• Our demand for meat, dairy and refined carbohydrates - the world consumes one billion cans or bottles of Coke a day - our demand for these things, not our need, our want - drives us to consume way more calories than are good for us.

  Mark Bittman

  Way, Coke, Needs

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• Gravy is the simplest, tastiest, most memory-laden dish I know how to make: a little flour, salt and pepper, crispy bits of whatever meat anchored the meal, a couple of cups of water or milk and slow stirring to break up lumps.

  Dorothy Allison

  Couple, Memories, Water

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• Physical hunger and physical poverty is something I could only imagine. I've been poor when I was in China... As kids we never had to starve, but just didn't have enough meat, enough rice.

  Joan Chen

  Kids, Poverty, Hunger

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I'm learning to hunt with rifles, because if you think about it, hunting gets you the healthiest meat - organic, free-range food. It's a totally yuppie spin on what I thought was kind of a redneck occupation.

  Sarah Wayne Callies

  Redneck, Thinking, Hunting

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• I think of myself as a meat-and-potatoes kind of director.

  Stanley Donen

  Thinking, Directors, Potatoes

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• Meat and poultry is safe. It's safer than it's probably ever been.

  Dan Glickman

  Safe, Poultry

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• The fact is that seven per cent of the global population emits 50 per cent of greenhouse gas emissions, and the proportions are the same for the use of energy and raw materials, meat, wood, etc. Simply put, an infinitesimal minority consumes the most and imposes damage on the overwhelming majority, while asking it to change.

  Yann Arthus-Bertrand

  Majority, Population, Raw Materials

  "Spotlight: Yann Arthus-Bertrand, cinematographer and Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations Environment Programme". UN News Centre Interview, www.un.org. February 7, 2011.

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• I'm a pescatarian - I don't even eat meat!

  Jacqueline Emerson

  "‘The Hunger Games’’ Jacqueline Emerson: Girl On Fire". The Huffington Post Interview, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 22, 2012.

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• I eat meat. I don't go to the gym.

  Alice Englert

  Gym

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• When I met you you were oh so sweet, now you give me the bread and you take all the meat.

  Joan Jett

  Relationship, Sweet, Giving

  Song: Nag

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