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eating Quotes

77 of the best book quotes about eating
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“Today [...] eat whatever you want [...] If you wish, you may eat with both hands and both feet. So get in there and munch. Have a big munch-er-oo!”
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“When Augustus came out on the porch the blue pigs were eating a rattlesnake—not a very big one.”
03
“I thought that if I did not eat and drink then death would simply follow, but in practice I found that thirst becomes such a frantic obsession that it takes a greater resolve than mine to resist it.”
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“I eat words! Delicious words! I gobble the words that you make. Words like rod taste like turds, but billow tastes like cake.”
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“Whereas chimpanzees spend five hours a day chewing raw food, a single hour suffices for people eating cooked food.”
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“Actually, I am a failed anorexic. I have anorexic thinking, but I can’t seem to muster the behavior”
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“That’s all I seem to do now. I have to work to keep you alive, to feed you. I haven’t smiled once since you were born. Go to sleep.”
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“The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don’t want, drink what you don’t like and do what you’d rather not.”
09
“On Monday he at through one apple.”
10
″ That night he had a stomachache!”
11
“My baby will be here! He will want to eat.”
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″ The only thing different about Chewandswallow was its weather. It came three times a day, at breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Everything that everyone ate came from the sky”
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“Whatever the weather served, that was what they ate.”
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“Knowledge is a thing that one cannot have enough of. It is the fruit of wisdom, to be eaten carefully and digested fully, unlike that lunch you are bolting down, little friend.”
15
“ ‘Eat, eat, Hendrika,’ he would say. ‘The more you eat the more creamy white milk you can give me.’ ”
16
“All was quiet in the deep dark wood. The mouse found a nut and the nut was good.”
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“She looked neither left nor right for she had eyes only for the sweet grass, and before she knew it SHE FELL IN THE CANAL!”
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“Hendrika was an unhappy cow.... All winter and all summer she did nothing but eat.”
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″ Hendrika loved Mr. Hofstra so she ate more to please him. But she was unhappy.”
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“Poor unhappy Hendrika. She longed to see something besides the house, the barn, and the windmill. Instead she ate and ate and ate. And she grew fat and then fatter, and then very very very fat. She grew so fat that she could barely move.”
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“I love to eat cloud.”
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“Lola won’t eat carrots, of course. She says carrots are for rabbits.”
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“I know these are not fish sticks. These are ocean nibbles from the supermarket under the sea--mermaids eat them all the time.”
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“You see? Everyone is afraid of me! But now my tummy’s beginning to rumble, and my favorite food is- gruffalo crumble!”
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“Well, I might just try one if they’re all the way from Jupiter.”
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“Mothers always fuss about the way you eat. You can hardly eat any way that pleases them.”
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“And then he ate all the biscuits and all the cake, until there was nothing left to eat on the table.”
28
“Well, a princess! I love to eat princesses, but I have already eaten a whole castle today. I am a very busy dragon. Come back tomorrow.”
29
“I don’t know what to do. I’ve got nothing for Daddy’s supper, the tiger has eaten it all.”
30
″‘Mamma! Papa!’ called Bill. ‘Come see what Captain Cook has done.’ Captain Cook had done it all right. He had discovered the bowl of goldfish on the dining-room window sill. By the time Mrs. Popper reached over to lift him away, he had already swallowed the last of the goldfish.”
31
“I could eat three bowls of goolash, half a pound of wuzzled wheat.”
32
“This was it! This was the exciting smell that had urged them on. With wild snorts of happiness they buried their noses in the long grass. They bit and tore great mouthfuls- frantically, as if they were afraid it might not last. Oh, the salty goodness of it! Not bitter at all, but juicy-sweet with rain.”
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“Thank you for my nice tea. I think I’d better go now.”
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“He ate all the supper that was cooking in the saucepans... and all the food in the fridge, and all the packets and tins in the cupboard.. and then he drank all the milk, and all the orange juice, and all Daddy’s beer, and all the water in the tap.”
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“I could eat a frittered flum.”
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“I could eat a goose-moose burger, fifteen pickles and a purple plum!”
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“Oh, the stuff that I could eat!”
38
As he gobbled the cakes on his plate, the greedy ape said as he ate, “The greener green grapes are the keener keen apes are to gobble green grape cakes. They’re GREAT!”
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″ I haven’t seen him. I haven’t seen any rabbits anywhere. I would not eat a rabbit. Don’t ask me anymore questions.”
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“Everyone get forks and plates and platters and bowls. Pasta for all at Strega Nona’s house. Big Anthony has made the magic pasta pot work.”
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“Big Anthony was a hero! He scooped out pasta and filled the plates and platters and bowls. ”
42
“It’s called making yourself homeless. And so here I am sitting in this doorway which is now my bedroom, hoping some kind of punter will give me a bit of small change so I can eat.”
43
“It’s not easy to keep Clifford. He eats and drinks a lot.”
44
“you have captivating flavors and a tantalizing smell, a bit like candied apple, and a bit like caramel.”
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“Lionel ate one of the cookies. He decided to share the rest with his class... and teaching them an English son about cookies.”
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“To get enough to eat, you needed lots of healthy hunters. But to get lots of healthy hunters, you needed enough to eat.”
47
“Treehorn liked cereal for breakfast. But mostly he liked cereal boxes. He always read every single thing on the cereal box while he was eating breakfast. And he always sent in for the things the cereal box said he could send for.”
48
“Watch out animals! Mean croc’s about. Careful! He’ll eat you, without a doubt.”
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“He reached out one of his extraordinary long arms, opened the bedroom door, reached down the stairs, opened the kitchen door, reached into the kitchen cupboard, opened the biscuit tin, took out a biscuit, brought it back upstairs, in through the bedroom door and back to Mr Tickle in bed.”
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“her mother walked slowly through the bushes, picking blueberries as she went and putting them in her pail. Little Sal struggled along behind, picking blueberries and eating every single one.”
51
“If I had known what the next six years of my life were going to be like, I would have eaten more.”
52
“I’m going to fill my hungry empty tummy with something yummy yummy yummy!”
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“I’m off to find a yummy child for lunch. Keep listening and you’ll hear the bones go crunch!”
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“Crocodiles don’t eat berries, we eat little boys and girls. And sometimes we eat Roly-Poly Birds, as well. ”
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“That’s not a coconut tree! It’s Enormous Crocodile and he wants to eat you up!”
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″...And I once saw Mitch McConnell eating a banana.”
57
“That’s not a bench you were going to sit on! It’s the Enormous Crocodile, and he wants to eat you all up!”
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“This is the cat that chased the rat that ate the malt that lay in the house that Jack built”
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″ ‘Aren’t you worried that maybe I will get sick and all my teeth fall out from eating so much bread and jam?’ asked Frances. ‘I don’t think that will happen for quite a while’, said Mother, ‘So eat it all up and enjoy it.’ ”
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″‘But you begin to realize now,’ said the Invisible Man, ‘the full disadvantage of my condition. I had no shelter, no covering. To get clothing was to forgo all my advantage, to make of myself a strange and terrible thing. I was fasting; for to eat, to fill myself with unassimilated matter, would be to become grotesquely visible again.‘”
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″‘But I haven’t got a cow,’ he cried. ‘If you had you wouldn’t need to eat me,’ Polly pointed out. ‘You could eat the cow.‘”
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“Why can’t I ever get you, Polly, when that other wolf managed to get his little girl.”
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“He seemed hungry, so Johnny gave him a piece of maple sugar. On the way home, the bear ate all the maple sugar Johnny had in his pocket.”
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″‘Sorry,’ said the wolf, ″I’m too full of pie. I’ll come back another day to deal with you.‘”
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“How can I get there first and gobble her up and get all dressed up to trick you into believing I am her if we’ve got a great train journey to do?”
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“Better a bear in the orchard than an Orchard in the bear.”
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″‘You’re right, ma’am,’ I sez. ‘They’re hungry all right, as you’ll learn to your sorrow,’ I sez, ‘when them vegetables come up.‘”
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‘Food,’ they said, ‘is the most important thing in the world. We love eating, and we mean to eat more and more.‘”
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“When everybody had finished, Ameliar-anne was sure that she must have eaten quite twice as much as she had meant to bring home in the green umbrella.”
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“He wasn’t good for much, that boy. His chief delight was to eat and sleep; and after that–he liked best to make mischief.”
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“From now on, you must eat cabbage three times a day. Mountains of cabbage! And if it’s got caterpillars in it, so much the better!”
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“Goodness me!′ cried Puss. ‘Whatever’s happened to you, Pup? You must be il. There’s foam dripping from your mouth. Whatever is the matter?’ ‘Well,’ said Pup., ‘I found something lying on the table. I though it might be some cheese, or a piece of cake, so I ate it.”
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He felt better after having eaten than he had felt before, less weary of his life, less vanquished in spirit.
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And it was eleven o’clock. Which was Time-for-a-little-something....
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“I pray you, be seated and sup how you please. You will, I trust, excuse me that I do not join you; but I have dined already, and I do not sup.”
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I had often watched a large dog of ours eating his food; and I now noticed a decided similarity between the dog’s way of eating, and the man’s. The man took strong sharp sudden bites, just like the dog. He swallowed, or rather snapped up, every mouthful, too soon and too fast; and he looked sideways here and there while he ate, as if he thought there was danger in every direction of somebody’s coming to take the pie away. He was altogether too unsettled in his mind over it, to appreciate it comfortably I thought, or to have anybody to dine with him, without making a chop with his jaws at the visitor. In all of which particulars he was very like the dog.
Source: Chapter 3, Paragraph 26
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“Faugh! Are there not enough beetles and frogs in the tanks that he must eat Man, and on our ground too!”
Source: Chapter 1, Paragraph 22

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