65 Meal Quotes On Success In Life
These meal quotes will inspire you. Meal, any of the regular occasions in a day when a reasonably large amount of food is eaten, such as breakfast, lunch, or dinner.
Below you will find a collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging meal quotes, meal sayings, and meal proverbs.
Best Meal Quotes
- “Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend.” ~ Melody Beattie
- “Any time women come together with a collective intention, it’s a powerful thing. Whether it’s sitting down making a quilt, in a kitchen preparing a meal, in a club reading the same book, or around the table playing cards, or planning a birthday party, when women come together with a collective intention, magic happens.” ~ Phylicia Rashad
- “Breakfast is the most important meal of the day and I definitely have a hearty breakfast before I do anything.” ~ Mayer Hawthorne
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“I don’t stop eating when I’m full. The meal isn’t over when I’m full. It’s over when I hate myself.” ~ Louis C. K.
- “Every meal should end with something sweet. Maybe it’s jelly on toast at breakfast, or a small piece of chocolate at dinner – but it always helps my brain bring a close to the meal.” ~ Robert Irvine
- “Breakfast is the most important meal of the day. When you feed yourself what your body needs when it needs it, that’s love. So give your bod some TLC and sit down and enjoy a good, substantial breakfast.” ~ Kathy Freston
- “You learn a lot about someone when you share a meal together.” ~ Anthony Bourdain
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“A recipe is a story that ends with a good meal.” ~ Pat Conroy
- “Hospitality is central to the restaurant business, yet it’s a hard idea to define precisely. Mostly, it involves being nice to people and making them feel welcome. You notice it when it’s there, and you particularly notice it when it isn’t. A single significant lapse in this area can be your dominant impression of an entire meal.” ~ John Lanchester
- “I love spending time with my friends and family. The simplest things in life give me the most pleasure: cooking a good meal, enjoying my friends.” ~ Cindy Morgan
- “There’s nothing you can really do to prepare to rock. Do you prepare to eat a delicious meal? Are you hungry? Then you’re gonna eat it.” ~ Jack Black
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“Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.” ~ E. O. Wilson
- “To me, breakfast is my most important meal. It’s often the meal you play a game on. I make sure I have oatmeal, milk, and fruit. It’s the fuel you use to hopefully do your best, so eating right is a big part of being a professional athlete. I wish I paid more attention to it earlier in my life.” ~ Andrew Luck
- “For a dinner date, I eat light all day to save room, then I go all in: I choose this meal and this order, and I choose you, the person across from me, to share it with. There’s a beautiful intimacy in a meal like that.” ~ Anthony Bourdain
- “Making a good meal for someone, even if it is nothing complicated, is an expression of love: it is an invitation to share, for one dinner at least, in our common humanity.” ~ Ben Domenech
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“In most of the world, breakfast is an important meal.” ~ Tyler Cowen
- “I love breakfast. I could eat breakfast for every meal of the day. I can’t go without eggs.” ~ Tori Bowie
- “The secret ingredient to every meal is love. And also garlic.” ~ Michael Sorrentino
- “For a slim, sexy body, it’s important to eat protein every day – preferably at every meal. Be sure to ask about the origins of your meat, poultry and seafood. If you can’t afford organic, free-range meats, opt for natural poultry, pork, and beef that’s raised without antibiotics or hormones.” ~ Suzanne Somers
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“The key to a good meal is simplicity and the right seasoning.” ~ Buddy Valastro
- “The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.” ~ Calvin Trillin
- “Clothes are like a good meal, a good movie, great pieces of music.” ~ Michael Kors
- “I enjoy a good meal, a good vacation, or a good movie, much as anyone else would.” ~ Terence Tao
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“Chocolate is not cheating! After a salty meal, you need a little bit of sweet. This is living, not cheating.” ~ Ali Landry
- “I come from a very humble background. My father had to work really hard to become an assistant director. For a large part of his youth, he worked in a mill and took up odd jobs to make ends meet. We lived in a small room and could only afford a meal a day.” ~ Dhanush
- “My favorite meal has always been fried chicken.” ~ Tom Watson
- “I always feel like the editing room is like coming into the kitchen. What kind of a meal do you make from there? It can be anything.” ~ Brit Marling
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“I will tell you, I’m a lousy cook, but I think I’m a pretty good judge of a good meal.” ~ Barney Frank
- “Happiness? A good cigar, a good meal, a good cigar and a good woman – or a bad woman; it depends on how much happiness you can handle.” ~ George Burns
- “For me, I don’t expect to have a really amazing meal each time I dine out. Having a good meal with your loved ones – that’s what makes the experience.” ~ Wolfgang Puck
- “In a pine tree behind me, an eagle waits out the rain, hunched into himself, brooding. Crows squabble, a murder chasing a raven. Seals cruise the lines of fishing nets bobbing in the water, hoping for an easy meal, the tender bellies of salmon.” ~ Eden Robinson
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“The mid-day meal is a well-intentioned scheme and has to be implemented effectively.” ~ Pallam Raju
- “I remember as a little boy I ate one meal a day and sometimes slept in the street. I will never forget that and it inspires me to fight hard, stay strong and remember all the people of my country, trying to achieve better for themselves.” ~ Manny Pacquiao
- “You can’t have a good Thanksgiving meal without a little bit of ketchup on the side.” ~ Patrick Mahomes
- “Every meal is so important and colours the rest of your day – my whole day can go into a spin if I make the wrong choice at lunchtime!” ~ Ben Miller
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“There is no conflict between a better meal and a better world.” ~ Rene Redzepi
- “Fame is like caviar, you know – it’s good to have caviar but not when you have it at every meal.” ~ Marilyn Monroe
- “When you reminisce, you don’t say, ‘Remember that time you got sued by so-and-so?’ No, you say, ‘Remember when we played here and it was unbelievable, and we went out for that incredible meal and that funny thing happened?’ Those are the important moments.” ~ John Petrucci
- “There is no such thing as the perfect meal; one can always do better.” ~ Joel Robuchon
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“My favorite meal would have to be good old-fashioned eggs, over easy, with bacon. Many others, but you can’t beat that on a Sunday morning, especially with a cup of tea.” ~ Gary Oldman
- “I do know what my first meal in the next world would be… Spaghetti Aglio e Olio, heavy on everything.” ~ Rachael Ray
- “Every meal I eat, I be like, ‘Can I get some orange juice?” ~ Slim Jimmy
- “As a kid, I got three meals a day. Oatmeal, miss-a-meal and no meal. Mr. T Pregame, I eat pancakes for a meal. I always do mental visualization before the game to prepare myself. Postgame, I typically take ice baths.” ~ Alex Morgan
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“My absolute favorite meal in Nashville is sweet-potato pancakes at Pancake Pantry.” ~ Taylor Swift
- “I have many memories of waking up to eat breakfast that my mother carefully prepared for us and her saying, what do y’all want for lunch, and as we’re eating lunch, what do y’all want for dinner? It’s always about the next meal.” ~ Lisa Loeb
- “I love anything paneer! Our family favorite, however, is ‘Dal Dhokli,’ a quintessential Gujarati dish of bread dumplings and lentil soup. That’s the big meal of the week typically prepared by my mother on Sundays.” ~ Sunita Williams
- “Scents evoke very, very powerful memories, whether it’s the scent of someone that you know and someone that you love, or if it’s a meal that your mother made.” ~ Blake Lively
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“I love my wife dearly, and, therefore, I’ve never cooked a meal, romantic or otherwise, for her.” ~ Steve Carell
- “The Horny Toad in Cave Creek has great food. When I’m in Arizona, I have at least one meal there. I have a daughter who lives out there, and Dee Dee Wood, who was the choreographer on ‘Mary Poppins,’ lives out there. I still get out there once in a while, but not in the summer.” ~ Dick Van Dyke
- “Being a survivor doesn’t mean being strong – it’s telling people when you need a meal or a ride, company, whatever. It’s paying attention to heart wisdom, feelings, not living a role, but having a unique, authentic life, having something to contribute, finding time to love and laugh. All these things are qualities of survivors.” ~ Bernie Siegel
- “I’ve adopted that mentality: every day I do weights and core in the gym in the morning and train on the field in the afternoon. And I’m strict with my diet – I include protein in every meal and snack.” ~ Alex Scott
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“Dessert is probably the most important stage of the meal, since it will be the last thing your guests remember before they pass out all over the table.” ~ William Powell
- “In Ethiopia, food is often looked at through a strong spiritual lens, stronger than anywhere else I know. It’s the focal point of weddings, births and funerals and is a daily ceremony from the preparation of the meal and the washing of hands to the sharing of meals.” ~ Marcus Samuelsson
- “There’s nothing like a home-cooked meal – nothing! When people ask me what the best restaurant in L.A. is, I say, ‘Uh, my house.’ It’s more intimate. Food can connect people in a forever sort of way.” ~ Giada De Laurentiis
- “I wake at 5 or 5:30 most mornings, make myself a latte and grab a cookie, write until 10 or 11, go have my favorite meal, ‘second breakfast,’ or grab coffee with friends, or play basketball. Then, around noon, I begin apologizing via email for the manuscripts I can’t get to.” ~ Jess Walter
- “In corn, I think I’ve found the key to the American food chain. If you look at a fast-food meal, a McDonald’s meal, virtually all the carbon in it – and what we eat is mostly carbon – comes from corn.” ~ Michael Pollan
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“What I miss the most is chatting with my friends and family and having a good laugh over a simple meal.” ~ Kim Yuna
- “The main environmental challenge of the 21st century is poverty. When you don’t know where your next meal is coming from, it’s hard to consider the environment 100 years down the line.” ~ Bjorn Lomborg
- “Anything is possible on a train: a great meal, a binge, a visit from card players, an intrigue, a good night’s sleep, and strangers’ monologues framed like Russian short stories.” ~ Paul Theroux
- “I’m a huge fan of ‘Buffy,’ ‘Angel’ and ‘Doctor Who.’ People like Joss Whedon, Russell T. Davies, and Steven Moffat are really amazing about making you feel like you had a complete meal and yet leaving you hungry for more.” ~ Andrew Kreisberg
- “I had a meal in Pizza Hut and the waitress told me I didn’t need to pay. So I decided to be a bit cheeky and ask for more pizza and garlic bread.” ~ Gareth Gates
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“I was an infamously picky eater as a child but also had an infamous sweet tooth. All I wanted was dessert for every meal of the day.” ~ Christina Tosi
- “My idea of a good night has always been having a lovely meal and a proper conversation.” ~ Kirsty Gallacher
- “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
- “I’m not opposed to a fancy meal, but I’ll take a picnic any day… food and nature? Sign me up.” ~ Ryan Paevey
