150 Breakfast Food Quotes

Following is our list of breakfast food quotations and slogans full of insightful wisdom and perspective about morning breakfast.

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Famous Breakfast Food Quotes

I'm not a breakfast eater. — Sean Penn

Breakfast is a notoriously difficult meal to serve with a flourish. — Clement Freud

Hamburgers! The corner-stone of any nutritious breakfast. — Quentin Tarantino

Breakfast was only worth having when somebody else made it for you. — Caroline B. Cooney

I discovered a meal between breakfast and brunch. — Homer

Breakfast is everything. The beginning, the first thing. It is the mouthful that is the commitment to a new day, a continuing life. — A. A. Gill

Bagel in the morning is the ultimate breakfast for me; they're just good. — Lee DeWyze

What I don't like is breakfast in the morning. I have a double-espresso cappuccino, but no food. — Wolfgang Puck

I love brunch because it's breakfast and lunch why not. — Lorena Garcia

The Breakfast of Champions isn't cereal, it's the competition! — David Lee Roth

My body is like breakfast, lunch, and dinner. I don't think about it, I just have it. — Arnold Schwarzenegger

Breakfast without orange juice is like a day without sunshine. — Anita Bryant

My idea of fast food is a mallard. - Ted Nugent

My idea of fast food is a mallard. — Ted Nugent

I like to eat yogurt in the morning. It's easy and quick and available anywhere. — Maud Welzen

All happiness depends on a leisurely breakfast. - John Gunther

All happiness depends on a leisurely breakfast. — John Gunther

Short Breakfast Food Quotes

  • Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince, and dinner like a pauper. — Adelle Davis
  • Most fast food is fried. Fried food tastes great, and people dont seem to care about the fat aspect. — Eric Schlosser
  • Hell is other people at breakfast. — Jean-Paul Sartre
  • We will breakfast together here and dine together in hell. — Richard S. Ewell
  • Food is life, life is food. If you don't like my approach you are welcome to go down to McDonalds. — Keith Floyd
  • You can eat an omelet at midnight, at lunchtime, all day long. It's perfect for every occasion. — Wolfgang Puck
  • To me, fast food is when a cheetah eats an antelope. — George Carlin
  • One should not attend even the end of the world without a good breakfast. — Robert A. Heinlein
  • I eat death threats for breakfast! — Miriam Defensor Santiago
  • Food is an important part of a balanced diet. — Fran Lebowitz

Breakfast Food Image Quotes

Breakfast food quote Expect problems and eat them for breakfast.
Expect problems and eat them for breakfast.

Breakfast Quotes

Culture eats strategy for breakfast. — Peter Drucker

When a woman didn't enjoy it, she leaves early in the morning. Those who had a nice time will wait until the sun comes out, requests breakfast and taxi money. — Julius Malema

Expect problems and eat them for breakfast. - Alfred A. Montapert

Expect problems and eat them for breakfast. — Alfred A. Montapert

Breakfast food quote Don't look for a partner who is eye candy. Look for a partner who is soul food.
Don't look for a partner who is eye candy. Look for a partner who is soul food.

If I had my choice I would kill every reporter in the world, but I am sure we would be getting reports from Hell before breakfast. — William Tecumseh Sherman

I get up every morning and read the obituary column. If my name's not there, I eat breakfast. — George Burns

Feedback is the breakfast of champions. - Ken Blanchard

Feedback is the breakfast of champions. — Ken Blanchard

Breakfast food quote The only time to eat diet food is while you’re waiting for steak to coo.
The only time to eat diet food is while you’re waiting for steak to coo.

I believe in manicures. I believe in overdressing. I believe in primping at leisure and wearing lipsitck. — Audrey Hepburn

You can always tell what kind of a person a man really thinks you are by the earrings he gives you. — Audrey Hepburn

I exercise strong self control. I never drink anything stronger than gin before breakfast. — W. C. Fields

Once a woman has forgiven her man, she must not reheat his sins for breakfast. - Marlene Dietrich

Once a woman has forgiven her man, she must not reheat his sins for breakfast. — Marlene Dietrich

Morning Breakfast Quotes

It is a good morning exercise for a research scientist to discard a pet hypothesis every day before breakfast. It keeps him young. — Konrad Lorenz

It reminded him of his Uncle Seamus, the notorious and poetic drunk, who would sit down at the breakfast table the morning after a bender, drain a bottle of stout and say 'Ah, the chill of consciousness returns — Molly O'Neill

I don't mean I'd mind being rich and famous. That's very much on my schedule, and someday I'll try to get around to it; but if it happens, I'd like to have my ego tagging along. I want to still be me when I wake up one fine morning and have breakfast at Tiffany's. — Truman Capote

Breakfast food quote Your diet is a bank account, good food choice are good investments.
Your diet is a bank account, good food choice are good investments.

Numbers have dehumanized us. Over breakfast coffee we read of 40,000 American dead in Vietnam. Instead of vomiting, we reach for the toast. Our morning rush through crowded streets is not to cry murder but to hit that trough before somebody else gobbles our share. — Dalton Trumbo

Have you heard about the morning after pill, or what I like to call breakfast in bed. Well have you heard about how some of the girls who have taken have died a few days later? Talk about two birds, looks like I will be going to the game this weekend boys. — Daniel Tosh

I want to get up in the morning and just roll over in my bed into an indoor swimming pool. And then swim to the breakfast table. — Jimi Hendrix

Breakfast food quote There's no better feeling in the world than a warm pizza box on your lap.
There's no better feeling in the world than a warm pizza box on your lap.

Expect problems and eat them for breakfast. — Alfred Armand Montapert

The morning we left South Bend, every student and professor was out of bed long before breakfast and marched downtown accompanying the team to the railroad station. It was the first time I'd seen anything like this mass hysteria generated on the Notre Dame campus over a football game. — Knute Rockne

I eat a huge breakfast every morning - it's what I look forward to. I'll do steel-cut oatmeal with blueberries and strawberries, an egg white scramble with mushrooms, zucchini, and onion, and a piece of cinnamon Ezekiel bread with almond butter. I could do that every single day. — Heather Mitts

One key to success is to have lunch at the time of day most people have breakfast. — Robert Breault

Breakfast Cereal Quotes

I don't eat cereal actually... Frosted Flakes... that's as close as I can get. — Johnny Thunders

Do you know what breakfast cereal is made of? It's made of all those little curly wooden shavings you find in pencil sharpeners! — Roald Dahl

I remember being superyoung, like nine or ten years old, and thinking, 'Man, I wonder what famous people eat for breakfast. They must have some special kind of cereal!' My mind was so warped by the idea of fame. — Bo Burnham

Breakfast food quote One should eat to live, not live to eat.
One should eat to live, not live to eat.

The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal -- that you can gather votes like box tops -- is, I think, the ultimate indignity to the democratic process. — Adlai Stevenson

The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal - that you can gather votes like box tops - is, I think, the ultimate indignity to the democratic process. — Adlai E. Stevenson

Right now, Im very healthy. I have no vices left. Except sugary breakfast cereal. And absinthe, of course. — Johnny Galecki

Breakfast food quote The day each family keeps aside food to feed one hungry person or animal or bird every day, nobody w
The day each family keeps aside food to feed one hungry person or animal or bird every day, nobody will go hungry in this world. There is enough food to feed every hungry stomach. Mankind just doesn't have the heart for it.

Listen, three eyes," he said, "don't you try to outweird me, I get stranger things than you free with my breakfast cereal. — Douglas Adams

I sometimes forget to have breakfast in the morning, but when I actually buy a box of cereal, I will probably eat it not only for breakfast but also as a snack later on. — Ryan Gosling

I ate two waffles, a banana and cereal with blueberries. And that whas between my two breakfasts. — Amy Poehler

I pore over every word on the cereal box at breakfast, often more than once. You can ask me anything about shredded wheat. — Chris Van Allsburg

Good Breakfast Quotes

Sure I eat what I advertise. Sure I eat Wheaties for breakfast. A good bowl of Wheaties with bourbon can't be beat. — Dizzy Dean

Hope makes a good breakfast. Eat plenty of it. - Ian Fleming

Hope makes a good breakfast. Eat plenty of it. — Ian Fleming

Everyone runs around trying to find a place where they still serve breakfast because eating breakfast, even if it's 5 o'clock in the afternoon, is a sign that the day has just begun and good things can still happen. Having lunch is like throwing in the towel. — Jonathan Goldstein

Breakfast food quote People who love to eat are always the best people
People who love to eat are always the best people

If, on the other hand, happiness depends on a good breakfast, flowers in the yard, a drink or a nap, then we are more likely to live with quite a bit of happiness. — Andy Rooney

Good morning! What we have in mind is breakfast in bed for four hundred thousand. — Wavy Gravy

Habits eat good intentions for breakfast. — John Ortberg

Breakfast food quote I take care of my flowers and my cats. And enjoy food. And that’s living.
I take care of my flowers and my cats. And enjoy food. And that’s living.

Good luck and believe me, dearest Doc - it's better to look at the sky than live there. Such an empty place; so vague. Just a country where the thunder goes and things disappear. — Truman Capote

What good are fans? You can't eat applause for breakfast. You can't sleep with it. — Bob Dylan

I want to go to Africa and find a really great hotel with good food right above a water hole where I can sit, have breakfast, and just watch the elephants play in the water. — David Crosby

Learn how to cook a (effing) omelet. I mean, what nicer thing can you do for somebody than make them breakfast? You look good doing it, and it's a nice thing to do for somebody you just had sex with. — Anthony Bourdain

Eating Breakfast Quotes

I despair of the Republic! Such dreariness, such whining sallow women, such utter absence of the amenities, such crass food, crass manners, crass landscape!! What a horror it is for a whole nation to be developing without the sense of beauty, and eating bananas for breakfast. — Edith Wharton

Brunch, for me, is an extended breakfast that should be enjoyed whenever you have time properly to engage in cooking and eating. — Yotam Ottolenghi

Some men like a dull life - they like the routine of eating breakfast, going to work, coming home, petting the dog, watching TV, kissing the kids, and going to bed. Stay clear of it - it's often catching. — Hedy Lamarr

Breakfast food quote We once grew good without chemicals. We never grew food without bees.
We once grew good without chemicals. We never grew food without bees.

As I was growing up, all meals, including breakfast, were family occasions, and you all sat down to eat together – and you had to finish everything as well. — Mary Berry

I want to be challenged I want to work and I want to feel that I am not being held back that there is something in front of me something more inspiring than just eating breakfast you know. — Sofia Vassilieva

It is more important to eat some carbohydrates at breakfast, because the brain needs fuel right away, and carbohydrate is the best source. — Andrew Weil

Breakfast food quote Growing you own food is like printing your own money!
Growing you own food is like printing your own money!

You could be a rebel, a profound thinker, and a rock and roll maniac and still eat breakfast, lunch, and dinner, and drink a nice cup of tea with your friends. — Pamela Des Barres

That's a valiant flea that dares eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion. — William Shakespeare

According to a new poll, Republicans are more likely to have a doughnut for breakfast, while Democrats prefer to eat bagels and croissants. While Independents are that annoying friend who's still looking at the menu after 15 minutes. — Jimmy Fallon

We aren't going to have peace on Earth until we recognize the basic fact of the interrelated structure of all reality. — Martin Luther King, Jr.

Healthy Food Quotes

Our food should be our medicine and our medicine should be our food. — Hippocrates

Show me who your friends are, and I will tell you what you are. - Unknown Author

Show me who your friends are, and I will tell you what you are. — Unknown Author

Let nothing which can be treated by diet be treated by other means. - Maimonides

Let nothing which can be treated by diet be treated by other means. — Maimonides

Health is the greatest of human blessings. — Hippocrates

As I began to love myself I freed myself of anything that is no good for my health - food, people, things, situations, and everything that drew me down and away from myself. At first I called this attitude a healthy egoism. Today I know it is Love of Oneself. — Charlie Chaplin

The wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings. Let food be your medicine. — Hippocrates

Taking all vegetable-eating nations together . . . they are a larger and much better formed race than the flesh eaters. — Sylvester Graham

Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you who you are. — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

I know a man who gave up smoking, drinking, sex, and rich food. He was healthy right up to the day he killed himself. — Johnny Carson

A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite. — Leo Tolstoy

Cereal Quotes

Foreigners are sending messages to the planets. We are sending rice and cereals to our dead fore-father through the Brahmins. It is a wise deed? — Periyar E. V. Ramasamy

We're developing a new citizenry. One that will be very selective about cereals and automobiles, but won't be able to think. — Rod Serling

Children read to learn - even when they are reading fantasy, nonsense, light verse, comics or the copy on cereal packets, they are expanding their minds all the time, enlarging their vocabulary, making discoveries - it is all new to them. — Joan Aiken

That's always seemed so ridiculous to me, that people want to be around someone because they're pretty. It's like picking your breakfeast cereals based on color instead of taste. — John Green

I love the fact that, one time, my face was on the back of a cereal box - probably 3-CPO's - and it was a mask where you cut out the eye holes and put a string through the side. It makes me feel like I'm 11 years old all over again. — Mark Hamill

As long as we’ve got somewhere to sleep, a bowl of cereal, and a coloring book we’ll be fine. — Louis Tomlinson

President Obama can find time to meet with a YouTube personality who eats cereal out of a bathtub, but not the prime minister of our ally Israel? — Greta Van Susteren

I learned about stress management from my kids. Every night after work, I drink some chocolate milk, eat sugary cereal straight from the box, then run around the house in my underwear screaming like a monkey. — Randy Glasbergen

You should never eat when you're on the toilet. "But I'm lactose-intolerant, and I always wanted to enjoy a bowl of Puffins with whole milk!" That's more of an almond milk cereal, but live your dream. — Daniel Tosh

Books have become products, like cereal or perfume or deodorant. — Alexandra Ripley

Animal Food Quotes

I became a vegetarian after realizing that animals feel afraid, cold, hungry and unhappy like we do. I feel very deeply about vegetarianism and the animal kingdom. It was my dog Boycott who led me to question the right of humans to eat other sentient beings. — Cesar Chavez

If a man's patience is stronger than his whims and desires, then he is like an angel, but if his whims and desires are stronger than his patience, then he is like a devil. If his desire for food, drink and sex is stronger than his patience, then he is no better than an animal. — Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

Vegetarian food leaves a deep impression on our nature. If the whole world adopts vegetarianism, it can change the destiny of humankind. — Albert Einstein

A wonderful bird is a pelican, His bill will hold more than his belican. He can take in his beak Food enough for a week; But I'm damned if I see how the helican. — Dixon Lanier Merritt

There's no doubt in my mind that going vegetarian has made me feel better not only physically, but also because I learned about the suffering of animals who are raised and killed for food. I feel good knowing that I'm not contributing to that. — Sophie Monk

I think using animals for food is an ethical thing to do, but we've got to do it right. We've got to give those animals a decent life, and we've got to give them a painless death. We owe the animal respect. — Temple Grandin

You believe in a book that has talking animals, wizards, witches, demons, sticks turning into snakes, burning bushes, food falling from the sky, people walking on water, and all sorts of magical, absurd and primitive stories, and you say that we are the ones that need help? — Mark Twain

The meat industry spends hundreds of millions of dollars lying to the public about their product. But no amount of false propaganda can sanitize meat. The facts are absolutely clear: Eating meat is bad for human health, catastrophic for the environment, and a living nightmare for animals — Chrissie Hynde

In 1968, I became a vegetarian after realizing that animals feel afraid, cold, hungry, and unhappy like we do. — Cesar Chavez

Recognize meat for what it really is: the antibiotic- and pesticide-laden corpse of a tortured animal. — Ingrid Newkirk

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More Breakfast Food Quotes

I’ve tried not to sacrifice things for success. I never did anything that could hurt my children. I was always there for breakfast and dinner with them, and when I could I made it myself – and I didn’t believe in any of that frozen food stuff. I was home when they got back from school, and when my husband got in I was always waiting. — Estee Lauder

Someone is putting brandy in your bonbons, Grand Marnier in your breakfast jam, Kahlua in your ice cream, Scotch in your mustard and Wild Turkey in your cake. — Marian Burros

I bet you think an egg is something you casually order for breakfast when you can't think of anything else. Well, so did I once, but that was before the egg and I. — Claudette Colbert

All knives and forks were working away at a rate that was quite alarming; very few words were spoken; and everybody seemed to eat his utmost, in self defence, as if a famine were expected to set in before breakfast-time to-morrow morning, and it had become high time to assert the first law of nature. — Charles Dickens

Life... is like a grapefruit. Well, it's sort of orangey-yellow and dimpled on the outside, wet and squidgy in the middle. It's got pips inside, too. Oh, and some people have half a one for breakfast. — Douglas Adams

He that but looketh on a plate of ham and eggs to lust after it hath already committed breakfast with it in his heart — C. S. Lewis

Popcorn for breakfast! Why not? It's a grain. It's like grits, but with high self-esteem. — James Patterson

I've been on every diet in the world. I've been on Slim-Fast. For breakfast you have a shake. For lunch, you have a shake. For dinner, you kill anyone with food on their plate. — Rosie O'Donnell

I didn't forget your breakfast. I didn't bring your breakfast. Because you didn't eat your din-din. — Bette Davis

I try to believe in as many as six impossible things before breakfast. Count them, Alice. One, there are drinks that make you shrink. Two, there are foods that make you grow. Three, animals can talk. Four, cats can disappear. Five, there is a place called Underland. Six, I can slay the Jabberwocky. — Lewis Carroll

Breakfast cereals that come in the same colors as polyester leisure suits make oversleeping a virtue. — Fran Lebowitz

We’re never satisfied when it comes to food. ‘You know what’d be good on this burger? A ham sandwich. Instead of a bun, let’s use two donuts. That way we can have it for breakfast. Look out McGriddle. Here comes the donut-ham-hamburger!’ — Jim Gaffigan

Life, within doors, has few pleasanter prospects than a neatly-arranged and well-provisioned breakfast-table. — Nathaniel Hawthorne

Some breakfast food manufacturer hit upon the simple notion of emptying out the leavings of carthorse nose bags, adding a few other things like unconsumed portions of chicken layer's mash, and the sweepings of racing stables, packing the mixture in little bags and selling them in health food shops. — Frank Muir

To me, peanut butter is the breakfast of champions! — Greg Louganis

It's not good enough to give it tender, loving care, to supply it with breakfast foods, to buy it expensive educations. Those things don't mean anything unless this generation has a future. And we're not sure that it does. — George Wald

First, a gorgeous breakfast: just everything you can imagine from flapjacks and fried squirrel to hominy grits and honey in the comb...we're so impatient to get at the presents we can't eat a mouthful. — Truman Capote

There was a little plate of hothouse nectarines on the table, and there was another of grapes, and another of sponge-cakes, and there was a bottle of light wine ... 'This is my frugal breakfast ... Give me my peach, my cup of coffee, and my claret.' — Charles Dickens

I do not think anything serious should be done after dinner, as nothing should be before breakfast. — George Saintsbury

DEJEUNER, n. The breakfast of an American who has been in Paris. Variously pronounced. — Ambrose Bierce

I dont have a huge breakfast, and I sometimes forget to have lunch, so I focus on dinner. I love Thai and Japanese food. — Saffron Aldridge

Some breakfast food manufacturer hit upon the simple notion of emptying out the leavings of carthorse nose bags, adding a few other things like unconsumed portions of chicken layer's mash, and the sweepings of racing stables, packing the mixture in little bags and selling them in health food shops. — Frank Muir

I can't have a big breakfast or a big lunch because I get very lethargic, and then I get really cranky. I eat, but I have to eat small, healthful amounts of food. — Mindy Kaling

I love breakfast, so I'd probably spend a long time on that. And breakfast food matters so I'd make sure it is the best food - great fruit and such. — Garance Dore

I say to people, keep it simple. If you want to change your food, change your breakfast. — Mariel Hemingway

Writing ought either to be the manufacture of stories for which there is a market demand -- a business as safe and commendable as making soap or breakfast foods -- or it should be an art, which is always a search for something for which there is no market demand, something new and untried, where the values are intrinsic and have nothing to do with standardized values. — Willa Cather

As a chef and someone who's been in the restaurant business for almost thirty years now, if there's one thing I learned early on: Never eat at a buffet. I don't want to eat yesterday's food and whatever they're trying to get rid of from their cooler for my lunch, dinner, or breakfast, thank you very much. — Michael Symon

Schools should serve breakfast, lunch and an afternoon snack. No sugared drinks, no fast type food. — Nikki Giovanni

I believe there should be breakfast, lunch and afternoon snack, all for free and for every child that goes to school. And all food that is good, clean and fair. It's unfair to charge for food in schools, especially to charge for food that is making children sick. — Alice Waters

Meat is a big deal in my life. I do love breakfast food, but I don't think that's extraordinary. I'm a normal American. We love eggs and meat and potatoes and gravy. — Nick Offerman

Every single day we sit down to eat, breakfast, lunch, and dinner, and at our table we have food that was planted, picked, or harvested by a farm worker. Why is it that the people who do the most sacred work in our nation are the most oppressed, the most exploited? — Dolores Huerta

I like a Blackpool breakfast, me - 20 ciggies and a pot of tea. — Paul O'Grady

Denmark is charging a fat food tax on cheese, meat, and oil. Here, we call that the Denny's Grand Slam breakfast. — Jay Leno

As a mom, I understand how important it is to ensure kids start their day right and always make sure my kids have a nutritious breakfast. One in five U.S. children live in homes where food is not always available, which is why I partnered with Kellogg's on their 'Share Your Breakfast' campaign, which provide breakfasts to kids in need. — Monica Potter

The breakfast food idea made its appearance in a little third-story room on the corner of 28th Street and Third Avenue, New York City....My cooking facilities were very limited, making it very difficult to prepare cereals. It often occurred to me that it should be possible to purchase cereals at groceries already cooked and ready to eat, and I considered different ways in which this might be done. — John Harvey Kellogg

There is a vast difference between the savage and the civilized man, but it is never apparent to their wives until after breakfast. — Helen Rowland

Why are breakfast foods breakfast foods? — John Green

"Why are breakfast food breakfast foods?" I asked them. "Like, why don't we have curry for breakfast?" "Hazel, eat." "But why?" I asked. "I mean seriously: How did scrambled eggs get stuck with breakfast exclusivity? You can put bacon on a sandwich without anyone freaking out. But the moment your sandwich has an egg, boom, it's a breakfast sandwich." — John Green

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