165 Eating Breakfast Quotes

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Famous Eating Breakfast Quotes

I'm not a breakfast eater. — Sean Penn

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

For me, having greek yogurt and some granola is the perfect start-up breakfast because it has many benefits. Its filling, healthy and gives me energy to start my day. — Sayings

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

Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince, and dinner like a pauper. — Adelle Davis

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

All happiness depends on a leisurely breakfast. - John Gunther

All happiness depends on a leisurely breakfast. — John Gunther

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

One should not attend even the end of the world without a good breakfast. - Robert A. Heinlein

One should not attend even the end of the world without a good breakfast. — Robert A. Heinlein

It's a dangerous thing when someone gets up in the morning and has nothing to eat. — Bashar al-Assad

I know family comes first, but shouldn't that mean after breakfast? - Jeff Lindsay

I know family comes first, but shouldn't that mean after breakfast? — Jeff Lindsay

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

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

Few people arise in the morning as hungry for God as they are for cornflakes or toast and eggs. — Dallas Willard

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

Short Eating Breakfast Quotes

  • Expect problems and eat them for breakfast. — Alfred A. Montapert
  • What I don't like is breakfast in the morning. I have a double-espresso cappuccino, but no food. — Wolfgang Puck
  • Hamburgers! The corner-stone of any nutritious breakfast. — Quentin Tarantino
  • There’s nothing like starting the day with a healthy, filling breakfast smoothie. — Hannah Bronfman
  • My body is like breakfast, lunch, and dinner. I don't think about it, I just have it. — Arnold Schwarzenegger
  • I discovered a meal between breakfast and brunch. — Homer
  • Bagel in the morning is the ultimate breakfast for me; they're just good. — Lee DeWyze
  • The Breakfast of Champions isn't cereal, it's the competition! — David Lee Roth
  • The critical period of matrimony is breakfast-time. — A. P. Herbert
  • Have a smile for breakfast, you'll be shitting joy by lunch. — Joe Abercrombie

Eating Breakfast Image Quotes

Eating breakfast quote The secret to living well and longer is: eat half, walk double, laugh triple and love without measur
The secret to living well and longer is: eat half, walk double, laugh triple and love without measure.

Breakfast Cereal Eating Quotes

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

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

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

Eating breakfast quote Think positively; Exercise daily; Eat Healthy; Work Hard; Stay strong; Worry less; Dance more; Love
Think positively; Exercise daily; Eat Healthy; Work Hard; Stay strong; Worry less; Dance more; Love often.

I love cereal. I eat several bowls a day, mostly a few late at night. — Paul Dano

Don't eat breakfast cereals that change the color of your milk. — Michael Pollan

Having Breakfast Quotes

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

Oh lovers! be careful in those dangerous first days! once you've brought breakfast in bed you'll have to bring it forever, unless you want to be accused of lovelessness and betrayal. — Milan Kundera

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

Eating breakfast quote No matter the economy of the jungle, the lion will never eat grass.
No matter the economy of the jungle, the lion will never eat grass.

A simple enough pleasure, surely, to have breakfast alone with one's husband, but how seldom married people in the midst of life achieve it. — Anne Spencer

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

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

Eating breakfast quote Expect problems and eat them for breakfast.
Expect problems and eat them for breakfast.

I like to think I am well-mannered. If I have the option at a breakfast place, I'll go with the grits. That's how Southern I am. — Michael C. Hall

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

And quit bringing up our forefathers and saying they were civil libertarians. Our founding fathers would have never tolerated any of this crap. For God's sake, they were blowing peoples' heads off because they put a tax on their breakfast beverage. And it wasn't even coffee. — Dennis Miller

We as human beings have the amazing capacity to be reborn at breakfast everyday and say, “This is a new day.” — Jack Kornfield

Morning Breakfast Quotes

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

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

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

Eating breakfast quote Only when the last tree has died and the last river been poisoned, and the last fish been caught wil
Only when the last tree has died and the last river been poisoned, and the last fish been caught will we realize we cannot eat money.

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 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

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

Eating breakfast quote An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.
An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.

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

Cold morning on Aztec Peak Fire Lookout. First, build fire in old stove. Second, start coffee. Then, heat up last night's pork chops and spinach for breakfast. Why not? And why the hell not? — Edward Abbey

The work is with me when I wake up in the morning; it is with me while I eat my breakfast in bed and run through the newspaper, while I shave and bathe and dress. — C. S. Forester

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

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

Eating breakfast quote Give a man a fish, he will eat for a day. Teach a man to fish, he will eat for a life time.
Give a man a fish, he will eat for a day. Teach a man to fish, he will eat for a life time.

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

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

Eating breakfast 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.

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

I always cringe when people tell me they don't eat breakfast, as though that's a good thing. Eek! You have to start the day off with something in your stomach to get your metabolism active. — Alison Sweeney

Eating Food Quotes

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

Starvation is the characteristic of some people not having enough food to eat. It is not the characteristic of there being not enough food to eat. — Amartya Sen

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

Eating breakfast quote People who love to eat are always the best people .
People who love to eat are always the best people .

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

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

Life is a nacho. It can be yummy-crunchy or squishy-yucky. It just depends on how long it takes for you to start eating it. — John Updike

Eating breakfast quote One should eat to live, not live to eat.
One should eat to live, not live to eat.

Life is a combination of magic and pasta. — Federico Fellini

Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live. — Socrates

A recipe has no soul. You, as the cook, must bring soul to the recipe. - Thomas Keller

A recipe has no soul. You, as the cook, must bring soul to the recipe. — Thomas Keller

We should look for someone to eat and drink with before looking for something to eat and drink. — Epicurus

Breakfast Food Quotes

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

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

Hell is other people at breakfast. - Jean-Paul Sartre

Hell is other people at breakfast. — Jean-Paul Sartre

Eating breakfast quote Eating and reading are two pleasures than combine admirably.
Eating and reading are two pleasures than combine admirably.

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

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

Eating Lunch Quotes

Democracy is not freedom. Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to eat for lunch. — Unknown Author

I really am a smoothie person. I love making a morning smoothie and then will drink some coffee and will not eat at all before lunch. — Gwyneth Paltrow

There is something about giving everything to your profession. In Italian, an obsession is not necessarily negative. Its the art of putting all your energy into one thing; its the art of transforming even what you eat for lunch into architecture. — Renzo Piano

Old habits eat good intentions for lunch. Change your habits so you can change your outcomes. — Darren Hardy

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

I believe in stopping work and eating lunch. — L'Wren Scott

Every day when everybody would have lunch I would do TM [Transcendental Meditation] and then I would eat while I was working because I had missed lunch but that is how I survived the 9 years [of Seinfeld], it was that 20 minutes in the middle of the day would save me. — Jerry Seinfeld

A seagull manager is one who periodically flies into the area, makes a lot of noise, dumps on the people, maybe eats their lunch, and flies away. — James Hunter

I definitely have a family. I have a boyfriend who has kids, and we do normal things every day, like get up and go to school. Eat breakfast, lunch and dinner. — Tina Yothers

Instinct. When the house burns one forgets even lunch. Yes, but one eats it later in the ashes. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Breakfast Cereal Quotes

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

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

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 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

Sometimes you actually get caught in the web of things where people are talking about... what kind of breakfast cereal you like. — Joshua Homme

Rhymes with push-koo; I always say it sounds like a breakfast cereal. — Eliza Dushku

Do we need to have 280 brands of breakfast cereal? No, probably not. But we have them for a reason - because some people like them. It's the same with baseball statistics. — Bill James

Eating Bread Quotes

If the people have no bread, let them eat cake. - Marie Antoinette

If the people have no bread, let them eat cake. — Marie Antoinette

Qu'ils mangent de la brioche. Let them eat cake. On being told that her people had no bread. Attributed to Marie-Antoinette, but remark is much older. Rousseau refers in his Confessions, 1740, to a similar remark, as a well-known saying. Others attribute the remark to the wife of Louis XIV. — Marie Antoinette

The theory that the man who raises corn does a more important piece of work than the woman who makes it into bread is absurd. The inference is that the men alone render useful service. But neither man nor woman eats these things until the woman has prepared it. — Ida Tarbell

Man shall not live by bread alone. - Matthew McConaughey

Man shall not live by bread alone. — Matthew McConaughey

May the enemies of Ireland never eat bread nor drink whisky, but be tormented with itching without benefit of scratching. — Irish Proverbs

Don't eat your bread on someone else's table. — Indian Proverbs

A loaf of bread, the Walrus said, Is what we chiefly need: Pepper and vinegar besides Are very good indeed-- Now if you're ready, Oysters, dear, We can begin to feed! — Lewis Carroll

Show me a population that is deeply religious and I will show you a servile population, content with whips and chains, ... content to eat the bread of sorrow and drink the waters of affliction. — Hubert Harrison

Our Red Army now needs IL-2 aircraft like the air it breathes, like the bread it eats. — Joseph Stalin

There is something profoundly satisfying about sharing a meal. Eating together, breaking bread together, is one of the oldest and most fundamentally unifying of human experiences. — Barbara Coloroso

Eating Dinner Quotes

Sometimes when I'm faced with an atheist, I am tempted to invite him to the greatest gourmet dinner that one could ever serve, and when we have finished eating that magnificent dinner, to ask him if he believes there's a cook. — Ronald Reagan

I keep my diet simple by sticking to mostly fruits and vegetables all day and then having whatever I want for dinner. I end up making healthy choices, like sushi or grilled fish, because I feel so good from eating well. — Sayings

I don't have dinner parties - I eat my dinner in bed. - Hugh Hefner

I don't have dinner parties - I eat my dinner in bed. — Hugh Hefner

We all love animals. Why do we call some 'pets' and others 'dinner?' — K. D. Lang

I feel like I would be a good stalker... F*ck yeah, I'd watch your whole damn family eat dinner, boy! — Theo Von

We all need to start making some changes to how our families eat. Now, everyone loves a good Sunday dinner. Me included. And there's nothing wrong with that. The problem is when we eat Sunday dinner Monday through Saturday. — Michelle Obama

All human history attests That happiness for man, - the hungry sinner! - Since Eve ate apples, much depends on dinner. ~Lord Byron, Don Juan, Canto XIII, stanza 99 — Lord Byron

The guardian and arbiter of superlative eating, with every meal an unforgettable experience in pleasure, starting with the soup, which he said, 'must be the agent provocateur of a good dinner.' — Marie-Antoine Careme

When I have dinner, I get off my phone, smell my food, and chew it well. — Hannah Bronfman

In an ideal world, I’m eating dinner at home before I have a DJ gig. — Hannah Bronfman

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More Eating Breakfast Quotes

Culture eats strategy for breakfast. — Peter Drucker

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

I eat death threats for breakfast! — Miriam Defensor Santiago

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

When I have a match to play, I begin to relax as soon as I wake up. Everything I do, I do slow and easy. That goes for stroking the razor, getting dressed, and eating my breakfast. I'm practically in slow motion. By the time I'm ready to tee off, I'm so used to taking my time that it's impossible to hurry my swing. — Walter Hagen

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.

I never eat before breakfast. — W. C. Fields

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

I eat a lot of whole grains for breakfast, a lot of dried fruit. And my big thing is pasta. I do a lot of simple pasta, with great ingredients. — Joe Bastianich

Today, everything I do from morning meditation on - eating breakfast, going for a walk, writing, reading, even recreation - is governed by one purpose only: how to give the very best account of my life that I can in the service of all. — Eknath Easwaran

I work out Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday; take Thursday off; then I work out Friday and Saturday. So sometimes I'll eat whatever I want on Thursday, like a big breakfast of pancakes and bacon and eggs and stuff. You can eat a big, hearty breakfast because you're going to burn off most of it during the day anyway. — Mark Wahlberg

We eat breakfast, lunch, and dinner to the soundtrack of our own impending death. — Courtney Summers

I still eat pizzas, I still like pies, I still have spaghetti hoops for breakfast... but it's in moderation now. — Shane Warne

Rebus was eating breakfast in the canteen and wishing there was more caffeine in the coffee, or more coffee in the coffee come to that. — Ian Rankin

You may as well say, 'That's a valiant flea that dare eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion. — William Tecumseh Sherman

If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts. — W. Somerset Maugham

And before you finish eating breakfast in the morning, you've depended on more than half of the world. This is the way our universe is structured, this is its interrelated quality. — Martin Luther King, Jr.

A man can't eat anger for breakfast and sleep with it at night and not suffer damage to his soul. — Garrison Keillor

I usually eat six times a day, small meals. For breakfast, an egg and a corn tortilla, salsa and cilantro, and some ham. For snacks, I'll have an apple, some string cheese, a yogurt. For lunch I'll have salad with protein in it and for dinner usually steamed vegetables and chicken or fish. — Sprague Grayden

Our traditions have been waking up on Christmas morning and feasting on a southern breakfast. I'm from the South. We eat grits and biscuits and gravy and eggs with Ritz crackers and country ham, bacon, you name it. - Leigh — Leigh-Allyn Baker

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