149 Seafood Quotes

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Famous Seafood Quotes

As soon as I get home, all I want to eat is seafood. — Quvenzhane Wallis

I'm a huge seafood lover; I could cook it everyday. — Trina

Seafood makes you live 10 years more. - Kevin Steele

Seafood makes you live 10 years more. — Kevin Steele

Most seafoods should be simply threatened with heat and then celebrated with joy. — Jeff Smith

I'm on a seafood diet - I see food, I eat it. - Dolly Parton

I'm on a seafood diet - I see food, I eat it. — Dolly Parton

To save the seas, we can eat sustainably and be conscious of the seafood we eat. — Carl Safina

I love Japanese and Thai food, especially seafood, and eat out with my wife two or three times a week. — Pierre Dukan

Choose wild-caught seafood over farm-raised. — Steven Gundry

The sea hath fish for every man. — William Camden

Is this chicken what I have or is this fish? I know it's tuna. But it says chicken. By the sea. — Jessica Simpson

Poseidon can come in too! We will eat you both! Seafood! — Rick Riordan

It is not a matter of indifference whether we like oysters or clams, snails or shrimp, if only we know how to unravel the existential significance of these foods. — Jean-Paul Sartre

I will not eat oysters. I want my food dead -- not sick, not wounded -- dead. - Woody Allen

I will not eat oysters. I want my food dead -- not sick, not wounded -- dead. — Woody Allen

A lobster bisque ought to be the crowning glory of the potager. And this one was excellent. Silky as a gigolo's compliment and fishy as a chancellor's promise. — A. A. Gill

Give me oysters and beer, for dinner every day of the year, and I'll be fine. — Jimmy Buffett

Short Seafood Quotes

  • Remember that a very good sardine is always preferable to a not that good lobster. — Ferran Adria
  • When you don't know what you're doing, it's best to do it quickly. — Jase Robertson
  • Interviewing is tough, especially if you don't know what you're looking for. — Charlyne Yi
  • I'm good in the kitchen. I can cook seafood, collard greens, black-eyed peas. — Monique Coleman
  • I'm a big fan of featuring all of the local shellfish and seafood provided. — Mario Batali
  • Like a one eyed cat peepin' in a seafood store. — Big Joe Turner
  • I joined PETA for minks and dogs. I need my beef, my chicken, my seafood. — Waka Flocka Flame
  • I have trouble with seafood because it tastes like a dock. — Doug Coupland
  • I have trouble with seafood because it tastes like a dock. — Douglas Coupland
  • Seafood is one of my biggest pet peeves. — Big Sean

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Eating Seafood Quotes

Low omega-3 intake from seafood has been identified as one of the top 6 preventable causes of death & estimated to cause a similar number of deaths per year as eating transfats. New study found higher omega-3 index in midlife protects the brain from shrinkage/preserves cognition. — Rhonda Patrick

I think everybody, no matter what they eat, they should eat at least fifty percent raw food. But I eat some seafood. — Brett Dennen

When I'm sore, ice is my best friend. It really works. I take omega-3s every day, which helps with inflammation. And I try to eat things that won't inflame my joints, like fresh fruits and veggies, lean protein, and seafood. — Kerri Walsh

I'm a pescatarian, so I don't eat red meat or pork. So my dinners usually consist of seafood in some way. And maybe cookies after! — Misty Copeland

You can put the greatest seafood restaurant next to an average steak house in an urban area, and that steak house will do more business than the seafood place. If you go to the water, you can put an average seafood place next to the greatest steak house, and people are going to eat seafood. — Tilman J Fertitta

Despite the vast expanse of shoreline in this country, more than 90 percent of the seafood Americans eat is imported. — Judy Woodruff

There were stories coming out of Thailand that slave labor was being used to catch and process the seafood we eat. They were nearly all from Miramar. Because of reports of widespread labor abuses, several countries are now considering a ban on imports of Thai seafood. — Lourdes Garcia-Navarro

I don't really cook meat. I eat a bit of seafood but I'm not really into meat and the idea of cooking it is pretty intense. — Bella Heathcote

I'm a vegetarian who also eats some environmentally friendly seafood. But most importantly, I eat organic and locally grown foods whenever possible. It is both for health reasons and for preserving the environment. — Suzanne Whang

Shellfish Quotes

We can learn to ignore the bullshit in the Bible about gay people. The same way we have learned to ignore the bullshit in the Bible about shellfish, about slavery, about dinner, about farming, about menstruation, about virginity, about masturbation. — Dan Savage

OYSTER, n. A slimy, gobby shellfish which civilization gives men the hardihood to eat without removing its entrails! The shells are sometimes given to the poor. — Ambrose Bierce

Our cat is kind dove shellfish, and thinks the world is hers, She finds a comfy spot and then we pet turtle sheep purrs. — Brian P. Cleary

Which passages of scripture should guide our public policy? Should we go with Leviticus, which suggests slavery is OK and that eating shellfish is an abomination? Or we could go with Deuteronomy, which suggests stoning your child if he strays from the faith? — Barack Obama

Scotch beef, salmon and shellfish are recognised the world over for their excellence and Scottish provenance. People recognise the Scottish brand. They associate the country with quality food and drink, and clearly other Scottish sectors, such as dairy, can benefit from that, too. — Nicola Sturgeon

Decay and disease are often beautiful, like the pearly tear of the shellfish and the hectic glow of consumption. — Henry David Thoreau

I'm not a believer, I call myself an atheist. It was man who invented God. I once wrote that there are 15 things I know about God, and one is that he is allergic to shellfish. There are far too many commandments and you really only need one: Do not hurt anybody. — Carl Reiner

It's surprising how often history is decided by something as trival as bad shellfish. — John Flanagan

I personally like the idea of shellfish aquaculture. These are animals that stay quiet, they stay where you put them, and they clean up the water. — Daniel Pauly

What will be the death of me are buillabaisses, food spiced with pimiento, shellfish, and a load of exquisite rubbish which I eat in disproportionate quantities. — Emile Zola

Lobster Quotes

Am I really just a narcissist,
Cause I wake up to a bowl of lobster bisque? - Rick Ross

Am I really just a narcissist, Cause I wake up to a bowl of lobster bisque? — Rick Ross

A sleeping lobster is carried away by the current. —

When I get a chance to play golf or go on a boat with good people, take the boat out and put some lobsters on the grill, get the ice-cold beer and the cigars - that's heaven here on earth. — Bernie Mac

What is the pattern that connects the crab to the lobster and the primrose to the orchid, and all of them to me, and me to you? — Gregory Bateson

What good are vitamins? Eat a lobster, eat a pound of caviar - live! If you are in love with a beautiful blonde with an empty face and no brains at all, don't be afraid. Marry her! Live! — Arthur Rubinstein

I'm living on things that excite me, be they pastry, or lobster, or love... - Jimmy Buffett

I'm living on things that excite me, be they pastry, or lobster, or love... — Jimmy Buffett

All of us are born with a set of instinctive fears - of falling, of the dark, of lobsters, of falling on lobsters in the dark, of speaking before a Rotary Club, and of the words "Some Assembly Required". — Dave Barry

I'm horrified of lobsters. And shrimp and lobsters are the cockroaches of the ocean. — Brooke Burke

I'm a big fish eater. Salmon - I love salmon. My sister loves Chinese food and sushi and all that. I'm not as big of a fan, but she likes it so we eat it a lot. So I'm beginning to like it more. I don't like the raw sushi. I liked the cooked crab and lobster and everything. — Elle Fanning

Lobster is not going to be as tasty with ice tea unless that ice tea is from Long Island. — Heather McDonald

Fish In The Sea Quotes

His Excellency, President for Life, Field Marshal Al Hadji Doctor Idi Amin Dada, VC, DSO, MC, Lord of All the Beasts of the Earth and Fishes of the Seas and Conqueror of the British Empire in Africa in General and Uganda in Particular. — Idi Amin

We have reached the time in the life of the planet, and humanity's demand upon it, when every fisherman will have to be a river-keeper, a steward of marine shallows, a watchman on the high seas. We are beyond having to put back what we have taken out. We must put back more than we take out. — Thomas Mcguane

In the summer I stretch out on the shore And think of you. Had I told the sea What I felt for you, It would have left its shores, Its shells, Its fish, And followed me. — Nizar Qabbani

The richer we have become materially, the poorer we become morally and spiritually. We have learned to fly in the air like birds and swim in the sea like fish, but we have not learned the simple art of living together as brothers. — Martin Luther King, Jr.

For before this I was born once a boy, and a maiden, and a plant, and a bird, and a darting fish in the sea. — Empedocles

For whatever we lose (like a you or a me), It's always our self we find in the sea. — E. E. cummings

No member of the animal kingdom nurses past maturity, no member of the animal kingdom ever did a thing to me. Its why I don't eat red meat or white fish, don't give me no blue cheese. Were all members of the animal kingdom, leave your brothers and sisters in the sea. — Prince

There are plenty of fish in the sea, if I run out of women. - Joey Comeau

There are plenty of fish in the sea, if I run out of women. — Joey Comeau

There are plenty more fish in the sea. — American Proverbs

A certain man once lost a diamond cuff-link in the wide blue sea, and twenty years later, on the exact day, a Friday apparently, he was eating a large fish - but there was no diamond inside. That’s what I like about coincidence. — Vladimir Nabokov

Shrimp Quotes

A sleeping shrimp is carried away by the current. — Filipino Proverbs

Shrimp that falls asleep is carried away by the current. — Mexican Proverbs

I shall be but a shrimp of an author. — Thomas Gray

It's what you'd expect out of Baton Rouge: people tailgating with shrimp étouffée, everything from alligators roasting on a barbecue to dishes that you would get in the French Quarter. These people are serious and they are legit and they're ready to go. — Erin Andrews

The shrimp that sleeps is taken by the current. — Spanish Proverbs

The USA and USSR will only agree when shrimps learn to fly. — Nikita Khrushchev

The hibachi is coming to a city near you. I'm cooking chicken and shrimp, but if you want to throw a double team my way, filet mignon gets cooked too. — Gilbert Arenas

My perfect last meal would be: shrimp cocktail, lasagna, steak, creamed spinach, salad with bleu cheese dressing, onion rings, garlic bread, and a dessert of strawberry shortcake. — Joan Rivers

Seafood was always my favorite food. I mean, fried lobster? Come on. Once I found out shrimp, scallops and lobster were my allergic triggers, I had to change my diet. — Adrian Peterson

I don't think we should really be judging on Chris Brown like that until we know what Rihanna did. We all got reasons for what we do. Look at me. I'm one of the top 10 performers of all-time. I had to beat this one mermaid ass in a seafood restaurant over some shrimps. No lie. You just never know. — Coolio

Sea Shell Quotes

I like to take the time out to listen to the trees, much in the same way that I listen to a sea shell, holding my ear against the rough bark of the trunk, hearing the inner singing of the sap. It's a lovely sound, the beating of the heart of the tree. — Madeleine L'Engle

The great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me. — Isaac Newton

Music was a thing of the soul — a rose-lipped shell that murmured of the eternal sea — a strange bird singing the songs of another shore. — J. G. Holland

I have a large sea shell collection which I keep scattered on beaches all over the world. Maybe you've seen it. — Steven Wright

Went to get coffee today-opened my change purse. Sea shells fell out. Barista goes "Sorry, we only take cash or credit." So there's that. — Taylor Swift

It has long been a fact familiar to geologists, that, both on the east and west coasts of the central part of Scotland, there are lines of raised beaches, containing marine shells of the same species as those now inhabiting the neighbouring sea. — Charles Lyell

The sea is masculine, the type of active strength. Look, what egg-shells are drifting all over it, each one, like ours, filled with men in ecstasies of terror, alternating with cockney conceit, as the sea is rough or smooth. Is this sad-colored circle an eternal cemetery? — Ralph Waldo Emerson

There must be something beyond man in this world. Even on attaining to his highest possibilities, he is like a bird beating against his cage. There is something beyond, O deathless like a sea-shell, moaning for the bosom of the ocean to which you belong! — Edwin Hubbel Chapin

The pleased sea on a white-breasted shore-- A shore that wears on her alluring brows Rare shells, far brought, the love-gifts of the sea, That blushed a tell-tale. — Alexander Smith

I saw the long line of the vacant shore, The sea-weed and the shells upon the sand, And the brown rocks left bare on every hand, As if the ebbing tide would flow no more. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Seaweed Quotes

I discovered I scream the same way whether I'm about to be devoured by a great white shark or if a piece of seaweed touches my foot. — Axl Rose

Percy: Don't I get a kiss for luck? It's kind of a tradition, right? Annabeth: Come back alive, Seaweed Brain. Then we'll see. — Rick Riordan

Rachel: They asked me a lot of questions about you. I played dumb. Annabeth: Was it hard? — Rick Riordan

Before I could lose my courage, I said, "Don't I get a kiss for luck? It's kind of a tradition, right?" I figured she would punch me. Instead, she drew her knife and stared at the army marching toward us. "Come back alive, Seaweed Brain. Then, we'll see. — Rick Riordan

The type of human being we prefer reveals the contours of our heart. — Jose Ortega y Gasset

I am never, ever, going to make things easy for you, Seaweed Brain. Get used to it. — Rick Riordan

Every time we walk along a beach some ancient urge disturbs us so that we find ourselves shedding shoes and garments or scavenging among seaweed and whitened timbers like the homesick refugees of a long war. — Loren Eiseley

I've been waiting a long time for a quest, seaweed brain," she said. "Athena is no fan of Poseidon, but if you're going to save the world, I'm the best person to keep you from messing up. — Rick Riordan

You promised, Seaweed brain. We would not get separated! Ever again! — Rick Riordan

What if it lines up like it did in the Trojan War ... Athena versus Poseidon?" "I don't know. But I just know that I'll be fighting next to you." "Why?" "Because you're my friend, Seaweed Brain. Any more stupid questions? — Rick Riordan

Crab Quotes

Have you ever watched a crab on the shore crawling backward in search of the Atlantic Ocean, and missing? That's the way the mind of man operates. — H. L. Mencken

Every thought is a seed. If you plant crab apples, don't count on harvesting Golden Delicious. — Bill Meyer

In sci-fi convention, life-forms that hadn't developed space travel were mere prehistory -- horse-shoe crabs of the cosmic scene -- and something of the humiliation of being stuck on a provincial planet in a galactic backwater has stayed with me ever since. — Barbara Ehrenreich

A country without a patent office and good patent laws is just a crab, and can't travel any way but sideways and backways. — Mark Twain

Since someone ate crabs, others must have eaten spiders as well. However, they were not tasty. So afterwards, people stopped eating them. These people also deserve our heartfelt gratitude. — Lu Xun

Big sisters are the crab grass in the lawn of life. — Charles Monroe Schulz

So if anybody wants to get me something, get me 60 crabs - one for each year. I don't want no diamonds, I don't want no shoes, I don't want no party. I want some crabs. — Patti LaBelle

You cannot teach a crab to walk straight. — Aristophanes

I got body lice in Germany! I'd tell you they were crabs, but I wasn't getting laid. — Billie Joe Armstrong

When a woman grabs my braids and says "How cute!" I crab her breast and say "How cute!" She never touches me again! — Russell Means

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More Seafood Quotes

Nothing quenches the thirst like a wheat beer, or sharpens the appetite like an India pale ale. Nothing goes as well with seafood as a dry porter or stout, or accompanies chocolate like an imperial stout. Nothing soothes like a barleywine. These are just a few of the specialty styles of beer. — Michael Jackson

No dish changes quite so much from season to season as soup. Summer's soups come chilled, in pastel colors strewn with herbs. If hot they are sheer insubstantial broths afloat with seafood. In winter they turn steaming and thick to serve with slabs of rustic, crusty bread. — Florence Fabricant

I will smash your face into a car windshield, and then take your mother, Dorothy Mantooth, out for a nice seafood dinner and never call her again. — David Koechner

Mexican food is far more varied than people think. It changes like dialects. I was brought up in Jalisco by the sea on a basic diet - tomatoes, chillis, peppers of every size and rice, which is a Mexican staple. The Pacific coast has a huge array of seafood. — Gael Garcia Bernal

I went to my library, right? And I started to research the Bill of Rights and I did not technically find anything that said all Americans shall eat shrimp with whoever they like. But, I found some things that are close enough to infer that I am within my legal rights to enjoy seafood with whomever I choose. — John Mayer

I like seafood in general. I feel when you have really good quality Canadian seafood; you don't really need to do much to it. It's just some of the best in the world. It also has this kind of briny, salty quality to it, that you don't have to season much. You can use the natural flavours of the ocean to your benefit. — Chuck Hughes

Thailand's seafood industry is the third largest in the world. And much of it is ending up on our dinner tables. — Lourdes Garcia-Navarro

I call it an old-fashioned seafood house for the new millennium. We are trying to update what we know as old fish houses and places like that, which are great, but I want to give it a new, fresh look with updated versions of the classics we all love. — Todd English

For me, if there's anything that would represent me and my style of cooking, it would be a seafood platter. Maybe a perfectly shucked oyster with a bit of lemon and cocktail sauce or mignonette sauce. — Chuck Hughes

The only kind of seafood I trust is the fish stick, a totally featureless fish that doesn't have eyeballs or fins. — Dave Barry

Imagine spending four billion years stocking the oceans with seafood, filling the ground with fossil fuels, and drilling the bees in honey production -- only to produce a race of bed-wetters! — Barbara Ehrenreich

There are a handful of barbecue seafood shacks on the beach at Hat Nai Yang, which is a fabulous place to have dinner. It's very much run for locals and they serve the catch of the day, which might be lobster, white snapper or squid. It's ridiculously reasonable, too. — Tony Parsons

Im obsessed with vinyasa flow yoga and Pilates. And since I live in Sweden, and we have good seafood, I tend to cook a lot of fish, preferably with oven-roasted veggies and a cauliflower mash. — Frida Gustavsson

I am burger obsessed and I love playing with the idea of what a burger can be for people. I make burgers out of everything from grains to seafood to, of course, browned meats of every kind. What I love about the burger is it makes food accessible and fun for everyone. — Rachael Ray

California is lucky, the East Coast is lucky because we get great seafood and a lot of produce from Florida, locally in good weather, but in the winter we have to buy it. — Eric Ripert

According to the supermarkets, there is no such thing as “out of season.” Berries in the middle of February? Why not? Seafood flown in from Japan? Sure. While it all adds up to appetizing and varied meals throughout the year, regardless of the weather, it comes with a price tag - both ethical and financial. — Homaro Cantu

Seafood on the grill can be intimidating if you don't know what you are doing. It's really quite easy — Kevin Steele

I'm trying, now that I am in my dotage, to use a lot less sugar and my husband and I really try to keep close to a minimum of fat; chicken, fish, loads of salads and legumes. We both love all of those. To be honest, nothing that is in our diet is that original. We eat seafood but we do not eat shellfish. On the other hand, if my body says to me, "eat meat" I do. I listen to my body, I think that's important. — Rita Moreno

I'm pretty confident that the seafood from the Northeastern Atlantic is one of the most delicious and unique in the country, so that we can represent that in a way that the Italians like to represent things. — Mario Batali

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