150 Quotes by Alice Waters

Teaching kids how to feed themselves and how to live in a community responsibly is the center of an education.

Do I think if something's beautiful, it's perfect? I guess you could say that. If I'm in a rapture of beauty, it's perfect to me.

The problem with living in a fast-food nation is that we expect food to be cheap.

Change the food in the schools and we can influence how children think. Change the curriculum and teach them how to garden and how to cook and we can show that growing food and cooking and eating together give lasting richness, meaning, and beauty to our lives.

I really am at a place where I think we need to feed every child at school for free and feed them a real school lunch that's sustainable and nutritious and delicious. It needs to be part of the curriculum of the school in the same way that physical education was part of the curriculum, and all children participated.

We can't think narrowly. We have to think in the biggest possible way.

The decisions you make are a choice of values that reflect your life in every way.

Cooking and shopping for food brings rhythm and meaning to our lives.

This is the power of gathering: it inspires us, delightfully, to be more hopeful, more joyful, more thoughtful: in a word, more alive.