Quote

When there are starving people in the world, it seems wrong that so many of us Americans eat as much for entertainment as for nourishment.

Andy Rooney

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Andy Rooney
Age: 92 †
Born: 1919
Born: January 14
Died: 2011
Died: November 4
Journalist
Screenwriter
War Correspondent
Writer
Albany
New York
Andrew Aitken Andy Rooney
Andrew Aitken Rooney
People
Eating
Americans
Food
Wrong
Seems
Nourishment
Many
Starving
Much
Cooking
World
Entertainment

More quotes by Andy Rooney

Image
Before a kid learns how to use a computer that can solve mathematical problems, he or she should know how to do arithmetic without a computer.
Andy Rooney
Image
I've learned that no matter how serious your life requires you to be, everyone needs a friend to act goofy with.
Andy Rooney
Image
Sooner or later the world will have to return to the good old days when we fought wars and killed people the old-fashioned way, one at a time.
Andy Rooney
Image
Most of us believe everyone has a right to his own opinion - as long as it agrees with ours.
Andy Rooney
Image
Happiness depends more on how life strikes you than on what happens.
Andy Rooney
Image
Taxes are important. President Bush's tax proposals leave no rich person behind. Voters approve of President Bush helping the kind of people they wish they were one of.
Andy Rooney
Image
One day about 10 years ago the door to my office opened and who walked in but Bill Gates.... Seemed like a nice guy and has done more with his money than most billionaires. But that's as far as I want to go being kind to Bill Gates.
Andy Rooney
Image
Writers don't often say anything that readers don't already know, unless its a news story. A writer's greatest pleasure is revealing to people things they knew but did not know they knew. Or did not realize everyone else knew, too. This produces a warm sense of fellow feeling and is the best a writer can do.
Andy Rooney
Image
There are sixteen cans of coffee here together they hold a total of thirteen and a half pounds of coffee. Doesn't that seem like cheating?
Andy Rooney
Image
Vegetarian - that's an old Indian word meaning lousy hunter.
Andy Rooney
Image
I often pass a farm with cows grazing in the field and I think to myself how terrible it is that human beings grow other animals just to kill them and eat them. Most of us think of vegetarians as nuts and I'm not a vegetarian but I wouldn't be surprised if we came to a time in 50 or 100 years when civilized people everywhere refused to eat animals.
Andy Rooney
Image
I've learned... That it's those small daily happenings that make life so spectacular.
Andy Rooney
Image
Half the cookbooks tell you how to cook the food and the other half tell you how to avoid eating it.
Andy Rooney
Image
Everyone starts out being an atheist. No one is born with belief in anything. Infants are atheists until they are indoctrinated.
Andy Rooney
Image
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
Image
Nothing in fine print is ever good news.
Andy Rooney
Image
The Super Bowl isn't for kids, I had a great time though and it was worth every nickel of it because by doing this lame piece about the game I can put it on my expense account.
Andy Rooney
Image
Great teachers are usually a little crazy.
Andy Rooney
Image
I've learned... That one should keep his words both soft and tender, because tomorrow he may have to eat them.
Andy Rooney
Image
It's best to give advice in only two circumstances when it's requested, and when it's a life threatening situation.
Andy Rooney