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In an ideal world for me, school lunch would be free for everybody. -- Tom Colicchio
I want every child in America to eat a nutritious, delicious, sustainably sourced school lunch for free. -- Alice Waters
We need to reform our school lunch programs. We need to get healthy items into the vending machines. -- Joan Lunden
With my time in the limelight, I regret that I didnt use it more to push vegetarianism. I support vegetarian options in the school lunch program. -- Bernhard Goetz
But people that are worried about unborn babies are the same ones that vote against kindergarten programs in Indiana or school lunch funds out of the federal government. -- Birch Bayh
I am confident that we will see a growing consensus about the most effective way to transform food in America: building a real, sustainable and free school-lunch program. -- Alice Waters
I've watched Jamie Oliver 's Food Revolution, he wants better school lunches for children in the US and UK. In NZ, we want Kiwi kids to have school lunches! -- Metiria Turei
My granddaddy died when I was about 6 years old, I think. And my grandmother took a job cooking in the school lunchroom. So she did great. She made $18 a week. -- Willie Nelson
Hunger is a political issue, and there are several things politically that are keeping people hungry - not funding food stamps adequately, not funding school lunches adequately. So there is a political solution to the problem of hunger. -- Tom Colicchio
When you start one of these programs, school lunch programs, in a country that heretofore had nothing of that kind, immediately school enrollment jumps dramatically. Girls and boys get to the classroom with the promise of a good meal once a day. -- George McGovern
Whenever I'm out late she makes a sandwich for my school lunch. I always protest and tell her not to, saying I'll make my own when I get home. But she likes it. She says it reminds her of when I was younger and needed her. -- Jay Asher
I cannot help but wonder whether, by continuing and expanding the school lunch program, we aren't witnessing, if not encouraging, the slow demise of yet another American tradition: the brown bag. Perhaps we are beholding yet another break in the chain that links child to home. -- Charles Mathias
The atmosphere [in the school lunchroom] is not quite that of a prison, because the students are permitted to talk quietly, under the frowning scrutiny of teachers standing around on duty, during their meal-they are not supposed to talk while standing in line, though this rule is only sporadically enforced. -- Edgar Friedenberg
This is what people don't understand: obesity is a symptom of poverty. It's not a lifestyle choice where people are just eating and not exercising. It's because kids - and this is the problem with school lunch right now - are getting sugar, fat, empty calories - lots of calories - but no nutrition. -- Tom Colicchio
How unthinkable that, in a country of such bursting plenty, so many people are facing ongoing hunger and poverty. If we are truly each other's keepers, let's support school lunches, food stamps, neighborhood garden projects, and so many other wonderful programs working to put an end to this cruel and needless blight once and for all. -- Bonnie Raitt
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. -- Alice Waters
Food is a big bargain in America, and you can go to these places, we all like them, and you get big portions, and they taste good. But they're higher in fat than ever before. And same thing has happened, by the way, though, to school menus. A lot of school lunch menus have more fat and more sugar than ever before. -- William J. Clinton
For states' rights advocates, the Constitution is like a contract that is openly violated by one party with impunity. On paper, the states remain sovereign powers, while in reality the federal government appears able to dictate everything from the ingredients of school lunches to speed limits. Congress now routinely collects taxes in order to return the money to the states with conditions on their conforming to federal demands. -- Jonathan Turley
School is a place were you go to eat your lunch -- Rodney Dangerfield
Growing up poor, I didn't even have a lunch to take to school. -- George Foreman
I never got to go to prom. I never went to regular school. I ate lunch by myself. -- Tequan Richmond
My last two years of high school, I think I went to Burger King every day for lunch. -- Cameron Russell
When buying a new house ... Buy the house far enough away from school so your kids can't come home for lunch. -- Phyllis Diller
We didn't have packed lunches at my school. I was a lunch monitor as well - I used to take everyone's chips! -- Robert Pattinson
I get to have Sunday lunch at my mum's, pick my nephew up from school now and then: it's a very normal life. -- Vicky McClure
I was very quiet until I got at the piano, and weekends, lunch breaks, after school, before school, I was just making music. -- Emeli Sande
How do I put this? 'Glee' is like 'High School Musical' if 'High School Musical' had its stomach punched and its lunch money stolen. -- Cory Monteith
Golf is the cruelest game, because eventually it will drag you out in front of the whole school, take your lunch money and slap you around. -- Rick Reilly
With my time in the limelight, I regret that I didn't use it more to push vegetarianism. I support vegetarian options in the school lunch program. -- Bernhard Goetz
Like a lot of inwardly drawn young people, I spent a lot of time in libraries. At my high school, I often spent my lunch breaks there. -- Henry Rollins
I could do Superman, the Green Lantern, Wonder Woman, this kind of stuff [at school]. And kids would give me their lunch money to have these things. -- Paul Laffoley

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