Top 60 Laurie David Quotes

When you go to pick your kids up from school, cars are lined up idling for anywhere from five to 20 minutes. Starting a ‘no idling’ rule in your school carpool lane could have a huge impact.

Wherever the American diet goes, wherever these foods and drinks go, sickness follows.

If you can influence five people, fantastic. If you can influence five hundred people, fantastic. It’s all important.

What is the quickest way to reduce our dependence on oil? Embrace hybrid technology.

It would be very difficult for me to stay in a marriage with a Republican at this point. Not that there’s anything wrong with Republicans, but I happen to be a Democrat.

If you take added sugar out of your diet, when you have fruit for dessert it is going to taste fantastic!

I understand how to deliver a message, that’s my skill.

You can love someone and not be able to live together.

My dad was a pool-equipment salesman. He died when I was 12. Heart attack on a golf course.

My life has been on TV for so long now, I’m used to it.

Small acts by millions of people – imagine the impact of that. If someone changes one thing, they’re likely to change two things, and then three things. Then they’re likely to demand that from their leadership.

You don’t necessarily know you’re consuming sugar when you’re using store-bought salad dressing, or store-bought tomato sauce, or healthy granola bars. It’s added to all these foods.

A successful dinner is one that lasts a while and one where everyone leaves happy.

Yes, I take a private plane on holiday a couple of times a year, and I feel horribly guilty about it. I probably shouldn’t do it. But the truth is, I’m not perfect.

I’m not someone who funds buildings. That doesn’t interest me. I’m more interested in programs.

If you can’t buy a hybrid car, your first question should be, ‘What is the fuel economy of this car?’

Just because you’ve been divorced doesn’t mean you’re not still a family.

Larry and I didn’t have two nickels together when we got engaged.

I was going to be the president of a television network. That’s where I was going. I was that ambitious.

As a young mom I was kind of desperate for some happy family moments and I realized that they don’t usually show up all on their own, you have to create them – or at the very least, create an opportunity for them to bloom.

And I think comedy obviously a great way to get a message out because you know the reason why things are funny is because they’re true.

Family dinner is how we civilize our children. It is how we get them into good habits like drinking water with supper, saying please and thank you, learning how to listen and take turns. It’s how we pass on our family histories.

Food is being purposefully formulated to addict you.Then it is purposefully marketed, targeted to young children to addict them at an early age. This is unethical, right? This is immoral, particularly when you see the results of it which is this world-wide epidemic of diabetes and obesity.

By the way, what happened to our surgeon general who warned us about AIDS and smoking? That position has been completely stripped of power.

There was no social media really when ‘Inconvenient Truth’ came out. I wish we had Twitter and the power of that to help get the word out.

A bald man driving a hybrid is a very sexy thing.

The fact that this is what John McCain is suggesting – more offshore drilling and more nuclear power plants? I don’t think so. Not even close. Not even in the ballpark of what we need.

I didn’t have any eating disorder or food addiction, but I struggle like every single person with my weight every day. Honestly, a day does not go by where I am not thinking about what I am eating.

A big part of the challenge is teaching your kids how to have a real conversation, not a texting conversation. If they’re not sitting down at the table, the art of conversation is going to go.

I have my own career. I’m an environmentalist.

They are very different in terms of the solution. Where ‘An Inconvenient Truth,’ you really need countries to cooperate and sacrifice and figure out a solution, with ‘Fed Up‘ you can leave the theater and you can be empowered that very night by cooking dinner in your very own kitchen.

Any time you put people in a room with Bill McDonough, they leave there blown away, their mouths agape. I had a similar feeling when I first met Al Gore.

The show Larry is much more aggressive. The real Larry is very gentle and very sweet and doesn’t like to offend people.

The health claims on packaging are there because they sell products.

If you care about the health of the planet, you have to care about the health of its people, and if you really go deeper, it starts with the community of your family.

I got to talk about global warming on the No. 1 soap opera in the country.

I want everyone else to become a global warming activist so it’s not all on my shoulders.

I have taken advantage of my husband, to the extent that I even got HBO to do a documentary with me.

I’m becoming more of a religious person actually as I get older, which I think is not an unusual phenomenon.

Exercise is essential for good health. But we can’t exercise our way out of the obesity epidemic.

Nobody‘s a better critic of myself than me, and I try to do the best I can.

And by the way, the United States is the biggest cause in global warming pollution. And we’re doing the least about it. I find that personally embarrassing.

When I was a little kid – and I don’t know why – I was obsessed with littering. I’d yell at people in their cars if I saw someone throw paper or a cup out of their window.

When kids help cook, even if its just shredding the herbs or stirring the pot, they eat more and they eat better.

History will judge Senator Inhofe. You know he has a lot or responsibility on his hands for keeping any kind of movement and serious, meaningful action on global warming happening in the Congress.

It’s not up to the kids to decide what’s healthy for them. That’s our job.

Get your friends together, even if it’s just once a week or twice a month, and make dinner together.

I’m encouraged by what I’m seeing happening with more and more CEOs stepping up, saying, ‘I have to fight carbon emissions.’

That’s what hurts the environmental movement – holding people to a standard they cannot meet. That just pushes people away.

Once people learn what global warming means, they start to pay attention.

Having a sit down, no screens, home cooked dinner is one of the most powerful things you can do as a parent and I believe it’s the most important activity you can do as a family.

Everything you worry about as a parent can be improved by sitting down regularly with your kids.

I had to stop following certain friends because I was constantly seeing them tweet about all the parties that I wasn’t invited to! The worst is the Twitpic – people take pictures of themselves at these fun dinners, and you’re not there.

So many people dread Thanksgiving because they find it traumatic or uncomfortable. My suggestion is to come with a couple of great questions for the table.

I could spend my life focusing on getting rid of straws in our society.

Well of course, when you have kids, you become more protective and you think about how to give them the healthiest upbringing and the best future.

It takes so much courage to get out of a marriage.

It’s one thing to have ice cream once in a while with your family, and quite another to eat foods on a regular basis that you don’t even know are full of sugar.

Scientists are not necessarily the best communicators.

Celebrities who lend their names to causes to raise lot of money for important issues should be admired and not marginalized and made fun of.