Quotes About Nourishment

Man's spirit grows hungry for art in the same way his stomach growls for food.

Beasts feed. Man eats. Only the man of intellect knows how to eat.

Man and the animals are merely a passage and channel for food, a tomb for other animals, a haven for the dead, giving life by the death of others, a coffer full of corruption.

Friend, hast thou considered the "rugged, all-nourishing earth," as Sophocles well names her; how she feeds the sparrow on the housetop, much more her darling man?

How wonderful are the women and men in the world who feed us. Especially those who feed us with no salary. The mothers—I thought. The wives.

The freedom of man, I contend, is the freedom to eat.

Give me a well-cooked, well-served meal, a bouquet, and a sunset, and I can do more for a man's soul than all the cant ever preached. I can even do it without a sunset!

Is it only the mouth and belly which are injured by hunger and thirst? Men's minds are also injured by them.

If you follow the course of one man through constant practice, your intelligence would have to be crude indeed for you not to get some nourishment from it.

When man desires to live as long as a tree, his diet will be fruit.

There is life in the ground; it goes into the seeds and also when it is stirred up goes into the man who stirs it.

To a hungry man, Christ is very lovely when He has a loaf of bread in His hand.

Nothing like the act of eating for equalizing men. Dying is nothing to it.

Prayers and provender hinder no journey. [Prayers and provender hinder no man's journey.]

The man who eats to live, who is friends with the five powers - earth, water, ether, sun and air - who is a servant of God, the Creator of all these, ought not to fall ill.

You will eat not to satisfy your palate but your hunger. A self-indulgent man lives to eat; a self-restrained man eats to live.

To a starving man, God can only appear in the form of bread.

You are right that a man needs light like he needs bread, but a man needs a little darkness, too, if only so that he can sleep, and dream.

The very substance which last week was grazing in the field, waving in the milk pail, or growing in the garden, is now become part of the man.

I am really good at making Top Ramen. I also love it when my mom makes vegetarian lasagna for me.

My mom is a great cook, and family dinners were a must growing up, even if that meant eating at 10 p.m. when my dad got home from the hospital. It's where we did our family bonding.

Food feeds both the body and soul - there are clear reasons to eat a balanced diet, but there are also reasons you cling to your mom's secret chicken noodle soup recipe when you're sick.

What could be more superstitious than the idea that money brings forth food?

Why spend money on what is not bread, and your labor on what does not satisfy? Listen, listen to me, and eat what is good, and your soul will delight in the richest of fare.