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Quotes About Nourishment

I do not believe that you have to spend a lot of money to eat well: it is hard to beat a plain old baked potato.
~ Laurie Colwin
You, O money, are the cause of a restless life! Because of you we journey toward a premature death; you provide cruel nourishment for the evils of men; the seed of our cares sprouts from your head.
~ Propertius
Few people arise in the morning as hungry for God as they are for cornflakes or toast and eggs.
~ Dallas Willard
It was one of those mornings when a man could face the day only after warming himself with a mug of thick coffee beaded with steam, a good thick crust of bread, and a bowl of bean soup.
~ Richard Gehman
All well-regulated families set apart an hour every morning for tea and bread and butter
~ Joseph Addison
In the morning we received some very thin coffee. For lunch we had potato soup with a few pieces of meat in it, in the evening we had a very thin meat soup with some potatoes in it.
~ Leon Askin
You are lovable, you are loving; your choices about food will reflect that, if you give yourself a chance.
~ Geneen Roth
Water is life's matter and matrix, mother and medium. There is no life without water.
~ Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
We need the church as urgently as a starving baby needs his mother's milk.
~ R. C. Sproul
I always knew that food and wine were vital, with my mother being Italian and a good cook.
~ Robert Mondavi
Coconut milk is the only thing on this planet that comes identically to mother's milk.
~ Dick Gregory
I do eat well. I try to love my body. That is what I tell my daughter. I say, 'Love every bite of food. Love your body. We're all going to be dead soon.' Actually I don't say that last thing to her.
~ Helen Hunt
Soup not only warms you and is easy to swallow and to digest, it also creates the illusion in the back of your mind that Mother is there.
~ Marlene Dietrich
As a breastfeeding mother you are basically just meals on heels.
~ Kathy Lette
We sat together as a family for dinner at night. And my mother had a job. My dad had a job. But there was always a meal on the table at 6:00, you know.
~ Trisha Yearwood
many tender, delicate mothers, seem to think that to make their children eat, is all that is requisite to make them great.
~ Sarah Josepha Hale
I suspect that hunger was my mother.
~ Plautus
He who made thee is made in thee. He is made in thee through whom you were made.... Give milk, O mother, to him who is our food; give milk to the bread that comes down from heaven.
~ Saint Augustine
Mother's milk leads to everything.
~ George Carlin
All I can think of is the emaciated bodies of children on our kitchen table as my mother prescribes what the parent's can't give. More food.
~ Suzanne Collins
Mother cow expects from us nothing but grass and grain.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
In order to get meat, we have to kill. And we are certainly not entitled to any other milk except the mother's milk in our infancy.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
The food you eat can either be the safest and most powerful form of medicine, or the slowest form of poison
~ Ann Wigmore
Every living cell in your body is made from the food you eat. If you consistently eat junk food then you'll have a junk body.
~ Jeanette Jenkins