Quotes About Nourishment

All around the dining hall, you can feel the rejuvenating effect that a good meal can bring on. The way it can make people kinder, funnier, more optimistic, and remind them it's not a mistake to go on living. It's better than any medicine.

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.

No more kisses for you, until you have eaten !

A leather bag filled with food and a flask of hot tea.

Lunch makes me feel a bit better.

Good. I'm starving.

From this place, we are invisible but have a clear view of the valley, which is teeming with summer life, greens to gather, roots to dig, fish iridescent in the sunlight. The day is glorious, with a blue sky and soft breeze. The food's wonderful, with the cheese seeping into the warm bread and the berries bursting in our mouths.

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I guess even in grief we have to continue to live. Continue to play volleyball and eat burritos.

Give up the idea that by ruling over others you can do any good to them. But you can do just as much as you can in the case of the plant: you can supply the growing seed with the materials for the making up of its body, bringing to it the earth, the water, the air, that it wants. It will take all that it wants by its own nature, it will assimilate and grow by its own nature.

We always forget that it is the food out of which we manufacture everything we have. So

I had girlfriends who really irritated me by their devotion to the Beatles. I didn't begrudge them their interest, and there were songs like 'Hey Jude' that I could appreciate. But they didn't seem to be essential to the kind of nourishment that I craved.

Cooking has always sort of been my way to soothe the soul, if you will. I grew up around my great-great-grandmother cooking, and that's eventually where I learned a lot of things. So food has always been used to ease and comfort.

Food for the body is not enough. There must be food for the soul.

The human soul needs actual beauty more than bread.

Post-workout smoothies are good for my body, an espresso martini is good for my soul.

We should read to give our souls a chance to luxuriate.

People have to have food for their souls.

I really think that the music is the food for our souls.

It is impossible to think of any good meal, no matter how plain or elegant, without soup or bread in it.

I feed on good soup, not beautiful language.

Bread's so important for me, it makes such a difference. I like it with a lovely bit of cheese on it, sometimes just with butter, or with some fresh soup.

I do not live off canned soup.

I tried every diet, from living on cabbage soup to fasting to Weight Watchers, and then came the frozen meals and the shakes. I realized that the more I took care of my body, eating what was good for me, then I felt happy and whole.