Quotes About Nourishment

Actually, if I don't eat healthy food I don't feel good. For me, I crave healthy food.

What did they live on," said Alice, who always took a great interest in questions of eating and drinking. "They lived on treacle," said the Dormouse, after thinking a moment or two. "They couldn't have done that, you know," Alice gently remarked. "They'd have been ill." "So they were," said the Dormouse, "very ill." Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

we are all born from the same celestial seed; all of us have the same father, from which the earth, the mother who feeds us, receives clear drops of rain, producing from them bright wheat and lush trees, and the human race, and the species of beasts, offering up the foods with which all bodies are nourished, to lead a sweet life and generate offspring

Lucretius expresses this, wonderfully: . . . we are all born from the same celestial seed; all of us have the same father, from which the earth, the mother who feeds us, receives clear drops of rain, producing from them bright wheat and lush trees, and the human race, and the species of beasts, offering up the foods with which all bodies are nourished, to lead a sweet life and generate offspring . . . (De rerum natura, bk. II, lines 991–97) It

Just try to be angry with someone who fed you something delicious.

To the High Heavens I praise the potato, and recommend planting it, eating it, and honoring it.

They say home is where the heart is, although in my case, the location of the fridge is also important.

It is a very simple matter," continued Colonel Bradford, "to live simply in this highly complex world. Let the world be complex but let your diet, and all matters pertaining to your mental and physical wellbeing be simple.

she admired the strength and kindness with which he handled his wife's suicide attempts, saying that it taught her that all of life, including the filthy bits, could in some way nourish the human spirit.

Love is the fuel of our physical and spiritual bodies.

What drains your spirit drains your body. What fuels your spirit fuels your body.

You have to find a balance with food in your life - you can't take out food. It can be absolutely terrifying.

Eating is not a crime. It's not a moral issue. It's normal. It's enjoyable. It just is.

The emotions roused by that most unavoidable of things, food, are astonishing.

Man does not live by bread alone, but he might be healthier if he did.

He pares his apple that will cleanly feed.

Whatsoever was the father of a disease, an ill diet was the mother.

You must sit down, says Love, and taste my meat:So I did sit and eat.

Kissing don't last: cookery do !

How long has it been since you've eaten? My faith is all the nourishment I need. Faith is like porridge. Better with milk and honey.

Faith is like porridge. Better with milk and honey.

A crisp roast chicken would set the world aright.

to bring us a handful of figs from his tree or a few almonds, milky and fresh, which we would crack between the smooth stones on the beach.

fed under the orange and lemon trees