Quotes About Nourishment

When the belly is empty, the body becomes spirit; and when it is full, the spirit becomes body.

Every sacrament meeting ought to be a spiritual feast.

My parents' selfless affection and dedication nourished and prepared me to receive the love of my guru or spiritual father, Swami Prabhupada. My parents prepared the soil in which my guru sowed the seeds of his compassion.

The bourgeois woman not only demands her own bread, but she also requests spiritual nourishment and wants to develop her individuality.

The world is starved for spiritual food.

India's obsession with food and its cultural importance in nourishing not just the body, but community and spirituality too, goes some way to explaining why Indian home cooking is hard to beat.

We never got much in the way of material things, but if you can be spoiled by good cooking, my mom spoiled me three times a day all my life.

You are the butter to my bread,and the breath to my life

Health requires healthy food.

Man cannot live by bread alone. Man after all is composed of intellect and soul.

Each of the substances of a man's diet acts upon his body and changes it in some way and upon these changes his whole life depends.

Holy Men! Holy Cabbages! Holy Bean Pods! What do they do but live and suck in sustenance and grow fat?

One of these nuts is a meal for a man, both meat and drink.

Animals feed themselves; men eat; but only wise men know the art of eating

Good oil, like good wine, is a gift from the gods. The grape and the olive are among the priceless benefactions of the soil, and were destined, each in its way, to promote the welfare of man.

Man needs bread and hyacinths: one to feed the body, and one to feed the soul.

Chocolate is the divine drink which builds up resistance and fights fatigue. A cup of this precious drink permits a man to walk for a whole day without food.

Intellectual men who quickly wolf down whatever nourishment is necessary for their bodies with a kind of disdain, may be very rational and have a noble intelligence, but they are not men of taste.

To a man with an empty stomach food is God

A lot of learned men think people really are the food theyve eaten.

Here is bread, which strengthens man's heart, and therefore is called the staff of Life.

Man does not live by bread alone, even presliced bread.

No man can be wise on an empty stomach.

A man who loves good food has a way of making it gravitate toward his kitchen.