Quotes About Nourishment

Greens feed our souls, refresh our minds, and nourish our grateful bodies.

If you plant Twinkies in your body garden, how do you expect to harvest health?

Our bodies run on the fresh green fuel of the land.

Homemade meals—especially mommy meals—are life's most pleasant fuel.

I have often noticed that Jesus will not give me a store of provisions; He nourishes me with food that is entirely new from moment to moment, and I find it in my soul without knowing how it got there.

Chaos, then, is the enemy of growth. Disorganization, sloppiness, and inattention generally introduce the kind of instability that weakens rather than strengthens. Where there is no order there will likely be little in the environment that sustains and nourishes. Life needs to be ordered.

Friendship and chocolate cake—they do not heal all ills, but they certainly help.

After I broke my neck, I began thinking more about The Kitchen: How can we come up with some way to make real food more affordable? Food that's locally-grown, if possible, fundamentally nourishing to the body, nourishing to the planet.

I had no idea how to eat sensibly.

we should effect a radical reform in the character of the food.

I realized that meals, too, are a spiritual service and that meat, bread, and wine are the raw materials from which spirit is formed.

Tell me what you do with the food you eat, and I'll tell you who you are. Some turn their food into fat and manure, some into work and good humor, and others, I'm told, into God. So there must be three sorts of men. I'm not one of the worst, boss, nor yet one of the best. I'm somewhere in between the two. What I eat I turn into work and good humor. That's not too bad, after all!

My joys here are great, because they are very simple and spring from the everlasting elements: the pure air, the sun, the sea and the wheaten loaf.

Sex might satisfy, food might fuel, love might sustain, but without coffee, what is the point?

I'm loved. I'm wanted. Spirits are fed on this alone.

The socializing hadn't been so bad, he acknowledged, and he couldn't say he minded the food, though a man would do better with a good beef sandwich. Still it was plentiful, even if you did have to pick your way through half of it to get to something recognizable.

Friendship's the bread of life, isn't it now?

Perhaps it was the demands of having to take on me and the farm that left so little time for the gentler things. Such small things: a kiss goodnight, a word of affection... a child can starve with a full plate.

They sat around the kitchen table, eating the sandwiches and drinking glass after glass of cold milk.

Seek midday nourishment. Visit memorial acclaimed war hero Colonel Sanders.

Conflict is the food that feeds the reader. It's a spicy hell-broth that nourishes.

Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.

TO EAT IS VERY IMPORTANT, AND VERY PLEASUREABLE THING, BUT IT CAN ALSO BE VERY FRIGHTENING

We do children an enormous disservice when we assume that they cannot appreciate anything beyond drive through fare and nutritionally marginal, kid-targeted convenience foods. Our children are capable of consuming something that grew in a garden or on a tree and never saw a deep fryer. They are capable of making it through diner at a sit-down restaurant with tablecloths and no climbing equipment. Children deserve quality nourishment.