Quotes About Nourishment

I don't know a better preparation for life than a love of poetry and a good digestion.

Every healthy man can do without food for two days — but without poetry, never!

Poetry and I fit together. I can't imagine being without it... It is food and drink, it is all seasons, it is the stuff of all existence.

Poetry allies itself with beauty - a supreme union - but never uses it as its ultimate goal or sole nourishment.

Before you eat food or drink water, look at what you're about to eat or drink and feel love and gratitude. Make sure your conversations are positive when you are sitting down to a meal.

There is not a thing that is more positive than bread.

To nourish a tree you must get to the roots, the same is true if you must uproot it.

Every flower can flourish with fertile soil and water.

I profoundly believe that the power of food has a primal place in our homes that binds us to the best bits of life.

Male and female have the power to fuse into one solid, both because both are nourished in both and also because soul is the same thing in all living creatures, although the body of each is different.

That body of his, which had been fed more on stimulants than on food...

Feasting the Heart by Reynolds Price,

Animal substance seems to be the first food of all birds, even the granivorous tribes.

The first men that our Saviour dear Did choose to wait upon Him here, Blest fishers were; and fish the last Food was, that He on earth did taste: I therefore strive to follow those, Whom He to follow Him hath chose.

They who on meare curiositie (where no urgent necessitie requireth) try whether their children may not as birds be nourished without sucking, offend contrary to this dutie of breast feeding and reflect that meanes which God hath ordained as best; and so oppose their shallow wits to his unsearchable wisdom.

Godliness is the child of truth, and it must be nursed, if we will have it thrive, with no other milk than of its own mother. Therefore we are exhorted to 'desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow,' I Peter 2:2[33]; if this milk be but a little dashed with error, it is not so nutritive.

Objectively, he found the rain helpful.

We all have secrets. With them, we're like squirrels with nuts. We hide them away, and bitter though they may be, we feed on them.

Dinner was made for eating, not for talking.

Akitchen in the morning: it can be a garden of the senses.

Those without Christ often abandon themselves to eating and drinking because sometimes it looks as if that's all there is to do before we die. But those who love Christ cherish eating and drinking because it looks a little like what we will do after we die.

Talk of joy there may be things better than beef stew and baked potatoes and home-made bread -- there may be.

14 But solid food is for the mature, for those whose faculties have been trained by continuous exercise to distinguish good from evil.

Our senses inform us of the colour, weight, and consistence of bread; but neither sense nor reason can ever inform us of those qualities which fit it for the nourishment and support of a human body.