Quotes About Nourishment

You pray for good health and a body that will be strong in old age. Good-but your rich foods block the gods' answer and tie Jupiter's hands.

I live alone, with cats, books, pictures, fresh vegetables to cook, the garden, the hens to feed.

Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.

Man cannot live by bread alone he must have peanut butter.

All the episodes from my stories and novels are not about food only, but about meals. You can eat food by yourself. A meal, according to my understanding anyhow, is a communal event, bringing together family members, neighbors, even strangers. At its most ordinary, it involves hospitality, giving, receiving, and gratitude.

But, my dear boy, you don't eat or drink the law, or sit in the shade of it or warm yourself by it, or wear it, or have your being in it. The law exists only to serve.

When I think of the meaning of food, I always remember these lines by the poet William Carlos Williams, which seem to me merely honest: There is nothing to eat, seek it where you will, but of the body of the Lord. The blessed plants and the sea, yield it to the imagination intact.

provided important additions to the palace larder.

We had our breakfasts—whatever happens in a house, robbery or murder, it doesn't matter, you must have your breakfast. When

We had our breakfast--whatever happens in a house, robbery or murder, it doesn't matter, you must have your breakfast.

We had our breakfasts—whatever happens in a house, robbery or murder, it doesn't matter, you must have your breakfast.

How inestimably important in its moral results—and therefore how praiseworthy in itself—is the act of eating and drinking! The social virtues center in the stomach. A man who is not a better husband, father, and brother after dinner than before is, digestively speaking, an incurably vicious man.

And where'er the rain does fall,    Babes should never hunger there,      Nor poverty the mind appall.

There is a limit to what a child can accept, assimilate; not to what it can believe because a child can believe anything, given time, but to what it can accept, a limit in time, in the very time which nourishes the believing of the incredible.

Dummy, dummy, go out now and fill your tummy.

Says Saint Teresa:— Like imperfect sleep which, instead of giving more strength to the head, doth but leave it the more exhausted, the result of mere operations of the imagination is but to weaken the soul. Instead of nourishment and energy she reaps only lassitude and disgust: whereas a genuine heavenly vision yields to her a harvest of ineffable spiritual riches, and an admirable renewal of bodily strength.

Whatever will satisfy hunger is good food.

He who takes medicine and neglects to diet wastes the skill of his doctors.

Drinking a daily cup of tea will surely starve the apothecary.

When you appeal to the Rider inside yourself or inside others you are trying to influence, your game plan should be simple. First, follow the bright spots. Think of the Vietnamese children who stayed well nourished against the odds

When you eat with awareness, you find that there is more space, more beauty. You begin to watch yourself, to see yourself, and you notice how clumsy you are or how accurate you are…When you practice awareness, everything becomes majestic and good. You begin to see that you have been leading a different kind of life in the past. You had the essence of mindfulness already, but you hadn't discovered it.

Everyone loves something, even if it's only tortillas.

April showers bring May flower

There are only three things women need in life: food, water, and compliments.