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Quotes About Nourishment

I live on good soup, not on fine words.
~ Moliere
Sometimes a person needs a story more than food to stay alive.
~ Barry Lopez
Let your food be your medicine, and your medicine be your food.
~ Hippocrates
The famous physician Dumoulin said when dying, 'I leave two great physicians behind me, simple food and pure water.'
~ Voltaire
The images we eat are as important as the food we eat. Think of that in terms of television, and a lot of the movies we watch.
~ Marion Woodman
Stomach: A slave that must accept everything that is given to it, but which avenges wrongs as slyly as does the slave.
~ Unknown
In the last analysis civilization is based upon the food supply.
~ Will Durant
Jesus, Food of strong souls, strengthen me, purify me, make me godlike
~ Gemma Galgani
I eat merely to put food out of my mind.
~ N. F. Simpson
Come, eate thy fill of this thy God's white loaf. It's food too fine for Angels, yet come, take and eate thy fill. It's Heaven's Sugar Cake.
~ Edward Taylor
All sorrows are less with bread.
~ Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
The best thing you can do for someone is make them a beautiful plate of food. How else can you invade someone's body without actually touching them?
~ Padma Lakshmi
You feel better when you're eating food that retains nutritional value.
~ Amber Heard
What is literature compared with cooking? The one is shadow, the other is substance.
~ E. V. Lucas
I eat only simple Indian home food - sabzi, roti, dal, chawal, ghee. There are so many benefits of having ghee. My grandmother is 84 and she is still fit and looks beautiful.
~ Kareena Kapoor
There is a difference between eating and drinking for strength and from mere gluttony.
~ Henry David Thoreau, Walking
Wine, one of the noblest cordials in nature.
~ John Wesley
Fasting of the body is food for the soul.
~ Saint John Chrysostom
Though their life was modest, they believed in eating well.
~ James Joyce, Dubliners
It's food too fine for angels, yet come, take and eat thy fill!
~ Edward Taylor
All I ask of food is that it doesn't harm me.
~ Michael Palin
Food was a constant topic of conversation in our household.
~ Paul Lynde
Cooking for people is an enormously significant expression of generosity and soulfulness.
~ Ted Allen
And you stagger down to break your fast. Greasy bacon and lacquered eggs And coffee composed of frigid dregs.
~ Ogden Nash