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Quotes About Nourishment

Shake the hand that feeds you.
~ Michael Pollan
I'd go without food if I could have a flower.
~ Caryl Churchill
Art is food for the soul, and an artistic climate is a healthy climate because it breeds empathy.
~ Amanda Palmer
We know that the body needs bread, therefore we seek for bread for it: so must we seek for the food of the soul.
~ Lancelot Andrewes
Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.
~ Socrates
Food is my drug of choice.
~ Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
What does this patch-sewing mean you ask? Eating and drinking. The heavy cloak of the body is always getting torn. You patch it with food and other ego-satisfactions.
~ Rumi
Preparing food is not just about yourself and others. It is about everything!
~ Shunryu Suzuki
We want a better America, an America that will give its citizens, first of all, a higher and higher standard of living so that no child will cry for food in the midst of plenty.
~ Sidney Hillman
Grub first, then ethics.
~ Bertolt Brecht
Give them great meals of beef and iron and steel, they will eat like wolves and fight like devils.
~ William Shakespeare
A significant part of the pleasure of eating is in one's accurate consciousness of the lives and the world from which food comes.
~ Wendell Berry
Food is a subject of conversation more spiritually refreshing even than the weather, for the number of possible remarks about the weather is limited, whereas of food you can talk on and on and on.
~ A. A. Milne
Hunger is the best sauce in the world.
~ Miguel de Cervantes
The kitchen is a sacred space.
~ Marc Forgione
I believe that eating simple food in a healthy body with a clean conscience is more pleasurable, and infinitely more satisfying, then eating decadent food that makes you and your world ill.
~ John Robbins
Cooking and shopping for food brings rhythm and meaning to our lives.
~ Alice Waters
Cookery is naturally the most ancient of the arts, as of all arts it is the most important.
~ George Ellwanger
Unlike curing cancer or heart disease, we already know how to beat hunger: food.
~ Mario Batali
Peace prevails when food suffices
~ Momofuku Ando
All wholesome food is caught without a net or trap.
~ William Blake
Talking about food is like talking about your dreams. Everyone has something to say. We all have to eat, it's just what we eat which differs. Some people eat for fuel and I feel bad for them.
~ Gael Garcia Bernal
Hunger is the best sauce.
~ Proverbs
A person cooking is a person giving. Even the simplest food is a gift.
~ Laurie Colwin