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Quotes About Nourishment

It's easy to halve the potato where there's love.
~ Irish proverb
Some say it's the sun, some say it's the rain, but I know it's Love that makes things grow.
~ Vanna Bonta
Love is the bread of life: you have to make it everyday if you want it fresh.
~ James Arthur Baldwin
Onion soup sustains. The process of making it is somewhat like the process of learning to love. It requires commitment, extraordinary effort, time, and will make you cry.
~ Unknown
There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
~ George Bernard Shaw
Love and eggs are best when they are fresh
~ Russian proverb
The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.
~ Unknown
The most important things to do in the world are to get something to eat, something to drink and somebody to love you.
~ Brenda Ueland
I had to remember how to eat afterward. It was like my throat'd close up. And if I ate too much, I'd lose it from my belly. Callie helped me get my strength up." Seth slid both hands into his hair. "And I started for home.
~ Mary Connealy
The seed of the gift may come, but a seedling that isn't nourished dies quickly.
~ Mary E. Pearson
It's just supposed to come, isn't it?" "Did your reading just come to you? Or did you have to devote effort to it? The seed of the gift may come, but a seedling that isn't nourished dies quickly.
~ Mary E. Pearson
glass of juice and a bowl of cornflakes, and hopefully was now
~ Mary Higgins Clark
This is the bread: body, soul, exquisite tenderness. We are all we have. — Mary Jo Bang, from "Café Edgar," Apology for Want (University Press of New England, 1997)
~ Mary Jo Bang
Love is the true food of the soul. But the soul eats to live, like the body– it mustn't live to eat...The soul lives to do!
~ Mary Renault
The physical food transubstantiates in our minds into something more ethereal, of human and emotional nurturance, a sense that our hungers are being sated. Even if you are just stuffing handfuls of fries into your mouth on a binge, you still feel that some emptiness, if briefly, is being filled.
~ Marya Hornbacher
Agatha Swanburne - "Peas first, biscuits last, make for a happy meal.
~ Unknown
Food is life, and life must not step away from nature.
~ Masanobu Fukuoka
Zhuangzi, another pivotal Daoist sage in the fourth century BCE, says, "Resign yourself to what cannot be avoided and nourish what is within you—this is the best.
~ Massimo Pigliucci
The Teacher provides Spiritual Energy! Just like roots provide nutrients to the flowers!
~ Unknown
Hay una acacia, ya sé que solo da espinas y sombras cortantes, pero está viva, tendrás algo vivo a tu lado. Te dará de beber su savia, te escaparás a través de sus raíces y florecerás desplegándote hacia el cielo.
~ Mathias Malzieu
Joy is food for the heart. Love is food for the soul.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
I stayed there on the floor like that for a long, long time. Eating and crying. Crying and eating.
~ Matt de la Pena
Everyone knew that the way to make something even lovelier was to put it in a pie.
~ Matt Haig
Devi essere una noce». «La gente rompe le noci e le mangia».
~ Matt Haig