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Quotes About Nourishment

You have food?" Winter scolded. "I thought you said you were hungry." I'm hungry for other things besides what I have," [Clover] argued.
~ Obert Skye
A pair of substantial mammary glands have the advantage over the two hemispheres of the most learned professor's brain in the art of compounding a nutritive fluid for infants.
~ Unknown
Food and sex have been bound together for a long time. I guess this is due to the intimate connection between the two most powerful instincts that predominate in life: the instinct to survive and the instinct to multiply. Nourishment and sex give us a great sense of pleasure. Having the wisdom to satisfy both desires—for food and sex—is the art of living well. I truly believe that this wisdom lies within us all.
~ Ori Hofmekler
The cook's role is to feed the body while a leader's role is to feed the mind and spirit.
~ Orrin Woodward
como bastante; pero no recuerdo haberlo hecho nunca por hambre.
~ Osamu Dazai
You have to be the nourishment for other people's souls until they learn to feed on God." Oswald Chambers
~ Oswald Chambers
Jesus did not say to make converts to your way of thinking, but He said to look after His sheep, to see that they get nourished in the knowledge of Him. We consider what we do in the way of Christian work as service, yet Jesus Christ calls service to be what we are to Him, not what we do for Him. Discipleship is based solely on devotion to Jesus Christ, not on following after a particular belief or doctrine.
~ Oswald Chambers
If you believe in Jesus, you will find that God has nourished in you mighty torrents of blessing for others.
~ Oswald Chambers
Jesus did not say to make converts to your way of thinking, but He said to look after His sheep, to see that they get nourished in the knowledge of Him. We consider what we do in the way of Christian work as service, yet Jesus Christ calls service to be what we are to Him, not what we do for Him. Discipleship is based solely on devotion to Jesus Christ, not on following after a particular belief or doctrine.
~ Oswald Chambers
The Bible is the Bread of Life, and it never becomes stale.
~ Unknown
"Give us this day our daily bread" is probably the most perfectly constructed and useful sentence ever set down in the English language.
~ Unknown
Peace goes into the making of a poem as flour goes into the making of bread.
~ Pablo Neruda
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
From the simple stringing together of lemon garlands for the goddess Durga, to dividing the prasadam or blessed foods for the children first, I came to associate food not only with feminity, but also with purity and divinity.
~ Padma Lakshmi
we eat for our stomachs, but we hunger with our hearts.
~ Padma Lakshmi
Don't get me wrong. I'm happy to be your morning lollipop, but I need to eat, too.
~ Pamela Clare
Breastfeeding is a mother's gift to herself, her baby and the earth.
~ Unknown
The food that enters the mind must be watched as closely as the food that enters the body.
~ Pat Buchanan
I woke in the morning to the sound of Adam's stomach growling under my ear. "Sorry," he said. "Too many changes and not enough food." I patted his hard belly and kissed it. "Poor thing," I told it. "Doesn't Adam treat you right? No worries, I'll go feed you." My head bounced when Adam laughed.
~ Patricia Briggs
Coffee was a food in that house, not a drink.
~ Patricia Hampl
Daily scripture reading is like maintaining a healthy diet ... When we read and meditate on the Bible, the Holy Spirit strengthens our faith and nourishes us with a deeper understanding of God's will for our lives. We may not remember everything we read, but our hearts will glow with good health.
~ Unknown
All the elements of the universe -- fire, earth, air and water -- are assembled in a loaf of bread.
~ Unknown
The soul needs feeding - where "feeding" signifies heeding.
~ Unknown
Kid's books should be just as good as any other books. No. They should be held to a *higher* standard than other literature for the same reason that we take extra care with children's food. The fact is, what you feed your kids is important, and that includes what they put in their heads as well as what they put in their bellies.
~ Patrick Rothfuss