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Quotes About Nourishment

Water is truly the seed of life.
~ Rita Marley
If you are what you eat, then you are shaped by what you share as you eat.
~ Deng Ming-Dao
If I shoot it, I'm gonna eat it.
~ Paul Broun
Food is a part of life. People are foodies and love to shop for food.
~ Jean-Georges Vongerichten
My kids can't eat awards.
~ Pitbull
My bag is always filled with food.
~ Toni Garrn
Beans are a real go-to for me.
~ Joe Bastianich
That's the difference between heaven and hell! In hell we starve! In heaven we feed each other!
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
Food serves two parallel purposes: it nourishes and it helps you remember. Eating and storytelling are inseparable—the saltwater is also tears; the honey not only tastes sweet, but makes us think of sweetness; the matzo is the bread of our affliction.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
Stories about food are stories about us-our history and our values.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
That's the difference between heaven and hell! In hell we starve! In heaven we feed each other!
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
One of the greatest opportunities to live our values —or betray them —lies in the food we put on our plates.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
unless you obtain your food in secret and eat it in the closet, you don't eat alone. We eat as sons and daughters, as families, as communities, as generations, as nations, and increasingly as a globe.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
a young healthy child well nursed is at a year old a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled; and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricassee or a ragout. I
~ Jonathan Swift
To hunger is to be human, but to hunger for God is to feed on Him. Hunger and thirst after His righteousness and feed on Him in your heart. Taste and see that the Lord is good; it is He who will fill you to satisfaction.
~ Joni Eareckson Tada
He owned a whole world full of memories, of lovely moments relived and happy recollections. I'm not saying he was happy or that he didn't suffer. He suffered very much, but he did not despair; he still drew nourishment from what he had been given. But the sadness never left him. Happiness needs more than memories of the past to feed on; it also needs dreams of the future.
~ Jorge Amado
Du hast Hunger zu lernen Hunger zu wachsen Hunger zu wissen Hunger zu fliegen... Vielleicht bin ich heute die Brust die jene Milch gibt die deinen Hunger stillt... Es scheint mir wunderbar, daß du nun nach dieser Brust verlangst. Aber vergiß eins nicht: Es ist nicht die Brust, die nährt, es ist die Milch!
~ Jorge Bucay
Considerai anche che nei linguaggi umani non c'è proposizione che non implichi l'universo intero; dire la tigre è dire le tigri che la generarono, i cervi e le testuggini che divorò, il pascolo di cui si alimentarono i cervi, la terra che fu madre del pascolo, il cielo che dette luce alla terra.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
Am cugetat c? nici chiar în limbajele umane nu exist? propoziÈ›ie care s? nu implice universul întreg; a spune tigrul înseamn? a spune tigrii care l-au z?mislit, cerbii È™i È›estoasele pe care el le-a devorat, p??unea din care s-au hr?nit cerbii, p?mântul care a fost maic? a p??unii, cerul care a dat lumin? p?mântului.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
You should be willing to be eaten also. You are food body.
~ Joseph Campbell
There is little in life as rewarding as enjoying a salad composed entirely of things you've picked from your own garden
~ Abigail R. Gehring
Philipose quotes Gandhi: "There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of food.
~ Abraham Verghese
Eating three times a day means taking on, almost without respite, the work of assimilation.
~ Adalbert de Vogüé
Had she never been hungry enough to eat a flower? Did she not know that you could eat daisies, daylilies, pansies, and marigolds? That hungry enough, a person could consume the bright faces of violas, even the stems of dandelions and the bitter hips of roses?
~ Adam Johnson