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Quotes About Nourishment

I am the vine, and you are the branches. JOHN 15:5 (CEV)
~ Rick Warren
Para ser un discípulo robusto de Jesús, alimentarte de la Palabra de Dios debe ser tu prioridad.
~ Rick Warren
Tortoise, Tortoise get bigger, bigger. Come on Tortoise grow up, puff up, shoot up! Spring up, Blow up swell up! Gorge! Guzzle! Stuff! Gulp! Put on fat, Tortoise, Put on fat! get on, Get on! Gobble food!!
~ Roald Dahl
The Sun, each second, transforms four million tons of itself into light, giving itself over to become energy that we, with every meal, partake of. For four million years, humans have been feasting on the Sun's energy stored in the form of wheat or reindeer. Brian Swimme
~ Rob Brezsny
One should not attend even the end of the world without a good breakfast.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
Any multi-cellular organism must, if it is to survive, contain a hard-wired bio-survival circuit, which very simply programs an either-or choice: GO FORWARD to the nourishing, the protective, or GO BACK, away from the threatening, the predatory.
~ Robert Anton Wilson
Every dish in the ferial cuisine, however, provides a double or treble delight: Not only is the body nourished and the palate pleased, the mind is intrigued by the triumph of ingenuity over scarcity - by the making of slight materials into a considerable matter. A man can do worse than to be poor. He can miss altogether the sight of the greatness of small things.
~ Robert Farrar Capon
Think of what a better world it would be if we all - the whole world had cookies and milk about 3 o'clock every afternoon and then lay down with our blankets for a nap.
~ Robert Fulghum
coldtonguecoldhamcoldbeefpickledgherkinssaladfrenchrollscresssandwichespottedmeatgingerbeerlemonadesodawater——
~ Kenneth Grahame
You can't eat [literature], that's the problem, he said. I've tried, it's very dry, and not at all nutritious.
~ Kenneth Oppel
Everyone had to eat, but eating people wasn't polite.
~ Kim Harrison
The runt will have a juice box.' He turned to Pierce. 'It will make you big and strong, won't it, little fella.
~ Kim Harrison
En mand kan være brødløs, har han potet så er han ikke matløs.
~ Knut Hamsun
Bær kan man ikke leve av. Men det er hyggeig at de står der i marken og er venlige for øiet. Og mange gang er de også forfriskende finde når man er tørst og sulten. (En vandrer spiller med sordin)
~ Knut Hamsun
Værsåartig, her var nu litt om bær, vore bærsorter...
~ Knut Hamsun
Good food, good friends.
~ Kristen Heitzmann
On school culture: It's hard to eat something you've had a relationship with.
~ Andy Hargreaves
Your relationship to food is but a reflection of your relationship to yourself, as is everything in your life.
~ Marianne Williamson
Workers need poetry more than bread. They need that their life should be a poem. They need some light from eternity. Religion alone can be the source of such poetry.
~ Simone Weil
If there is anything we are serious about, it is neither religion nor learning, but food.
~ Lin Yutang
Respect for food is respect for life, for who we are and what we do.
~ Thomas Keller
Cooking demands attention, patience, and above all, a respect for the gifts of the earth. It is a form of worship, a way of giving thanks.
~ Judith Jones
Man does not live by bread alone. Many prefer self-respect to food.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
We all eat & it would be a sad waste of opportunity to eat badly.
~ Anna Thomas