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Quotes About Nourishment

Skin care is one of the most important things for the body and feeling good.
~ Denise Bidot
The most important thing for me is to have my cereal. I have milk and granola and cheese. And that's it. I have a lot of cereals that I eat all day long, and I have a big appetite. All over the planet I carry my cereals!
~ Sebastiao Salgado
I don't like to be a preacher or anything, but the one thing that I've learned is that you truly are what you eat.
~ Ruben Studdard
I do loads of one-pot things because I feel like you can't go too far wrong. And I make a lot of soups and casseroles, which is so boring, but it's the only thing I can do!
~ Sophie McShera
If I have to travel, I'm going to travel my way and travel in the real world. And I'm going to have conversations every day with people in rest stops and people in gas stations and people in hotels and diners. That nourishes me.
~ Neil Peart
Sometimes, you just have to clear your head and get out to see other things. It is very important to be nourished. I love to go to museums and galleries, I like to see theatre, film, dance - anything creative. It doesn't promise you inspiration, but it nourishes your creative soul, and that's good.
~ Marc Jacobs
Giving fed the soul.
~ Robyn Carr
Every night that I eat at home I set a proper table and make a civilized meal. Single women—especially old ones—tend to skip meals or eat out of opened cans. Louise is especially guilty of this.
~ Robyn Carr
I felt like a mushroom. Mushroom? Yeah, Robert answered. To grow mushrooms you keep them in the dark, feed them manure, then when they grow up you cut them off at the root.
~ Rod Pennington
Is food a substitute for love? No, love is a substitute for food. And a pretty poor substitute at that.
~ Rohan Candappa
Prayer was more important to Jesus than food.
~ Ron Kincaid
She realized that being starved for words was the same as being starved for food, because both left a hollow place inside you, a place you needed filled to make it through another day. Rachel remembered how growing up she'd thought living on a farm with just a father was as lonely as you could be. (130)
~ Ron Rash
Creo que el mundo es bello que la poesía es como el pan, de todos. I believe the world is beautiful and that poetry, like bread, is for everyone
~ Roque Dalton
You are what you eat. You are a human body comprised of organs, blood and guts, and other shit. The food you put into your body works its way through your organs and bloodstream and is actually part of who you are. So every time you put crap in your body, you are crap.
~ Rory Freedman
Skupljanje hrane nesumnjivo je bilo na prvom mjestu ženskih dužnosti budu?i da je taj zadatak održavao pleme na životu. Ni u jednom se trenutku pretpovijesne žene s djecom ili bez nje nisu oslanjale na svoje partnere, lovce, za nabavku hrane.
~ Rosalind Miles
They were sitting where Barnes always sat when he drove his boxers home and was asked, inevitably, in for a visit—the table central to eating, cooking, canning, drying, and processing foods, also playing pinochle and cribbage, bathing babies in dishpans, and visiting.
~ Louise Erdrich
Sure, it's not good for you, but Asema says it's grandma food, 'bad for the arteries but good for the heart.
~ Louise Erdrich
First he caramelizes fresh-cut sweetcorn, toasting it slowly in a heavy pan, adding onions. Then cubed potatoes tossed lightly in butter, to set a crisp. He adds all of this to a garlicky chicken broth with shaved carrots, cannellini beans, fresh dill, parsley, a dash of cayenne, and heavy cream.
~ Louise Erdrich
For the past year, Pollux has been perfecting my favorite soup of those that saved me—it is a corn soup. First he caramelizes fresh-cut sweetcorn, toasting it slowly in a heavy pan, adding onions. Then cubed potatoes tossed lightly in butter, to set a crisp. He adds all of this to a garlicky chicken broth with shaved carrots, cannellini beans, fresh dill, parsley, a dash of cayenne, and heavy cream. The scent was making me delirious. Still.
~ Louise Erdrich
grandma food, 'bad for the arteries but good for the heart.
~ Louise Erdrich
Her favorite patch was the least showy: the herb garden. A raised stone circle, no bigger than a beach umbrella, was filled with rosemary, sage, wild thyme, mint, lemon verbena, lavender, and burnet.
~ Luanne Rice
I couldn't live where there were no trees--something vital in me would starve.
~ Lucy Maud Montgomery
Ma i libri [...] pesano tanto: eppure, chi se ne ciba e se li mette in corpo, vive tra le nuvole.
~ Luigi Pirandello
For an artist is not a consumer, as our commercials urge us to be. An artist is a nourisher and a creator who knows that during the act of creation there is collaboration. We do not create alone.
~ Madeleine L'Engle