Quotes About Nourishment

The British hamburger thus symbolised, with savage neatness, the country's failure to provide its ordinary people with food which did anything more for them than sustain life.

The smell of rain is rich with life.

Tithe in kind where your spirit is fed.

Real development is not leaving things behind, as on a road, but drawing life from them, as from a root.

Where there's life there's hope, and need of vittles.

Declare a truce and accept food as a life-giving friend.

Who needs the sun, when the rain is so full of life?

There is no greater disaster in the spiritual life than to be immersed in unreality, for life is maintained and nourished in us by our vital relation with realities outside and above us.

Cooking is a life skill. We need to eat every day so why not find out about what you're putting into your body?

So are you to my thoughts as food to life, or as sweet seasoned showers are to the ground.

Italians do not regard food as merely fuel. They regard it as medicine for the soul, one of life's abiding pleasures.

Food is a part of our contract with life.

He fed his spirit with the bread of books

Beyond the shadow of a doubt, food was more important than a woman's suffering.

Take very good care of it-your stomach is the center of the universe.

If all the good food you have eaten in the last few years hasn't made a sensible man of you, you may as well go out and drown, for you're not worth feeding any more.

Like hungry chickens, when we cannot be fed what we need, we feed ourselves what we can find.

Her reputation as a cook spread without her knowledge- for the soups she brought to the bakery in a lidded tin for her midday meal, for her stews, for the scraps of dough that she turned into what the Russians called pelmeni and the Jews kreplach, dumplings stuffed with chopped meat and onions. She prepared hot borscht with beef in winter, shchi or cold borscht in summer, chicken cooked with prunes or a tsimmes with sweet potatoes, carrots and prunes.

both had always known instinctively that the limbs of a man are not nourished when he fills the belly of another, and that those who would make you believe it should sooner or later get what they deserve.

Justice requires that everyone should have enough to eat. But it also requires that everyone should contribute to the production of food.

There is no work so mean, but it would amply serve me to furnish me with sustenance.

We live not in order to eat, but in order not to know what we feel like eating.

We must cherish our yesterdays, but never carry them as a burden into the future. Each generation must take nourishment from the other and give knowledge to the one that comes after.

These two threads that run through our life—one pulling us into the world to achieve and make things happen, the other pulling us back from the world to nourish and replenish ourselves—can seem at odds, but in fact they reinforce each other.