Quotes About Nourishment

I get up between 6:30 and 7 A.M., and my morning routine is always the same: hot water and lemon, eggs on toast and rose oil on the face.

I realized that I've had a really rocky relationship with food - it has not been a gauzy, beautiful summer of ripe melons and perfectly buttered toast.

Even if I'm gone all day, breakfast is the one meal I always cook for my kids. I make French toast, oatmeal, or an egg burrito.

She enjoyed cooking, but there was so much more to her enjoyment than simply a fascination with recipes and food. For her, cooking and eating was symbolic of something bigger. Cooking was her way of expressing love. A way of creating a warm, comforting space...

See that's what people don't get about food. It's never the food, it's the love that goes into making it. That's what's important.

Remain in me, and I will remain in you. No branch can bear fruit by itself; it must remain in the vine. Neither can you bear fruit unless you remain in me." —JOHN 15:4

I eat a variety of foods like vegetables, fruit and beef for protein and iron.

Porridge. Coffee. A whole day of reading ahead of me. Things could be worse. I already have the sleepy feeling I get when I'm reading a good book: like I want to curl up in bed with it and forget about the nonfictional world.

there are psychological benefits to making sure the people you are working with are well fed and associate you with good things.

A cold needs the cook as much as the doctor.

Come, all you who are thirsty, come to the waters; and you who have no money, come, buy and eat! Come, buy wine and milk without money and without cost. Why spend money on what is not bread, and your labor on what does not satisfy? Listen, listen to me, and eat what is good, and you will delight in the richest of fare. Give ear and come to me; listen, that you may live. (Isa. 55:1–3 NIV)

May we come to the point where we'd sooner avoid oxygen and water than the means of grace.

Love, however, is very materially assisted by a warm and active imagination: which has a long memory, and will thrive, for a considerable time, on very slight and sparing food.

Anyone who knows our family knows this: we eat ALL the time!

No matter how late it is, when I get home, I take the time to clean and moisturize my face.

Mealtime's the only time I get to devote to the things of the spirit.

I will make time to eat every day. I couldn't do as much as I do, actually, if I didn't eat.

I look at art all the time. I go to the museums and galleries every week. That really is like food for me.

Take it from somebody who has been around for a million years: When you get right down to it, food is practically the whole story every time.

I am so grateful for after-school snack time, when I light a candle, pour some tea, slice some apples, and get to listen in on my kids' highs and lows of the day.

A fully belly is little worth where the mind is starved.

Principles have no real force except when one is well fed.

A full belly is of little worth where the mind is starved, and the heart.

Meat first, and spoon vittles to top off on.