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Quotes About Sustenance

Without rain, there would be no life.
~ John Updike
When we look at things as simple as food, it's not about just nourishment and sustaining our life, it is really the seed of our ancestor.
~ Maya Tiwari
God is the Creator and the Giver of life, and the life that He gives does not run dry.
~ Brenton Brown
Morality and religion are but words to him who fishes in gutters for the means of sustaining life, and crouches behind barrels in the street for shelter from the cutting blasts of a winter night.
~ Horace Greeley
Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.
~ Jesus Christ
Worries go down better with soup.
~ Jewish proverb
A man with keen preservation
~ Jinx Schwartz
O pobre sozinho, sem um cavalo, fica no seu, permanece, feito numa crôa ou ilha, em sua beira de vereda. Homem a pé, esses Gerais comem.
~ João Guimarães Rosa
Everyone needs fudge, Hildy. It's how God helps us cope.
~ Joan Bauer
Cooking is about life. It gives us what we need to keep going, and it gives us something to share with other people.
~ Joan Bauer
He humbled you, causing you to hunger and then feeding you with manna, which neither you nor your fathers had known, to teach you that man does not live on bread alone but on every word that comes from the mouth of the LORD. DEUTERONOMY 8:3
~ Anne Graham Lotz
victuailles.
~ Annie Ernaux
I get my protein, I get everything I need, I don't feel like I'm missing on anything.
~ Bradley Wright-Phillips
Chicken, brown rice, and veggies is a great healthy dinner option. It's full of whole grains and protein, and will keep you full for a long time.
~ Mia Hamm
I eat an egg every morning, and when I'm done, I almost always have the thought: 'There. Now even if I'm captured and starved, I'll be able to live off the protein of that egg for a while.'
~ Miranda July
I had to look for food all the time. I had to catch dragonflies, grasshoppers, and that was the only source of protein for me.
~ Park Yeon-mi
Everything in our lives revolves around our jobs, as much as we hate to say it. Where we live at, where our kids go to school, what we eat, what lifestyle we live, depends on the income we bring in and being able to provide for your family, and that's your employment.
~ Dakota Meyer
No hay labrador que pueda ganarse el pan, por mucho que los dioses tenga siempre en la boca, si no se da él mismo al trabajo.
~ Euripides
Everyone has his alcohol. To exist is alcohol enough for me.
~ Fernando Pessoa
For my sustenance at night, the whole that my hands can glean from the gloom of the oak-gloomed oaks-- the herbs and the plenteous fruits...
~ Flann O'Brien
Seafood is my favorite and I couldn't live without it!
~ Skai Jackson
When your tummy is full - even while shooting for long hours - you feel good.
~ Courtney B. Vance
But really I'm not terribly interested in what I eat.
~ Jilly Cooper
They live both above and below ground, joining Skyworld to the earth. Plants know how to make food from light and water, and then they give it away. I like to imagine that when Skywoman scattered her handful of seeds across Turtle Island, she was sowing sustenance for the body and also for the mind, emotion, and spirit: she was leaving us teachers. The plants can tell us her story; we need to learn to listen.
~ Robin Wall Kimmerer