Quotes About Sustenance

The smell of hot bread came from underneath the tent walls, and Perseus said that the ovens had just been opened. You haven't eaten in three days. You'd better strengthen yourself. How can I eat, Alessandro answered, pointing his nose to his padded hands. Don't be ridiculous, they're perfect for holding a hot loaf of bread. You'll look like a kangaroo, but you'll be able to eat all you want. Now you can pick up a bowl of boiling soup as if you were a Cossack.

Then came the matter of food. For ten hours he picked grains of rice off the floor and collected pasta, sugar, and individual tea leaves. He would not eat anything that had been tainted with blood, and was left with less than a third of his rations. Some things—powdered cocoa, for example—were uncollectible, or had risen on the wind. He had kerosene enough for one pot of boiling water and one hour of lamplight each day. Some of his blankets had bullet holes.

There are enigmas that we can gnaw on throughout our lives from which we derive sustenance, some kind of spiritual nourishment...I'm thinking of certain kinds of riddles and koans and philosophical conundrums, things like that...But there are also enigmas that, throughout our lives, gnaw on us.

Love is the oxygen of life; it

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Those who live, live off the dead.

He pressed the button, and waited. Several minutes later, a metal arm moved out from the bunk, and a plastic nipple descended toward his lips. He sucked on it eagerly, and a warm, sweet fluid coursed down his throat, bringing renewed strength with every drop.

Holy men? Holy cabbages! Holy bean-pods! What do they do but live and suck in sustenance and grow fat? If that be holiness, I could show you hogs in this forest who are fit to head the calendar. Think you it was for such a life that this good arm was fixed upon my shoulder, or that head placed upon your neck? There is work in the world, man, and it is not by hiding behind stone walls that we shall do it.

A man is only flesh and blood, after all; you can't fill a stomach with words.

Money was to make your life easy when you were well, and to take care of your needs when you were ailing.

Friendship, "the wine of life," should, like a well-stocked cellar, be continually renewed.

We are only as alive as the things that keep us alive.

O God give us our daily bread.

The secret, I said, is knowing that the same sovereignty that could stop the coronavirus, yet doesn't, is the very sovereignty that sustains the soul in it.

The same sovereignty that could stop the coronavirus, yet doesn't, is the very sovereignty that sustains the soul in it.

Bread of flour is good; but there is bread, sweet as honey, if we would eat it, in a good book.

Rain is grace; rain is the sky condescending to the earth; without rain, there would be no life.

Hope—you think of hope as a bright thing, a strong thing, sustaining. But it's not. It's the opposite. It's simply this: lumps of stale bread stuck down your shirt. Stale gray bread eked out with ground fish bones, which you won't eat because you're going to give it away, and maybe you'll get a message through to your friend.

You might have asked God (almighty) for many things and perhaps he has given you some of them. However, you should ever remain grateful to him (God). For, he gives you many crucial things (air, food, water, shelter, clothing etc) on daily basis. Even without you asking for them. ~Emeasoba George

Orice om care nu moare de foame este suspect.

Desserts are the rich sweetness that makes the mundane chore of obtaining sustenance bearable.

What, in a given country, is the lowest possible wage? It is the price of that which is considered by the proletarians of that country as absolutely necessary to keep oneself alive.

Food ... is the topmost taper on the golden candelabrum of existence.

Quien no trabaja no come, sí, pero quien trabaja no vive.