Quotes About Sustenance

Man does not live by bread alone, but he certainly does not live without the bread.

Your first job when eating is to nourish yourself.

Have a old old testament quote that says that man shall not live by bread alone

I saw few die of hunger of eating, a hundred thousand.

Do I use food and drink in no other sort and in no other degree than was designed by Him who gave these creatures for our sustenance? Do I never abuse my body by inordinate labor, striving to accomplish some end which I have unwisely proposed? Do I use action enough in some useful employ, or do I sit too much idle while some persons who labor to support me have too great a share of it? If in any of these things I am deficient, to be incited to consider it is a favor to me.

therefore, if he would eat that with a pint of water,

who was always the first to read the words, and to speak love for them; and my mother and my stepfather, whose unflagging moral, spiritual, and financial support—beyond what I've ever deserved or could repay—has sustained me, and uplifted this work.

We weren't without food, but there were times when it was definitely a strain. I ate a ton of Hot Pockets and SpaghettiOs and Totino's Pizza Rolls. I still enjoy those flavors.

Man needs bread and hyacinths: one to feed the body, and one to feed the soul.

My love for you is elemental and immutable, and it will sustain me until I die.

Why does man need bread? To survive. But why survive if it is only to eat more bread? To live is more than just to sustain life - it is to enrich, and be enriched by, life.

Food is the most primitive form of comfort.

They feed us the way the bread of communion does, with a nourishment that seems to form new flesh. According

Bacteria don't have mouths or fingers or Wolf Ranges, but they eat.

Someone's got to look after the devil himself, as long as he wears clothes and needs food and drink.

My uncle had an idea of his being educated as an advocate, that through his interest he might become a judge. But, besides that he is not at all fitted for such an occupation, it is certainly more creditable to cultivate the earth for the sustenance of man, than to be the confidant, and sometimes the accomplice, of his vices; which is the profession of a lawyer.

Man's mind is his basic tool of survival. Life is given to him, survival is not. His body is given to him, its sustenance is not. His mind is given to him, its content is not. To remain alive, he must act, and before he can act he must know the nature and purpose of his action...To remain alive, he must think.

According to the Talmud, every blade of grass has its own angel bending over it, whispering, "Grow, grow.

Eating is a genuine need, continuous from our first day to our last, amounting over time to our most significant statement of what we are made of and what we have chosen to make of our connection to home ground.

Ah, it's a real pit. Sort of place where they eat what they run over on the road. Gorillaville. You eat the beer, then you drink

Just the act of cooking made her feel better, because cooking was life.

Grits ain't groceries and revenge don't pay the bills.

Even prophets and madmen require sustenance.

In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread," said the ever-merciful God as he exiled Adam and Eve from Eden, and for most people throughout history, sweat they did.