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Quotes About Sustenance

You're on a diet your whole life. Every bite you take is part of your daily diet—your necessary intake of food. So the diet you choose has to be one that will last—one that will keep you healthy for the long haul.
~ Stan Toler
Whatever the truth is, I don't see how it will help me get food on the table.
~ Suzanne Collins
You hope to spend your life doing what you love and need and have been fitted by nature or God or your protein-package to do: write, draw, sing, tell stories. But you have to eat.
~ Michael Chabon
We're just animals in a cage. They're just feeding us to keep us alive.
~ Michael Chabon
foodstuffs absolved of the obligation to provide vitamins and minerals cavorted with reckless abandon.
~ Michael Lewis
Man can live by bread alone when all his energies are devoted to attaining that bread, but once his mind is clear, once he has ceased to labour through all his waking hours to find food, then he begins to think.
~ Michael Moorcock
They continued but six days under this course, having consumed the quantities that could be spared.
~ James Lind
For it is we who must pray for our daily bread, and if He grants it to us, it is only through our labour, our skill and preparation.
~ Paracelsus
He who loves lives, he who lives works, and he who works has bread.
~ Irving Stone
The poet casts an eye on what is horrendous, but his truest life is in what sustains, restores, heals. Love, the act of loving, beauty, are first, fundamental truths.
~ Lawrence Joseph
You've got to have something to eat
~ Billie Holiday
The blood is the life!
~ Bram Stoker
The crisis of physical hunger is essentially a crisis of faith. What or whom will you trust to meet your most basic needs? Will you trust the God who made human bodies, or will you seek your own way? (Deuteronomy 8:1-3)
~ Swindoll Charles R.
In the wilderness, God's covenant people struggled with a choice between feeding their bellies and nourishing their souls. God provided manna--a breadlike food that fell to the ground during the night--to sustain the wandering Israelites and to teach them how to value His Word more than physical fulfillment.
~ Swindoll Charles R.
And also, such waters never stop as long as there's life in me. There's no end to piss and spit.
~ Sylvia Brinton Perera
No matter how much you knelt and prayed, you still had to eat three meals a day and have a job and live in the world.
~ Sylvia Plath
If hot food is they key to maintaining an expedition's stamina, then low grade gut-rot alcohol is the key to sustaining its sense of pleasure.
~ Tahir Shah
You fed it.' The badger sighed. 'Sometimes I think you'll feed anything .
~ Tamora Pierce
There, I was just a secretary-shaped confederation of atoms, fighting the inevitability of mediocrity and decay. But here, in the Juliaverse... energy was never lost, merely converted from one form to another. Here, I took butter and cream and meat and eggs and I made delicious sustenance.
~ Julie Powell
I have never looked to religion for comfort - belief is just not in my genes. But reading Mastering the Art of French Cooking - childishly simple and dauntingly complex, incantatory and comforting - I thought this was what prayer must feel like. Sustenance bound up with anticipation and want. Reading MtAoFC was like reading pornographic Bible verses.
~ Julie Powell
Não sobrava nada além de uma tola liberdade condicional, a piada de se viver como uma palavra entre parênteses, divorciada da frase principal e da qual, no entanto, é quase sempre sustentação e explicação
~ Julio Cortazar
me atormenta tu amor que no me sirve de puente porque un puente no se sostiene de un solo lado...
~ Julio Cortazar
Do you shovel to survive, or survive to shovel?
~ K?b? Abe
Jamaica has a lot of foods that give you energy and strength, as well as being very nice to eat.
~ Rita Marley