Quotes About Sustenance

Ay, but hearken, sir; though the chameleon Love can feed on the air, I am one that am nourished by my victuals, and would fain have meat.

I don't need a great deal of love but I do need a steady supply.

Rain knows the earth and loves it well, for rain is the passion of the earth.

Nunca me faltó una comida, aunque pospuse muchas de ellas por tiempo indefinido.

subsisting mostly on Popsicles and so-called

Build a man a fire, and he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.

I said this before and I will have to say it again, when you come right down to it there is not a thing a man needs than a way to fill his belly and let somebody take care of all his thinking, he don't have to if he don't want to.

Hunger knows no friend but its feeder.

Beauty and perfection do not guarantee grace and fulfillment and are always sacrificed. Life itself seems a ritual of sacrifice, and the world the alter on which plants and animals lay down their own lives for the sustenance of others, and on which we lay our youth, our well-being, our loved ones, and finally our lives. I am an ignorant woman who has sacrificed all of these things but the last, and cannot say for whom or what I perform this unrelenting ritual.

Plant the flower of love on fertile ground, and provide personal care; furnish water during a drought; offer substance so it will grow strong, and always prune the deadened branches to spring anew.

So beer is our bread?

If God came to India, he'd have to come as bread. If God came to Willoughby union he'd have to came as what?

Some worked to put food on our tables while others built the tables.

Food is all those substances which, submitted to the action of the stomach, can be assimilated or changed into life by digestion, and can thus repair the losses which the human body suffers through the act of living.

If the hardtack got moldy it was usually thrown away as inedible, but if it just got weevily it was issued anyway. Heating it at the fire would drive the weevils out; more impatient soldiers simply ate it in the dark and tried not to think about it.

As men die temporally for want of temporal bread, so they die spiritually for want of spiritual food.

Turn to your community and the great earth for sustenance and knowledge.

Food is a part of our contract with life.

A man cannot hide away the cravings of a hungry belly; this is an enemy which gives much trouble to all men; it is because of this that ships are fitted out to sail the seas, and to make war upon other people.

It's key to know which essential foods will keep you going and help your body recover after hard work.

When you go to an oasis, you go there to supply yourself with the vital things you are missing, things that you need.

She demands nothing, what you do you do for yourselves. You work to earn sustenance. You fight to protect it or to gain more. You work to confound rivals. You fight from fear and hatred and spite and honour and loyalty and whatever other causes you might fashion. Yet, all that you do serves her Ã¢â'¬Â¦ no matter what you do. Not simply benign, Adaephon Delat, but amoral. We can thrive, or we can destroy ourselves, it matters

Importance lies solely in the deeds done, the goals achieved. Time is preparation, nothing more. One prepares for as long as is required. To do this is to accept that planning begins at birth. You are born and before all else you are plunged into shadow, wrapped inside the holy ambivalence, there to suckle sweet sustenance.

I fed upon the concentrated attention of my audience, drawing out strands of sustenance like a web.