Quotes About Sustenance

Joy doesn't betray but sustains activism. And when you face a politics that aspires to make you fearful, alienated, and isolated, joy is a fine initial act of insurrection.

Would that the dead were not dead! But there is grass that must be eaten, pellets that must be chewed, hraka that must be passed, holes that must be dug, sleep that must be slept.

Find enough food to eat, and eat it.

After all, it wasn't food; it was survival.

To keep a lamp burning we have to keep putting oil in it. MOTHER TERESA

Cualquier cosa era buena para humeceder la garganta; de dejas las cosas tal como estaba, podría acabar por consumir la sangre de mi cuerpo

The patient bird breakfasts on the juiciest worm.

You stand on dead men's legs. You've never had any of your own. You couldn't walk alone between two sunrises and hustle the meat for your belly

God has given the salt lick to the deer; and He has given to man, red-skin and white, the delicious spring at which to slake his thirst.

The freedom of man, I contend, is the freedom to eat.

To a hungry man, Christ is very lovely when He has a loaf of bread in His hand.

Man is an animal that cooks his victuals.

Prayers and provender hinder no journey. [Prayers and provender hinder no man's journey.]

When a man fasts, it is not the gallons of water he drinks that sustains him, but God.

Only people who are assured of daily food can concern themselves with matters of principle and ethic. A man will become a slave rather than starve.

The very substance which last week was grazing in the field, waving in the milk pail, or growing in the garden, is now become part of the man.

Financial hardships were rough on us, even though Mom had a good job at G.M.

We have to get money. We have no choice. It cost money to eat.

Though mothers and fathers give us life, it is money alone which preserves it.

In the morning we received some very thin coffee. For lunch we had potato soup with a few pieces of meat in it, in the evening we had a very thin meat soup with some potatoes in it.

Water is life's matter and matrix, mother and medium. There is no life without water.

Coconut milk is the only thing on this planet that comes identically to mother's milk.

He who made thee is made in thee. He is made in thee through whom you were made.... Give milk, O mother, to him who is our food; give milk to the bread that comes down from heaven.

Feed the body food and drink, it will survive today. Feed the soul art and music, it will live forever.