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Quotes About Sustenance

Tomato peelin' start late this year. Meanwhiles we got to eat.
~ James Michener
walking food source.
~ James Patterson
I am just working on staying alive.
~ Frank Bruno
Absolutely anything that you potentially stand to be as a human being stems from nutrition, end of story.
~ Topaz Page-Green
Divine Providence has spread her table everywhere, not with a juiceless green carpet, but with succulent herbage and nourishing grass, upon which most beasts feed.
~ Thomas More
he who feeds you, controls you
~ Thomas Sankara
Hope is a very thin diet.
~ Thomas Shadwell
Food and love are all intertwined at our core level. It can be a very nurturing, wonderful, loving thing.
~ Jami Attenberg
I love nuts. A handful of almonds, cashews, or walnuts will get me through a couple of hours.
~ Mandy Ingber
I always carry a little jar of nuts around with me. I roast them beforehand with tamari and thyme to give them a deliciously rich flavour.
~ Ella Woodward
Shall man's basest desires receive the fullest measure of gratification, and his purest aspirations starve for lack of sustenance?
~ Og Mandino
Only those things grow in our nature which are fed. The quickest way to kill them is to cut off their nourishment.
~ Orison Swett Marden
He asked that God remember those who had died and he asked that the living gathered together here remember that the corn grows by the will of God and beyond that will there is neither corn nor growing nor light nor air nor rain nor anything at all save only darkness. Then they ate.
~ Cormac McCarthy
an old man at the farthest end of the table prayed for them all. He asked that God remember those who had died and he asked that the living gathered together here remember that the corn grows by the will of God and beyond that will there is neither corn nor growing nor light nor air nor rain nor anything at all save only darkness. Then they ate.
~ Cormac McCarthy
See him. You could say that he's sustained by his fellow men, like you. Has peopled the shore with them calling to him. A race that gives suck to the maimed & the crazed, that wants their wrong blood in its history & will have it.
~ Cormac McCarthy
Love, that is the pulse of all, the sustenance and the pang […] No other theme but love—knitting, enclosing, all-diffusing love. — Walt Whitman, from "The Mystic Trumpeter", Leaves of Grass (Simon Schuster, August 1st 2006) Originally published July 4th 1855.
~ Walt Whitman
men who desire nothing but material riches and are absolutely devoid of the desire for wisdom, which is the sustenance and truly dependable wealth of the mind.
~ Walter Isaacson
Just as children thrive with loving kindness from a caregiver, so too we are sustained by friendship, spiritual nurture, and a sense of belonging throughout our lives. 34.
~ Charlotte Kasl
The music felt like sustenance to me, like food
~ Cheryl Strayed
Divine Providence has spread her table everywhere, not with a juiceless green carpet, but with succulent herbage and nourishing grass, upon which most beasts feed.
~ Thomas More (1478–1535)
FORK, n. An instrument used chiefly for the purpose of putting dead animals into the mouth.
~ Ambrose Bierce
There is no burnt rice to a hungry person.
~ Philippine Proverb
apportionment in the world. Thus, one is opposing how God meted out sustenance in concord with His wisdom. Therefore, one must oppose his own ego's desires and seek treatment for this disease with the healing force of acceptance of the divine decree and prayer on behalf of one's enemies in a way that suppresses the ego [nafs].
~ Hamza Yusuf
There are days when books are the only bread for those who hunger
~ Jan Richardson