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Quotes About Sustenance

With the exception of dessert, food is food.
~ Janet Evanovich
He who does not work, will not eat
~ John Smith
A man's bread and butter is only insured when he works for it.
~ Marcus Garvey
To me, working is a form of sustenance, like food or water, and nearly as essential.
~ Katharine Graham
A day without work is a day without food.
~ Baizhang Huaihai
My main recollection is of the work I had to do in order to eat
~ Clifton Fadiman
People don't stop eating, and they don't stop drinking coffee.
~ Magic Johnson
Every minister worthy of the name has to walk the line between prophetic vision and spiritual sustenance, between telling people the comforting things they want to hear and challenging them with the difficult things they need to hear. In Oxford, Daddy began to feel as though all the members wanted him to do was to marry them and bury them and stay away from their souls.
~ Timothy B. Tyson
Emek ucuz,ekmek ise pahal?yd?. [?nsan ne ile ya?ar?]
~ Tolstoy
Harlow went so far as to suggest that perhaps the main function of nursing was to ensure frequent physical contact between baby and mother, since the loving bond seemed so vital for survival. After all, he noted, long after the actual sustenance stops, it is the bond that remains.
~ Tom Butler-Bowdon
tamarisk grove. The manna characteristically exuded
~ Paramahansa Yogananda
El Ser Divino que nos concedió aire y leche desde el primer aliento sabe cómo sustentar día tras día a sus devotos.
~ Paramahansa Yogananda
Fantasy, an unflagging optimism is necessary for a writer at all stages of this rough game. A kind of madness is therefore necessary, when there is every logical reason for a state of depression and discouragement. Perhaps the fact that I can react with utter gloom to this is what keeps me from being psychotic and keeps me merely neurotic. I am doing quite a good day's work today. But I am also aware of the madness that actually sustains me, and I am not made more comfortable or happy by it.
~ Patricia Highsmith
Ha llovido muy poco últimamente en la zona triguera y podemos tener otra sequía. Si es así, ¿cómo podré obtener mi pan el próximo otoño? O supongamos que pierdo mi empleo… ¡Oh, Dios mío! ¿Cómo podré conseguir entonces mi pan cotidiano?". No, esta oración nos enseña a pedir solamente el pan de hoy. El pan de hoy es el único pan que se puede comer.
~ Dale Carnegie
How mercifully can our Creator treat His creatures, even in those conditions in which they seemed to be overwhelmed in destruction! How can He sweeten the bitterest providences, and give us cause to praise Him for dungeons and prisons! What a table was here spread for me in a wilderness where I saw nothing at first but to perish for hunger!
~ Daniel Defoe
One never thinks, "Oh, I'd better look for some food." Food is everywhere, and one picks it up almost absent-mindedly, as one takes a breath of air. In fact, one does not think of feeding as a distinct activity at all. Rather, it's like a delicious music that plays in the background of all activities throughout the day. In fact, feeding became feeding for me only at the zoo, where twice daily great masses of tasteless fodder were pitched into our cages.
~ Daniel Quinn
Since the day I was born, wrestling has sustained me and my family. It's the way my father fed me; it's the way I feed my kids. More importantly, wrestling is my greatest release. It's been such a blessing for me. I can step into the ring and let it all go – all my anger, all my frustration, all my pain.
~ Eddie Guerrero
Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.
~ Jesus Christ
Man cannot live by bread alone he must have peanut butter.
~ James A. Garfield
we had better bear in mind also something that I am not the first or the smartest writer to notice: that for the making and sustenance of movements hatred is more effective than love.
~ Wendell Berry
In his eulogy, the Marquis de Condorcet observed that whosoever pursues mathematics in the future will be guided and sustained by the genius of Euler and asserted , with much justification, that all mathematicians...are his disciples.
~ William Dunham
Whatever will satisfy hunger is good food.
~ Chinese proverb
That woman's going to be the death of you!" Dhai Ma wailed. "She's wearing you down to skin and bone." But this was not true. The sorceress had taught me a yogic breath that filled me with energy so that I needed no other sustenance.
~ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
The history of the world is the record of a man in quest of his daily bread and butter.
~ Hendrik Willem van Loon