Quotes About Sustenance

One will starve to death with just as much certainty and much more speedily, if one attempts to live upon foods containing only one or two elements of nutrition, as if one were totally abstaining from food. A diet of white flour and water, or white sugar and water, will result in death much sooner than a diet of water only. If no food is eaten the body feeds upon its own food reserves, but it has no provision for meeting the exigencies created by prolonged subsistence on one-sided diets.

She was never seen rummaging through the kitchen waste behind the mess hall. She ate what could be found in the yard and on the factory grounds. Seeds, leaves, and flowers in the weeds. And all kinds of insects—worms and caterpillars, maggots and beetles, spiders and snails.

I've lived on royalties all my life. It is the readers who have supported me.

Our lives are not in the lap of the gods, but in the lap of our cooks.

Stories are for people what water is for plants.

Det korteste streif av ekte kjærlighet kan gi næring til et helt liv. Det må vi alltid huske.

May our sanctuary give us sustenance and nurture us.

Life is billed at the cost of living.

There were the things he used to sustain life: a box of fish food. And the things he'd used to take it: a pair of nickel-plated handcuffs.

Bread deals with living things, with giving life, with growth, with the seed, the grain that nurtures. It is not coincidence that we say bread is the staff of life.

Cooking doesn't just nurture the recipient; it nurtures the chef.

Survival is something I've always managed. To be fair, my parents did the first 16 years without any input from me. I ploughed through many a KitKat, but it was their insistence on vegetables and coats that kept me alive.

Vegetables, which are the lowest in the scale of living things, are fed by roots, which, implanted in the native soil, select by the action of a peculiar mechanism, different subjects, which serve to increase and to nourish them.

Those who do not need to provide or have not built the vehicles of their own sustenance can afford to be less hardworking and driven than those who carry the burden of necessity.

Vegetables were almost nonexistent, and what passed for meat was either rancid or pure fat. The men were surviving on crackers and moldy flour. Lee was beginning to understand what this meant to the fighting strength of the army.

and, as there wasn't enough breakfast to go round, she set out hungry on the long walk to the docks.

Six shillings a week does not keep body and soul together very unitedly.

I exhale for what feels like the first time in ages. A real exhale. One that isn't solely about breathing to sustain life. One that might be about choosing to live life. It's both blissful and disarming.

The future haunted but kept her alive; it remained her sustenance and also her predator.

In Hindu philosophy the three tenses—past, present, future—were said to exist simultaneously in God. God was timeless, but time was personified as the god of death. Descartes, in his Third Meditation, said that God re-created the body at each successive moment. So that time was a form of sustenance.

We work to eat to get the strength to work to eat to get the strength to work.

All I do is work, so I eat to live and to keep going.

Work is a vehicle with which man chases some fleeting destination called a full tummy.

Work was intended not to give a man a reason to live, but rather to give him a means to live.