Quotes About Sustenance

Women rely on friends. ... That's where we draw sustenance and find safety. We can count on our women friends when we need a good laugh or a good cry.

I saw few die of hunger; of eating, a hundred thousand.

A teacher creates and molds the future for the children of tomorrow. A clan who would redefine business, life and sustenance.

Living creatures are nourished by food, and food is nourished by rain; rain itself is the water of life, which comes from selfless worship and service.

If food is poetry, is not poetry also food?

God gives all birds their food but does not drop it into their nests

Man is born to eat

I think I understood intuitively that there was no sustenance for me in the religion of explanation and prohibition.

Lunch makes me feel a bit better.

Often times God demonstrates His faithfulness in adversity by providing for us what we need to survive. He does not change our painful circumstances. He sustains us through them.

In the Lord's Prayer, the first petition is for daily bread. No one can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.

Why does man kill? He kills for food. And not only food: frequently there must be a beverage.

Love is nourishment that does not discriminate or expire; anyone can have it at any time

If my love was a well, you would never go thirsty. If my love was a fire, you would never be cold. If my love was a star, you would never be left in the dark.

i dont live to eat i eat to live

Human beings do not eat nutrients, they eat food.

Love is the bread of life: you have to make it everyday if you want it fresh.

Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.

The most important things to do in the world are to get something to eat, something to drink and somebody to love you.

This is the bread: body, soul, exquisite tenderness. We are all we have. — Mary Jo Bang, from "Café Edgar," Apology for Want (University Press of New England, 1997)

Fame may pass over my head; money may escape me; my one friend may fail me; every hope may fold its tent and steal away; Happiness may remain a sealed book; every remnant of human ties may vanish; I may find myself an outcast; good things held out to me may suddenly be withdrawn; the stars may go out, one by one; the sun may go dark; yet still I may hold upright my head, if I have but my steak—and my onions.

In a loved one's beauty, there is solace, comfort in its presence, and the hope - no, the belief - the certainty that possession of so fine an ornament might be sustenance enough.

Here is bread, which strengthens man's heart, and therefore called the staff of life.

Our creature comforts.