Quotes About Sustenance

I had to make a living. I was a married man. I had a wife. I had a home. I had children. I had to make a living. That's the common pursuit of every man.

Worth, courage, honor, these indeed Your sustenance and birthright are.

You can't eat hope,' the woman said. You can't eat it, but it sustains you,' the colonel replied.

To eat bread without hope is still slowly to starve to death.

Amazing how hope lives. Without air or water, with hardly anything at all to nurture it.

I would just have to find a hog, slaughter it, butcher it, cure the meat, then fry it up. Thinking about the bacon—the potential of bacon—gives me hope. Not all is lost if bacon isn't. Seriously.

We are indeed much more than what we eat, but what we eat can nevertheless help us to be much more than what we are.

In a day a man needs only his daily bread.

Grits are hot; they are abundant, and they will by-gosh stick to your ribs. Give your farmhands (that is, your children) cold cereal for breakfast and see how many rows they hoe. Make them a pot of grits and butter, and they'll hoe till dinner and be glad to do it.

Sweat and blood and health and youth go into every cabbage. Did you know that, Julie? One doesn't despise them as food, knowing that.

It wasn't bad but he could never make a life of eating the things—God had given him a head full of good teeth, but not a one of them was sweet.

Whoevers tongue utters the truth, his practise becomes purified; and the one whose intention is decent and good, his sustenance increases; and whoever adopts good attitude and decent behavior with his family, his life span lengthens.

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

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

La mayor parte de la gente - responde Kustos - hace eso. ¿No? Trabajan para poder trabajar

In the Bible the food that man eats, the world of which he must partake in order to live, is given to him by God, and it is given as communion with God.

Monks will have three begging bowls for their food: one for water, one for liquid food, one for dry food.

It sounds weird when you complain about having to eat so much, but it's like a job.

I need to make money. If I don't, I cannot survive.

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.

What sustains me is to be with my family and to write.

What has never changed, what is always present and what is, in the end, what sustains us is that energy that I talk about in 'Like Water for Chocolate...' that loving energy. Without that, I wouldn't have had the strength to keep going and enjoy life.

I prize my seamstress, I value my copyist; but my cook, who knows well how to prepare the food to sustain life, and nourish brain, bone, and muscle, fills the most important place among the helpers in my family.

My hopes are laid up within my own bosom, for he is not alone with whom the Lord is; when he falls, he shall not be dashed to pieces, for the Lord sustains him in his hand.