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Quotes About Sustenance

Nature nurtures our souls and lifts our spirits. But it also sustains us and our economy - and it is for this reason that we take it for granted at our peril.
~ Hilary Benn
As an adult (after college) and as an artist I thought about what was real, what sustained me - it was Christian Science. I was using that when I didn't know it. Saying yes to the Light and your better instinct.
~ Alfre Woodard
Nowadays, what an award gives is a sense of solidarity with the poetry guild, as it were: sustenance coming from the assent of your peers on the judging panel.
~ Seamus Heaney
Challenges keep evolving as you move into different stages. When you are at a prototype stage, it's about getting that sustenance money. Then, talent becomes an issue; your early hires are difficult to get when you aren't too big. Later, it's about handling growth; then, you have competition.
~ Bhavish Aggarwal
I eat healthily as much as I can - meat, protein, carbs as well. I like my pasta; I like my rice. I like to have that sort of sustenance in me, because I'm always thinking of survival.
~ Ant Middleton
I think poetry always lives its life, and people come to it and people go away from it, 'people' in the sense of larger numbers of people. It's as though you begin to think that poetry is a resource, and that at certain times people seem to need it or want it or can find sustenance in it, and at other times they can't.
~ C. K. Williams
There's some beautiful filmmaking on television. I'm getting a lot of my artistic sustenance from what's happening there.
~ Chris Pine
Currently, more than 4.7 million African Americans receive Social Security benefits, and nearly 8 million people with disabilities depend on Social Security for their daily sustenance.
~ Chaka Fattah
Think of our physical sustenance. It is truly heaven-sent. The necessities of air, food, and water all come to us as gifts from a loving Heavenly Father.
~ Russell M. Nelson
How my parents are in the kitchen is a good indicator of their parenting style. Mum cooks for sustenance, wants to get in and out, the job done quickly. My Dad wants to prance around in the kitchen, create a curry - and a mess - and entertain everyone.
~ Nadiya Hussain
Is not the heart of man indeed the vase in which his life is continuously maintained by means of his blood?
~ Rene Guenon
the civilization which had given birth to Bigger contained no spiritual sustenance, had created no culture which could hold and claim his allegiance and faith, had sensitized him and had left him stranded
~ Richard Wright
Prayer is good, but when baked potatoes and milk are needed, prayer will not supply their place.
~ Brigham Young
The true believer can no more live without prayer, than without food day by day.
~ George Whitefield
Prayers and Provender hinder no Journey.
~ Benjamin Franklin
God gives every bird its food but he does not throw it into the nest.
~ Josiah G. Holland
The whole of nature, as has been said, is a conjugation of the verb to eat, in the active and in the passive.
~ William Ralph Inge
But mice and rats and such small deerHave been Tom's food for seven long year.
~ William Shakespeare
We had the best food any battlefield ever had.
~ William Westmoreland
The North American Indian, regarded as "backward," has a life that makes sustenance, responsibility for oneself, and dignity possible. These backward people have no hint of the worthiness of their own persons.
~ Win Blevins
The book from which you take your teaching, Dr. Halse, says that man shall not live by bread alone. These days you're asking men to live without even bread.
~ Winston Graham
Whatever satisfies, strengthens, and sustains us is our food. The unique food we take for our sustenance, strength, and satisfaction must be Christ.
~ Witness Lee
Feeding on Christ and living by Him should not be an occasional practice. Rather, it should be the way we live twenty-four hours a day.
~ Witness Lee
Grace is not only something given by God, but it is God Himself doing things for us. Grace is not merely something objective that is given to us by God. Grace is God Himself coming to us and doing things for us. Are you weak? God will come to be your strength, and that coming of God is grace. Are you unable to face your situation? That need not be a problem, because God will come to stand with you and face that situation for and in you. This is grace.
~ Witness Lee