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Quotes About Feeding

everyone has worries. The rich have as many as the poor. The healthy as many as the sick. It's a worrisome deal, this life business. You have to learn to mellow, not stay up all night feeding it.
~ Robyn Carr
It feeds and grows on the blood which it sheds. The passions , from which it springs, gain strength and fury from indulgence.
~ William Ellery Channing
Had the crow only fed without cawing she would have had more to eat, and much less of strife and envy to contend with. [To noise abroad our success is to invite envy and competition.]
~ Horace
I do believe, Albert, that you are quite set this morning on feeding me with illusions. 'Ah, you must admit that's the diet that best satisfies the stomach.
~ Alexandre Dumas
So this was all which these Pharisees and Scribes could see in the miracle of Christ's feeding the Multitude--that it had not been done according to Law! Most strange as it may seem, yet in the past history of the Church, and, perhaps, sometimes also in the present, this has been the only thing which some men have seen in the miraculous working of the Christ!
~ Alfred Edersheim
We are fat and sick and dying because we have handed a basic, fundamental and intimate function of life over to corporations. We choose to value our nourishment so little that we entrust it to strangers. This is insanity. Feed yourselves. Feed your loved ones. And for God's sake feed your children.
~ Alton Brown
HOSPITALITY, n. The virtue which induces us to feed and lodge certain persons who are not in need of food and lodging.
~ Ambrose Bierce
Whatever have you been feeding her?" "Fire and whetstones," said Yarvi, smiling.
~ Joe Abercrombie
In the end it doesn't matter if this creature is really our mother. We feed it things and tell it about our problems. It's still all about us.
~ Joey Comeau
Cats have a scam going - you buy the food, they eat the food, they go away that's the deal.
~ Eddie Izzard
Yet the manner of death he fears does not sound bad to me; to me it seems like a decent, clean way of taking off, surely better than the slow rot in a hospital oxygen tent with rubber tubes stuck up your nose, prick, asshole, with blood transfusions and intravenous feeding, bedsores and bedpans and bad-tempered nurses' aides—the whole nasty routine to which most dying men, in our time, are condemned.
~ Edward Abbey
Imogene has twenty-two birdfeeders, some pole-mounted, some suspended from eaves, platform feeders and globe feeders, coffee can feeders and feeders that look like little Swiss chalets, and every evening, when she comes home from work, she drags a stepladder from one to the next, toting a bucket of mixed seeds, keeping them full. In
~ Anthony Doerr
Since oceans are the life support system of our planet, regulating the climate, providing most of our oxygen and feeding over a billion people, what's bad for oceans is bad for us - very bad.
~ Philippe Cousteau, Jr.
I feed foxes. I'm not supposed to, but I love it.
~ Harry Redknapp
Dragonflies kill their prey in the air and eat it on the wing. They feed on aerial plankton, which consists of any sort of small living thing that happens to be aloft - mosquitoes, midges, moths, flies, ballooning spiders.
~ Richard Preston
I grew up in London under Thatcher and that really was disgusting. A feeding frenzy.
~ Denise Mina
According to an OGPU report, so many livestock had been slaughtered in the Central Black Earth Region that peasants were feeding pigs with meat.
~ Lynne Viola
Weave a circle round him thrice, And close your eyes with holy dread, For he on honey-dew hath fed, And drank the milk of Paradise.
~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The heart should have fed upon the truth, as insects on a leaf, till it be tinged with the color, and show its food in every ... minutest fiber.
~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Factory farms feed their sick and dying cows, called "downer cows," to chickens and pigs.
~ John A. McDougall
She stared at the goldfish bowl uncertainly. "I can never remember whether I've fed him or not," she said suddenly. "I kept on feeding them and they kept on dying all the time. All but one. So I don't know if he killed the rest or if I was over-feeding them or starving them or what. You're supposed to give them a pinch of food every day. But how big is a pinch anyway?
~ Elaine Dundy
I had a restaurant in Georgia for a while, and I really miss feeding everybody.
~ Zac Brown
Each of us can play a role in eradicating hunger in our communities, and together with Feeding Wisconsin we look forward to raising awareness and having a positive impact on the work to help this important cause.
~ Mike Budenholzer
The Eucharist is our symbol of what it would mean for the Lord's Prayer to be answered fully: God feeding his people through the death and resurrection of Jesus, which establishes that new community of the Spirit in which forgiveness is the common currency.
~ Rowan Williams