Quotes of Sustenance - somelinesforyou

“ I am not a glutton — I am an explorer of food. ”

- Erma Bombeck

“ Many things made me become a vegetarian, among them, the higher food yield as a solution to world hunger. ”

- John Denver

“ Caesar's armies marched on vegetarian foods. ”

- Will Durant

“ Preparing food is not just about yourself and others. It is about everything! ”

- Shunryu Suzuki

“ The corn that makes the holy bread By which the soul of man is fed, The holy bread, the food unpriced, Thy everlasting mercy, Christ. ”

- John Masefield

“ I take care of my flowers and my cats. And enjoy food. And that's living. ”

- Ursula Andress

“ If food were free, why work? ”

- Doug Horton

“ Don't make jokes about food. ”

- David Lean

“ Food is your body's fuel. Without fuel, your body wants to shut down. ”

- Ken Hill

“ I'm going to feed 'em with the food I get in Connecticut. ”

- Thomas Armstrong

“ I don't let it bother me too much if someone doesn't like me. I just figure there's no accounting for taste. It's not me, it's my acting. It's like if someone doesn't like someone's food, they just don't like my acting. ”

- Anna Chlumsky

“ I define comfort as self-acceptance. When we finally learn that self-care begins and ends with ourselves, we no longer demand sustenance and happiness from others. ”

- Jennifer Louden

“ A day's work is a day's work, neither more nor less, and the man who does it needs a day's sustenance, a night's repose and due leisure, whether he be painter or ploughman. ”

- George Bernard Shaw

“ Let man realize that he himself is forever seeking sustenance at the hand of God, and just as God answers his prayer, so should he answer the prayer of the poor. ”

- Rabbi Joseph Karo

“ Life has… taught me not to expect success to be the inevitable result of my endeavors. She taught me to seek sustenance from the endeavor itself, but to leave the result to God. ”

- Alan Paton

“ Life is a battle between faith and reason in which each feeds upon the other, drawing sustenance from it and destroying it. ”

- Reinhold Niebuhr

“ 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. ”

- Cokie Roberts

“ Non-violence is not a quality to be evolved or expressed to order. It is an inward growth depending for sustenance upon intense individual effort. ”

- Mahatma Gandhi

“ No religion has mandated killing others as a requirement for its sustenance or promotion. ”

- Abdul Kalam

“ We're getting to the age when we're starting to see that responsibility isn't such a bad thing, when we see maturity as the key to sustenance. ”

- William Petersen

“ There is no love sincerer than the love of food. ”

- George Bernard Shaw

“ Health food makes me sick. ”

- Calvin Trillin

“ Acorns were good until bread was found. ”

- Francis Bacon

“ I cook with wine, sometimes I even add it to the food. ”

- W. C. Fields

“ Most vegetarians I ever see looked enough like their food to be classed as cannibals. ”

- Finley Peter Dunne

“ A woman should never be seen eating or drinking, unless it be lobster salad and Champagne, the only true feminine and becoming viands. ”

- Lord Byron

“ My favorite animal is steak. ”

- Fran Lebowitz

“ We are digging our graves with our teeth. ”

- Thomas Moffett

“ I like having the dough to come and go as I please. ”

- Bruce Willis

“ There are only three things to be done with a woman. You can love her, suffer for her, or turn her into literature. ”

- Lawrence Durrell
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