Adelle Davis Quotes

#1. If this country [America] is to survive, the best-fed-nation myth had better be recognized for what it is: propaganda designed to produce wealth not health.

Adelle Davis

#2. No fish can swim until the King is born, until the King is born in Tupelo.

Nick Cave

#3. He's as cool as a prized marrow!

Sid Waddell

#4. Charlie Christian had no more impact on my playing than Django Reinhardt or Lonnie Johnson. I just wanted to play like him. I wanted to play like all of them. All of these people were important to me. I couldn't play like any of them, though ...

B.B. King

#5. The longer I work in nutrition, the more convinced I become that for the healthy person all foods should be delicious.

Adelle Davis

#6. It's hardware that makes a machine fast. It's software that makes a fast machine slow.

Craig Bruce

#7. I had always felt life first as a story: and if there is a story there is a story-teller

G.K. Chesterton

#8. If we are to have any hope for the future, those who have lanterns must pass them on to others.

Plato

#9. One of the companies that we've invested in is called Facebook. In only two years, between 2009 and 2011, the information exchanged between people increased 28 times. And that cannot be explained by new people joining Facebook.

Yuri Milner

#10. Thousands upon thousands of persons have studied disease. Almost no one has studied health.

Adelle Davis

#11. Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince, and dinner like a pauper.

Adelle Davis

#12. Nutrition ... has been kicked around like a puppy that cannot take care of itself. Food faddists and crackpots have kicked it pretty cruelly ...

Adelle Davis

#13. 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.

Adelle Davis

#14. To say that obesity is caused by merely consuming too many calories is like saying that the only cause of the American Revolution was the Boston Tea Party.

Adelle Davis

#15. And it interests him less to have the world reinvented; he wants it explained.

Ian McEwan

#16. As I see it every single day you do one in every of two issues: construct well being or produce illness in your self.

Adelle Davis

#17. Break me down to nothing, so I can be rebuilt as your everything.

Delano Johnson

#18. A day with a sage will save you a thousand of study.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#19. That moment was when she realized that every woman is a broken goddess. Every last one.

Cole McCade

#20. He really is a cunt ay the first order. Nae doubt about that. The big problem is, he's a mate n aw. Whit kin ye dae?

Irvine Welsh

#21. I relied on what I wrote to build a bridge which could not be cut down. It was my own self in which I trusted, not seeing self as that last cell from which escape can only come too late.

Anna Kavan

#22. If one falls in love with a mask when one is masked oneself ... which of you will first have the courage to raise it?

Lawrence Durrell

#23. As I see it every day you do one of two things: build health or produce disease in yourself.

Adelle Davis