Eat Plants Quotes

#1. Out of 30,000 edible plants thought to exist on earth, just eleven account for 93% of all that humans eat: oats, corn, rice, wheat, potatoes, yucca (also called tapioca or cassava), sorghum, millet, beans, barley, and rye.

Daniel Levitin

#2. The acceptance of homosexuality is the last step in the decline of Gentile civilization,

Pat Robertson

#3. When we eat plants, food takes on a different quality. We take from the earth food that is ready for us and does not fight against us as we take it.

Peter Singer

#4. Some people are tied to five hundred words a day, six days a week. I'm a hesitater.

Ian McEwan

#5. Frank Sinatra told Floyd Paterson how he should whoop me. Frank Sinatra.

Muhammad Ali

#6. Plants can't very well defend themselves by their behavior, so they resort to chemical warfare, and plants are saturated with toxins and irritants to deter creatures like us who want to eat them.

Steven Pinker

#7. No man loveth his fetters, be they made of gold.

John Heywood

#8. Eat food. Not much. Mostly plants.

Alan C. Logan

#9. I was really good at being a bad guy.

Ric Flair

#10. Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.

Michael Pollan

#11. The best we can do, to paraphrase Pollan, is to eat whole foods, mostly plants, and not too much.

A. J. Jacobs

#12. The sharp white steeple of the Hawthorne First Baptist Church stuck up through the leafless trees like an admonishing finger.

Robert McCammon

#13. This evidence is overwhelming at this point. You eat more plants, you eat less other stuff, you live longer.

Mark Bittman

#14. The funniest thing is when somebody says "Look I've no idea who you are but my friend said you are on a show and I just wanted to introduce myself" you know that they are lying! Those people can just get out of my way.

Matthew Perry

#15. Each person is sacred, no matter what his or her culture, religion, handicap, or fragility. Each person is created in God's image; each one has a heart, a capacity to love and to be loved.

Jean Vanier

#16. Sadness is poetic. You're lucky to live sad moments. When you let yourself be sad, your body has antibodies. It has happiness that comes rushing in to meet the sadness.

Louis C.K.

#17. All of the plants that we do not consider food that are safe for the human body to digest, we don't eat because they're sour and bitter. The reason why you don't eat Kentucky bluegrass or crabgrass is because it tastes sour and bitter.

Homaro Cantu

#18. When I think of the meaning of food, I always remember these lines by the poet William Carlos Williams, which seem to me merely honest: There is nothing to eat, seek it where you will, but of the body of the Lord. The blessed plants and the sea, yield it to the imagination intact.

Wendell Berry

#19. You know, sometimes I think this is just not it," he said, his glasses flashing from the early night's light.
He turned toward me in a thoughtful pause.
"You know what I mean, Tom?" he asked. "It's just not.

Daniel Amory

#20. Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants. That, more or less, is the short answer to the supposedly incredibly complicated and confusing question of what we humans should eat in order to be maximally healthy.

Michael Pollan

#21. Out of the thirty thousand types of edible plants thought to exist on Earth, just eleven - corn, rice, wheat, potatoes, cassava, sorghum, millet, beans, barley, rye, and oats - account for 93 percent of all that humans eat, and every one of them was first cultivated by our Neolithic ancestors.

Bill Bryson

#22. The past places no absolute limit on the future.

Lin-Manuel Miranda

#23. When you have a dream you have to work hard to achieve that dream. Your dreams when you are young can be the force that keeps you going.

Evonne Goolagong Cawley

#24. Plants have to eat, too," I tried to explain. "They need nitrogen, they need minerals. You have to replace what you're taking out. Your choices are fossil fuels or animal products.

Lierre Keith

#25. I have a soft spot for art that, in terms of subject matter and material, is in bad taste.

Jerry Saltz

#26. We don't survive without plants and animals because we rely on them, we rely on plants to put oxygen into the atmosphere, we rely on ... fish and crops and cows to eat.

Naomi Oreskes

#27. The intention which is fixed on God as its only end will keep people steady in their purposes, and deliver them from being the joke and scorn of fortune.

Thomas A Kempis

#28. The best punishment for an enemy is forgiveness.

Debasish Mridha