Nutriment Quotes

#1. Faith is the vital artery of the soul. When we begin to believe, we begin to love. Faith grafts the soul into Christ, as the scion into the stock, and fetches all its nutriment from the blessed Vine.

Richard Watson

#2. You must love the crust of the earth on which you dwell more than the sweet crust of any bread or cake. You must be able to extract nutriment out of a sand-heap. You must have so good an appetite as this, else you will live in vain

Henry David Thoreau

#3. Love is faith, and faith, like a gathered flower, will live on a long time after nutriment has ceased

Thomas Hardy

#4. I make it my business to extract from Nature what ever nutriment she can furnish me ... I milk the sky and the earth.

Henry David Thoreau

#5. He could eat anything, no matter how loathsome or indigestible; and, once eaten, the juices of his stomach extracted the last least particle of nutriment; and his blood carried it to the farthest reaches of his body, building it into the toughest and stoutest of tissues.

Jack London

#6. Excrement can never be culturally elaborated to the extent that nutriment can.

Mason Cooley

#7. There is a good ear, in some men, that draws supplies to virtue out of very indifferent nutriment.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#8. I do not waste my time writing pot-boilers: the pot must be boiled, and even my pot au feu has some chunks of fresh meat in it ... I have no time to boil myself down; and anyhow I could not do so and preserve all the necessary nutriment and the flavoring on which the digestibility depends.

George Bernard Shaw

#9. The truth of things is the chief nutriment of superior intellects.

Leonardo Da Vinci

#10. The knowledge of the past times and of the places of the earth is both an ornament and nutriment to the human mind.

Leonardo Da Vinci

#11. We ought to muse upon the things of God, because we thus get the real nutriment out of them.

Charles Spurgeon

#12. And, is not Virtue in Mankind
The Nutriment that feeds the Mind?

Jonathan Swift

#13. The mind must not be forced; artificial and constrained manners fill it with foolish presumption, through unnatural elevation and vain and ridiculous inflation, instead of solid and
vigorous nutriment.

Blaise Pascal

#14. We shall be reduced to gnaw the very crust of the earth for nutriment.

Henry David Thoreau

#15. We should all know more, live nearer to God, and grow in grace, if we were more alone. Meditation chews the cud and extracts the real nutriment from the mental food gathered elsewhere.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#16. How happy he whose toil Has o'er his languid pow'rless limbs diffus'd A pleasing lassitude; he not in vain Invokes the gentle Deity of dreams. His pow'rs the most voluptuously dissolve In soft repose; on him the balmy dews Of Sleep with double nutriment descend.

John Armstrong

#17. Men of sense esteem wealth to be the assimilation of nature to themselves, the converting of the sap and juices of the planet to the incarnation and nutriment of their design.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#18. An early fascination with higher mathematics at the university level blossomed into speculative thinking that could provide a basis for dealing with economic issues.

Lawrence R. Klein

#19. It was Indian summer, a bluebird sort of day as we call it in the north, warm and sunny, without a breath of wind; the water was sky-blue, the shores a bank of solid gold.

Sigurd F. Olson

#20. To hear the appreciation, the screams - that's what any of us need. We're at our best when we're wanted.

R. Kelly

#21. I don't enjoy the life of an actress, but I don't want to go into that.

Claire Bloom

#22. Happily Single is also the precursor to Happily Taken. You simply can't have one without the other.

Mandy Hale