Quotes About Nourishing Food

#1. To sit at a table with nourishing food in front of you and the people you love all around you yet not feel thankful reveals not only a lack of self worth but a certain degree of foolishness as well.

Kurt Michael Friese

#2. Healthy and nourishing food was the only alpha and omega of rural economy.

Mahatma Gandhi

#3. My father had always said there are four things a child needs: plenty of love, nourishing food, regular sleep, and lots of soap and water. After that, what he needs most is some intelligent neglect.

Ivy Baker Priest

#4. We do take seriously our responsibility, and growing ability, to educate people about healthy eating and giving them greater access to nourishing and affordable fresh food.

John Mackey

#5. I keep my center by really making sure I am nourished and taking care of my body. I cook all of my own food and always make sure I am eating healthy, nourishing, comforting foods. I feel derailed when I don't do this.

Laura Prepon

#6. It has been shown as proof positive that carefully prepared chocolate is as healthful a food as it is pleasant; that it is nourishing and easily digested ... that it is above all helpful to people who must do a great deal of mental work.

Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

#7. I stick to Raffe as close as I can manage without having to explain why I'm hugging his back.

Susan Ee

#8. Health isn't about being "perfect" with food or exercise or herbs. Health is about balancing those things with your desires. It's about nourishing your spirit as well as your body.

Golda Poretsky

#9. I've been a full-time composer for many years, and I'm still learning all the time. There is always more than one musical "solution" to each movie scene, but my goal is to compose music that works perfectly for the director, and me!

John Keltonic

#10. Bread that must be sliced with an axe is bread that is too nourishing.

Fran Lebowitz

#11. Muslims have different meanings for the same words that we use. They are so convinced of the "truth" of Islam that they do not perceive Jihad/terrorism, or dhimmitude as violence.

Ali Sina

#12. Just as our bodies need proper food to live and develop, our souls need love to blossom. The strength and nourishment that love can give our souls is even more potent than the nourishing power of a mother's milk for a baby.

Mata Amritanandamayi

#13. When you long you can not achieve anything when you repeatedly have to lose all that you had hoped, you gradually become still.

Lana Del Rey

#14. Let us be as watchful after the victory as before the battle.

Andrew Bonar

#15. For is there any practice less selfish, any labor less alienated, any time less wasted, than preparing something delicious and nourishing for people you love?

Michael Pollan

#16. It is well known among physicians that the best of the nourishing foods is the one that the Moslem religion forbids, i.e., Wine. It contains much good and light nourishment. It is rapidly digested and helps to digest other foods.

Maimonides

#17. Information networks straddle the world. Nothing remains concealed. But the sheer volume of information dissolves the information. We are unable to take it all in.

Gunter Grass

#18. I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child well nursed is at a year old a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled; and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricassee or a ragout.

Jonathan Swift

#19. The mind needs stories as much as the body needs food. There are junk stories and more nourishing ones. The food we eat becomes our bodies, assimilated stories form our identities

David Loy

#20. When it all comes together, a creative life has the nourishing power we normally associate with food, love and faith.

Twyla Tharp

#21. Writing is the dancing of the mind on a stage called paper.

Debasish Mridha

#22. I'm a bit traditional in the way that I think that a woman draws her energy from the house. Food is a really nice way of expressing that energy and love, and doing something with care and putting time into it and nourishing your family.

Gwyneth Paltrow

#23. If you face a challenging task from God today, ask yourself, "How would Jesus handle this?" Then go and do the same.

David Jeremiah

#24. We'll be slaughtered if we show ourselves now. We won't leave your kits, Graystripe, I promise we won't, but we've got to wait for the right moment to rescue them.

Erin Hunter

#25. The varicolored cloud dust that the sun has stirred up in the sky was settling by slow degrees.

Zora Neale Hurston

#26. Learning about issues such as sustainability and locavorism are things that you need to have as part of you as a chef because it will make you cook more delicious food.

Rene Redzepi

#27. Our defeat was always implicit in the victory of others; our wealth has always generated our poverty by nourishing the prosperity of others - the empires and their native overseers. In the colonial and neocolonial alchemy, gold changes into scrap metal and food into poison.

Eduardo Galeano

#28. It's strange how a single person can be as nourishing, as necessary as food to make you feel alive

Katie Kacvinsky

#29. Truth is just as essential to nourishing the mind as food is to nourishing the body. The more fully you live each moment in truth, the more powerful and effective those moments will be.

Ralph Marston

#30. I know that many ailments can be healed with food by nourishing your body instead of taking drugs.

Laura Prepon

#31. Understand from top to bottom what the effort requires.

Bill Toomey