Top 100 Quotes About Sustenance
#1. I am a gypsy, Mahgen. What that means is that sometimes I do shit. On purpose. Shit, that pisses people off. And I like it. A lot.
-Madison Thorne Grey, Sustenance
Madison Thorne Grey
#2. "The twins no longer derive their sustenance from Nature's founts - in short," said Mr. Micawber, in one of his bursts of confidence, "they are weaned ... "
Charles Dickens
#3. Everything is at its best when it's doing exactly what it was created for. A lamp gives light. An apple gives sustenance and refreshment. A chair is perfect in being exactly what it is
a chair.
Wendy Mass
#4. If you find your sustenance in Christ, my dear young people, and if you live profoundly in him as did the Apostle Paul, you will not be able to resist speaking about him and making him known and loved by many of your friends and contemporaries.
Pope Benedict XVI
#5. We can have all the food and water we need, but without the sustenance of
real story, real art - without the wisdom, insight, and "life instruction" it brings - we will stagnate as a culture and become a swamp where quality life can no longer be sustained. So share your gifts! Share your art!
Derek Rydall
#6. Be praised, O my Lord by Brother Wind, By air and cloud and every clime To whom Thou givest sustenance unto their kind.
Francis Of Assisi
#7. It is certainly more creditable to cultivate the earth for the sustenance of man, than to be the confidant, and sometimes the accomplice, of his vices; which is the profession of a lawyer.
Mary Shelley
#8. This longing for the perfect expression of his self is more deeply inherent in man than his hunger and thirst for bodily sustenance, his lust for wealth and distinction.
Rabindranath Tagore
#9. Your reaction makes me deliciously curious. Will you be kept awake tonight wondering if I knew it was you? Imagining yourself under me?"
-Madison Thorne Grey, Sustenance
Madison Thorne Grey
#10. (1) a sound mass base, (2) a sound Party organization, (3) a fairly strong Red Army, (4) terrain favourable to military operations, and (5) economic resources sufficient for sustenance.
Mao Zedong
#11. And we have so far improved upon the custom of Adam and Eve, that we generally furnish forth our feasts with a portion of some delicate calf or lamb, whose unspotted innocence entitles them to the happiness of becoming our sustenance.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
#12. Like the dung beetle, I had my comfortable burrow and my ball of sustenance, and like the dung beetle I was happy.
Donald O'Donovan
#13. It's not that blue-collar philosophy is misunderstood, it's that blue-collar philosophy shouldn't exist in the first place. The ultimate question is not the justification of ones existence when your belly screams for sustenance? People are hungry god damn it!
Mick Lexington
#14. As we begin to plan for a new human society, we need to foster common values about clean air, water, and other elements of self-sustenance. These, along with a complete inventory of Earth's resources, will form the basis for a holistic approach to cybernated decision-making.
Jacque Fresco
#15. The tale of love and power was a continuum, much like the white carousel just outside of Acronis's hall. It turned around and around. Acronis was tired of the spin."
-Madison Thorne Grey, Sustenance
Madison Thorne Grey
#16. Everyone comes into the world with a right to his own person and using it at his own will," Jefferson said.72 "This is what is called personal liberty, and is given him by the author of nature, because it is necessary for his own sustenance.
Jon Meacham
#17. The reason why man seeks for happiness is not because happiness is his sustenance, but because happiness is his own being; therefore in seeking for happiness, man is seeking for himself.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
#18. Fasting confirms our utter dependence upon God by finding in Him a source of sustenance beyond food.
Dallas Willard
#19. As sunlight is for flowers, and sustenance for the mortal shell, music is for the human soul.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#20. Keith: Sometimes God grants us sustenance. But God also grants us deliverance. It's only a matter of time.
K. Howard Joslin
#21. Lord God, Maker of all, when You give manna moments, may I give You thanks for the mystery. Because the manna that makes no sense - You will make it my sustenance. Today, in all the "what is it?" moments, turn me to give thanks for who You are.
Ann Voskamp
#22. All the other industries will receive warmth and sustenance from khadi industry.
Mahatma Gandhi
#23. The wisest among you is he whose sustenance is the fear of Allah.
Umar
#24. I curse this body that requires rest and sustenance. That is prime writing time right there!
Kirsty Dallas
#25. You're like this frosting." She swiped another swirl of it on her finger, stood and leaned forward to touch it to his bottom lip. "Pretty, momentarily pleasurable, but with no real substance or sustenance.
Tracey Alvarez
#26. Yet what each one does is by no means of little moment. The grass has to put forth all its energy to draw sustenance from the uttermost tips of its rootlets simply to grow where it is as grass; it does not vainly strive to become a banyan tree; and so the earth gains a lovely carpet of green.
Rabindranath Tagore
#27. Ours was a storytelling family even in pleasing times, and in those days my parents looked on words as our sustenance, rich in their flavor and wholesome for the soul.
Natalie Kusz
#28. Takers believe no sustenance.
They simply take things wanted.
Toba Beta
#29. Traditionally, sport has looked down at number crunchers, but the reality is that they give sport the financial sustenance it needs.
Harsha Bhogle
#30. Love of Allah is the power of the heart, the sustenance of the heart, the light of the heart.
Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya
#31. 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
#32. It was a stark choice: shoes or food; beauty or sustenance; the sensible or the self-indulgent. "I'll take the shoes," she said firmly.
Alexander McCall Smith
#33. A day's work is a day's work, neither more nor less, and the man or woman who does it needs a day's sustenance, a night's repose and due leisure, whether they be painter or ploughman.
George Bernard Shaw
#34. Back then, Black churches were a small piece of peace. Church was a world where, even with its imperfections, the offer of equality and common humanity was the sustenance needed to make it through the rest of the week in a society that deemed them less than human.
Janelle Gray
#36. Strike was becoming steadily more taciturn, his expression brooding. Robin wondered whether this was because he was hungry - he was a man who needed regular sustenance to maintain an equable mood - or for some darker reason.
Robert Galbraith
#37. I am as wrapped up in her as a vine that clings to a tree seeking for sustenance. She's tied me to her for eternity. She's my home. She's my reason for being. To win and hold her heart is my only purpose.
Colleen Houck
#38. The arts open your heart and mind to possibilities that are limitless. They are pathways that touch upon our brains and emotions and bring sustenance to imagination. Human beings' greatest form of communication, they walk in tandem with science and play, and best describe what it is to be human.
Jacques D'Amboise
#39. How did they feel so secure without anything to fall back upon? I believe they drew sustenance from within.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
#41. We must put an end to both economic freeloading and economic exploitation in America. There must be no place for parasites who draw their sustenance from society without giving anything in return.
George Lincoln Rockwell
#42. I jerk around and see Sister Dora, a portly woman who's the head cook in the kitchen, staring daggers at me. This is nothing new. She stares daggers at everyone who walks through the lunch line holding a tray, as though our needing sustenance is a personal affront.
Pittacus Lore
#43. For each and every person, our Lord and Master provides sustenance. Why are you so afraid, O mind? The flamingos fly hundreds of miles, leaving their young ones behind. Who feeds them, and who teaches them to feed themselves? Have you ever thought of this in your mind?
Guru Nanak
#44. Sustenance for the infant and child is more than alimentary nourishment. The child needs love, security, narcissistic supplies
however one may describe it.
Alexander Lowen
#45. In the capitalist society there is a place and bread for all. Its ability to expand provides sustenance for every worker. Permanent unemployment is not a feature of free capitalism.
Ludwig Von Mises
#46. I will not listen to your verse on an empty stomach!" declared the Vicomte.
"You have no soul," said Philippe sadly.
"But I have a stomach, and it cries aloud for sustenance."
"I weep for you," said Philip. "Why do I waste my poetic gems upon you?
Georgette Heyer
#47. The holy things we need for healing and sustenance are almost always the same as the ordinary things right in front of us.
Nadia Bolz-Weber
#48. We are fed lies because believing them makes us weak, vulnerable, malleable. We depend on others for our food, health, sustenance. This cripples us. Creates cowards of our people. Slaves of our children. It's time for us to fight back.
Tahereh Mafi
#49. Candor does not provide us with protection, sustenance, or technological innovation. Therefore you are expendable to us.
Veronica Roth
#50. People often become scholars for the same reason they become soldiers: simply because they are unfit for any other station. Their right hand has to earn them a livelihood; one might say they lie down like bears in winter and seek sustenance from their paws.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
#51. Our very lives are dependent, for sustenance, on the sweat and sacrifice of the campesinos. Children of farm workers should be as proud of their parents' professions as other children are of theirs.
Cesar Chavez
#52. Medical professionals concentrate on repair of health, not sustenance of the soul. Yet
Atul Gawande
#53. Faith, as James speaks about it, is not a system of belief, but a way of life that consciously draws its sustenance from God and lives for God and is energized by God himself. The word "dead" here and in 2:26 is the Greek adjective nekros, "dead, without life.
Ralph F. Wilson
#54. Nothing ever invented provides such sustenance, such infinite reward for time spent, as a good book.
David McCullough
#55. Exactly like everything around us, we are made of the same elements of this earth and are totally dependent on this earth for our sustenance.
Bryan Kest
#56. God, provide me with enough sustenance that my family is taken care of, that neither I remain hungry, nor does my guest go unfed.
Kabir
#57. You shall create beauty not to excite the senses
but to give sustenance to the soul.
Gabriela Mistral
#58. They proclaim that every man is entitled to exist without labor and, the laws of reality to the contrary notwithstanding, is entitled to receive his 'minimum sustenance' his food, his clothes, his shelter with no effort on his part, as his due and his birthright. To receive it from whom.
Ayn Rand
#59. The forest is a peculiar organism of unlimited kindness and benevolence that makes no demands for its sustenance and extends generously the products of its life activity; it affords protection to all beings, offering shade even to the axe-man who destroys it.
Gautama Buddha
#60. Give a person a job you help them pay some bills, teach them how to find a career and you provide them with sustenance for life!
Mark W. Boyer
#61. And yet I didn't think pain like that ever faded entirely. Grief had its own life, took its own sustenance.
Leigh Bardugo
#62. That the earth produces, or is capable of producing, enough to give decent sustenance to everyone - not of food alone, but of everything else we need. For everything is produced from the earth.
Henry Ford
#63. Their religion was devotion to the human soul. Their sustenance was its flesh and blood. Their limitless love reached out, to what on the surface, they appeared to be. But they were not, that was an illusion.
Chad Schimke
#64. Plants give us clean air and beauty and sustenance, and, perhaps most important, they represent eternal life. Even when they die they rise again. Their vibrations are green and bright. All as it was meant to be. I
Juliet Blackwell
#65. I thought Mr. Millward never would cease telling us that he was no tea-drinker, and that it was highly injurious to keep loading the stomach with slops to the exclusion of more wholesome sustenance, and so give himself time to finish his fourth cup.
Anne Bronte
#66. Oh! grief is fantastic; it weaves a web on which to trace the history of its woe from every form and change around; it incorporates itself with all living nature; it finds sustenance in every object; as light, it fills all things, and, like light, it gives its own colors to all.
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
#67. When times are bad and sustenance dwindling, the starving eat their heroes first.
Brian M. Sammons
#68. He does not refuse sustenance to the one who speaks ill of Him. How then could He refuse sustenance to the one whose soul is over flowing with love for Him?
Rabia Basri
#69. Out here the wild things are healthy, the old trees whose roots find sustenance far below the ill-used layer of topsoil, the occasional rosebush gone to green thicket and thorns, the unstoppable kudzu. It is as if they have decided to take back the land for their own.
Poppy Z. Brite
#70. Even the choicest literature should be taken as the condiment, and not as the sustenance of life. It should be neither the warp nor the woof of existence, but only the flowery edging upon its borders.
Horace Mann
#71. Turn to your community and the great earth for sustenance and knowledge.
Bryant McGill
#72. My life is a tsunami of inspirations. Number one [is that] I really do just love my BBQ. I mean it's the sustenance of mankind. You know, the animal rights [of] people, if they had their way, 99% of the human race would parish because we sustain ourselves with dead stuff on the grill.
Ted Nugent
#73. Just kill me. My life is nothing without you. Drive me mad. Let me be your sustenance. Eat my soul. You're ... you're tearing me apart!
Serra Elinsen
#74. The memory of sustenance is a terrible thing. Far worse, I think, than actual starving. Starving just kills you. Longing can gnaw away at you forever.
Terri Cheney
#76. We need more true mystery in our lives Hem- he said. The completely unambitious writer and the really good unpublished poem are the things we lack most. There is of course the problem of sustenance
Ernest Hemingway,
#77. Be careful what you feed your body and consider what you feed your senses. Both provide you sustenance that makes you who you are.
Simon Boylan
#78. The capitalist culture of consumption ... does not provide meaningful sustenance for large numbers of people.
Cornel West
#79. A job shouldn't be a mean of existence but rather, a means of sustenance
Sunday Adelaja
#80. That which you give to another will become your own sustenance; if you light a lamp for another, your own way will be lit.
Nichiren
#81. Hard rain falls in every season. Sometimes it can beat you down; you have to try to learn how to take sustenance from it to grow.
Regina Taylor
#82. Holy Men! Holy Cabbages! Holy Bean Pods! What do they do but live and suck in sustenance and grow fat?
Arthur Conan Doyle
#83. All food, comfort, energy, shelter, space, fuel and sustenance gravitates naturally and easily away from those who need it most and towards those who need it least.
Iain M. Banks
#84. the civilization which had given birth to Bigger contained no spiritual sustenance, had created no culture which could hold and claim his allegiance and faith, had sensitized him and had left him stranded,
Richard Wright
#85. Intimacy is, in a quite straightforward ontogenetic sense, essential to
human life. Without communal care, human beings simply cannot
emerge into the world. Nor is this simply a point about physical sustenance, but indeed about human identity as well. As
Samuel Kimbriel
#86. No religion has mandated killing others as a requirement for its sustenance or promotion.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
#87. He looked down at the pillow that had fallen to the floor at his feet. "Are you seriously beginning a fight you cannot possibly win, druid?" he asked, his Gwarda green eyes deepening in color from the challenge."
-Madison Thorne Grey, Sustenance
Madison Thorne Grey
#88. Blake missed the primitive lifestyle. Celeste baked bread in soup cans, and together they baked the bread of passionate love every night to the sounds of the forest. That was sustenance.
Rudy Ross
#89. He seemed not to need mere physical sustenance anymore, surviving instead on a spiritual alchemy of memory and desire.
Mark Beauregard
#90. Learn from your experiences and past mistakes, assimilate them and convert them to formulas to achieve sustenance first , and then work your way to success to be the leaders in the market.
Henrietta Newton Martin
#91. Nature has gifted this rich biological diversity to us. We will not allow it to become the monopoly of a handful of corporations. We will keep it as the basis of our wealth and our sustenance.
Vandana Shiva
#92. A Jonas Brother won't change into a Dnepropetrovsk maniac when turned, but no matter what a swell person one was before, they WILL need human blood for sustenance.
Marc Hendriks
#93. He realized he needed strength, sustenance that couldn't come from bread alone. He desperately needed God.
J.E.B. Spredemann
#95. The future haunted but kept her alive; it remained her sustenance and also her predator.
Jhumpa Lahiri
#96. The existence and increase of our race and nation, the sustenance of its children and the purity of its blood, the freedom and independence of the Fatherland, and the nation's ability to fulfill the mission appointed to it by the Creator of the universe.
Adolf Hitler
#97. In a loved one's beauty, there is solace, comfort in its presence, and the hope - no, the belief - the certainty that possession of so fine an ornament might be sustenance enough.
Mary McGarry Morris
#98. 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
#99. Nowadays, what an award gives is a sense of solidarity with the poetry guild, as it were: sustenance coming from the assent of your peers on the judging panel.
Seamus Heaney
#100. The table is a meeting place, a gathering ground, the source of sustenance and nourishment, festivity, safety, and satisfaction. A person cooking is a person giving: Even the simplest food is a gift.
Laurie Colwin
