Staple Food Quotes

#1. It is obvious that the greatest and most important service that is required of our agriculture under existing conditions is an enlarged production of the staple food crops.

David F. Houston

#2. The Eucharist is a symbol of that as you have bread, the staple food of the poor, and wine, a luxury of the rich, which are brought together at the table.

Shane Claiborne

#3. The soybean itself is a notably inauspicious staple food; it contains a whole assortment of "antinutrients" - compounds that actually block the body's absorption of vitamins and minerals, interfere with the hormonal system, and prevent the body from breaking down the proteins of the soy itself.

Michael Pollan

#4. The codfish is a staple food For which I'm seldom in the mood. This fish is such an utter loss That people eat it with egg sauce.

Ogden Nash

#5. There are eight or nine leading varieties of rice grown in Japan, all of which, except an upland species, require mud, water, and much puddling and nasty work. Rice is the staple food and the wealth of Japan. Its revenues were estimated in rice. Rice is grown almost wherever irrigation is possible.

Isabella Bird

#6. It was gross enough for fast food restaurants to ban, but apparently our government wants so-called pink slime to be a staple in your kids' lunches.

Jane Velez-Mitchell

#7. Marmite - like that other little black-jar job, Bovril - is so much a Mark 1 staple-of-Empire brand, so much part of the Edwardian world of enamel advertising signs, the history of grin-and-bear-it industrial food.

Peter York

#8. Capitalism can be helpful, but it can also be destructive when it's used by huge enterprises worldwide for the sale of weapons.

Judy Collins

#9. I'm an Aries. We don't submit.""I'm a Leo. Wanna bet?

Miranda Baker

#10. her in the face. When she falls

Various

#11. While the flowers, pale and unreal in the moonlight, floated away upon the river; and thus do greater things that once were in our breasts, and near our hearts, flow from us to the eternal sea.

Charles Dickens

#12. When fast food is not a treat but a dietary staple, the children surf the internet all day in dark corners of the room and are bombarded with latest gadgets. Things replace parental standards.

Diane Abbott

#13. Ice cream isn't junk food, Kyle. It's a staple like milk or eggs.

M.K. Schiller

#14. History doesn't mean dates and wars and textbooks to me; it means the unconquerable pioneer spirit of man.

Henry Ford

#15. Do you not know that a man is not dead while his name is still spoken?

Terry Pratchett

#16. Yes, cider and tinned salmon are the staple diet of the agricultural classes.

Evelyn Waugh

#17. God is not on the side of any nation, yet we know He is on the side of justice. Our finest moments [as a nation] have come when we faithfully served the cause of justice for our own citizens, and for the people of other lands.

George W. Bush

#18. Your father and I were in the trenches together, in the Great War. That was a war all right. Oh I know there have been other wars since, better-publisized ones, more expensive ones perhaps, but our war is the one I'll always remember. Our war is the one that means war to me.

Donald Barthelme

#19. Mexican food is far more varied than people think. It changes like dialects. I was brought up in Jalisco by the sea on a basic diet - tomatoes, chillis, peppers of every size and rice, which is a Mexican staple. The Pacific coast has a huge array of seafood.

Gael Garcia Bernal

#20. A disorganized workspace means disorganized work habits. A sloppy work environment equals sloppy results.

Larry Winget

#21. There are many of us now. Enough to be called a people in ourselves and not merely a mistake.

N.K. Jemisin