Top 100 Vegetarian Quotes
#1. I'm pretty healthy so I think that helps a lot. I've been that way for a long time - 20 solid years of eating vegetarian/vegan and taking care of myself. That probably helps the preservation process.
Jared Leto
#2. I think a strict vegetarian diet acts as a good cleansing program for people who come from a diet heavy in animal foods and processed foods. But for some people, when it goes on too long it seems to backfire.
Ann Louise Gittleman
#3. A vegetarian? Are you insane? That's worse than bein' a quarter demon!
Kami Garcia
#4. I grew up in cattle country-that's why I became a vegetarian. Meat stinks, for the animals, the environment, and your health.
K.d. Lang
#5. I'm a vegetarian - I think there's a strong possibility, had I not become a vegetarian, I would not be working now. I became a vegetarian about 25 years ago, and I did it out of concern for animals. But I immediately began having more energy and feeling better.
Bob Barker
#6. There's no doubt in my mind that going vegetarian has made me feel better not only physically but also because I learned about the suffering of animals who are raised and killed for food. I feel good knowing I'm not contributing to that.
Sophie Monk
#7. My mom was always my biggest teacher, my inspiration, my role model. My mom was just the most amazing person. She was like a bon vivant in that she just lived each day to the fullest. As soon as I became a vegetarian, she became a vegetarian.
Christie Brinkley
#8. I've never followed a vegan or vegetarian diet in the past, but I think I could do it. It would not be easy. I have worked with nutritionists who have said a vegan diet is not necessarily all positive for your health, because you need nutrients you only find in meats. I believe in a balanced diet.
Joel Robuchon
#9. A vegetarian is a person who won't eat anything that can have children.
David Brenner
#10. I was a cannibal for twenty-five years. For the rest I have been a vegetarian.
George Bernard Shaw
#11. No pills, not even aspirin, and certainly no supplements ever enter my mouth - everything I need comes from my fish and vegetarian diet, which incorporates many different kinds of fruit and vegetables every week.
David H. Murdock
#12. I hope I'm not a vegetarian..." her voice trailed off as she burst into laughter. I had to join in her merriment. Lifting up my glass, I toasted her. "Here's to hoping you're not an alcoholic either.
Melanie Moreland
#13. My mother taught me a lot about respect for all living things - for plants and animals. I am a vegetarian. I was brought up that way.
David LaChapelle
#14. And so there I was living in California from Brooklyn, New York, and it was this whole new world for me and I was meeting vegetarians. I thought, let me try this vegetarian thing. I got really into that.
Warren Cuccurullo
#15. I'm a vegetarian, well I'm not hardcore because I eat meat, but only because I like the taste, and I hate vegetables on a personal level so I'm not too good!
Dylan Moran
#16. I'm a vegetarian; I eat a lot of tofu and soy.
Kristen Wiig
#18. I'm pretending to be a vegetarian. Were I not, I believe I probably still wouldn't eat a wallaby.
Kevin Moffett
#19. Then, people butchered animals all the time for meat or hide or shell or whatever. This is why my friend Piper became a vegetarian.)
Rick Riordan
#20. I'm going to kill him. Even as I said it, I couldn't believe my reaction. Apparently there's something in the Montana water that instantly transforms an agnostic, Starbucks-loving, vegetarian pacifist into a God-and-country-loving protector of all women and cattle.
Renee Carlino
#21. I think that if a person wants to remain vegetarian, they're just going to have to go hungry.
Robert Atkins
#22. They've arrested Sebastian! For m-murder! You've g-got to stop them! He d-didn't do it! He can't have done it! He doesn't believe in murder! He's a v-vegetarian!
Meg Cabot
#23. In 1968, I became a vegetarian after realizing that animals feel afraid, cold, hungry, and unhappy like we do..
Cesar Chavez
#24. If you accept that people are the products of evolution, then you have to have an open mind to the truth. Unfair discrimination exists whether we like it or not; I wouldn't have married a gum-chewing vegetarian.
James D. Watson
#25. I've never met a vegetarian that I liked, curiously. You might have been the exception, of course"
Solo
William Boyd
#26. I wander around and end up in Cruikshank's Orchard, sitting on a fern-patterned bench next to the girl of my dreams. She's wearing a T-shirt that says, Vegetarian Zombie. Below that, the zombie says, Graaaaaaains.
Samantha Anderson
#27. Give your dog or cat respect, patience, understanding and love. And if you just change to one vegetarian day a week, that's a wonderful step that will save animal lives. It means you have chosen something kind instead of something cruel.
Ingrid Newkirk
#28. I'm a vegetarian who doesn't like eggplant parmesan. Isn't that awful? I'm also sick of portobello mushrooms. People are like, 'A vegetarian's coming to dinner,' so they serve those.
Candy Crowley
#29. I became a vegetarian, and I carried around a suitcase full of vitamins and special drinks everywhere I went.
Cat Stevens
#30. It's true. Hitler was a vegetarian. Just goes to show, vegetarianism, not always a good thing. Can in some extreme cases lead to genocide.
Bill Bailey
#31. People looked at me, shocked.
I gave them a nice big smile. That's right, look what big teeth I have. I knew I was a vegetarian, but aside from Jim and a few friends, nobody else did. Besides, just because I didn't eat meat, didn't mean I wouldn't bite.
Ilona Andrews
#32. Even if you are vegetarian, you do want to have a stuffing for Thanksgiving. The stuffing is not so much about the vegetables, but it's very unique to the season.
Daniel Humm
#33. Love, acceptance, friends, two kids that I love. I have to take care of myself for them. I've also been a vegetarian for two years.
Ricky Martin
#34. I'm vegetarian so eating right definitely gives me the energy you need.
Shannon Elizabeth
#35. I think what I'd really like to see would be a mass consciousness-raising movement so that we would all become vegetarian.
Richard Dawkins
#36. Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is a little like expecting the bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian.
Dennis Wholey
#37. My biggest dream in the world is for everyone to become vegetarian, so there won't be any more suffering.
Alicia Silverstone
#38. He'd thought he'd get used to it, even start wanting it, but though it killed his hunger pangs, there was nothing about it that he enjoyed the way he'd once enjoyed chocolate or vegetarian burritos or coffee ice cream. It remained blood. But
Cassandra Clare
#39. For those who are still merely vegetarian and not yet vegan, I ask, what in heaven's name are you waiting for?
Howard Lyman
#40. I also became a vegetarian when I was 14 because I realized eating animals was cruel.
Julia Hill
#41. My wife is a very attractive woman, and she's always worried about her diet. But she doesn't pay attention to me, and I don't pay attention to her. She's a vegetarian, and it drives me crazy.
Alan King
#42. I'm a vegetarian, I'm not strict. I eat fish. And duck, but they're nearly fish aren't they.
Bill Bailey
#43. That expression "positive neutrality" is a contradiction in terms. There can be no more positive neutrality than there can be a vegetarian tiger.
V. K. Krishna Menon
#44. Eating a vegetarian diet can contribute more to saving ourselves and the planet than any other single effort.
Sharon Gannon
#46. She makes a silent vow to be a vegetarian from now on even if she has to starve to do it. Better that than even the remote possibility of eating one's friends and fellow sufferers.
Carol Emshwiller
#47. Is a vegetarian permitted to eat animal crackers?
George Carlin
#48. There's no question that largely vegetarian diets are as healthy as you can get. The evidence is so strong and overwhelming and produced over such a long period of time that it's no longer debatable.
Marion Nestle
#49. In case you hadn't noticed, I'm a vegetarian." Mia lifted her glass and took a sip.
"Hm. Does that mean no oral sex?"
She nearly spat her wine
Ava Gray
#50. Vegetarian and frugal it may be, but the chickpea is one of the most versatile ingredients you could keep in your cupboards.
Yotam Ottolenghi
#51. I don't wanna limit myself to anything, but I eat like a vegetarian and I eat mostly raw.
Brett Dennen
#52. I don't understand why asking people to eat a well-balanced vegetarian diet is considered drastic, while it is medically conservative to cut people open and put them on cholesterol lowering drugs for the rest of their lives.
Dean Ornish
#53. One has got to choose between the two evils, also between the lesser of the two evils in the matter of food, and therefore vegetarian food has got to he taken by man in order to sustain human life.
Morarji Desai
#54. When I'm cooking for myself, I find that I eat almost completely vegetarian, although I'm not vegetarian.
Gail Simmons
#55. Granny said there was a law about having to eat Pizza at Christmas. Granny was full of nonsense, of course, but [Elsa] went along with it because she likes pizza. And Christmas food kind of sucks if you are a vegetarian.
Fredrik Backman
#56. I have a trainer who comes three times a week and just listens to me moan ... and I keep fit and keep moving ... and I do watch what I eat. I am a vegetarian ... I can't eat crazy food. I'm highly allergic to onions and garlic and spices ... I've never had a pizza, never had a curry.
Ringo Starr
#57. I don't really want to be fat, so I stop before I am. I'm not a vegetarian, but I might go through a phase when I'm not interested in eating protein for a week or so, and then I might go through a phase when I eat nothing but steak.
Sharon Stone
#58. You can't make people change, but the organizers of WorldFest hope that people consider being vegetarian for both moral and health reasons.
Grace Slick
#59. My parents have been incredibly supportive from perhaps the first real independent decision I made to become a vegetarian at 11, which was certainly not consistent with their diet at the time.
Chelsea Clinton
#60. The good news is that you just need a bit of compassion to become vegetarian, and this is something widely found in the human race.
Armand Chauvel
#61. It was almost enough to make me turn vegetarian, except for the pesky fact that I loved cheeseburgers.
Rick Riordan
#62. Many things made me become a vegetarian, among them the higher food yield as a solution to world hunger.
John Denver
#63. I'm always thirsty when I wake up, so I guzzle a bottle of Smart water before I scramble tofu with onions, peppers and spinach and top it with salsa. I've been a vegetarian for years, but I recently became vegan.
Carrie Underwood
#64. I asked a girl once why she was vegetarian. I said, is it because you love animals? And she replied, no it's because I had plants. To that I said, don't ever let someone take you to see the Palace Gardens- you'd both end up in jail.
Kelly Batten
#65. I took care of myself. Basically I'm a vegetarian, I run every day, I exercise. I kind of control my living habits. I try to get a good night's sleep every night, I don't stay up all night and do all that stuff.
Johnny Ramistella
#66. If you are low on self confidence and your life sucks, become a vegetarian. You will nag on other human beings and hate them so much for abusing animals that you would have no free time to remember how miserable your own life is!
Hamidreza Bagheri
#67. When travelling, I make a point of eating a proper diet no matter where I am in the world. It is getting much easier to eat a vegetarian or vegan based diet.
Gary Player
#68. In high school I became a vegetarian more times than I can now remember, most often as an effort to claim some identity in a world of people whose identities seemed to come effortlessly.
Jonathan Safran Foer
#69. I'm not a vegetarian, but I have cut back sharply on the meat that I eat.
Al Gore
#70. I can't count the times that upon telling someone I am vegetarian, he or she responded by pointing out an inconsistency in my lifestyle or trying to find a flaw in an argument I never made. (I have often felt that my vegetarianism matters more to such people than it does to me.)
Jonathan Safran Foer
#71. I am really good at making Top Ramen. I also love it when my mom makes vegetarian lasagna for me.
Zendaya
#72. I've been a vegetarian for years and years. I'm not judgemental about others who aren't, I just feel I cannot eat or wear living creatures.
Drew Barrymore
#73. Only fools argue whether to eat meat or not. They don't understand truth, nor do they meditate on it. Who can define what is meat and what is plant? Who knows where the sin lies, being a vegetarian or a non-vegetarian?
Guru Nanak
#74. When we eat vegetarian foods, we needn't worry about what kind of disease our food died from; this makes a joyful meal!
John Harvey Kellogg
#75. No, I'm not a vegetarian. I do eat that way. I actually eat vegan quite a lot. I feel better when I eat that way, and I think there's been a lot of proof that's come up over the last however many years, that you can't deny, I don't think, that meat or dairy aren't all that good for us.
Hayley Williams
#76. Economy forced me to become a vegetarian, but I finally starting liking it.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
#77. Haggis is delicious. It is wonderful. It's spicy, it's tasty, and you get vegetarian haggis as well.
Nicola Sturgeon
#78. I love going to weddings. And I love it when my friends get married. I'm not against marriage but it's just not for me. I'm a vegetarian, but I don't have a problem if you want a hamburger.
Sarah Silverman
#79. If everyone agreed to become vegetarian, leaving little or nothing for livestock, the present 1.4 billion hectares of arable land (3.5 billion acres) would support about 10 billion people,
E. O. Wilson
#80. I am very proud of the fact that 20 years on people tell me they became a vegetarian as a result of 'Meat is Murder'. I think that is quite literally rock music changing someone's life - it's certainly changing the life of animals. It is one of the things I am most proud of.
Johnny Marr
#81. I eat more vegetables than the average vegetarian.
Robert Atkins
#82. When it came down to it, he just wasn't that engaged. You had to be engaged to be a vegetarian; you had to be engaged to sing "Both Sides Now" with your eyes closed; when it came down to it, you had to be engaged to be a mother.
Nick Hornby
#83. I think Ross Noble is the only person that I've seen really storm a stand-up slot at a festival, and that was when he led 3,000 people on a conga out of the tent and across the entire site to a vegetarian food truck.
Marcus Brigstocke
#84. I was in my early 20s and open to alternative lifestyles. I thought, 'I bet you get a lot of attractive, interesting women in a vegetarian co-op.'
John Mackey
#85. It's the 21st century. It's healthier for us, better for the environment and certainly kinder to be a vegetarian.
Ingrid Newkirk
#87. When people come over to my house for dinner, I always have a vegetarian option. They can make do, or they can **** off!
Jimmy Carr
#88. That's the nice thing about being a vegetarian. You don't have to be neurotic. Selective omnivores have to be neurotic. Personally, I don't have time for all that; I don't want to get into it.
Jonathan Safran Foer
#89. I'm vegetarian, but I love Thanksgiving dinner: faux turkey, stuffing and mashed potatoes.
Leigh Lezark
#90. [My father] didn't make much money, and I tell a lot of people, you know, I was a vegetarian before people knew what a vegetarian was. That's all I ate was vegetables.
Hank Aaron
#91. A pacifist between wars is like a vegetarian between meals.
Ammon Hennacy
#92. Water is my main state. If I time before I run - like, to digest, like, a good hour and a half or so to digest, I'll eat oatmeal. but I'm a vegetarian for the most part, so in general, I just eat grains and vegetables and fruit.
Flea
#93. CARNIVOROUS, adj. Addicted to the cruelty of devouring the timorous vegetarian, his heirs and assigns.
Ambrose Bierce
#94. I was born in California, raised a vegetarian, and love science fiction, so don't tell me how I need to be in order to fit your standards. When I was younger, those kinds of comments bothered me, but eventually got to a point where I realized I wasn't going to change who I was.
Aisha Tyler
#95. Let's call a spade a spade - a lot of times when you are a vegetarian it is a just not very effective eating disorder.
Lena Dunham
#96. I'm pretty much a vegetarian, but I do eat fish and sometimes chicken
Nastassja Kinski
#97. Killed a policeman? How Vegetarian! Well, I suppose it was, so long as they didn't eat him.
G.K. Chesterton
#98. I will represent all of the people of Ohio, regardless of their background. I don't care if you are a Democrat, a Republican, a Libertarian or a vegetarian, I will be blind to race, religion or any kind of orientation.
Josh Mandel
#99. What?" "She won't bite or scratch or she'll vomit. She's a vegetarian." Oh boy. "But when she's in beast form ... " He shook his head. "She eats grass. Don't ask.
Ilona Andrews
#100. You can be vegetarian and eat fish. It's your choice, just say: 'I am what I am.' There are no hardcore divisions anymore.
Yotam Ottolenghi
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