Eat Quotes

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Confucius

Leo Tolstoy

Sherwood Anderson

Lucille Ball

William Blake

Bill Bryson

Julia Child

To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of food that it is very good but that most people can't eat it.

With coarse rice to eat, with water to drink, and my bended arm for a pillow—I have still joy in the midst of these things. Riches and honors acquired by unrighteousness are to me as a floating cloud.

If God did not intend for us to eat animals, then why did he make them out of meat?

The only time to eat diet food is while you're waiting for the steak to cook.

Why should conservationists have a positive interest in... farming? There are lots of reasons, but the plainest is: Conservationists eat.

Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night.

I can do as much work as any man... We do as much, we eat as much, we want as much. What we want is a little money. You men know that you get as much again as women when you write, or for what you do. When we get our rights, we shall not have to come to you for money, for then we shall have money enough of our own.

Sojourner Truth

The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.

Each day a few more lies eat into the seed with which we are born, little institutional lies from the print of newspapers, the shock waves of television, and the sentimental cheats of the movie screen.

Strength is the capacity to break a chocolate bar into four pieces with your bare hands — and then eat just one of the pieces.

Slavery is no more sinful, by the Christian code, than it is sinful to wear a whole coat, while another is in tatters, to eat a better meal than a neighbor, or otherwise to enjoy ease and plenty, while our fellow creatures are suffering and in want.

James Fenimore Cooper

Evil is unspectacular and always human,
And shares our bed and eats at our own table.

One must not forget that recovery is brought about not by the physician, but by the sick man himself. He heals himself, by his own power, exactly as he walks by means of his own power, or eats, or thinks, breathes or sleeps.

I go about looking at horses and cattle. They eat grass, make love, work when they have to, bear their young. I am sick with envy of them.

Sherwood Anderson

I had always thought that once you grew up you could do anything you wanted—stay up all night or eat ice-cream straight out of the container.

Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you what you are.

Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

Some days I would go without any fire at all, and eat raw frozen meat and melt snow in my mouth for water.

Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from the birth as a paternal, or, in other words, a meddling government, a government which tells them what to read, and say, and eat, and drink and wear.

Thomas Babington Macaulay

Don't eat anything your great-grandmother wouldn't recognize as food.

We are indeed much more than what we eat, but what we eat can nevertheless help us to be much more than what we are.

Life is hard. Then you die. Then they throw dirt in your face. Then the worms eat you. Be grateful it happens in that order.

If conservationists will attempt to resume responsibility for their need to eat, they will be led back fairly directly to all their previous concerns for the welfare of nature.

Vegetarians are cool. All I eat are vegetarians - except for the occasional mountain lion steak.

The tabloids are like animals, with their own behavioural patterns. There's no point in complaining about them, any more than complaining that lions might eat you.

I certainly feel that the time is not far distant when a knowledge of the principles of diet will be an essential part of one's education. Then mankind will eat to live, be able to do better mental and physical work, and disease will be less frequent.