Pearl S. Buck - Food Quotes

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At my age the bones are water in the morning until food is given them.

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A starving man can't see right or wrong. He just sees food.

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There's two kinds of folk in the world, just like there's two kinds of life in a seed. Something sends one kind up to hunt its food in the light and air, and sends the other kind down into the earth to make the roots.

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There will not cease to be ferment in the world unless people are sure of their food.

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Religion was their meat and their excitement, their mental food and their emotional pleasure.

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Food for all is a necessity. Food should not be a merchandise, to be bought and sold as jewels are bought and sold by those who have the money to buy. Food is a human necessity, like water and air, and it should be as available.

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Only people who are assured of daily food can concern themselves with matters of principle and ethic. A man will become a slave rather than starve.

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