All Quotes By Tag: Food
“Getting through life without a lot of money, possessions, and/or friends is admirable, especially if it is by choice.”
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“If the food that one ate the night before were somehow able to be seen and identified through one’s clothes throughout the day, millions of employees would each fast ten or so days before their payday.”
“A truly compassionate man gives a poor woman a portion of his meal before he eats, not after he has eaten.”
“Famine sometimes increases the number of people who are overweight.”
“While farmers contribute to our survival, let us also do our part by showing them respect in form of not wasting food.”
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“Many a death was precipitated by the food, the job, or the medication whose main function was to postpone it.”
“More often than not, expecting to lose weight without first losing the diet that made the weight loss necessary is like expecting a pig to be spotless after hosing it down while it was still rolling in mud.”
“Most human beings strongly believe that money is way less important than the life of a human being, but in reality five hundred, fifty, or even five dollars are way more important to the lives of most human beings than the lives of most human beings.”
“There’s something better than an ‘excuse’ for your mistake, which is ‘now you know how to stop it from happening again’.”
“We, in the interest of the so-called progress, have been persuaded to leave the production and at times the cooking of our food to companies whose owners and employees make a living by exploiting our busyness or laziness and our innate hunger to continue living.”
“But it’s really faith that monsters live on, isn’t it? I am led irresistibly to this conclusion: food maybe life, but the source of power is faith, not food. And who is more capable of a total act of faith than a child?”
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“Neighbours complaining about someone’s dog making an awful racket. You could hardly blame the poor beast, its owner had died in her bed at least a fortnight before and there hadn’t been much left of the old girl worth eating.”
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“The moon people do not eat by swallowing food but by smelling it. Their money is poetry – actual poems, written out on pieces of paper whose value is determined by the worth of the poem itself.”
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“The grocery storehas rows and rowsof color, of light,of easy hope.Hannah moves down the aisle,but I stand like a tree rooted firm, my eyes too full of this place,with its answers to prayerson every shelf.”
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