Feeding Quotes

• We begin to see, therefore, the importance of selecting our environment with the greatest of care, because environment is the mental feeding ground out of which the food that goes into our minds is extracted.

  Napoleon Hill

  Cooking, Mind, Environmental

  Napoleon Hill (2008). “The Law of Success: The Master Wealth-Builder's Complete and Original Lesson Plan forAchieving Your Dreams”, p.467, Penguin

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• The proverb warns that 'You should not bite the hand that feeds you.' But maybe you should, if it prevents you from feeding yourself.

  Thomas Szasz

  Hands, Self Reliance, Liberty

  Thomas Stephen Szasz (1973). “The second sin”, Anchor

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• There are three reasons for breast-feeding: the milk is always at the right temperature; it comes in attractive containers; and the cat can't get it.

  Irena Chalmers

  Baby, Pregnancy, Cat

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• Breast Feeding should not be attempted by fathers with hairy chests, since they can make the baby sneeze and give it wind.

  Mike Harding

  Baby, Father, Humorous

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• Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.

  E. M. Forster

  Inspirational, Education, Running

  "The BBC Talks of E.M. Forster, 1929-1960: A Selected Edition". Book by Edward Morgan Forster, ‎Mary Lago, ‎Linda K. Hughes, June 3, 2008.

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• To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last - but eat you he will.

  Ronald Reagan

  Regret, Political, Goes On

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• I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created parasitic wasps with the express intention of their feeding within the living bodies of Caterpillars.

  Charles Darwin

  God, Garden, Thinking

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• The nourishment of body is food, while the nourishment of the soul is feeding others.

  Ali ibn Abi Talib

  Soul, Body, Nourishment

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• One of the things I know about my family, my generation, and my ethic background is that we put in work and I'm not just talking about just to eat. You have to think about the civil rights movement, they were putting in work; marching, walking miles and miles, sacrificing, getting on the bus, feeding one another, they had schools, voter registration, they were working! They were hard workers so my advice is to work.

  Eric Thomas

  School, Hard Work, Sacrifice

  "Daily Word: Happy Holidays!! You Have to Want Success As Bad As You Want To Breathe!!". Interview with Ash Cash, allhiphop.com. December 25, 2012.

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• Feeding a child at school is such a simple thing - but it works miracles.

  Drew Barrymore

  Children, School, Simple

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• Love is mutually feeding each other, not one living on another like a ghoul.

  Bessie Head

  Love Is, Ghouls, Living On

  1973 A Question of Power

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• I did several interesting jobs, working in restaurants, I worked at a lab rat farm, feeding and watering all these rats. Then I got a full-time job as a technical writer for a large scientific research laboratory.

  Kevin J. Anderson

  Jobs, Interesting, Research

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• Together with the works of mercy, feeding, sheltering, and clothing our brothers, we must indoctrinate.

  Dorothy Day

  Brother, Together, Mercy

  "On Pilgrimage".

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• They do the soaps differently in Mexico. You just have to know the storyline and not memorize the lines. There would be someone feeding you lines while you were performing.

  Erik Estrada

  Would Be, Mexico, Lines

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• The doctors say it dates back to a film where I had these huge prosthetic breasts because my character was breast-feeding. The weight of them, and of the baby, did my back in.

  Anna Friel

  Girl, Baby, Character

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I know not what you believe of God, but I believe He gave yearnings and longings to be filled, and that He did not mean all our time should be devoted to feeding and clothing the body

  Lucy Stone

  God, Time, Believe

  "Disappointment Is the Lot of Women". Speech. "History of Woman Suffrage". Book by Elizabeth Cady Stanton et al., Volume 1, 1881.

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• Cooking is actually quite aggressive and controlling and sometimes, yes, there is an element of force-feeding going on.

  Nigella Lawson

  Cooking, Elements, Literature

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• My parents moved to Los Angeles when I was really young, but I spent every summer with my grandparents, and I'd stay with my grandfather on the farm in Longview. He was retired from the railroad, and he had a small farm with some cows and some pigs. I remember part of my youth was feeding hogs and plowing fields and stuff, so that's a part of me.

  Forest Whitaker

  Summer, Pigs, Grandparent

  Interview with Evan Smith, www.texasmonthly.com. December 2006.

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• That made me think I could contribute more to society by looking at people on the autopsy table and feeding back the findings so that lots of people could benefit, rather than just treating patients one at a time.

  Michael Baden

  Thinking, People, Benefits

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• I just prefer instrumental. I don't need to hear what other people are singing. And if I need music as a backdrop to work or to think, I need to have that part of the brain clear - I don't need people feeding their fantasies into my vision.

  Lydia Lunch

  Thinking, Lunch, People

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• But I think the possibility of a black and white society feeding each other's expertises, living harmoniously, will probably go along in fits and starts now but at least it has a great constitution now to back it up.

  Janet Suzman

  Black And White, Thinking, Constitution

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• As with the Princess Di crash, which sent the media on the most insane feeding frenzy. From the moment of the crash, the pornography of sentiment never let up.

  Barbara Kruger

  Princess, Media, Insane

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• With the breast-feeding, I really love the bonding. Real life is more important to me.

  Debi Mazar

  Real, Important, Life Is

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• Oh, yeah, I see the world differently now. Actually, when I first had the baby, I was breast-feeding him for two years straight. So we were together for two years of his life, every single day, all hours of the day. So I was two people, and I eventually morphed back into one

  Erykah Badu

  Baby, Years, Two

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• "Appeasement" is the policy of feeding your friends to a crocodile, one at a time, in hopes that the crocodile will eat you last.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Cute, Friends, Sweet

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