Feeding Quotes - Page 20

• How did you feel feeding doughnuts to a horse? Had a kick out of it, huh? Got a big laugh. Did you ever think of feeding doughnuts to a human being? No!

  Robert Riskin

  Horse, Thinking, Laughing

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• Mistakes are at the very base of human thought, embedded there, feeding the structure like root nodules. If we were not provided with the knack for being wrong, we could never get anything useful done. We think our way along by choosing between right and wrong alternatives, and the wrong choices have to be made as often as the right ones. We get along in life this way.

  Lewis Thomas

  Life, Mistake, Creativity

  Lewis Thomas (1990). “A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays”

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• Running a liberal paper is like feeding melted butter on the end of an awl to a wild cat.

  Oscar Ameringer

  Running, Cat, Media

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• Lysistrata: Oh, Calonicé, my heart is on fire; I blush for our sex. Men will have it we are tricky and sly...Calonicé: And they are quite right, upon my word!Lysistrata: Yet, look you, when the women are summoned to meet for a matter of the last importance, they lie abed instead of coming.Calonicé: Oh, they will come, my dear; but 'tis not easy you know, for a woman to leave the house. One is busy pottering about her husband; another is getting the servant up; a third is putting her child asleep or washing the brat or feeding it.

  Aristophanes

  Sex, Husband, Children

  Aristophanes (2013). “The Eleven Comedies”, p.147, Simon and Schuster

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• Too many poets act like a middle-aged mother trying to get her kids to eat too much cooked meat, and potatoes with drippings (tears). I don't give a damn whether they eat or not. Forced feeding leads to excessive thinness (effete). Nobody should experience anything they don't need to, if they don't need poetry bully for them. I like the movies too. And after all, only Whitman and Crane and Williams, of the American poets, are better than the movies.

  Frank O'Hara

  Mother, Kids, Giving

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• I talked a lot early on in my career about intersectionality and how racism and classism and sexism and homophobia and capitalism are all connected with each other, and they're these crazy systems that are feeding on each other and are also damaging. I can't even go into the whole spectrum of it. But I feel like kids today are so much more savvy about that conversation. And I'm so thrilled when I get to meet younger people who are doing that so much better than I did.

  Kathleen Hanna

  Crazy, Kids, Careers

  "Kathleen Hanna And Sini Anderson On SXSW’s THE PUNK SINGER". Interview with Meredith Borders, birthmoviesdeath.com. March 20, 2013.

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• Factory farmers talk about their desire to feed the world. That's not what they're doing. They're feeding the world with really, really cheap stuff.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Desire, World, Stuff

  Interview with Gregg LaGambina, www.avclub.com. November 17, 2009.

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• Conventional agriculture has never succeeded in feeding the world, and it's never produced anything good to eat. For the future, we need to look toward alternatives.

  Dan Barber

  Agriculture, Needs, Alternatives

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• Change happens not just by giving the mind new arguments but also by feeding the imagination new beauties

  Timothy Keller

  Giving, Imagination, Mind

  Timothy Keller (2015). “Preaching: Communicating Faith in an Age of Skepticism”, p.79, Penguin

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• To see the convulsions, agonies and tortures of a poor fellow-creature, whom they cannot restore nor recompense, dying to gratify luxury and tickle callous and rank organs, must require a rocky heart, and a great degree of cruelty and ferocity. I cannot find any great difference between feeding on human flesh and feeding on animal flesh, except custom and practice.

  George Cheyne

  Heart, Animal, Practice

  "An Essay on Regimen: Together with Five Discourses, Medical, Moral, and Philosophical". Book by George Cheyne, 1740.

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• ...to kill animals for the purpose of feeding on their flesh is one of the most deplorable and shameful infirmities of the human state

  Alphonse de Lamartine

  Animal, Purpose, Flesh

  Alphonse de Lamartine (1849). “Les Confidences”, p.60

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• A food waste reduction hierarchy-feeding people first, then animals, then recycling, then composting-serves to show how productive use can be made of much of the excess food that is currently contributing to leachate and methane formation in landfills.

  Carol Browner

  Animal, People, Environmental

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• I am not as self-abusive in the manner of walking off stage bleeding. But as far as attitude, I feel that Twiggy and I have finally gotten back to the point of being brothers and clicked back into the place where we really enjoy feeding off each other onstage like we did when we started out.

  Marilyn Manson

  Brother, Attitude, Self

  Source: archive.azcentral.com

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• The thing about the Oscars is real life doesn't stop. You have to get back to planet Earth the following morning. The rubbish needs taking out. The kids will be crying. They'll need feeding. Kids do not care whether you've been to the Oscars!

  Helena Bonham Carter

  Morning, Real, Kids

  "Oscars 2011 Helena Bonham Carter interview: On being 'fart buddies' with Colin Firth". Interview with Mirror.Co.Uk, www.mirror.co.uk. February 27, 2011.

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• The child learns so easily because he has a natural gift, but adults, because they are tyrants, ignore natural gifts and say that children must learn through the same process that they learned by. We insist upon forced mental feeding and our lessons

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Children, Tyrants, Adults

  Rabindranath Tagore (2009). “The Oxford India Tagore: Selected Writings on Education and Nationalism”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• One cat just leads to another. The place is so damned big it doesn't really seem as though there were many cats until you see them all moving like a mass migration at feeding time.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Moving, Cat, Pet

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• It's amazing how many people are being fed because of this crazy little thing we started. We're feeding millions and it is not costing anyone anything.

  John van Hengel

  Crazy, People, Littles

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• Did you ever look into the personalities of male cooks, Army, logging camp, etc.? They're all supposed to be crazy, incomprehensible, contemptible. And angry. The act of feeding adult males seems to have strange personality effects.

  James Tiptree Jr.

  Crazy, Army, Personality

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• Remember that even just watching animals has an impact. Intrusion into their living space can expose them to predation, keep them from feeding or other essential activities, or cause them to leave their young exposed to predation or the elements. No photo or viewing opportunity is worth harassing or stressing wildlife. In appreciating and watching them, we have a responsibility to protect and preserve the animals that share our state.

  Mary Taylor

  Stress, Responsibility, Opportunity

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• While reason is puzzling itself about mystery, faith is turning it to daily bread, and feeding on it thankfully in her heart of hearts.

  Frederic Dan Huntington

  Faith, Christian, Heart

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• There is a lot of advice on baby feeding, but almost nothing on how to help crying babies.

  Harvey Karp

  Baby, Advice, Helping

  "To Calm Crying Baby, Recreate Womb", www.foxnews.com. October 12, 2005.

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• Just a simple choice, right now, between fear and love. The eyes of fear want you to put bigger locks on your doors, buy guns, close yourself off. The eyes of love instead see all of us as one. Here's what we can do to change the world, right now, to a better ride. Take all that money we spend on weapons and defenses each year and instead spend it feeding and clothing and educating the poor of the world, which it would pay for many times over, not one human being excluded, and we could explore space, together, both inner and outer, forever, in peace.

  Bill Hicks

  Eye, Gun, Simple

  "Bill Hicks: Revelations". Documentary, Comedy, 1993.

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• Three worldly things have been made dear to me: feeding the hungry, clothing the naked and reading the Qur'an.

  Uthman ibn Affan

  Reading, Naked, Three

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• I know that I am not the only person who is alone in the world. I know that others sorrow in the night. That others pick up a razor and slice into their own skin, with greater or lesser success. I know that others look at their lives and see only silent failure and disconsolation, feeding the cat, checking their email, doing the crossword. I know that I am not the only person to have lived a life like mine. I am aware. (212)

  Robert Goolrick

  Cat, Night, Sorrow

  Robert Goolrick (2008). “The End of the World as We Know It: Scenes from a Life”, p.212, Algonquin Books

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• Love is like a flower, and like the body, it needs constant feeding...And with love, also, cannot be expected to last forever unless it is continually fed with portions of love, the manifestation of esteem and admiration, the expressions of gratitude, and the consideration of unselfishness.

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Gratitude, Flower, Love Is

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