Feeding Quotes - Page 5

• My mother's a genius. She just kept feeding me art on whatever we had; paper plates, silver platter, didn't matter. You know, she just kept feeding it to me. So we went to see all kinds of theater. We would go to the art museum pretty much every Sunday, and I would watch her. She let me know that art was supposed to touch.

  Jill Scott

  Mother, Art, Sunday

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• Breast-feeding does not belong in the realm of facts and hard numbers; it is much too intimate and elemental.

  Hanna Rosin

  Numbers, Doe, Facts

  "Is breast-feeding really best?" by Mike Celizic, www.today.com. March 16, 2009.

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• The dancers finished thier set, and one immediately strolled over to our table and straddled Ranger. Want a private party?" she asked. Not tonight," Ranger said. He handed her a twenty, and she left. What about the cat-feeding theory?" I asked him. Out the window.

  Janet Evanovich

  Party, Cat, Dancer

  Janet Evanovich (2009). “Lean Mean Thirteen”, p.207, Macmillan

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• INVISIBLE BOY And here we see the invisible boy In his lovely invisible house, Feeding a piece of invisible cheese To a little invisible mouse. Oh, what a beautiful picture to see! Will you draw an invisible picture for me?

  Shel Silverstein

  Beautiful, Boys, House

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• I often went to Catholic mass or Eucharist at the Episcopal church, nourished by the symbol and power of this profound feeding ritual. It never occurred to me how odd it was that women, who have presided over the domain of food and feeding for thousands of years, were historically and routinely barred from presiding over it in a spiritual context. And when the priest held out the host and said, "This is my body, given for you," not once did I recognize that it is women in the act of breastfeeding who most truly embody those words and who are also most excluded from ritually saying them.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Spiritual, Years, Profound

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• I wonder if I don't give too much of myself to writing: I am always half where I am; the other half is feeding the furnace, kick-starting the heat of creativity. I am making love with someone but at the same time I'm noticing how this graceful hand across my belly might just fit in with the memory of lilacs in Albuquerque in 1974.

  Natalie Goldberg

  Memories, Writing, Creativity

  Natalie Goldberg (2011). “Thunder and Lightning: Cracking Open the Writer’s Craft”, p.41, Open Road Media

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• I watch her do the simplest things: brushing her hair into a ponytail, feeding the dog, tying Sophie's shoelaces, and I want to tell her what she means to me, but I never actually say the words. After all, to acknowledge Delia as a drug, I'd have to face the fact that one day I might have to go without her and this I can't do.

  Jodi Picoult

  Dog, Mean, Hair

  Jodi Picoult (2007). “Vanishing acts”, p.140, Simon and Schuster

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• But carbon 13 [the carbon from corn] doesn't lie, and researchers who have compared the isotopes in the flesh or hair of Americans to those in the same tissues of Mexicans report that it is now we in the North who are the true people of corn.... Compared to us, Mexicans today consume a far more varied carbon diet: the animals they eat still eat grass (until recently, Mexicans regarded feeding corn to livestock as a sacrilege); much of their protein comes from legumes; and they still sweeten their beverages with cane sugar. So that's us: processed corn, walking.

  Michael Pollan

  Lying, Animal, Hair

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• All of writing is a huge lake. There are great rivers that feed the lake, like Tolstoy or Dostoyevsky. And then there are mere trickles, like Jean Rhys. All that matters is feeding the lake. I don't matter. The lake matters. You must keep feeding the lake.

  Jean Rhys

  Writing, Lakes, Rivers

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• It is only in the act of nursing that a woman realizes her motherhood in visible and tangible fashion; it is a joy of every moment.

  Honore de Balzac

  Mom, Mother, Fashion

  Honore de Balzac (2011). “Letters of Two Brides”, p.183, The Floating Press

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• Listen up—there’s no war that will end all wars,’ Crow tells me. ‘War breeds war. Lapping up the blood shed by violence, feeding on wounded flesh. War is a perfect, self-contained being. You need to know that.

  Haruki Murakami

  War, Self, Blood

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Apr 17, 2014

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• Breast-feeding is the natural, optimal way to feed a child.

  Mayim Bialik

  Children, Way, Natural

  "The role of a lifetime". Interview with Irene Lacher, articles.latimes.com. March 4, 2012.

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• The cooking profession, while it's a noble craft and a noble calling, 'cause you're doing something useful - you're feeding people, you're nurturing them, you're providing sustenance - it was never pure.

  Anthony Bourdain

  People, Cooking, Noble

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• The most temptation I'd experienced had been with Tomas, the Senate's spy who had been feeding off me without permission, and Mircea, who was probably plotting some nefarious scheme. I have no taste in men.

  Karen Chance

  Men, Temptation, Spy

  Karen Chance (2006). “Touch the Dark”, p.226, Penguin

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• i learned that predators don't intentionally choose the weak or old or sick. they kill what they can, which means the slow members of the pack. thus, they strengthen the very gene pool they're feeding from. the threshold for what is weak, old or sick gets raised, and the strength, speed and instincts of new generations of hunters grow. a beautiful, self-perpetuating system where evolution is the antithesis of entropy.

  Craig Clevenger

  Beautiful, Mean, Self

  Craig Clevenger (2005). “The Contortionist's Handbook”

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• A hint of a frown touched his mouth. “I told you that wasn’t about feeding.” “No, it was about you making your point.” I skewered a bite and chewed. “Next time, maybe use something other than my jugular as your Exhibit A?

  Jeaniene Frost

  Hints, Use, Mouths

  Jeaniene Frost (2010). “One Foot in the Grave: A Night Huntress Novel”, p.77, Hachette UK

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• If we were a culture of high-risk alcoholics, and suddenly we had Jack Daniels piped into our houses, we would be feeding that fire. Social networking, and the internet as a whole, seems to have simply landed in an extremely fertile place in an extremely fertile time in history, when we all have these narcissistic tendencies anyway - you can go further back into the self-esteem movement, and Dr. Spock, and the 'everybody gets a ribbon at the track meet' sort of thing, which preceded the internet - and then you drop the internet into the middle of this, and we've all gone haywire.

  Jeffrey Kluger

  Self Esteem, Fire, Track

  Source: www.dinnerpartydownload.org

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• If you spend your life sparing people’s feelings and feeding their vanity, you get so you can’t distinguish what should be respected in them.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Vanity, People, Feelings

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2013). “Three Novels: Tender is the Night; The Beautiful and Damned; Thi”, p.180, Simon and Schuster

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• Poverty is a very complicated issue, but feeding a child isn't.

  Jeff Bridges

  Children, Issues, Poverty

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• Feeding our energy appetite is top of mind for many people these days.

  David Suzuki

  People, Mind, Energy

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• Instead of idleness, vanity, or an intellect formed by the spoon-feeding of others, my girls have acquired energy, industry, and independence.

  Geraldine Brooks

  Girl, Vanity, Independence

  Geraldine Brooks (2006). “March”, p.85, Penguin

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• When I was younger, all I cared about was what people thought of me and my films. Now I care less about catering, hand-serving, hand-feeding the audience. I've gotten to the point now in my life where I'm serving myself.

  Steven Spielberg

  Hands, People, Care

  "Spielberg In The Twilight Zone" by Lisa Kennedy, www.wired.com. June 1, 2002.

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• Past glories are poor feeding.

  Isaac Asimov

  Past, Glory, Poor

  Isaac Asimov (1986). “Foundation Trilogy”, Del Rey

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• If you were to spend a month feeding on the precious promises of God, you would not be going about with your heads hanging down like bulrushes, complaining how poor you are; but you would lift up your heads with confidence, and proclaim the riches of His grace because you could not help it.

  Dwight L. Moody

  God, Grace, Promise

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" byJosiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 261), 1895.

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• Formula feeding is the longest lasting uncontrolled experiment lacking informed consent in the history of medicine.

  Frank Oski

  Medicine, Informed Consent, Lasting

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