Rice Quotes

• Give a bowl of rice to a man and you will feed him for a day. Teach him how to grow his own rice and you will save his life.

  Confucius

  Education, Kindness, Men

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• Rice is the best, the most nutritive and unquestionably the most widespread staple in the world.

  Auguste Escoffier

  World, Staples

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• If you give me rice, I'll eat today; if you teach me how to grow rice, I'll eat every day.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Teacher, Knowledge, Giving

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• Rice is great if you're really hungry and want to eat two thousand of something.

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Food, Humor

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• When hungry, eat your rice; when tired, close your eyes. Fools may laugh at me, but wise men will know what I mean.

  Linji Yixuan

  Wise, Wisdom, Clever

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• Peace is achieved with rice and salt, not with katanas and arrows

  Uesugi Kenshin

  Arrows, Salt

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• It is easy to love the people far away. It is not always easy to love those close to us. It is easier to give a cup of rice to relieve hunger than to relieve the loneliness and pain of someone unloved in our own home. Bring love into your home for this is where our love for each other must start.

  Mother Teresa

  Love, Inspirational, Pain

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• Never break another man's rice bowl.

  Akio Morita

  Men, Break, Bowls

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• The rice grain suffers under the blow of the pestle. But admire its whiteness once the order is over. So it is with men and the world we live in. To be a man one must suffer the blows of misfortune.

  Ho Chi Minh

  Blow, Men, Order

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• If your plan is for one year plant rice. If your plan is for ten years plant trees. If your plan is for one hundred years educate children.

  Confucius

  Inspiring, Children, Years

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• I’m not playing the race card. I’m playing the rice card.

  Margaret Cho

  Race, Cards, Race Car

  "Margaret Cho on North Korea, Robin Williams and Sex Toys". Interview, www.yahoo.com. February 6, 2015.

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• With coarse rice to eat, with water to drink, and my bent arm for a pillow - I have still joy in the midst of all these things.

  Confucius

  Inspirational, Water, Joy

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• Rice at present prices provides more food for the money than most of the other cereals.

  David F. Houston

  Cereal

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• Sipping once, sipping twice, sipping chicken soup with rice.

  Maurice Sendak

  Soup, Chickens, Sipping

  Chicken Soup with Rice: A Book of Months (1962)

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• The patience of poverty. In rice fields, backs bent forever. Amazing, man outoxens the oxen and still smiles. The mystery of India, say Indologists.

  Gunter Grass

  Men, Oxen, Forever

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• May your rice never burn,' is the New Year's greeting of the Chinese. 'May it never be gummy,' is ours.

  Irma S. Rombauer

  New Year, Years, Cooking

  Irma S. Rombauer, Marion Rombauer Becker (1975). “Joy of Cooking”, p.206, Simon and Schuster

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• Chicken, brown rice, and veggies is a great healthy dinner option. It's full of whole grains and protein, and will keep you full for a long time.

  Mia Hamm

  Long, Healthy, Dinner

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• White on rice. Green on grass. Sheets on a bed. Him on her.

  Cindy Gerard

  White, Bed, Green

  Cindy Gerard (2007). “To the Edge”, p.123, Macmillan

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• Capital goes to where it can escape taxation and be used to pay employees in sacks of rice.

  Walter Wriston

  Taxation, Pay, Used

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• And they brought an Owl, and a useful Cart, And a pound of Rice, and a CranberryTart, And a hive of silvery Bees. And they brought a Pig, and some green Jack-daws, And a lovely Monkey with lollipop paws, and forty Bottles of Ring-Bo-Ree, And no end of Stilton Cheese.

  Edward Lear

  Pigs, Lovely, Owl

  'The Jumblies' (1871)

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• Personally, I enjoy a bowl of brown rice for breakfast most of the time.

  Kathy Freston

  Breakfast, Brown, Enjoy

  Kathy Freston (2012). “The Lean: A Revolutionary (and Simple!) 30-Day Plan for Healthy, Lasting Weight Loss”, p.22, Hachette UK

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• Take a nap
  Making the mountain water
  Pound the rice.

  Kobayashi Issa

  Inspirational, Naps, Water

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• Condelleza Rice and Colin Powell are both dangerous people. What they did in Haiti [2004 U.S.-backed coup that ousted democratically elected President Jean-Bertrand Aristide] is a good measure of it. They destroyed a democracy. They squelched loans that had been approved by the Inter-American Development Bank. They did everything behind the scenes, including arming the thugs that came to overrun the country. They're frauds.

  Randall Robinson

  Country, Thug, People

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• The peace we seek, founded upon decent trust and cooperation among nations, can be fortified not by weapons of war but by wheat and cotton, by milk and wool, by meat and timber, and by rice. These are words that translate into every language.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  War, Wheat, Milk

  Address to the American Society of Newspaper Editors, delivered 16 April 1953, Statler Hotel, Washington, D.C.

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• The rice bowl is to me the most valid reason in the world for doing anything. A piece of one's soul to the multitudes in return for rice and wine does not seem to me a sacrilege.

  Han Suyin

  Wine, Soul, Doe

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