Ivan Pavlov Quotes

Humanity lives and always has lived on certain elemental provisions.

Well, I mean, bread, I mean, I've got to have bread too to live.

Food is a necessary component to life. People can live without Renoir, Mozart, Gaudi, Beckett, but they cannot live without food.

The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.

They went into stores to get food to stay alive. Looting isn't the right word. I call it survival.

Gardening is not trivial. If you believe that it is, closely examine why you feel that way. You may discover that this attitude has been forced upon you by mass media and the crass culture it creates and maintains. The fact is, gardening is just the opposite - it is, or should be, a central, basic expression of human life.

To a man with an empty stomach food is God.

A store of grain, Oh king is the best of treasures. A gem put in your mouth will not support life.

I eat to survive, you know?

I think my attitude has always been to put food on the table.

Hunger knows no friend but its feeder.

Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them.

Each blade of grass has its spot on earth whence it draws its life, its strength; and so is man rooted to the land from which he draws his faith together with his life.

Without food, man can live at most but a few weeks; without it, all other components of social justice are meaningless.

The transformation of environment has become the purpose of human life; life seems real only insofar as it deals with things.

I consider that all which lives must feed itself and nourish itself in a manner suitable to the way in which it lives.

It is a hard matter, my fellow citizens, to argue with the belly, since it has no ears.

Man does not live by words alone, in spite of the fact that sometimes he has to eat them.

Man is born to eat.

Business underlies everything in our national life, including our spiritual life. Witness the fact that in the Lord's Prayer, the first petition is for daily bread. No one can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.

A starving man thinks first of satisfying his hunger before anything else. He will sell his liberty and all for the sake of getting a morsel of food.

We eat to live.

Yeah, I'll basically do anything to make money for food.

Out of the long list of nature’s gifts to man, none is perhaps so utterly essential to human life as soil.

I make it my business to extract from Nature what ever nutriment she can furnish me.... I milk the sky and the earth.