Life Essentials Quotes

If it were not for the Belly, the Back might wear Gold.

Nothing that has value, real value, has no cost. Not freedom, not food, not shelter, not healthcare.

Food is Essential to life, therefore make it good.

The things that most deserve our gratitude we just take for granted. Without air we cannot live for more than a minute or two. Everyday we are breathing in and breathing out, but do we ever feel grateful to the air? If we do not drink water, we cannot survive. Even our body is composed to a large extent of water.But do we give any value to water? Every morning when we open our eyes, we see the sun blessingfully offering us light and life-energy, which we badly need. But are we grateful to the sun?

No food or drug will ever do for you what a fresh supply of oxygen will.

What do you actually need? Food, clothing and shelter. Everything else is entertainment.

There are three people you need in life: an accountant, a fishmonger, and a bail bondsman.

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

Love and work are to people what water and sunshine are to plants.

Let us give today first the vital things of life and all the grace and ornaments of life will follow.

The craving for colour is a natural necessity just as for water and fire. Colour is a raw material indispensable to life. At every era of his existence and his history, the human being has associated colour with his joys, his actions and his pleasures.

Food is a part of our contract with life.

When it comes to educating all of us about the most basic things in life, it seems to me we need more kindergartens and fewer graduate schools.

A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.

Junk DNA - or, as scientists call it nowadays, noncoding DNA - remains a mystery: No one knows how much of it is essential for life.

I cannot imagine life without books any more than I can imagine life without breathing.

Profit is like oxygen, food, water, and blood for the body; they are not the point of life, but without them, there is no life.

Everyone has something they can't live without.

Of course reading and thinking are important but, my God, food is important too.

Society is like the air, necessary to breathe but insufficient to live on.

We can no more do without spirituality than we can do without food, shelter, or clothing.

Real wisdom is not the knowledge of everything, but the knowledge of which things in life are necessary, which are less necessary, and which are completely unnecessary to know.

Of the five most important things in life, health is first, education or knowledge is second, and wealth is third. I forget the other two.

Regardless of what our national credit rating is, people will always want a roof over their heads, food on their tables, fuel for their cars, and clothes on their backs.

Talleyrand said that two things are essential in life: to give good dinners and to keep on fair terms with women. As the years pass and fires cool, it can become unimportant to stay always on fair terms either with women or one's fellows, but a wide and sensitive appreciation of fine flavours can still abide with us, to warm our hearts.