Feeding Quotes

• We begin to see, therefore, the importance of selecting our environment with the greatest of care, because environment is the mental feeding ground out of which the food that goes into our minds is extracted.

  Napoleon Hill

  Cooking, Mind, Environmental

  Napoleon Hill (2008). “The Law of Success: The Master Wealth-Builder's Complete and Original Lesson Plan forAchieving Your Dreams”, p.467, Penguin

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• The proverb warns that 'You should not bite the hand that feeds you.' But maybe you should, if it prevents you from feeding yourself.

  Thomas Szasz

  Hands, Self Reliance, Liberty

  Thomas Stephen Szasz (1973). “The second sin”, Anchor

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• There are three reasons for breast-feeding: the milk is always at the right temperature; it comes in attractive containers; and the cat can't get it.

  Irena Chalmers

  Baby, Pregnancy, Cat

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• Breast Feeding should not be attempted by fathers with hairy chests, since they can make the baby sneeze and give it wind.

  Mike Harding

  Baby, Father, Humorous

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• Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.

  E. M. Forster

  Inspirational, Education, Running

  "The BBC Talks of E.M. Forster, 1929-1960: A Selected Edition". Book by Edward Morgan Forster, ‎Mary Lago, ‎Linda K. Hughes, June 3, 2008.

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• To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last - but eat you he will.

  Ronald Reagan

  Regret, Political, Goes On

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• I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created parasitic wasps with the express intention of their feeding within the living bodies of Caterpillars.

  Charles Darwin

  God, Garden, Thinking

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• The nourishment of body is food, while the nourishment of the soul is feeding others.

  Ali ibn Abi Talib

  Soul, Body, Nourishment

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• Feeding a child at school is such a simple thing - but it works miracles.

  Drew Barrymore

  Children, School, Simple

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• The business of feeding people is the most amazing business in the world.

  Jose Andres

  People, World, Most Amazing

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• Appeasement is feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last.

  Winston Churchill

  Lasts, Someday, Appeasement

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• A newborn baby has only three demands. They are warmth in the arms of its mother, food from her breasts, and security in the knowledge of her presence. Breastfeeding satisfies all three.

  Grantly Dick-Read

  Mothers Day, Baby, Food

  Grantly Dick-Read (2006). “Childbirth Without Fear”, p.388, Pollinger in Print

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• You just keep feeding hogwash to people, and pretty soon they'll eat it.

  Holly Near

  People, Hogwash, Sentimental

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• The more I read about feeding times, sleep times and waking-up times, the more inadequate and miserable I felt.

  Gail Porter

  Sleep, Wake Up, Waking

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• My opinion is that anybody offended by breastfeeding is staring too hard

  David Allen

  Funny, Breastfeeding, Opinion

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• They who on meare curiositie (where no urgent necessitie requireth) try whether their children may not as birds be nourished without sucking, offend contrary to this dutie of breast feeding and reflect that meanes which God hath ordained as best; and so oppose their shallow wits to his unsearchable wisdom.

  William Gouge

  Children, Bird, Trying

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• Being in front of all these people staring at you and it helps you to dig down and become more emotional and get lost in it as you're feeding on people's energy.

  Fred Durst

  Emotional, People, Energy

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• For almost seventy years the life insurance industry has been a smug sacred cow feeding the public a steady line of sacred bull.

  Ralph Nader

  Life, Years, Bulls

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• Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat.

  Gina Gershon

  People, Important, Don't Trust

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• [on whether he harbored any resentment at his forced retirement from the stage after he was fired by Britain's National Theater] I should be soaring away with my head tilted slightly toward the gods, feeding on the caviar of Shakespeare... An actor must act.

  Laurence Olivier

  Actors, Caviar, Should

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• The West Wing seems to be feeding the myth about how presidential politics are.

  William Devane

  Wings, Presidential, West

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• After Lock, Stock, all these really nasty small town characters came knocking at my door trying to tell me stories, and somehow I ended up with this guy whose brother was feeding people to pigs, and that's what he did to get rid of people.

  Guy Ritchie

  Brother, Character, Pigs

  "Guy's Guys: A Chat with Snatch Director Guy Ritchie and Actor Vinnie Jones". Interview with Smriti Mundhra, www.ign.com. January 19, 2001.

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• There are times when parenthood seems nothing more than feeding the hand that bites you.

  Peter De Vries

  Family, Children, Humorous

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• The world over, give a guy money and it goes to drinking, gambling, and women. When you give a woman money, it goes to feeding, clothing, helping people.

  Peter Buffett

  Drinking, Gambling, Giving

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• Injections are the best thing ever invented for feeding doctors.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Humorous, Doctors, Medicine

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