Quotes with feeding

  • We are always talking about being together, and yet whatever we invent destroys the family, and makes us wild, touchless beasts feeding on technicolor prairies and rivers.
  • In other countries, art and literature are left to a lot of shabby bums living in attics and feeding on booze and spaghetti, but in America the successful writer or picture-painter is indistinguishable from any other decent businessman.

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  • St. John Chrysostom Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
    St. John Chrysostom
    Early Church Father and archbishop
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  • Micheal Mescon Be it furniture, clothes, or health care, many industries today are marketing nothing more than commodities - no more, no less. What will make the difference in the long run is the care and feeding of customers.
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  • B. F. Skinner Behavior used to be reinforced by great deprivation; if people weren't hungry, they wouldn't work. Now we are committed to feeding people whether they work or not. Nor is money as great a reinforcer as it once was. People no longer work for punitive reasons, yet our culture offers no new satisfactions.
    B. F. Skinner
    American psychologist, behaviorist and author (1904 - 1990)
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  • Comte De Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont Despair, feeding, as it always does, on phantasmagoria, is imperturbably leading literature to the rejection, en masse, of all divine and social laws, towards practical and theoretical evil.
    Comte De Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont
    French author, poet (1846 - 1870)
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  • Ralph Nader 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
    American political activist, author and attorney (1934 - )
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  • Sinclair Lewis In other countries, art and literature are left to a lot of shabby bums living in attics and feeding on booze and spaghetti, but in America the successful writer or picture-painter is indistinguishable from any other decent businessman.
    Sinclair Lewis
    American novelist, short-story writer, and playwright (1885 - 1951)
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  • Gabriel Garcia Marquez Injections are the best thing ever invented for feeding doctors.
    Gabriel Garcia Marquez
    Colombian writer (1927 - 2014)
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  • Bill Vaughan My father asserted that there was no better place to bring up a family than in a rural environment.... There's something about getting up at 5 a.m., feeding the stock and chickens, and milking a couple of cows before breakfast that gives you a lifelong respect for the price of butter and eggs.
    Bill Vaughan
    American columnist and author (1915 - 1977)
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  • George Eliot Our passions do not live apart in locked chambers but dress in their small wardrobe of notions, bring their provisions to a common table and mess together, feeding out of the common store according to their appetite.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • E. M. Forster Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.
    E. M. Forster
    English novelist, short story writer, essayist and librettist (1879 - 1970)
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  • Benjamin Clementine The greatest in heroes in life are the anonymous. That's what I believe. Your neighbours are heroes. People who, when you walk down the street, you see them feeding their little baby - these people are heroes because they are living under difficult situations, but they're still trying to save a life.
    Benjamin Clementine
    British artist, poet, vocalist, composer, and musician (1988 - )
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  • Thomas Szasz The proverb warns; ''Don't bite the hand that feeds you.'' But maybe you should, if it prevents you from feeding yourself.
    Thomas Szasz
    American psychiatrist (1920 - 2012)
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  • Peter de Vries There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
    Peter de Vries
    American writer (1910 - 1993)
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  • Edith Wharton There is too much sour grapes for my taste in the present American attitude. The time to denounce the bankers was when we were all feeding off their gold plate; not now! At present they have not only my sympathy but my preference. They are the last representatives of our native industries.
    Edith Wharton
    American Author (1862 - 1937)
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  • Barbara Amiel They are feeding the world that will devour them and their children.
    Barbara Amiel
    British journalist, writer, and socialite (1940 - )
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  • Ronald Reagan 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
    American politician and actor (1911 - 2004)
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  • Edward Dahlberg We are always talking about being together, and yet whatever we invent destroys the family, and makes us wild, touchless beasts feeding on technicolor prairies and rivers.
    Edward Dahlberg
    American novelist, essayist and autobiographer (1900 - 1977)
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  • Napoleon Hill 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
    American self-help author (1883 - 1970)
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