Ernest Holmes Quotes

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

Ernest Holmes

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• Producing food to eat is the single most destructive environmental activity humans engage in.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Food
  • Single
  • Environmental

• I started composting in 1970 by taking my food scraps out behind where I lived and burying them in a hole next to the railroad tracks - and green things started to grow there!

  

  Ed Begley, Jr.
  • Food
  • Green
  • Grow

• Grease and starch just always win over protein. In food as in so many things. Look around you, that's what our whole country is based on. It's amazing that Michael Jordan can be an iconic figure because he's basically just protein.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Country
  • Food
  • Amazing

• Most vegetarians look so much like the food they eat that they can be classified as cannibals.

  

  Finley Peter Dunne
  • Food
  • Look
  • Eat

• When you're a dancer who is injured, you are at the bottom of the food chain. We are so replaceable.

  

  Bebe Neuwirth
  • You
  • Food
  • Chain

• The best way to lose weight is to close your mouth - something very difficult for a politician. Or watch your food - just watch it, don't eat it.

  

  Ed Koch
  • Food
  • Best
  • Diet

• When it comes to literal nourishment, the food we eat, life begets life.

  

  Victoria Moran
  • Life
  • Food
  • Eat

• I think at Le Cirque I learned how to make real food, which is what people crave, not just gimmicky things on a plate.

  

  Daniel Boulud
  • People
  • Real
  • Think

• If you love food and you love red wine and they put you in France, you're in a good place and you're in a bad place at the same time. You have to weigh yourself every day, and you have to have an alarm number. When you get to that number, you have to start putting it in reverse.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Time
  • Good
  • Love

• I love England, especially the food. There's nothing I like more than a lovely bowl of pasta.

  

  Naomi Campbell
  • Love
  • Food
  • Lovely

• People complain that cities don't have fresh, sustainable food, but it's just not true.

  

  Dan Barber
  • People
  • True
  • Food

• I grew up in a food-obsessed Italian family, so food was always front and center in my life. I was a food obsessed person who morphed into a comedian and tried to figure out a way to make fun of my cake and eat it too.

  

  Nadia Giosia
  • Life
  • Up
  • Family

• I love watching people enjoying food. It's very relaxing for me to cook.

  

  Cara Buono
  • People
  • Food
  • Watching

• I want to have a food truck that would just be bathrooms. I would line it up in back of the other food trucks, and I'd charge $1 for use.

  

  Ike Barinholtz
  • Up
  • Want
  • Food

• A food processor, or even one of those small bowls that fit on a stick blender, is a real treasure. No, that's not an overstatement.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Real
  • Small
  • Food

• I don't regret not going to college. Students learn up to the age of 21, then stop. I'll always be learning - the things that really matter in life. How to sign on, how to get free food, how to be streetwise.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • Life
  • Up
  • Age

• I'll never forget that Christmas, I sat up the whole night crying ‘cause daddy felt like a bum, see daddy had a job, but his job was to keep the food on the table for you and mom.

  

  Eminem
  • Up
  • Job
  • Night

• The food surpluses produced by peasants, coupled with new transportation technology, eventually enabled more and more people to cram together first into large villages, then into towns, and finally into cities, all of them joined together by new kingdoms and commercial networks.

  

  Yuval Noah Harari
  • People
  • Together
  • Food

• Religion has for too long been placed on the back burner of history, when it may be one of the driving forces in history.

  

  Dave Brat
  • Long
  • May
  • History

• I wasn't allowed to leave Romania. That made me mad. You just want your freedom. You want your space. You want opportunity.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Freedom
  • Opportunity
  • Space

• Directors have a tendency to use their hands like orchestra conductors. They don't realize that the actor is looking at their faces, anyway.

  

  Alan J. Pakula

• My approach to working in movies is to empower the director to have power over me and to really support his vision because he's the guy, at the end of the day, who's going to put it all together.

  

  Jeff Bridges
  • Power
  • Together
  • Guy

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

  

  Ernest Holmes
  • Food
  • Spirituality
  • Shelter