Benjamin Ward Richardson Quotes

Keep as near as ever you can to the first sources of supply—fruits and vegetables.

Benjamin Ward Richardson

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• Ye are the fruits of one tree and the leaves of one branch.

  

  Baha'u'llah
  • Tree
  • Fruits
  • Branch

• Possessive parents rarely live long enough to see the fruits of their selfishness.

  

  Alan Garner
  • Long
  • Live
  • Parents

• All right," sighed Madrigal. "To the baths, then. To make ourselves shiningly clean." Like vegetable, she thought, before they go in the stew.

  

  Laini Taylor
  • She
  • Clean
  • Vegetables

• The first gatherings of the garden in May of salads, radishes and herbs made me feel like a mother about her baby - how could anything so beautiful be mine. And this emotion of wonder filled me for each vegetable as it was gathered every year. There is nothing that is comparable to it, as satisfactory or as thrilling, as gathering the vegetables one has grown.

  

  Alice B. Toklas
  • May
  • Mother
  • Beautiful

• Unbelievable as it may seem, one-third of all vegetables consumed in the United States come from just three sources: french fries, potato chips, and iceberg lettuce.

  

  Marion Nestle
  • May
  • United States
  • Vegetables

• The key dietary messages are stunningly simple: Eat less, move more, eat more fruits and vegetables, and don't eat too much junk food. It's no more complicated than that.

  

  Marion Nestle
  • Food
  • Simple
  • Messages

• A great way to get all the right nutrients is to make a colorful plate - mix of good vegetables, carbohydrates, and protein. If you notice all your vegetables are green, change it up and add another color for a variety of benefits in one meal.

  

  Summer Sanders
  • Up
  • Good
  • Great

• The easiest diet is, you know, eat vegetables, eat fresh food. Just a really sensible healthy diet like you read about all the time.

  

  Drew Carey
  • Time
  • Food
  • Diet

• My favorite vegetable is the marshmallow.

  

  Jim Gaffigan
  • Favorite
  • Vegetables
  • Marshmallow

• Vegetables....a waste of good plate space

  

  Mark Hoppus Blink-182
  • Space
  • Waste
  • Vegetables

• Birds and insects are part of the ecosystem and help in pollination. I don't see any problem in having fruits and vegetables that birds want to eat, as opposed to the perfect shaped tomato that only you can eat and which, by the way, could also be cancerous.

  

  R. Madhavan
  • Help
  • Problem
  • Birds

• If your blood is formed from eating the foods I teach [fruits and green-leaf vegetables] your soul will shout for joy and triumph over all misery of life. For the first time you will feel a vibration of vitality through your body (like a slight electric current) that shakes you delightfully.

  

  Arnold Ehret
  • Eating
  • Vegetables
  • Vitality

• A man taking basil from a woman will love her always.

  

  Thomas More
  • Men
  • Food
  • Vegetables

• The frying pan you should give to your enemy. Food should not be prepared in fat. Our bodies are adapted to a stone age diet of roots and vegetables.

  

  Denis Parsons Burkitt
  • Prepared
  • Bodies
  • Vegetables

• The turnip is a capricious vegetable, which seems reluctant to show itself at its best.

  

  Waverley Root
  • Cooking
  • Shows
  • Vegetables

• Trees are not known by their leaves, nor even by their blossoms, but by their fruits.

  

  Eleanor of Aquitaine
  • Trees
  • Fruits
  • Blossoms

• You've got to stop eating unhealthy crap. You've got to eat vegetables, fruit and lean meat.

  

  Mike Moreno
  • Eating
  • Fruit
  • Meat

• And I don't mean this metaphorically. I want to be taken seriously as proposing that the ennui of modernity is the consequence of a disruptive symbiotic relationship between ourselves and vegetable nature.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Mean
  • Taken
  • Consequence

• I call you once...you never dialed back. Twice...you never dialed back. Saturday morning, live, I'm on Soul Train, talkin' to Don Cornelius. Saturday night, my phone rings... Saturday night, I won't answer. Saturday night, my phone rings again... Saturday night, I don't answer.

  

  Keith Matthew Thornton
  • Live
  • Soul
  • Night

• No man may earn his heart's desire, lest first he brave the smoke and fire.

  

  Nicholas Evans
  • Heart
  • Desire
  • Brave

• I basically don't do that well with children, although my sister says I'm a great aunt.

  

  Ann B. Davis
  • Great
  • Children
  • Sister

• I had been out of form during the last two weeks and I wanted to show the coaching staff I was back to my best. We didn't want the wooden spoon either.

  

  Amy Williams
  • Show
  • Back
  • Form

• The wind, one brilliant day, called to my soul with an odor of jasmine. "In return for the odor of my jasmine, I'd like all the odor of your roses." "I have no roses; all the flowers in my garden are dead." "Well then, I'll take the withered petals and the yellow leaves and the waters of the fountain." the wind left. And I wept. And I said to myself: "What have you done with the garden that was entrusted to you?

  

  Antonio Machado
  • Done
  • Soul
  • Wind

• Keep as near as ever you can to the first sources of supply—fruits and vegetables.

  

  Benjamin Ward Richardson
  • Vegetables
  • Fruits
  • First Sources