Nourish Quotes

Criticism, like rain, should be gentle enough to nourish a man's growth without destroying his roots.

Fast sex, like fast food, is cheap, but it doesn't nourish the body - or the soul.

A superfluity of wealth, and a train of domestic slaves, naturally banish a sense of general liberty, and nourish the seeds of that kind of independence that usually terminates in aristocracy.

To nourish children and raise them against odds is in any time, any place, is more valuable than to fix bolts in cars or design nuclear weapons.

You go to the hospital your wife's in labor and you're doing the thing, and then it's very disorienting and scary and you beat yourself up and you go through a whole period of 'woe is me' and then you realize that this a gift, this child is the light, and if you can nourish that light and just let it shine, you have an opportunity to get closer to what I think is God.

Whatever we plant in our subconscious mind and nourish with repetition and emotion will one day become a reality.

The individual is capable of both great compassion and great indifference. He has it within his means to nourish the former and outgrow the latter.

Once a food becomes off-limits, then it takes on this whole other personality. 'Forbidden' is more tempting. And it becomes something evil, but food is food. It's there to nourish your body.

Vegetables, which are the lowest in the scale of living things, are fed by roots, which, implanted in the native soil, select by the action of a peculiar mechanism, different subjects, which serve to increase and to nourish them.

I see little of more importance to the future of our country and of civilization than full recognition of the place of the artist. If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.

People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die.

There are no golden geese. There are only fat geese eating the food that could nourish more athletic opportunities for women.

Insomnia is a gross feeder. It will nourish itself on any kind of thinking, including thinking about not thinking.

Nourish beginnings, let us nourish beginnings. Not all things are blest, but the seeds of all things are blest.The blessing is in the seed.

If we look at music history closely, it is not difficult to isolate certain elements of great potency which were to nourish the art of music for decades, if not centuries.

Seeds of faith are always within us; sometimes it takes a crisis to nourish and encourage their growth.

If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.

The ruling classes today nourish the conviction that national hatreds and rivalries are inevitable.