Vegetarian food leaves a deep impression on our nature. If the whole world adopts vegetarianism, it can change the destiny of humankind. — Albert Einstein
When we eat vegetarian foods, we needn't worry about what kind of disease our food died from; this makes a joyful meal! — John Harvey Kellogg
Vegetarianism is a way of living consciously on the planet. — Amy Smart
If vegetarians eat vegetables, what do humanitarians eat — Steven Wright
I am vegetarian, though, and so is my family. — Joely Fisher
A vegetarian is a person who won't eat anything that can have children. — David Brenner
Eating a vegetarian diet can contribute more to saving ourselves and the planet than any other single effort. — Sharon Gannon
Vegetarians are cool. All I eat are vegetarians - except for the occasional mountain lion steak. — Ted Nugent
I am proud to be a vegetarian and I am against those who eat meat. Go green to be fit, that's the best way for me at least. — Kareena Kapoor
There's no question that largely vegetarian diets are as healthy as you can get. The evidence is so strong and overwhelming and produced over such a long period of time that it's no longer debatable. — Marion Nestle
Every time we sit down to eat, we make a choice. Please choose vegetarianism. Do it for animals. Do it for the environment and do it for your health. — Alec Baldwin
I cook mostly vegetarian vegetable and bean stews. Quinoa salads. I make my mother-in-law's recipe for chicken and barley stew all the time. — Gail Simmons
Meat is a wasteful use of water and creates a lot of greenhouse gases. It puts enormous pressure on the world's resources. A vegetarian diet is better. — Nicholas Stern
The closer you can live to being a vegetarian the better. — Gary Player
To become vegetarian is to step into the stream which leads to nirvana. — Buddha
Short Vegetarian Food Quotes
Vegetarians are hotter then meat eaters. — Oliver Sykes
A human can be healthy without killing animals for food. — Leo Tolstoy
The easiest beneficence is a smile. The simplest release is to have a vegetarian meal. — Buddha
I'm not a vegetarian! I'm a dessertarian! — Bill Watterson
Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants. — Michael Pollan
A vegan diet takes care of most of what we need to do. — Neal Barnard
My favorite plant-based food is red meat. — Robert Breedlove
I try to stick to a vegan diet heavy on fruit and vegetables. — Clint Eastwood
Don't look for a partner who is eye candy. Look for a partner who is soul food.
Vegetarian Meal Quotes
Poor animals! How jealously they guard their pathetic bodies...that which to us is merely an evening's meal, but to them is life itself. — T. Casey Brennan
The steam of meat darkens the light of the spirit...One hardly can have virtue when one enjoys meat meals and feasts. — Saint Basil
I’ve always liked home-cooked meals. — Kawhi Leonard
The only time to eat diet food is while you’re waiting for steak to coo.
I've been vegetarian for so long now that I don't remember anything different, so it's easy for me to put meals together and make sure my family is eating healthy, too. — Christina Applegate
A pacifist between wars is like a vegetarian between meals. — Ammon Hennacy
Everyone's a pacifist between wars. It's like being a vegetarian between meals. — Colman McCarthy
Your diet is a bank account, good food choice are good investments.
My diet plan. 8am to 12noon: only fruits and fruit juice. Noon to 8pm: vegetarian meals. From 8pm to 8am the kitchen is CLOSED. — Bradford Winters
How self-centered, how arrogant... Imagine the awesome privilege of living in a society where you get to choose what you eat at each and every meal. When I was a kid, I was a vegetarian and a vegan for long stretches... I was a commodity cheese-atarian. — Sherman Alexie
If your meals consistently revolve around corpse multiple times daily, you might become one sooner than you planned. — Kris Carr
Vegetarian Quotes
Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is a little like expecting the bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian. — Dennis Wholey
People are fed by the food industry, which pays no attention to health, and are treated by the health industry, which pays no attention to food. — Wendell Berry
I became a vegetarian after realizing that animals feel afraid, cold, hungry and unhappy like we do. I feel very deeply about vegetarianism and the animal kingdom. It was my dog Boycott who led me to question the right of humans to eat other sentient beings. — Cesar Chavez
One should eat to live, not live to eat.
Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages. — Thomas Jefferson
Alas, what wickedness to swallow flesh into our own flesh, to fatten our greedy bodies by cramming in other bodies, to have one living creature fed by the death of another! — Pythagoras
There's no better feeling in the world than a warm pizza box on your lap.
I don't have any understanding of a human being who doesn't respect the beauty of life and that goes for all creatures that have thoughts, feelings and needs. — Alicia Silverstone
Only fools argue whether to eat meat or not. They don't understand truth nor do they meditate on it. Who can define what is meat and what is plant Who knows where the sin lies, being a vegetarian or a non vegetarian — Guru Nanak
I am a vegetarian as well as a passionate anti-alcoholic, because I can thus make better use of my brain. — Thomas A. Edison
My wife actually got worried about my drinking so much regular milk, you know, so she got me into rice milk and now soy milk, which I greatly enjoy. A soy mocha's a fine thing. — Willie Nelson
Vegetarian Diet Quotes
I can't think of anything better in the world to be but a vegan. — Alicia Silverstone
The more animal products you remove from your diet, the better you feel. The difference between vegetarian and vegan is huge. I feel so much better as a vegan. — Pamela Anderson
Eating a vegetarian diet, walking (exercising) everyday, and meditating is considered radical. Allowing someone to slice your chest open and graft your leg veins in your heart is considered normal and conservative. — Dean Ornish
I take care of my flowers and my cats. And enjoy food. And that’s living.
So nothing fancy, maybe simple stuff… we’re missing regular, normal Earth food. — Sergei Krikalev
My best year of track competition was the first year I ate a vegan diet. — Carl Lewis
What you eat don’t make me sh*t. That might work for you, that don’t mean it’s going to work for me. — 21 Savage
The day each family keeps aside food to feed one hungry person or animal or bird every day, nobody will go hungry in this world. There is enough food to feed every hungry stomach. Mankind just doesn't have the heart for it.
I don't understand why asking people to eat a well-balanced vegetarian diet is considered drastic, while it is medically conservative to cut people open and put them on cholesterol lowering drugs for the rest of their lives. — Dean Ornish
I didn’t invent the Taco, but I believe I improved it. — Glen Bell
Over the past 6 months, I have been playing around with my macros, and I’m really starting to see what works for me. — Martyn Ford
This can vary massively depending on what I’m training for, but I can consume anywhere from 4,500 to 8,000 calories per day. — Martyn Ford
Vegetarianism Quotes
You can't make people change, but the organizers of WorldFest hope that people consider being vegetarian for both moral and health reasons — Grace Slick
My biggest dream in the world is for everyone to become vegetarian, so there won't be any more suffering. — Alicia Silverstone
I also became a vegetarian when I was 14 because I realized eating animals was cruel. — Julia Hill
People who love to eat are always the best people
Taking all vegetable-eating nations together . . . they are a larger and much better formed race than the flesh eaters. — Sylvester Graham
There's no doubt in my mind that going vegetarian has made me feel better not only physically, but also because I learned about the suffering of animals who are raised and killed for food. I feel good knowing that I'm not contributing to that. — Sophie Monk
Animals can't really voice their opinion. We feel as though we can be on of the spokespeople on their behalf. — River Phoenix
We once grew good without chemicals. We never grew food without bees.
Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism, yet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not our own. — Robert Louis Stevenson
In fact, vegetarians have been reported to have more circulating AGEs than people who eat meat. — Max Lugavere
If a group of beings from another planet were to land on Earth - beings who considered themselves as superior to you as you feel yourself to be to other animals - would you concede them the rights over you that you assume over other animals? — George Bernard Shaw
If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be vegetarian. We feel better about ourselves and better about the animals, knowing we're not contributing to their pain. — Linda McCartney
Vegetarian Health Quotes
Children who grow up getting nutrition from plant foods rather than meats have a tremendous health advantage. They are less likely to develop weight problems, diabetes, high blood pressure and some forms of cancer — Benjamin Spock
Behind every beautiful fur, there is a story. It is a bloody, barbaric story. — Mary Tyler Moore
We all love animals. Why do we call some 'pets' and others 'dinner?' — K. D. Lang
Growing you own food is like printing your own money!
If you visit the killing floor of a slaughterhouse, it will brand your soul for life. — Howard Lyman
In their behavior toward creatures, all men are Nazis. Human beings see oppression vividly when they're the victims. Otherwise they victimize blindly and without a thought. — Isaac Bashevis Singer
We are, quite literally, gambling with the future of our planet- for the sake of hamburgers — Peter Singer
If you want breakfast in bed, sleep in the kitchen.
When people ask me why I don't eat meat or any other animal products, I say, 'Because they are unhealthy and they are the product of a violent and inhumane industry.' — Casey Affleck
If you could see or feel the suffering you wouldn't think twice. Give back life. Don't eat meat. — Kim Basinger
Men hunt I think maybe because they have something wrong with their own equipment and they need something else to shoot. — Pamela Anderson
The gods created certain kinds of beings to replenish our bodies... they are the trees and the plants and the seeds. — Plato
Being Vegetarian Quotes
I know, in my soul, that to eat a creature who is raised to be eaten, and who never has a chance to be a real being, is unhealthy. It's like...you're just eating misery. You're eating a bitter life. — Alice Walker
All breathing beings are spiritual; this includes everyone who breathes, whether they are animals or humans, carnivores or vegetarians. — Sharon Gannon
A human being has been given an intellect to make choices, and we know there are other food sources that do not require the killing of a creature that would protest being killed. — Mary Tyler Moore
I haven't bought any leather articles for a very long time. My ideal is to be able to avoid all animal products, in food as well as clothing. — Martina Navratilova
If he be really and seriously seeking to live a good life, the first thing from which he will abstain will always be the use of animal food, because ...its use is simply immoral, as it involves the performance of an act which is contrary to the moral feeling - killing. — Leo Tolstoy
It almost seems to me that man was not born to be a carnivore. — Albert Einstein
If you step back and look at the data, the optimum amount of red meat you eat should be zero. — Walter Willett
I've always been an animal lover. People should be made aware of all the issues. Some people think that the whole wearing-fur thing is glamorous, but you can look good without it. — Sadie Frost
Killing an animal to make a coat is sin. It wasn't meant to be, and we have no right to do it. — Doris Day
Being vegan helped me realize I can say and do what I believe is right. That's powerful. — Alicia Silverstone
Vegan Food Quotes
Vegan food is soul food in its truest form. Soul food means to feed the soul. And, to me, your soul is your intent. If your intent is pure, you are pure. — Erykah Badu
The meat industry spends hundreds of millions of dollars lying to the public about their product. But no amount of false propaganda can sanitize meat. The facts are absolutely clear: Eating meat is bad for human health, catastrophic for the environment, and a living nightmare for animals — Chrissie Hynde
In 1968, I became a vegetarian after realizing that animals feel afraid, cold, hungry, and unhappy like we do. — Cesar Chavez
When you're vegan, you spend your time chasing protein, and you're eating food that's way too high in carbs. I could never catch up on protein. — Rick Rubin
Recognize meat for what it really is: the antibiotic- and pesticide-laden corpse of a tortured animal. — Ingrid Newkirk
I have no doubt that it is part of the destiny of the human race in its gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals. — Henry David Thoreau
The standard four food groups are based on American agricultural lobbies. Why do we have a milk group? Because we have a National Dairy Council. Why do we have a meat group? Because we have an extremely powerful meat lobby. — Marion Nestle
Absolutely fell in love with the idea and the power that the training and food has and can have over your life. — Martyn Ford
I’m a huge foodie, but I’m also very conscious about what I put in my body. — Hannah Bronfman
People feel poorly because they are nourished by foods you wouldn't feed to your dog and cat. The rich western diet is full of fat, sugar, cholesterol, salt, animal protein - all the wrong foods for people. — John A. McDougall
Vegetable Quotes
Of course you know the miracle of AIDS, we all do. It's the only disease that turns fruits into vegetables. — David Duke
Hot lavender, mints, savory, marjoram; The marigold, that goes to bed wi' the sun, and with him rise weeping. — William Shakespeare
Don't be a marshmallow. Walk the street with us into history. Get off the sidewalk. Stop being vegetables. Work for Justice. Viva the boycott! — Dolores Huerta
We don't need a melting pot in this country, folks. We need a salad bowl. In a salad bowl, you put in the different things. You want the vegetables — the lettuce, the cucumbers, the onions, the green peppers — to maintain their identity. You appreciate differences. — Jane Elliott
I keep my diet simple by sticking to mostly fruits and vegetables all day and then having whatever I want for dinner. I end up making healthy choices, like sushi or grilled fish, because I feel so good from eating well. — Sayings
Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime. — Mark Twain
An onion can make people cry but there's never been a vegetable that can make people laugh. — Will Rogers
Vegetables are a must on a diet. I suggest carrot cake, zucchini bread, and pumpkin pie. — Jim Davis
Eat your vegetables, have a positive outlook, be kind to people, and smile. — Dan Buettner
Approximately 80 % of our air pollution stems from hydrocarbons released by vegetation, so let's not go overboard in setting and enforcing tough emission standards from man-made sources. — Ronald Reagan
Vegan Diet Quotes
I think 'vegan' is a beautiful word. It is more than just a description for our diet. I see it as a visible template for an ethical, healthy, responsible, and rational life. Because it describes our character, it says we do not take the life of another living being to satisfy our wants. — Philip Wollen
Cakes are healthy too, you just eat a small slice. — Mary Berry
Knowing thousands of recipes doesn’t feed you, unless you start cooking. — Leo Babauta
Eating well and staying active is the necessary base to a clear complexion and a healthy body and mind. — Hannah Bronfman
Veganism isn’t just a strict vegetarian diet; it is a complete philosophical viewpoint. It is practical in outlook, simple to understand and aspires to the highest environmental and spiritual values. I am sure it holds the key to a future lifestyle for a humane planetary guardianship. — Howard Lyman
Bananas are the base of all my smoothies! They are packed with potassium and give a solid base flavor. — Hannah Bronfman
I used to bulk and cut, but never to extremes. I have always been more into what my body can do versus how it looks. — Martyn Ford
The world's strongest animals are plant eaters. Gorillas, Buffaloes, Elephants and me. — Patrik Baboumian
Adding chlorella and chlorophyll to your smoothie gives you the benefits of leafy greens in their most raw form. — Hannah Bronfman
Almond milk is a great source of omega fatty acids and fiber without being high in fat. — Hannah Bronfman
Veggies Quotes
Proper supplementation with B vitamins from natural sources like green leafy veggies and grass-fed meats aids in downregulating catacolamines, impacting anxiety incidence. — Gary Brecka
I make lots of casseroles that have protein, veggies, carbs and good fats all together. — Tori Spelling
When I'm sore, ice is my best friend. It really works. I take omega-3s every day, which helps with inflammation. And I try to eat things that won't inflame my joints, like fresh fruits and veggies, lean protein, and seafood. — Kerri Walsh
In my travels, I also noticed that kids in Thailand like spicy food, and kids in India love curry. I'm hoping to introduce my son, Hudson, to lots of veggies and spices when he's young. I say that before he's started on solid foods, so it could be easier in theory than practice! — Curtis Stone
There's so many vegetarian foods now that are available at the market . The same with drive-throughs. Now, a lot of them serve veggie burgers just like the restaurants are doing. So, it's really very easy. — Kevin Nealon
Flesh isn't the only source of protein. You can get all the protein you need from a varied plant-based diet. Protein is found in greens, veggies, beans, grains, nuts & seeds, avocados and so on. And there is no need to consume these foods in any special combination. — Sharon Gannon
Your body is incredible at 'detoxing'. It's called pooping & sweating. Best 'detox diet' = regular exercise, eating more veggies, fruit, healthy fats, lean meat, some grains and drinking more water. — Chris Mohr
My fatal flaw is hubris. The brown stuff they spread on veggie sandwiches? No, seaweed brain. That's hummus. Hubris is worse. What could be worse than hummus? — Rick Riordan
We cover hamburgers, chicken, veggie burgers, salads, we've got a pretty broad range. To me, McDonald's isn't only about the food. It's about the prices, it's about the way we eat. — Jim Cantalupo
I ain't no veggie, like my flesh to the bone, alive and licking on your ice cream cone. — Alice Cooper
Haggis is delicious. It is wonderful. It's spicy, it's tasty, and you get vegetarian haggis as well. — Nicola Sturgeon
It’s better to eat salty food and speak the truth than to eat vegetarian and tell lies. — Vietnamese Proverbs
The symbolism of meat-eating is never neutral. To himself, the meat-eater seems to be eating life. To the vegetarian, he seems to be eating death. There is a kind of gestalt-shift between the two positions which makes it hard to change, and hard to raise questions on the matter at all without becoming embattled. — Mary Midgley
Vegetarians have wicked, shifty eyes, and laugh in a cold calculating manner. They pinch little children, steal stamps, drink water, favor beards. — J. B. Morton
I did not climb to the top of the food chain to eat carrots. — Ron White
Having the USDA design your food pyramid is like having Al Capone do your taxes. — Caldwell Esselstyn
I have lived temperately, eating little animal food, and that not as an aliment, so much as a condiment for the vegetables, which constitute my principal diet. — Thomas Jefferson
Vegetarians, and their Hezbollah-like splinter faction, the vegans ... are the enemy of everything good and decent in the human spirit. — Anthony Bourdain
I think if you want to eat more meat you should kill it yourself and eat it raw so that you are not blinded by the hypocrisy of having it processed for you. — Margi Clarke
The more red meat and blood we eat, the more bloodthirsty we get, the more violent we get. The more vegetarian food we eat, the more peace is taken into us. — Ziggy Marley
Your choice of diet can influence your long term health prospects more than any other action you might take. — C. Everett Koop
The cucumber and the tomato are both fruit; the avocado is a nut. To assist with the dietary requirements of vegetarians, on the first Tuesday of the month a chicken is officially a vegetable. — Jasper Fforde
Food affects the mind. For the practice of any kind of yoga, vegetarianism is absolutely necessary since it makes the mind more pure and harmonious. — Ramana Maharshi
Right afterward I read Fast Food Nation. That book changed my life: It made me a vegetarian. — Amber Tamblyn
We manage to swallow flesh, only because we do not think of the cruel and sinful thing we do. — Rabindranath Tagore
When a human being kills an animal for food, he is neglecting his own hunger for justice. — Isaac Bashevis Singer
Vegetarianism can easily reach religious proportions. Refraining from meat on moral grounds serves to dignify feelings of guilt toward sad-eyed, furry creatures and substitutes righteousness for squeamishness. — Bill Griffith
Vegetarians always ask about getting enough protein. But I don't know any nutrition expert (who) can plan a diet of natural foods resulting in a protein deficiency, so long as you're not deficient in calories. You need only 5 or 6 percent of total calories in protein... and it is pratically impossible to get below 9 percent in ordinary diets. — Nathan Pritikin
Until a vegan or vegetarian enters the room, people don't see themselves as meat-eaters. They are merely 'eaters', and it is we vegans who have made them aware of what they are doing. Often this is discomforting. — Carol J. Adams
What every human being should do is eat a vegetarian diet based on whole foods. Period. That's it. Animal protein is bad for you. Dairy is bad for you. Forget the ads: Milk and eggs are bad for you. — Roger Ebert
Vegetarian - that's an old Indian word meaning lousy hunter. — Andy Rooney
Check out my web site, wtp.org, to see what fast food did to 2 people in England. — Jerry Brown
I'm a big health-food freak and a vegetarian devotee. — Chelsea Clinton
Man is the only animal that can be bored. — Erich Fromm
Caesar's armies marched on vegetarian foods. — Will Durant
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