Pastoral Resources

Without food, man can live at most but a few weeks; without it, all other components of social justice are meaningless.

Yet food is something that is taken for granted by most world leaders despite the fact that more than half of the population of the world is hungry.

Man's survival, from the time of Adam and Eve until the invention of agriculture, must have been precarious because of his inability to ensure his food supply.

Civilization as it is known today could not have evolved, nor can it survive, without an adequate food supply.

Almost certainly, however, the first essential component of social justice is adequate food for all mankind.

I am but one member of a vast team made up of many organizations, officials, thousands of scientists, and millions of farmers - mostly small and humble - who for many years have been fighting a quiet, oftentimes losing war on the food production front.

The prejudice was so bad in the United States at that time that a dark person with a white person would not be served in a restaurant. My father, mother, and I would try it occasionally. We would sit there, and the food would never come.

The food we ate was Indian, and both my mother and father were very deep into the ancient philosophy of India, so it could well have been an Indian household.

Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.

When service members are discharged, we should express our gratitude for their profound personal sacrifice, not hand them a bill for their hospital food.

The Paris peace talks kept a roof over my head and food on the table and clothes on my back because if something was said going in or coming out, I had the rent for the month.

I could talk food all day. I love good food.

My sisters like cooking at my place. It has a bit more room, and the food tastes a little bit better. A big pot of spaghetti and sauce, some warm French bread - works all the time. I think I've been eating pasta for 26 years.

A fly cannot go in unless it stops somewhere; therefore weapons, fuel, food, money will not go to Afghanistan unless the neighbors of Afghanistan are working, are cooperating, either being themselves the origin or the transit.

Furthermore I will just have to see what the future will bring me. But a change of food whets the appetite.

The future of our nation depends on our ability to produce food and fiber to sustain the world.

There was still food rationing in England and life was difficult all through my 2 year stay in Oxford.

My grandmother was the greatest cook in the world. She could just go in there, the whole kitchen would look like a tornado hit it and then she'd come out with the best food. Then she'd sit at the table and she wouldn't eat!

Mostly I enjoy the restaurants (my husband is a chef), though I wish we had a wider diversity of ethnic food.

Some of the food in Liquor is food I've really eaten filtered through a veil of fiction.