Benjamin Ward Richardson famous quotes

Preserve and treat food as you would your body, remembering that in time food will be your body.
-- Benjamin Ward Richardson

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

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The key to freedom is accepting my own autonomy as an individual, and respecting the autonomy of other individuals, with all of what that means - whatever that means.
-- Benjamin Ward Richardson

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We are indeed much more than what we eat, but what we eat can nevertheless help us to be much more than what we are.

Food was celebration, conversation, and nourishment. The table is where the big decisions of the family are made and all the arguing takes place.

Desserts are like mistresses. They are bad for you. So if you are having one, you might as well have two.

Fat is a barrier, a bellicose statement to others that, to some, justifies hostility in kind. The world says to the fat person, "Your fatness is an affront to me, so we have the right to treat you as offensively as you appear." Fat is not merely viewed as another type of tissue, but as a diagnostic sign, a personal statement, and a measure of personality. Too little fat and we see you as being antisocial, fearful and sexless. Too much fat and we see you as slothful, stupid, and sexually hung up.

Conversation is the enemy of good wine and food.

The challenge to be the best is what drives me and to just improve my body every day.

Wisdom is to the soul as food is to the body.

There are people who are born and die and never once are aware of their breath going in and out of their body. That's how far away they live from themselves

Remember you don't do anything in isolation.

A man could spend the rest of his life trying to remember what he shouldn't have said.