Famous Quotes & Sayings

David H. Murdock

No pills, not even aspirin, and certainly no supplements ever enter my mouth - everything I need comes from my fish and vegetarian diet, which incorporates many different kinds of fruit and vegetables every week.

Carre Otis

I was in a sushi bar and it dawned on me - how could I discriminate between a cow and a fish?

Bill Watterson

I'm not a vegetarian! I'm a dessertarian!

Benjamin Franklin

My refusing to eat flesh occasioned an inconveniency, and I was frequently chid for my singularity.

Dennis Weaver

The people of the future will say, 'meat-eaters!' in disgust and regard us in the same way that we regard cannibals and cannibalism.

Abdul Kalam

Economy forced me to become a vegetarian, but I finally starting liking it.

A. N. Wilson

Hitler suffered acutely from meteorism; perhaps he did not suffer so acutely as those around him, since meteorism is uncontrolled farting, a condition exacerbated by Hitler's strictly vegetarian diet.

Carol Alt

I'm not a vegetarian.

Drew Barrymore

I've been a vegetarian for years and years. I'm not judgemental about others who aren't, I just feel I cannot eat or wear living creatures.

Dalai Lama

Im a Tibetan monk, not a vegetarian,

Deepak Chopra

Vegetarianism is a healthier diet.

Amy Smart

Vegetarianism is a way of living consciously on the planet.

Bill Vaughan

Are there any vegetarians among cannibals?

Jonathan Safran Foer

I have made my own choice, which is vegetarianism, but it's not the choice I'm imposing on anybody else.

Jonathan Safran Foer

When we eat factory-farmed meat we live, literally, on tortured flesh. Increasingly, that tortured flesh is becoming our own.

Jonathan Safran Foer

I can't count the times that upon telling someone I am vegetarian, he or she responded by pointing out an inconsistency in my lifestyle or trying to find a flaw in an argument I never made. (I have often felt that my vegetarianism matters more to such people than it does to me.)

Norman Mailer

The ultimate tendency of liberalism is vegetarianism.

Ellen DeGeneres

I'm a lesbian, an Aquarian, and a vegetarian.

Joe Eszterhas

I changed my diet completely. You know, I'm from Cleveland, so I've always loved sausage and red meat and all of that stuff, so now I find myself not eating any of that, no red meat, no sausage. It's basically a vegetarian diet with a little bit of fish. I drink quarts of carrot juice, quarts of cranberry juice, endless amounts of water and nothing else.

One who kill, own life will be shortened; One who harms, will be injured even more

Things derive their being and nature by mutual dependence and are nothing in themselves.

Erykah Badu

I've been a vegetarian since I was 19.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

If there would come a voice from God saying, 'I'm against vegetarianism!' I would say, 'Well, I am for it!' This is how strongly I feel in this regard.

Gary Player

The closer you can live to being a vegetarian the better.

George Bernard Shaw

..discussing vaccination with a doctor is like discussing vegetarianism with a butcher...

George Bernard Shaw

I am oppressed with a dread of living forever. That is the only disadvantage of vegetarianism.

George Bernard Shaw

We are the living graves of murdered beasts, slaughtered to satisfy our appetites. How can we hope in this world to attain the peace we say we are so anxious for?

Molly Ivins

I know vegetarians don't like to hear this, but God made an awful lot of land that's good for nothing but grazing.

Ingrid Newkirk

It's the 21st century. It's healthier for us, better for the environment and certainly kinder to be a vegetarian.

Leo Tolstoy

vegetarianism is the taproot of humanitarianism.

Leo Tolstoy

Eating meat is a leftover of the greatest brutality [killing]; the transition to vegetarianism is the first and most natural consequence of enlightenment.

Leo Tolstoy

Vegetarianism serves as the criterion by which we know that the pursuit of moral perfection on the part of humanity is genuine and sincere.

Pythagoras

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!