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!

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.

Benjamin Franklin

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

Carol Alt

I'm not a vegetarian.

Abdul Kalam

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

Bill Vaughan

Are there any vegetarians among cannibals?

Dalai Lama

Im a Tibetan monk, not a vegetarian,

Deepak Chopra

Vegetarianism is a healthier diet.

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.

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.

Amy Smart

Vegetarianism is a way of living consciously on the planet.

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.

Nicholas Stern

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.

Leonardo da Vinci

My body will not be a tomb for other creatures.

Padma Lakshmi

I love seafood. I'm not a vegetarian but I'm probably a pescetarian.

Leon Trotsky

As for us, we were never concerned with the Kantian-priestly and vegetarian-Quaker prattle about the sacredness of human life.

Nhat Hanh

Even if we cannot be completely non-voilent, by being vegetarian we are going in the direction of non-voilence

Joely Fisher

I am vegetarian, though, and so is my family.

Irvine Welsh

Now there is apparently a causal link between heroin addiction and vegetarianism.

Erykah Badu

I've been a vegetarian since I was 19.

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?

Ingrid Newkirk

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

Rajneesh

Vegetarianism is a conscious effort, a deliberate effort, to get out of the heaviness that keeps you tethered to the earth so that you can fly - so that the flight from the alone to the alone becomes possible.

Rajneesh

I don't teach vegetarianism; it is a by-product of meditation. Wherever meditation has happened, people have become vegetarian, always, for thousands of years.

Nastassja Kinski

I'm pretty much a vegetarian, but I do eat fish and sometimes chicken

Marvin Harris

Hindus and Westerners alike see in the meat-eating taboos of India a triumph of morals over appetite. This is a dangerous misrepresentation of cultural processes. Hindu vegetarianism was a victory not of spirit over matter but of reproductive over productive forces.

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.