Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Kathy Freston

Vegetarian is the New Prius

Irvine Welsh

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

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.

Ellen DeGeneres

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

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.

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.

Neal Barnard

Since I first went to India twenty some years ago, there's been a palpable change. There's now pizza everywhere, meat is much more popular than it's ever been. Vegetarianism is "that quaint thing our parents did."

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.

John Mayer

You can't spell 'developer' without 'devel.'

Leona Lewis

I call myself a vegetarian with vegan tendencies.

Pamela Anderson

I don't do the gym and I don't diet. I'm vegetarian but I don't diet.

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.

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.

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.

William Ralph Inge

It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism, while the wolf remains of a different opinion.

William McNamara

The best thing you can do for the planet is be vegan or vegetarian.