David H. Murdock quotes

“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.”
-- David H. Murdock

Source : "My Healthy, Weekly Shopping List" by David H. Murdock, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 21, 2011.

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“We take better care of the maintenance of our cars than we take care of the maintenance of our bodies.”
-- David H. Murdock

Source : "Food Knowledge Is Health Power" by David H. Murdock, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 27, 2011.

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“Eat more berries. Blueberries, strawberries, raspberries and other varieties have anthocyanins that can help reverse some loss of balance and memory associated with aging.”
-- David H. Murdock

Source : "5 Ways to Stay Brain Fit" by David H. Murdock, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 3, 2011.

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“We have developed a culture in which we eat with our taste buds, not our brains.”
-- David H. Murdock

Source : "90-Year-Old Billionaire David Murdock Doles Out Advice On Longevity". Interview with Sherri Snelling, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 11, 2013.

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“North Carolina was where you could have Thanksgiving and feel like it was Thanksgiving.”
-- David H. Murdock

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“We sell only fresh fruit and vegetables. I sell no saturated fats or anything like that.”
-- David H. Murdock

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“When I open my mouth, the room rings.”
-- David H. Murdock

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“One who loves Krishna will give Him whatever He wants, and he avoids offering anything which is undesirable or unasked for. Thus, meat, fish and eggs should not be offered to Krishna...Vegetables, grains, fruits, milk and water are the proper foods for human beings and are prescribed by Lord Krishna Himself. Whatever else you eat, can not be offered to Him, since He will not accept it.”

“There is nothing that is comparable to it, as satisfactory or as thrilling, as gathering the vegetables one has grown.”

“If my wife made childhood obesity her mission and I signed a law making 1/8 cup of tomato paste a vegetable, I'd be sleeping on the sofa.”

“Thin ribbons of fear snake bluely through you like a system of rivers. We need a cloudburst or soothing landscape fast, to still this panic. Maybe a field of dracaena, or a vast stand of sugar pines—generous, gum-yielding trees—to fill our minds with vegetable wonder and keep dread at bay.”

Source : Amy Gerstler (2000). “Medicine”, p.21, Penguin

“Beans are highly nutritious and satisfying, they can also be delicious if and when properly prepared, and they posses over all vegetables the great advantage of being just as good, if not better, when kept waiting, an advantage in the case of people whose disposition or occupation makes it difficult for them to be punctual at mealtime.”

“I grow vegetables - I'm a vegetarian; I've got strawberries, artichokes, leeks, broad beans.”

Source : "Lady Rolling Stone". Interview with Lynn Barber, www.theguardian.com. February 24, 2008.

“I admire vegetarians who refuse to eat nothing but vegetables in their homes, but I also admire those who put aside those principles or those preferences when they travel. Just to be a good guest.”

“If you don't follow through on your dreams, you might as well be a vegetable.”

“If someone offered you a pill that would make you permanently happy, you would be well advised to run fast and run far. Emotion is a compass that tells us what to do, and a compass that perpetually stuck on north is worthless.”

“I am in the Matrix and I just took the blue pill.”