quotes about Vegetarian
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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.
-- A. N. Wilson -
Economy forced me to become a vegetarian, but I finally starting liking it.
-- Abdul Kalam -
For the gentle werelibrarian, who's strictly vegetarian, there's nothing like Tofillager the MEATLESS TOFU VILLAGER
-- Adam Rex -
Things derive their being and nature by mutual dependence and are nothing in themselves.
-- Akkineni Nagarjuna -
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I'm not a vegetarian, but I have cut back sharply on the meat that I eat.
-- Al Gore -
In a burning building I would save a cat before a Rembrandt.
-- Alberto Giacometti -
It occurred to me that I just didn't see how I could go ahead and continue to eat meat. It just seemed so... cannibalistic to me. And so, I'm a vegetarian, and I have been ever since.
-- Alice Paul -
Being vegan helped me realize I can say and do what I believe is right. That's powerful.
-- Alicia Silverstone -
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Right afterward I read Fast Food Nation. That book changed my life: It made me a vegetarian.
-- Amber Tamblyn -
CARNIVOROUS, adj. Addicted to the cruelty of devouring the timorous vegetarian, his heirs and assigns.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
A pacifist between wars is like a vegetarian between meals.
-- Ammon HennacySource : "Revolution Of The Heart: Essays On the Catholic Worker". Book edited by Patrick G. Coy, 1988.
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Vegetarianism is a way of living consciously on the planet.
-- Amy Smart -
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I grow vegetables - I'm a vegetarian; I've got strawberries, artichokes, leeks, broad beans.
-- Anita PallenbergSource : "Lady Rolling Stone". Interview with Lynn Barber, www.theguardian.com. February 24, 2008.
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I'm a post-modern vegetarian. I eat meat ironically.
-- Bill Bailey -
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I'm a vegetarian, but I don't expect other people not to eat meat.
-- Bjorn Lomborg -
I would make a poor vegetarian because I adore meat.
-- Britt Ekland -
My name, as you may have guessed, is Theodore. I come from a strange stock. The members of my family were mostly epileptics, vegetarians, stutterers, triplets, nailbiters. But we've always been happy.
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I'm not a vegetarian.
-- Carol AltSource : "Transcript: Carol Alt Talks About 'Eating in the Raw'". "The O'Reilly Factor" with Bill O'Reilly, www.foxnews.com. January 11, 2005.
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In 1968, I became a vegetarian after realizing that animals feel afraid, cold, hungry, and unhappy like we do..
-- Cesar Chavez -
The most energetic workers I have encountered in my world travels are the vegetarian miners of Chile.
-- Charles Darwin -
I'm a big health food freak and a vegetarian devotee.
-- Chelsea Clinton -
Nutrition has always played a huge role in my life. I became a vegetarian when I was 13 and then got my entire family to become vegetarians. And I have always been active my whole life. I genuinely enjoy sports and I spend time on my total gym.
-- Christie BrinkleySource : "Christie Brinkley Is 'Energized' About 2009". Interview with Jennifer Garcia, people.com. January 18, 2009.
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I didn't grow up eating meat - I was a vegetarian until I was 18.
-- Daphne Oz -
I grew up in Texas, eating meat five times a day, and I liked meat. But I began being a vegetarian when I was 19 because I found that I felt better.
-- Dean Ornish -
Electricity and magnetism are those forces of nature by which people who know nothing about electricity and magnetism can explain everything.
-- Egon Friedell -
I'm a lesbian, an Aquarian, and a vegetarian.
-- Ellen DeGeneres -
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I am not systematic at all when it comes to religion. I just love life. And I'm not judgmental. And I'm a vegetarian.
-- Erykah Badu -
Most vegetarians I ever see looked enough like their food to be classed as cannibals.
-- Finley Peter DunneSource : Mr. Dooley's Philosophy "Casual Observations" (1900)
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Most vegetarians look so much like the food they eat that they can be classified as cannibals.
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When I'm cooking for myself, I find that I eat almost completely vegetarian, although I'm not vegetarian.
-- Gail Simmons -
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Veganism is not about giving anything up or losing anything; it is about gaining the peace within yourself that comes from embracing nonviolence and refusing to participate in the exploitation of the vulnerable
-- Gary L. Francione -
The closer you can live to being a vegetarian the better.
-- Gary Player -
To become vegetarian is to step into the stream which leads to nirvana.
-- Gautama Buddha -
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?
-- George Bernard Shaw -
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Vegetarians claim to be immune from most diseases but they have been known to die from time to time.
-- George Bernard Shaw -
'Vegetarian' is a slippery word. I don't eat cheese, I don't eat duck - the point is I'm vegan.
-- Grace Slick -
You can't make people change, but the organizers of WorldFest hope that people consider being vegetarian for both moral and health reasons
-- Grace Slick -
I'm not a vegetarian, but I eat animals who are.
-- Groucho Marx -
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An elementary particle is not an independently existing, unanalyzable entity. It is, in essence, a set of relationships that reaches outward to other things.
-- Henry Stapp -
Appeasers believe that if you keep on throwing steaks to a tiger, the tiger will become a vegetarian.
-- Heywood BrounSource : "The Wisdom of China and India". Book by Lin Yutang, 1942.
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I believe if the viewing of slaughter was required to eat meat, most folks would become vegetarians.
-- Howard Lyman -
Many refined people will not kill a fly, but eat an ox.
-- I. L. PeretzSource : "Taanis Gedanken". Alle Verk, xii. 77, 1896.
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I did not become a vegetarian for my health, I did it for the health of the chickens.
-- Isaac Bashevis Singer -
Some say vegetarianism is an alternative diet, but it is the original diet, the plan designed by God.
-- James Marcus -
I think once you start eating people you should stop claiming to be a vegetarian, even if you only eat bad people.
-- James NicollSource : Usenet article, 2003.
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I got a fur shawl once. I was so disgusted! And I couldn't re-gift it. I don't know anyone who'd want fur.
-- Jennie Garth -
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After 10 years of eating vegetarian, I tried my boyfriend's. I was overwhelmed. It was orgasmic.
-- Jessica Szohr -
There are people that are vegetarians that love bacon.
-- Jim Gaffigan -
I am vegetarian, though, and so is my family.
-- Joely FisherSource : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
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Many things made me become a vegetarian, among them the higher food yield as a solution to world hunger.
-- John Denver -
I also became a vegetarian when I was 14 because I realized eating animals was cruel.
-- Julia Hill -
A vegetarian? Are you insane? That's worse than bein' a quarter demon!
-- Kami Garcia -
I'm not strictly vegetarian, but meat doesn't play a big part in my diet.
-- Katie Holmes -
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I became a vegetarian after I became aware of factory farming and slaughterhouses and the torture and inhumane handling of all these animals.
-- Kevin Nealon -
There's so many vegetarian foods now that are available at the market . The same with drive-throughs. Now, a lot of them serve veggie burgers just like the restaurants are doing. So, it's really very easy.
-- Kevin Nealon -
Arteriosclerosis can be considered a disease of protein intoxication.
-- Kilmer S. McCully -
If your meals consistently revolve around corpse multiple times daily, you might become one sooner than you planned.
-- Kris CarrSource : Kris Carr, Sheila Buff (2011). “Crazy Sexy Diet: Eat Your Veggies, Ignite Your Spark, And Live Like You Mean It!”, p.87, Rowman & Littlefield
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As for us, we were never concerned with the Kantian-priestly and vegetarian-Quaker prattle about the sacredness of human life.
-- Leon Trotsky -
I call myself a vegetarian with vegan tendencies.
-- Leona LewisSource : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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I'm a vegetarian. I don't eat animals, so I won't wear them.
-- Leona Lewis -
They've arrested Sebastian! For m-murder! You've g-got to stop them! He d-didn't do it! He can't have done it! He doesn't believe in murder! He's a v-vegetarian!
-- Meg Cabot -
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I do not say that one who is vegetarian is full of compassion and one who is not, is otherwise. We sometimes find people, who are vegetarians, are very bad people.
-- Morarji DesaiSource : "19th World Vegetarian Congress 1967". The British Vegetarian, ivu.org. March/April 1968.
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I eat mostly vegetarian. I love meat, but I think it should be enjoyed on occasion - like cheesecake or blackouts.
-- Nadia Giosia -
I'm pretty much a vegetarian, but I do eat fish and sometimes chicken
-- Nastassja Kinski -
I am a very strict vegetarian. ...I just really, really love animals, and I act on my values.
-- Natalie Portman -
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I love seafood. I'm not a vegetarian but I'm probably a pescetarian.
-- Padma LakshmiSource : "The GQA: Padma Lakshmi". Interview With Dan Hyman, www.gq.com. November 30, 2011.
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It were much better that a sentient being should never have existed, than that it should have existed only to endure unmitigated misery.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley -
Genesis 9 is where the animals went wild, and God gave them wildness. After the flood, that's when he made animals wild. Up until that time, everybody was vegetarian.
-- Phil Robertson -
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But I'm also a vegetarian so there's another factor I guess.
-- Radha Mitchell -
You can't tell a doper well under control from a vegetarian book-keeper.
-- Raymond Chandler -
You can shoot the tiger, or stay out of his way, but you cannot pronounce him a vegetarian.
-- Richard Mitchell -
I wouldn't eat a chicken if it dropped dead in front of me holding up a sign that said, Eat Me.
-- Ricky WilliamsSource : "Ricky Williams: Taking the Veggie Plunge" by Jennifer Santiago, PETAWorld.com, March 23, 2006.
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I was a vegetarian until I started leaning toward the sunlight.
-- Rita Rudner -
I don't like fruit but I'm vegetarian, so eat a lot of veggies.
-- Robin GibbSource : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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I almost fainted. There was no family history. I had been eating a vegetarian diet and I exercised.
-- Rue McClanahan -
How we treat the vulnerable is how we define ourselves as a species.
-- Russell Brand -
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I don't see why someone should lose their life just so you can have a snack.
-- Russell Brand -
I'm into yoga, I meditate all the time, I'm vegetarian.
-- Russell Brand -
I love going to weddings. And I love it when my friends get married. I'm not against marriage but it's just not for me. I'm a vegetarian, but I don't have a problem if you want a hamburger.
-- Sarah Silverman -
Eating a vegetarian diet can contribute more to saving ourselves and the planet than any other single effort.
-- Sharon Gannon -
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Srikkanth is a vegetarian. If he swallows a fly, he will be in trouble
-- Sunil Gavaskar -
In every respect, vegans appear to enjoy equal or better health in comparison to both vegetarians and non-vegetarians.
-- T. Colin Campbell -
It does take a little work to be a vegetarian but it's so worth it, oh it's so worth it!
-- Tippi Hedren -
The heart of vegetarians is healed sooner than those of flesh-eaters.
-- Virchand Gandhi -
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Sure! Why should any experts be the arbiters... That's like telling someone they can't be a vegetarian.
-- Virginia E. Johnson -
You can be vegetarian and eat fish. Its your choice, just say: I am what I am. There are no hardcore divisions anymore.
-- Yotam Ottolenghi -
Pacifists are like sheep who believe that wolves are vegetarians.
-- Yves Montand -
I've seen a big gain in cardio since I went vegetarian and even gained a little more going vegan.
-- Andy LallySource : Interview with Barbi Twins, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
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It was not until months after going vegetarian that I started really learning about all of the health benefits.
-- Andy LallySource : Interview with Barbi Twins, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
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I make a lot of jokes about vegetarians in my act but most of them don't have the strength to protest.
-- Ardal O'Hanlon -
I've been a vegetarian, I've been a Paleo, and now I believe in the everything-in-moderation diet.
-- Gretchen Bleiler -
I would be a vegetarian if the food was better.
-- Jimmy Dore -
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Vegetarian is the New Prius!
-- Kathy FrestonSource : "Exclusive: Quantum Wellness Author Kathy Freston Shares Her Thoughts". www.ecorazzi.com. May 25, 2009.
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I'm pretending to be a vegetarian. Were I not, I believe I probably still wouldn't eat a wallaby.
-- Kevin MoffettSource : Source: therumpus.net
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A vegetarian driving a Hummer emits less carbon than a meat eater on a bicycle.
-- Louie Psihoyos -
Be a vegetarian. That was the best advice I ever took. It means I'm not involved in killing, that's the main thing.
-- Martin Shaw -