Connection to Earth Quotes

"We all take different paths in life, but no matter where we go, we take a little of each other everywhere."

- Tim McGraw

"Food for us comes from our relatives, whether they have wings or fins or roots. That is how we consider food. Food has a culture. It has a history. It has a story. It has relationships."

- Winona LaDuke

"Food brings people together on many different levels. It’s nourishment of the soul and body; it’s truly love."

- Giada de Laurentiis

"If you really want to make a friend, go to someone’s house and eat with him… The people who give you their food give you their heart."

- Cesar Chavez

"People who love to eat are always the best people."

- Julia Child

"Eating is so intimate. It’s very sensual. When you invite someone to sit at your table and you want to cook for them, you’re inviting a person into your life."

- Maya Angelou

"Food is our common ground, a universal experience."

- James Beard

"The shared meal elevates eating from a mechanical process of fueling the body to a ritual of family and community, from the mere animal biology to an act of culture."

- Michael Pollan

"The gift of food has a magical way of connecting people across time and culture."

- Alice Waters

"Somewhere behind the athlete you’ve become and the hours of practice and the coaches who have pushed you is a little girl who fell in love with the game and never looked back… play for her."

- Mia Hamm

"The Spirit of Sports: The spirit of sports gives each of us who participate an opportunity to be creative. Sports knows no sex, age, race or religion. Sports gives us all the ability to test ourselves mentally, physically and emotionally in a way no other aspect of life can. For many of us who struggle with ‘fitting in’ or our identity – sports gives us our first face of confidence. That first bit of confidence can be a gateway to many other great things!"

- Gordie Howe

"Sports creates a bond between contemporaries that lasts a lifetime. It also gives your life structure, discipline and a genuine, sincere, pure fulfillment that few other areas of endeavor provide."

- Bobby Jones

"My grandfather used to say that once in your life you need a doctor, a lawyer, a policeman, and a preacher. But every day, three times a day, you need a farmer."

- Brenda Schoepp

"Strong communities are built around local, real food. Food we trust to nourish our bodies, the farmer and planet."

- Kimbal Musk

"I've got two brothers. One's older - the artist - and then my younger brother is an ecological economist - a farmer."

- Josh O'Connor

"The combat environment has the effect of flattening out civilian identities. If you're young or old, or a graduate from Harvard or the son of a farmer from Alabama, or if you're gay or straight or good-looking or ugly: none of those things matters much in combat, as long as you can conform to the group expectations."

- Sebastian Junger

"I've always said I want a farmer, not a hunter. Hunters go for the kill and they move on. A farmer nurtures; he watches things grow."

- Eva Longoria

"Now all things are of God, who has reconciled us to Himself through Jesus Christ ..."

- 2 Corinthians 5:18

"The meeting of two personalities is like contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed."

- Carl Jung

"Kids don’t care how much you know until they know how much you care."

- Riney Jordan

"Only surround yourself with people who will lift you higher."

- Oprah Winfrey

"Always remember we are under the same sky, looking at the same moon."

- Maxine Lee

"Those are the same stars, and that is the same moon, that look down upon your brothers and sisters, and which they see as they look up to them, though they are ever so far away from us, and each other."

- Sojourner Truth

"The moon is friend for the lonesome to talk to."

- Carl Sandburg

"Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world."

- Napoleon Bonaparte

"I think books are like people, in the sense that they’ll turn up in your life when you most need them."

- Emma Thompson

"Writing and reading decrease our sense of isolation. They deepen and widen and expand our sense of life: They feed the soul."

- Anne Lamott

"Food is the bridge that connects our lives, linking the past with the present and the future."

"Good morning, sunshine! Ready to conquer the day together?"

"A mother is a daughter’s first best friend."