Vegetarian Quotes

I did not become a vegetarian for my health, I did it for the health of the chickens.

I have lived temperately, eating little animal food, and that not as an aliment, so much as a condiment for the vegetables, which constitute my principal diet.

When I was 12, I first made the decision to go vegetarian after a co-star's line 'I don't eat anything with a face' suddenly shocked me into reality.

So you are the people tearing down the Brazilian rainforest and breeding cattle.

Love, acceptance, friends, two kids that I love. I have to take care of myself for them. I've also been a vegetarian for two years.

Eating a vegetarian diet can contribute more to saving ourselves and the planet than any other single effort.

Animal factories are one more sign of the extent to which our technological capacities have advanced faster than our ethics.

There's no question that largely vegetarian diets are as healthy as you can get. The evidence is so strong and overwhelming and produced over such a long period of time that it's no longer debatable.

That expression "positive neutrality" is a contradiction in terms. There can be no more positive neutrality than there can be a vegetarian tiger.

The more red meat and blood we eat, the more bloodthirsty we get, the more violent we get. The more vegetarian food we eat, the more peace is taken into us.

I grew up in cattle country-that's why I became a vegetarian. Meat stinks, for the animals, the environment, and your health.

Part of my becoming a vegetarian was that I would look at my burger, then look at my dogs, and I wasn't able to see a difference.

The easiest beneficence is a smile. The simplest release is to have a vegetarian meal.

I think what I'd really like to see would be a mass consciousness-raising movement so that we would all become vegetarian.

The closer you can live to being a vegetarian the better.

When we kill animals to eat them they end up killing us because their flesh...was never intended for human beings, who are naturally herbivores.

I am proud to be a vegetarian and I am against those who eat meat. Go green to be fit, that's the best way for me at least.

The world's environment can no longer handle beef.

I try to stick to a vegan diet heavy on fruit and vegetables.

When we eat vegetarian foods, we needn't worry about what kind of disease our food died from; this makes a joyful meal!

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

To become vegetarian is to step into the stream which leads to nirvana.

A reduction in meat consumption is the most powerful single act that you can take to halt the destruction of our environment and preserve our natural resources.

Right afterward I read Fast Food Nation. That book changed my life: It made me a vegetarian.

I'm sort of like a post-modern vegetarian; I eat meat ironically.

I became a vegetarian at 15. I was always an animal lover and, as a teenager, became increasingly uncomfortable with the idea of eating meat. It was then that I started to research vegetarianism.

My body will not be a tomb for other creatures.

Many refined people will not kill a fly, but eat an ox.

With my time in the limelight, I regret that I didnt use it more to push vegetarianism. I support vegetarian options in the school lunch program.

Oh, what would you like on your vegetarian pizza?" "Dead pigs and cows," I said. She glanced up at me and wrinkled her nose. "They're vegetarians," I said defensively.

Animals are not brethren, they are not underlings; they are other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time.

We manage to swallow flesh, only because we do not think of the cruel and sinful thing we do.

Appeasers believe that if you keep on throwing steaks to a tiger, the tiger will become a vegetarian.

I was so moved by the intelligence,sense of fun and personalities of the animals I worked with on Babe that by the end of the film I was a vegetarian.

I'm vegetarian so eating right definitely gives me the energy you need.

Be a vegetarian. That was the best advice I ever took. It means I'm not involved in killing, that's the main thing.

I love animals. All animals. I wouldn't hurt a cat or a dog — or a chicken, or a cow. And I wouldn't ask someone else to hurt them for me. That's why I'm a vegetarian.

I've been a vegetarian for a while now and I try to give my body plenty of what it craves.

I believe if the viewing of slaughter was required to eat meat, most folks would become vegetarians.

We are the living graves of murdered beasts.

Every time we go by KFC, my kids ask me to honk and they yell 'Boo' out the window.

What every human being should do is eat a vegetarian diet based on whole foods. Period. That's it. Animal protein is bad for you. Dairy is bad for you. Forget the ads: Milk and eggs are bad for you.

Everything revolves around the fork.

I am really good at making Top Ramen. I also love it when my mom makes vegetarian lasagna for me.

Check out my web site, wtp.org, to see what fast food did to 2 people in England.

I wouldn't eat a chicken if it dropped dead in front of me holding up a sign that said, Eat Me.

I've been variations of vegetarian for over 20 years. I'm Canadian so I always say, be the best you can be.

I'm a big health-food freak and a vegetarian devotee.

Part of my reason for being vegetarian was because it practices respect and love for life all through the day, so three times a day, you make a decision to eat things that have not been killed.

When I was poor living in a garage in Kansas I began to draw the mice that scampered over my desk. That is how Mickey Mouse was born.