Vegetarian Quotes · Page 16

There is the vegetarian Hot Pocket for those of us who don't want to eat meat, but would still like diarrhea.

— Jim Gaffigan

“To become vegetarian is to step towards the stream which leads to nirvana.”

— Siddhārtha Gautama

I've seen a big gain in cardio since I went vegetarian and even gained a little more going vegan.

— Andy Lally

The most energetic workers I have encountered in my world travels are the vegetarian miners of Chile.

— Charles Darwin

Thanksgiving dinner's sad and thankless. Christmas dinner's dark and blue. When you stop and try to see it From the turkey's point…

— Shel Silverstein

Ethics is in its unqualified form extended responsibility with regard to everything that has life.

— Anonymous

My reason for becoming a vegetarian was simple: I loved (and love) animals

— Moby

“In modern parlance we speak of the interconnectedness of all life, suggesting that one cannot really be healthy when the environment is…

— Richard A. Young

I've been a vegetarian since I was about 12 years old. When I became a vegetarian, I got my mom and dad…

— Christie Brinkley

I was so moved by the intelligence,sense of fun and personalities of the animals I worked with on Babe that by the…

— James Cromwell

My dad and sister are vegetarian and I was brought up as one, but I ate a bit of fish and meat.…

— Katie Piper

My respect and empathy towards animals includes sea dwellers too--from dolphins to fish to lobsters. So, of course, I wouldn't dream of…

— Alexandra Paul

I grew up on an organic farm in England. And I was a vegetarian from an early age - not just for…

— Stella McCartney

What every human being should do is eat a vegetarian diet based on whole foods. Period. That's it. Animal protein is bad…

— Roger Ebert

I think a strict vegetarian diet acts as a good cleansing program for people who come from a diet heavy in animal…

— Ann Louise Gittleman

On January 30, 1988, my twenty-seventh birthday, I became a strict vegetarian. I developed a passion for health and nutrition. My diet…

— Dexter Scott King

Whatever anybody eats is their business. I'm just a vegetarian because I personally want to be. If my sons want to go…

— Lindsay Wagner

One night I couldn't sleep and I was up and just Googling random stuff and I'm like, 'Hmmm, PETA.' I saw all…

— Kellie Pickler

“The 5-unit BMI difference between vegans and nonvegetarians indicates a substantial potential of vegetarianism to protect against obesity. Increased conformity to vegetarian…

— Serena Tonstad

Anyone familiar with the numerous accounts of the Buddha's extraordinary compassion and reverence for living beings - for example his insistence that…

— Philip Kapleau

We manage to swallow flesh only because we do not think of the cruel and sinful thing that we do. There are…

— Rabindranath Tagore

I've been vegan for 15 years, and it turns out it makes a very big impact on the environment to eat fewer…

— Emily Deschanel

Humans — who enslave, castrate, experiment on, and fillet other animals — have had an understandable penchant for pretending animals do not…

— Carl Sagan

I've never followed a vegan or vegetarian diet in the past, but I think I could do it. It would not be…

— Joel Robuchon

Many things made me become a vegetarian, among them the higher food yield as a solution to world hunger.

— John Denver

There's an interconnectivity between what's in the consciousness of cat and what's in the consciousness of us.

— Russell Brand

It were much better that a sentient being should never have existed, than that it should have existed only to endure unmitigated…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

The salvation of birds and beasts, oneself included - this is the object of Shakyamuni's religious austerities.

— Ikkyu

Having the USDA design your food pyramid is like having Al Capone do your taxes.

— Caldwell Esselstyn

“Nobody messes with a girl in combat boots, particularly when she's also a vegetarian.”

— Meg Cabot

If experiments on animals were abandoned on grounds of compassion, mankind would have made a fundamental advance.

— Richard Wagner

I think that religion is incredibly cruel, and I think that my biggest problem with being vegetarian, usually, is other vegetarians.

— Devin Townsend

I try not to eat meat, but I'm not saying that I'm vegetarian or vegan. I love animals, so I try and…

— Chrishell Stause

Being a vegetarian, beans like avarebele are the biggest sources of protein for us.

— Pranitha Subhash

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

— Anita Pallenberg

I'm not vegetarian. I eat what I crave, but most of the time I don't crave meat.

— Toyah Willcox

“The good news is that you just need a bit of compassion to become vegetarian, and this is something widely found in…

— Armand Chauvel

Men fed upon carnage, and drinking strong drinks, have all an impoisoned and acrid blood which drives them mad in a hundred…

— Voltaire

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

— Sharon Gannon

I am sure vegetarians must also account for a lot of gases. Look how many beans they eat.

— Antony Worrall Thompson