{"quotes":[{"text":"If the food that one ate the night before were somehow able to be seen and identified through one’s clothes throughout the day, millions of employees would each fast ten or so days before their payday.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["adage","adages","aphorism","aphorisms","axiom","axioms","broke","clothes","clothing","deep","dictum","dictums","dine","dinner","employ","employee","employees","employer","employers","employment","epigram","epigrams","fast","food","gnome","gnomes","humor","humour","hunger","hungry","insightful","job","jobs","loan","loans","made-me-think","make-you-think","maxim","maxims","payday","profound","proverb","proverbs","provoke-thought","quotation","quotations","quote","quotes","salaries","salary","satire","satirical","saying","sayings","starve","supper","sustenance","thought-provoking","thoughtful","transparency","transparent","wage","wages","work","worker","workers"],"id":47909,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"There are stories in the air as thick as birds around me, he would say. I will save those stories from starving he would say. I have a great hunger for stories, he would say.","author":"Brian Doyle","tags":["birds","brian-doyle","hunger","mink-river","stories","sustenance"],"id":48653,"author_id":"Brian+Doyle"},{"text":"He realized he needed strength, sustenance that couldn’t come from bread alone. He desperately needed God.","author":"J.E.B. Spredemann","tags":["desperation","god","strength","sustenance","weakness"],"id":95620,"author_id":"J.E.B.+Spredemann"},{"text":"It is childish to eat primarily or only to please your tongue.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["child","childish","children","cook","cooking","dead","death","dish","dishes","drink","eat","feed","food","immature","immaturity","mature","maturity","meal","meals","nourish","nourishment","nutrition","please","recipes","starvation","starve","survival","survive","sustenance","tongue","vitamins"],"id":115405,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"Your job cannot sustain you, only your calling can.","author":"Sunday Adelaja","tags":["blessing","calling","employment","finance","job","jobless","joblessness","life","money","purpose","satisfaction","satisfy","sustain","sustenance","time","void","work"],"id":120488,"author_id":"Sunday+Adelaja"},{"text":"We, in the interest of the so-called progress, have been persuaded to leave the production and at times the cooking of our food to companies whose owners and employees make a living by exploiting our busyness or laziness and our innate hunger to continue living.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["adage","adages","africa","african","aphorism","aphorisms","axiom","axioms","basic-needs","busy","busyness","civilization","civilized","companies","company","cook","cooking","deep","dictum","dictums","eat","eat-out","eating","employee","employees","epigram","epigrams","exploit","exploitation","exploited","food","funny","gnome","gnomes","groceries","grocery","humor","humorous","humour","hunger","hungry","innate","insightful","laziness","lazy","made-me-think","make-a-living","make-you-think","maxim","maxims","owner","owners","persuade","philosopher","produce","production","profound","progress","proverb","proverbs","provoke-thought","quotation","quotations","quote","of-the-day","quotes","restaurant","satire","satirical","satirist","satirists","saying","sayings","self-presavation","south-africa","south-african","starvation","starve","survival","survive","sustenance","takeaway","takeaways","takeout","thought-provoking","thoughtful","uncivilized"],"id":142124,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"From women's eyes this doctrine I derive:They sparkle still the right Promethean fire;They are the books, the arts, the academes,That show, contain and nourish all the world.","author":"William Shakespeare","tags":["beauty","eyes","fire","nourishment","sustenance","women"],"id":198533,"author_id":"William+Shakespeare"},{"text":"We are touched by magic wands. For just a fraction of our day life is perfect, and we are absolutely happy and in harmony with the earth. The feeling passes much too quickly. But the memory – and the anticipation of other miracles – sustains us in the battle indefinitely.","author":"John Nichols","tags":["beauty","earth","harmony","magic","miracles","nature","perfection","sustenance"],"id":198835,"author_id":"John+Nichols"},{"text":"A job shouldn’t be a mean of existence but rather, a means of sustenance.","author":"Sunday Adelaja","tags":["blessing","employment","existence","finance","job","jobless","joblessness","life","money","permanence","permanent","purpose","sustenance","temporary","time","work"],"id":229732,"author_id":"Sunday+Adelaja"},{"text":"Sustainability is best illustrated by those who sell food … just so they afford something to eat.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["economics","food","survival","sustainability","sustenance"],"id":251144,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":21,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}