Top 171 Vegetarian Quotes

I always tell my family – and they laugh about it – but someday, I will write a vegetarian book. My cousin, who’s a big vegetarian, tells me flat out, ‘You’re my favorite vegetarian chef.’

I’ve been more or less vegetarian for about 40 years. Health diet really helps. I do meditation every day, and either yoga or sport several times a week.

One has got to choose between the two evils, also between the lesser of the two evils in the matter of food, and therefore vegetarian food has got to he taken by man in order to sustain human life.

There are three reasons why this book came into being. First, throughout the 33 years I’ve been writing recipes – although I’m not vegetarian myself – I have greatly enjoyed creating vegetarian recipes, and cooking and serving them at home.

I wasn’t raised in any way where I was forced to be a vegetarian, too. I always had the choice. My mom would say, ‘I don’t eat the stuff, so I won’t cook it, but if you want to eat it, you can. Let me tell you why I don’t eat it.’ So she was open about it.

I first became a vegetarian when I was nine, in response to an argument made by a radical babysitter. My great change – which lasted a couple of weeks – was based on the very simple instinct that it’s wrong to kill animals for food.

I keep sipping water all throughout the day. I don’t drink any soft drinks… I tend to eat more of vegetarian meals.

I am a vegetarian. I don’t want to have anything injected into me that I can’t eat. I am a real health nut. I look after myself well.

But I’m also a vegetarian so there’s another factor I guess.

I am a vegetarian, and I sort of aspire to vegan-hood. So far I’ve noticed no difference at all in my climbing, but I feel a bit healthier overall. Though that’s only because I’m eating more fruits and vegetables. I think the whole protein thing is overhyped. Most Americans eat far more than we need.

I don’t really want to be fat, so I stop before I am. I’m not a vegetarian, but I might go through a phase when I’m not interested in eating protein for a week or so, and then I might go through a phase when I eat nothing but steak.

Let’s call a spade a spade – a lot of times when you are a vegetarian it is a just not very effective eating disorder.

I eat mostly vegetarian. I love meat, but I think it should be enjoyed on occasion – like cheesecake or blackouts.

When eating out while on tour, a great place to get vegetarian food is Thai restaurants, as they have lots of options. I absolutely adore salad and vegetables – I will eat salad until it’s coming out of my ears. Although I think it’s great in any form, my particular favourite has to be beetroot salad.

Whatever anybody eats is their business. I’m just a vegetarian because I personally want to be. If my sons want to go have a steak… then that’s their decision. But coming from my hand, as their mother, I have to give them what I feel is good for them. I don’t take a stand morally. This is for myself.

I was raised really, really healthy, pretty much vegetarian and a very clean lifestyle, I don’t smoke, I don’t drink. I’m more addicted to the things that make me feel good – endorphins after working out.

My mom was always my biggest teacher, my inspiration, my role model. My mom was just the most amazing person. She was like a bon vivant in that she just lived each day to the fullest. As soon as I became a vegetarian, she became a vegetarian.

I’m not strictly vegetarian, but meat doesn’t play a big part in my diet.

I’m vegan in my fashion and vegetarian in my food.

I get nostalgic about having lived in Ames, Iowa, even though being a vegetarian in Iowa is not fun. But I really love Durham more than any place I’ve ever been; some small towns can be really provincial and strangling, but Durham is the best city in the world.

I have time only for cricket, and when I am not playing, I love to be at home, chat with my family, do puja with them, call for some yummy paani puri, etc. Also I love to cook. I can make dal, sabji and chicken! But, at home everybody’s a vegetarian, so I can’t cook non-veg at home!

I pretty much eat all day to keep my strength up. I’m primarily a vegetarian who has an occasional side of fish.

I’m a vegetarian, so I have a huge fear of blood.

I have a very strict lifestyle. It’s a vegetarian household and we grow our own produce.

I’m pretty fit. We’ve got a lot of stairs in our house, and I’m up and down them all the time. Plus, I don’t smoke, and I’m vegetarian.

I am a complete desi at heart when it comes to food, and a vegetarian.

My own view is that being a vegetarian or vegan is not an end in itself, but a means towards reducing both human and animal suffering and leaving a habitable planet to future generations.

I eat more vegetables than the average vegetarian.

I’m a vegetarian, but now, on my doctor’s orders, I have begun eating egg white.

I am not a fish fanatic unless it is made in a certain way. Most of the time, my parents and I would eat very light vegetarian food.

I eat vegetarian a lot. I buy only fresh ingredients and cook from scratch – that way, when I feel like snacking and look in my fridge, it’s: ‘Oh, baby carrots or chocolate soy pudding. Take your pick.’

I didn’t grow up eating meat – I was a vegetarian until I was 18.

I call being vegetarian the ‘Wow Rao’ diet. Wow because I know that being vegetarian is the best thing I can do for myself, the animals and the environment.

I’m pretty much a vegetarian.

I am a pure vegetarian and my favourite dish is jacket potatoes.

I don’t like the idea of beating birds. I’m vegetarian.

I’m a vegetarian and like to throw together easy, healthy meals like veggie tofu stir-fries or a quinoa or lentil pasta.

When it comes to meat, change is almost always cast as an absolute. You are a vegetarian or you are not.

When I stopped eating meat, I noticed that it was easier for me to focus, and I was really proud of myself for being green also… I had a plethora of reasons for going vegetarian.

I’ve got a friend who’s a power lifter, and she’s a vegetarian. I don’t know how she does it. I want red meat all the time. I applaud the discipline; I really do. I just can’t do it. Good for her, but not for me.

The woman I am currently crazy about was a vegetarian for a year until I started dating her. As is the case with most vegetarians, she had never eaten properly prepared meat, only commercially packaged or otherwise abused flesh.

I’m mostly vegetarian.

My parents demonstrated against the Vietnam war, they were into the civil rights movement, the feminist movement, they started the first vegetarian restaurant in Pittsburgh.

I just came home and said, ‘I’m a vegetarian.’ My parents were very kind about it. And then, I became a vegan a year or two after that. Animal cruelty really got to me.

I am vegetarian, an eggetarian rather… because of its proteins.

My parents have been incredibly supportive from perhaps the first real independent decision I made to become a vegetarian at 11, which was certainly not consistent with their diet at the time.

I’m married to a vegetarian, so if ever we go out to dinner, I go for kidneys.

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

I am a vegetarian and not a foodie at all.

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

I don’t eat meat, but I don’t consider myself a vegetarian.

‘Vegetarian’ is a slippery word. I don’t eat cheese, I don’t eat duck – the point is I’m vegan.

When I decided to become vegetarian, I had to learn how to ‘recook,’ if you will. For example, I used to put red wine in a big pot with the meat that I’d cooked in fat, and it was, of course, delicious. When I gave up meat, I wondered what I would make. That turned out to be vegetables, really organic and fresh.

A vegetarian is a person who won’t eat anything that can have children.

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

The real thing people miss in vegetarian cooking is fat. Fat is flavor. It is delicious.

India introduced Britain to vegetarianism – see Tristram Stuart’s excellent first book on this – and it is possible, indeed all too easy, to be a vegetarian in India and eat extraordinarily good, varied food every day, with very few ‘repeats.’

Growing up in a Muslim family, I didn’t eat pork and was tactically vegetarian at school in a bid to avoid accidentally dining on swine, a galling prospect.

Vegetarian is like raising a kid Mennonite. It’s difficult but not that different. Raising your kid vegan is like being Amish. A totally different world.

Learning about factory farms and their horrendous treatment of animals is what made me become vegetarian in the first place. I also support the education of the public on adopting pets from animal shelters or saving homeless animals off the street in lieu of buying them from pet shops.

I will represent all of the people of Ohio, regardless of their background. I don’t care if you are a Democrat, a Republican, a Libertarian or a vegetarian, I will be blind to race, religion or any kind of orientation.