“All around the dining hall, you can feel the rejuvenating effect that a good meal can bring on. The way it can make people kinder, funnier, more optimistic, and remind them it's not a mistake to go on living. It's better than any medicine.”

—  Suzanne Collins, book Mockingjay

Source: Mockingjay

Last update June 3, 2021. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "All around the dining hall, you can feel the rejuvenating effect that a good meal can bring on. The way it can make peo…" by Suzanne Collins?
Suzanne Collins photo
Suzanne Collins554
American television writer and novelist 1962

Related quotes

“…something can be so much more than the parts it took to make it, and why people need things around them that lift them above their lives and make them feel the miracle of living.”

Wendelin Van Draanen Flipped

Flipped (2001)

William S. Burroughs photo

“Cheat your landlord if you can and must, but do not try to shortchange the Muse. It cannot be done. You can't fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal.”

William S. Burroughs book The Western Lands

Source: The Western Lands (1987), ch. 2

Sherrilyn Kenyon photo

“If it makes you feel better, I’m not happy with the way all this went down any more than you are. But sometimes things have to go wrong in order to go right. (Acheron)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Kiss of the Night

Mitch Albom photo

“To know you're going to die, and to be prepared for it at any time.
That's better. That way you can actually be more involved in your life
while you're living.”

Mitch Albom Tuesdays with Morrie

Source: Tuesdays with Morrie

“The biggest mistake any of us can make is thinking that love is a feeling, an emotion. It's not that at all. It's an action.”

Luanne Rice (1955) American author

Source: Follow the Stars Home

“When it’s all set and done the purpose of life is to live the best way we can. We all make mistakes and should definitely learn from them.”

N3du

Rowland Hill (preacher) photo

“We can do more good by being good than in any other way.”

Rowland Hill (preacher) (1744–1833) British preacher

P. 217.

“You can learn more about a person by watching them eat one meal than by listening to them speak for a whole day.”

Charles Sheffield book Proteus In The Underworld

Source: Behrooz Wolf (aka The Proteus Trilogy), Proteus In The Underworld (1995), Chapter 2 (p. 11)

Gautama Buddha photo

“There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting.”

Gautama Buddha (-563–-483 BC) philosopher, reformer and the founder of Buddhism

Related topics