Definition of Vegetarian

Vegetarian

One who holds that vegetables and fruits are the only proper food for man. Strict vegetarians eat no meat, eggs, or milk.

Of or pertaining to vegetarianism; as, a vegetarian diet.

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Vegetarian Quotations

If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian.
Paul McCartney

I was a vegetarian until I started leaning toward the sunlight.
Rita Rudner

Vegetarian - that's an old Indian word meaning lousy hunter.
Andy Rooney

If slaughterhouses had glass walls the whole world would be vegetarian.
Linda McCartney

I am not systematic at all when it comes to religion. I just love life. And I'm not judgmental. And I'm a vegetarian.
Erykah Badu

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.
Morarji Desai

I do not say that one who is vegetarian is full of compassion and one who is not, is otherwise. We sometimes find people, who are vegetarians, are very bad people.
Morarji Desai

The vegetarian movement is an ancient movement and is not quite a modern one.
Morarji desai

I almost fainted. There was no family history. I had been eating a vegetarian diet and I exercised.
Rue McClanahan

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

I've been a vegetarian for years and years. I'm not judgemental about others who aren't, I just feel I cannot eat or wear living creatures.
Drew Barrymore

I couldn't kill a chicken, I couldn't kill a cow - I was a vegetarian too at that time - so I thought, well what is there that I could kill? I couldn't kill this and I couldn't kill that.
Ellen Burstyn

I'm pretty much a vegetarian.
Robin Day

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

Everyone's a pacifist between wars. It's like being a vegetarian between meals.
Colman McCarthy

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.
Steve Albini

It was a matter of survival for the local people, but it was the most violent scene I have ever witnessed. The people in my group, feeling helpless, were all spellbound and aghast at the same time. I became a vegetarian shortly after that.
Wendie Malick

And so there I was living in California from Brooklyn, New York, and it was this whole new world for me and I was meeting vegetarians. I thought, let me try this vegetarian thing. I got really into that.
Warren Cuccurullo

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.
Elizabeth Berkley

I'm a vegetarian - I think there's a strong possibility, had I not become a vegetarian, I would not be working now. I became a vegetarian about 25 years ago, and I did it out of concern for animals. But I immediately began having more energy and feeling better.
Bob Barker

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.
Chelsea Clinton

I became a vegetarian out of compassion for animals and to live as healthy as possible. I realized soon after that I was truly concerned with nonviolent consumption and my own health, a vegan diet was the best decision.
Davey Havok

But I'm also a vegetarian so there's another factor I guess.
Radha Mitchell

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.
Delia Smith

When I work, I try to eat as much vegetarian as possible. When I do Cupid, I eat vegetarian because I need the energy. I've got those wings on my back.
Karl Urban

I'm not a vegetarian.
Carol Alt

The United Nations did a study just over two years ago, and that blew my mind. I started thinking that if people are vegetarian for one day a week, that makes a huge difference!
Emily Deschanel

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

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.
John McLaughlin

It occurred to me that I just didn't see how I could go ahead and continue to eat meat. It just seemed so... cannibalistic to me. And so, I'm a vegetarian, and I have been ever since.
Alice Paul

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Vegetarian Translations

vegetarian in Dutch is vegetarisch
vegetarian in German is Vegetarier
vegetarian in Portuguese is vegetariano
vegetarian in Spanish is vegetariano

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