59 Quotes by Linda McCartney

We stopped eating meat many years ago. During the course of a Sunday lunch we happened to look out of the kitchen window at our young lambs playing happily in the fields. Glancing down at our plates, we suddenly realized that we were eating the leg of an animal who had until recently been playing in a field herself. We looked at each other and said, "Wait a minute, we love these sheep-they're such gentle creatures. So why are we eating them?" It was the last time we ever did.

I don’t need a lot of money. Simplicity is the answer for me.

Oppression won’t win, the light comes from within.

We moved there a year ago, just as a weekend place. Then we decided to move out of London completely. We will eventually have to work it out a bit more, because you can’t have a little boy living with his sisters like that, can you? But we like the idea of closeness.

If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be vegetarian. We feel better about ourselves and better about the animals, knowing we’re not contributing to their pain.

Anyone who cares about the Earth – really cares – must stop eating animals.

We spent last night listening to Liverpool football team on the radio, wanting them to win so badly. Paul supports Liverpool. He was Everton for a while because of his family – but it’s all Liverpool now.

There’s the feeling, and the right reading – that’s all you really need to know; the right light and the feeling.

Our kids haven’t any airs about them. I don’t like posh kids who don’t like dirty dolls or expect a chauffeur every time they go out.