Radishes Quotes

• The beet is the most intense of vegetables

  Tom Robbins

  Vegetables, Beets, Intense

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Jitterbug Perfume”, p.1, Bantam

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• Plant a radish, get a radish, never any doubt. That's why I love vegetables, you know what they're about!

  Tom Jones

  Funny Inspirational, Food, Vegetables

  Harvey Schmidt, Tom Jones (2000). “The Fantasticks”, p.92, Hal Leonard Corporation

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• What do I know of man's destiny? I could tell you more about radishes.

  Samuel Beckett

  Fate, Destiny, Men

  Samuel Beckett (1995). “The Complete Short Prose, 1929-1989”, p.192, Grove Press

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• The worm in the radish doesn't think there is anything sweeter.

  Sholom Aleichem

  Thinking, Worms

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• A tiny radish of passionate scarlet, tipped modestly in white.

  Clementine Paddleford

  Food, White, Cooking

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• As any gardener will tell you, the cycles of nature require patience...Even a fast-growing vegetable like a radish requires time.

  M. J. Ryan

  Patience, Vegetables, Growing

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• Radishes grow just about anywhere. People think, 'Oh it's just a radish.' But radishes are delicious, and people don't think of cooking them.

  Emeril Lagasse

  Thinking, People, Cooking

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• There is nothing that is comparable to it, as satisfactory or as thrilling, as gathering the vegetables one has grown.

  Alice B. Toklas

  Vegetables, Gardening, Gathering

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• The beet is the most intense of vegetables. The radish, admittedly, is more feverish, but the fire of the radish is a cold fire, the fire of discontent, not of passion. Tomatoes are lusty enough, yet there runs through tomatoes an undercurrent of frivolity. Beets are deadly serious.

  Tom Robbins

  Running, Food, Passion

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Jitterbug Perfume”, p.1, Bantam

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• What a strange machine man is! You fill him with bread, wine, fish, and radishes, and out comes sighs, laughter, and dreams.

  Nikos Kazantzakis

  Dream, Laughter, Wine

  "Zorba the Greek". Book by Nikos Kazantzakis, Ch. 23, 1946.

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• Thank you, horseradish, for being neither a radish nor a horse. What you are is a liar food.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Horse, Liars

  "Thank You Notes"". Book by Jimmy Fallon, www.today.com. 2011.

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• The first gatherings of the garden in May of salads, radishes and herbs made me feel like a mother about her baby - how could anything so beautiful be mine. And this emotion of wonder filled me for each vegetable as it was gathered every year. There is nothing that is comparable to it, as satisfactory or as thrilling, as gathering the vegetables one has grown.

  Alice B. Toklas

  Beautiful, Mother, Baby

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• Spare feast! a radish and an egg.

  William Cowper

  Eggs, Spares

  William Cowper, James Sambrook (2016). “William Cowper: The Task and Selected Other Poems”, p.146, Routledge

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• Slavic peoples get their physical characteristics from potatoes, their smoldering inquietude from radishes, their seriousness from beets.

  Tom Robbins

  Beets, Potatoes, Characteristics

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Jitterbug Perfume”, p.1, Bantam

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• Our vegetable garden is coming along well, with radishes and beans up, and we are less worried about revolution that we used to be.

  E. B. White

  Garden, Vegetables, Revolution

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• Lyda was an exuberant, even a dramatic gardener.... She was always holding up a lettuce or a bunch of radishes with an air of resolute courage, as though she had shot them herself.

  Renata Adler

  Garden, Air, Dramatic

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• The first gathering of salads, radishes and herbs made me feel like a mother about her baby - how could anything so beautiful be mine?

  Alice B. Toklas

  Beautiful, Mother, Baby

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• Like a man made after supper of a cheese-paring: when a' was naked, he was, for all the world, like a forked radish, with a head fantastically carved upon it with a knife.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Knives, Naked

  'Henry IV, Part 2' (1597) act 3, sc. 2, l. [335]

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• Hello, Harry!” she said. “Er — my name’s Barny,” said Harry, flummoxed. “Oh, have you changed that too?” she asked brightly. “How did you know — ?” “Oh, just your expression,” she said. Like her father, Luna was wearing bright yellow robes, which she had accessorized with a large sunflower in her hair. Once you got over the brightness of it all, the general effect was quite pleasant. At least there were no radishes dangling from her ears.

  J. K. Rowling

  Father, Hair, Expression

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• Granana doesn't understand what the big deal is. She didn't cry at Olivia's funeral, and I doubt she even remembers Olivia's name. Granana lost, like, ninety-two million kids in childbirth. All of her brothers died in the war. She survived the Depression by stealing radish bulbs from her neighbors' garden, and fishing the elms for pigeons. Dad likes to remind us of this in a grave voice, as if it explained her jaundiced pitilessness: "Boys. Your grandmother ate pigeons."

  Karen Russell

  Brother, Dad, War

  "Haunting Olivia" by Karen Russell, www.newyorker.com. June 13, 2005.

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• Two years ago, I was saying as I planted seeds in the garden, "I must believe in these seeds, that they fall into the earth and grow into flowers and radishes and beans." It is a miracle to me because I do not understand it. The very fact that they use glib technical phrases does not make it any less a miracle, and a miracle we all accept. Then why not accept God's miracles?

  Dorothy Day

  Believe, Flower, Fall

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• The organic gardener does not think of throwing away the garbage. She knows that she needs the garbage. She is capable of transforming the garbage into compost, so that the compost can turn into lettuce, cucumber, radishes, and flowers again...With the energy of mindfulness, you can look into the garbage and say: I am not afraid. I am capable of transforming the garbage back into love.

  Nhat Hanh

  Flower, Thinking, Looks

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• I don't like to leave what I'm going to eat in other people's hands, so I'll pack my own lunch. I chop up a salad with lots of greens - everything from spinach, baby spinach, arugula, cucumber, avocado, radish, cauliflower, and green olives to parsley and cilantro, all chopped really fine - with a piece of wild salmon. I even bring my own tea in a Thermos.

  Miranda Kerr

  Baby, Hands, Lunch

  "Love Letters: Miranda Tells All". Harper’s Bazaar Interview, www.harpersbazaar.com. February 24, 2016.

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• It's a critical fallacy of our times ... that a writer should 'grow,' 'change,' or 'develop.' This fallacy causes us to expect from children or radishes: 'grow,' or there's something wrong with you. But writers are not radishes. If you look at what most writers actually do, it resembles a theme with variations more than it does the popular notion of growth.

  Margaret Atwood

  Children, Growth, Doe

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• The garden is doing so well, we have so many greens and radishes that everyone is enjoying. Also, we are using one square as a compost bin, the Green Team is collecting food waste at lunch. Things are looking great, a huge thank you again.

  Mike Moreno

  Team, Garden, Squares

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