Beets Quotes

• The beet is the most intense of vegetables

  Tom Robbins

  Vegetables, Intense, Radishes

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

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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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• Breathe properly. Stay curious. And eat your beets.

  Tom Robbins

  Breathe, Curious

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• What did the carrot say to the wheat? Lettuce rest, I'm feeling beet.

  Shel Silverstein

  Funny, Feelings, Gardening

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• Nobody ever says, "Can I have your beets?

  Bill Cosby

  Funny, Humor

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• The beet must be uprooted.

  Roland Freisler

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• I have some weird habits. For instance, I love beets. Show me a salad bar and I will clean them out of their beets.

  Chris Pratt

  Bars, Salad, Habit

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Everything I do, I do on the principle of Russian borscht. You can throw everything into it beets, carrots, cabbage, onions, everything you want. What's important is the result, the taste of the borscht.

  Yevgeny Yevtushenko

  Vegetables, Important, Onions

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• I'm a beet freak. I put them in the pressure cooker.

  Julia Child

  Pressure, Freak, Cookers

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I love to use beets as a lip tint. It lasts all day.

  Shay Mitchell

  Use, Lasts, Lips

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

  Tom Robbins

  Potatoes, Characteristics, Seriousness

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

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• I said, "I'll take the T-bone steak." A soft voice mooed, "Oh wow." And I looked up and realized The waitress was a cow. I cried, "Mistake--forget the the steak. I'll take the chicken then." I heard a cluck--'twas just my luck The busboy was a hen. I said, "Okay no, fowl today. I'll have the seafood dish." Then I saw through the kitchen door The cook--he was a fish. I screamed, "Is there anyone workin' here Who's an onion or a beet? No? Your're sure? Okay then friends, A salad's what I'll eat." They looked at me. "Oh,no," they said, "The owner is a cabbage head.

  Shel Silverstein

  Mistake, Voice, Doors

  Shel Silverstein, “Strange Restaurant”

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• When I'm off the road, and I can really control my diet down to the calorie, I juice seven days a week. Every afternoon, whatever I have at hand, beets, carrots, ginger, whatever. I juice, literally, every single day. And on the road, I try to find fresh juice wherever I can.

  Henry Rollins

  Hands, Trying, Juice

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• I know when you think about the South, you think about fried foods, but we eat a tremendous amount of vegetables. I have my own garden, so vegetables have always been a big part of my life. I love broccoli. I love fresh beets. It's not all about the fried chicken and the biscuits.

  Paula Deen

  Garden, Thinking, Vegetables

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• I juice everything! Whether it's beet, carrot, or apple, I'll juice it. I always keep brown rice in the kitchen. I'll often pack a cooler full of food to have throughout the day when I'm busy.

  Misty May-Treanor

  Apples, Kitchen, Juice

  "Q and A with Volleyball Champion Misty May-Treanor". Interview with Alanna Nunez, www.shape.com. April 12, 2012.

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• Because...because...she came here with me.

  Suzanne Collins

  Hunger For Love, Games, Katniss

  Suzanne Collins (2008). “The Hunger Games”, p.130, Scholastic Inc.

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• The word 'vegetable' has no precise botanical meaning in reference to food plants, and we find that almost all parts of plants have been employed as vegetables - roots (carrot and beet), stems (Irish potato and asparagus), leaves (spinach and lettuce), leaf stalk (celery and Swiss chard), bracts (globe artichoke), flower stalks and buds (broccoli and cauliflower), fruits (tomato and squash), seeds (beans), and even the petals (Yucca and pumpkin).

  Charles Heiser

  Flower, Vegetables, Squash

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• I did as much as I could: raising chickens, pushing an ice-cream cart, bagging walnuts, driving a tractor on a beet farm, working on the railroad. I think this eclectic career helped me a lot in life.

  Charles R. Schwab

  Life Lesson, Thinking, Ice Cream

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• So, here’s what you do. You win, you go home. She can’t turn you down then, eh?” says Caesar encouragingly. “I don’t think it’s going to work out. Winning…won’t help in my case,” says Peeta. “Why ever not?” says Caesar, mystified. Peeta blushes beet red and stammers out. “Because…because…she came here with me.

  Suzanne Collins

  Home, Winning, Thinking

  Suzanne Collins (2009). “The Hunger Games”, p.125, Scholastic Inc.

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• No member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints who has canned peas, topped beets, hauled hay, shoveled coal, or helped in any way to serve others ever forgets or regrets the experience of helping provide for those in need.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Jesus, Regret, Church

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• Valentine's Day money-saving tips: Break up on February 13th, get back together on the 15th. In place of bubble bath, use lavender-scented dish-washing liquid. Forget rose petals. Sprinkle the bed with sliced beets!

  David Letterman

  Valentine, Rose, Together

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• I know a lot of people think of me and they like, oh that girl is really sexy, that girl is really put together, she would never do something as unladylike as a beet eating competition.

  Mindy Kaling

  Girl, Sexy, Thinking

  "Interview: Brian Baumgartner & Mindy Kaling from The Office". Interview with Emma Loggins, www.fanbolt.com. July 9, 2008.

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• Russians will consume marinated mushrooms and vodka, salted herring and vodka, smoked salmon and vodka, salami and vodka, caviar on brown bread and vodka, pickled cucumbers and vodka, cold tongue and vodka, red beet salad and vodka, scallions and vodka-anything and everything and vodka.

  Hedrick Smith

  Sarcastic, Mushrooms, Caviar

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• To put is still more plainly: the desire for security and the feeling of insecurity are the same thing. To hold your breath is to lose your breath. A society based on the quest for security is nothing but a breath-retention contest in which everyone is as taut as a drum and as purple as a beet.

  Alan Watts

  Purple, Feelings, Insecurity

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• Each of us, with money, gets further and further away from those moments where the hand pulls the beet root from the soil, shakes the fish from the net into the basket -- not to mention the way it separates us from one another, so that when enough money comes between people, they lie apart like parts of a chicken hacked up for stewing.

  Samuel R. Delany

  Money, Lying, Hands

  Samuel R. Delany (2011). “Tales of Neveryeon”, p.171, Wesleyan University Press

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