Coconuts Quotes

• The two basic items necessary to sustain life are sunshine and coconut milk.

  Dustin Hoffman

  Witty, Sunshine, Cowboy

  "Fictional character: Ratso Rizzo". "Midnight Cowboy", www.imdb.com. 1969.

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• I drink a lot of coconut water. It balances out all the other toxic stuff I put into my body.

  Rihanna

  Water, Balance, Toxic

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• In the garden of gentle sanity,
  May you be bombarded by coconuts of wakefulness.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Garden, Bombarded By, May

  "Timely Rain: Selected Poetry of Chogyam Trungpa".

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• Love is also like a coconut which is good while it is fresh, but you have to spit it out when the juice is gone, what's left tastes bitter.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Love, Sad, Gone

  Bertolt Brecht (1964). “Baal, A Man's a Man, and The Elephant Calf: Early Plays by Bertolt Brecht”

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• For I am coconut / and the heart of me / is sweeter / than you know.

  Nikki Grimes

  Heart, Knows

  Nikki Grimes (2003). “Bronx Masquerade”, p.42, Penguin

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• I think that the heart is a lot like those wonderful fruit, like coconut and mangoes, you know, you have to break the skin, you have to break it open to get to the good part.

  Saul Williams

  Heart, Thinking, Skins

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• The cyclone ends. The sun returns; the lofty coconut trees lift up their plumes again; man does likewise. The great anguish is over; joy has returned; the sea smiles like a child.

  Paul Gauguin

  Children, Men, Sea

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• The only time I feel at ease is swinging up and down in a coconut tree.

  Ray Davies

  Tree, Insanity, Ease

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• I'm just taking care of myself: Eating less, exercising more, drinking a lot of coconut water.

  Jennie Garth

  Drinking, Exercise, Water

  "Jennie Garth Explains How She Got So Skinny" by Allison Corneau, www.usmagazine.com. August 24, 2012.

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• 150 people die every year from being hit by falling coconuts. Not to worry, drug makers are developing a vaccine.

  Jim Carrey

  Fall, Vaccines, Years

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• The coconut trees, lithe and graceful, crowd the beach like a minuet of slender elderly virgins adopting flippant poses.

  William Manchester

  Beach, Ocean, Elderly

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• Coconut oil has been described as the “World's Healthiest Dietary Oil”. There is a mountain of historical evidence and medical research to verify this fact

  Bruce Fife

  Oil, Historical, Mountain

  Bruce Fife (2005). “Eat Fat Look Thin: A Safe and Natural Way to Lose Weight Permanently”, p.12, Piccadilly Books, Ltd.

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• I happen to love coconut, particularly for that sweet and crunchy texture it adds to any dish.

  Marcus Samuelsson

  Sweet, Texture, Add

  "11 Delicious Coconut Recipes" by Marcus Samuelsson, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 8, 2011.

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• Her hands were empty now, as empty as her heart, which itself was a coconut shell with its meat scooped out.

  Thrity Umrigar

  Heart, Hands, Meat

  Thrity Umrigar (2009). “The Space Between Us: A Novel”, p.7, Harper Collins

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• Coconut oil is the healthiest oil on earth.

  Bruce Fife

  Oil, Earth

  Bruce Fife (2013). “The Coconut Oil Miracle, 5th Edition”, p.15, Penguin

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• sometimes you get run down. sometimes life throws dirt in your eyes and it stings and you can't see for a few minutes. even after you get it out your eyes are all red and your vision is shitty... but eventually, whether through tears or maybe just time... you start to see even clearer than before. life is not always good. which is why music exists. why i believe God exists. and why there's always a pint of coconut milk ice cream in my freezer.

  Hayley Williams

  Running, Believe, Eye

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• I was sometimes called 'coconut' when I was at school.

  David Oyelowo

  School, Sometimes

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• Coconut milk is the only thing on this planet that comes identically to mother's milk.

  Dick Gregory

  Mother, Milk, Planets

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• I drink coconut water before my workouts. It has just the right amount of calories and electrolytes to get me going. My body has actually started craving it.

  Jennifer Morrison

  Workout, Water, Body

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

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• I'll admit that I do quite like drinks that come in coconut shells. So there's always that.

  Danica McKellar

  Shells, Drink

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• Coconut oil contains the most concentrated natural source of medium-chain fatty acids (MCFA) available. Substituting coconut oil for other vegetable oils in your diet will help promote weight loss.

  Bruce Fife

  Loss, Vegetables, Fatty Acids

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• I enjoy using coconut oil - not only for my skin and hair, but I'll digest it.

  Nicole Ari Parker

  Hair, Oil, Skins

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• Yes, we could solve for why, but we could also eat another slice of coconut cake.

  Sam Lipsyte

  Cake, Solve

  Sam Lipsyte (2013). “The Fun Parts: Stories”, p.128, Macmillan

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• I wish I could tell you about the South Pacific. The way it actually was. The endless ocean. The infinite specks of coral we called islands. Coconut palms nodding gracefully toward the ocean. Reefs upon which waves broke into spray, and inner lagoons, lovely beyond description. I wish I could tell you about the sweating jungle, the full moon rising behind the volcanoes, and the waiting. The waiting. The timeless, repetitive waiting.

  James A. Michener

  Ocean, Moon, Islands

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• My wife is on a new diet. Coconuts and bananas. She hasn't lost weight, but can she climb a tree.

  Henny Youngman

  Funny, Food, Humor

  "The Haunted Smile: The Story of Jewish Comedians in America". Book by Lawrence J. Epstein, 2001.

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