Eggplant Quotes

• I doubt that the imagination can be suppressed. If you truly eradicated it in a child, he would grow up to be an eggplant.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Children, Growing Up, Imagination

  Ursula K. Le Guin, Susan Wood (1980). “The Language of the Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction”, p.42, Ultramarine Publishing

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• Gleaming skin; a plump elongated shape: the eggplant is a vegetable you'd want to caress with your eyes and fingers, even if you didn't know its luscious flavor.

  Roger Verge

  Eye, Vegetables, Skins

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• When you cut that eggplant up and you roast it in the oven and you make the tomato sauce and you put it on top, your soul is in that food, and there's something about that that can never be made by a company that has three million employees.

  Mario Batali

  Cutting, Soul, Three

  "Making a Meal with Mario Batali". Interview with Debbie Elliott, www.npr.org. October 15, 2005.

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• Very well, I will marry you if you promise not to make me eat eggplant.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Food, Promise, Cholera

  "Love in the Time of Cholera". Book by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, www.theguardian.com. 1985.

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• When I was alone, I lived on eggplant, the stove top cook's strongest ally.

  Laurie Colwin

  Food, Vegetables, Cooking

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• How can people say they don't eat eggplant when God loves the color and the French love the name? I don't under'stand.

  Jeff Smith

  Food, Godly, Color

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• When I was alone, I lived on eggplant, the stove top cook's strongest ally. I fried it and stewed it, and ate it crisp and sludgy, hot and cold. It was cheap and filling and was delicious in all manner of strange combinations. If any was left over, I ate it cold the next day on bread.

  Laurie Colwin

  Hot And Cold, Next Day, Allies

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• The smell of manure, of sun on foliage, of evaporating water, rose to my head; two steps farther, and I could look down into the vegetable garden enclosed within its tall pale of reeds - rich chocolate earth studded emerald green, frothed with the white of cauliflowers, jeweled with the purple globes of eggplant and the scarlet wealth of tomatoes.

  Doris Lessing

  Summer, Garden, Vegetables

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• I like hot dogs. I like eggplant. I like pizza and creamed corn and beer. But I don't like Arabs.

  Zach Braff

  Dog, Beer, Hot

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• Chicks dig a dude who’s sporting the latest eggplant turtleneck styles.

  Jordan Sonnenblick

  Style, Chicks, Turtlenecks

  Jordan Sonnenblick (2010). “Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie”, p.55, Scholastic Inc.

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• In the water bucket a melon and an eggplant nodding to each other

  Yosa Buson

  Vegetables, Water, Buckets

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• The dark prince sat astride his black steed, his sable cape flowing behind him. A golden circlet bound his blond locks, his handsome face was cold with the rage of battle, and... "And his arm looked like an eggplant," Clary muttered to herself in exasperation.

  Cassandra Clare

  Dark, Black, Battle

  Cassandra Clare (2012). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls”, p.27, Simon and Schuster

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• I am open to the accusation that I see compost as an end it itself. But we do grow some real red damn tomatoes such as you can't get in the stores. And potatoes, beans, lettuce, collards, onions, squash, cauliflower, eggplant, carrots, peppers. Dirt in you own backyard, producing things you eat. Makes you wonder.

  Roy Blount, Jr.

  Real, Squash, Backyards

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• To this day I cannot see a bright daffodil, a proud gladiola, or a smooth eggplant without thinking of Papa. Like his plants and trees, I grew up as a part of his garden.

  Leo Buscaglia

  Garden, Thinking, Tree

  Leo F. Buscaglia (1992). “Papa, my father: a celebration of dads”, Ballantine Books

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• I'm a vegetarian who doesn't like eggplant parmesan. Isn't that awful? I'm also sick of portobello mushrooms. People are like,"A vegetarian's coming to dinner," so they serve those.

  Candy Crowley

  Mushrooms, People, Sick

  Interview with Rachael Ray, www.rachaelraymag.com. November 1, 2005.

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