Mashed Potatoes Quotes

• Whoever would have guessed that in the land of cheap sausages and mashed potatoes there could be such a change which would actually bring the French from Paris every weekend to invade Britain en masse to eat great food and drink great wine.

  Robin Leach

  Wine, Weekend, Land

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• My favorite meal is turkey and mashed potatoes. I love Thanksgiving, it's just my favorite. I can have Thanksgiving all year round.

  Cindy Margolis

  Thanksgiving, Kids, Years

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• I'm a lager drinker. I'm quite a stupid lager drinker. I do like my lager and mashed potatoes.

  Rhona Mitra

  Stupid, Potatoes, Drinkers

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• My friend said to me, You know what I like? Mashed potatoes. I was like, Dude, you have to give me time to guess. If you're going to quiz me you have to insert a pause.

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Humor, Giving

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• I always remind people from outside our state that there’s plenty of room for all Alaska’s animals — right next to the mashed potatoes.

  Sarah Palin

  Animal, Alaska, People

  "Sarah Palin on animal rights". Interview with Andrew Kirschner, kirschnerskorner.com. January 26, 2016.

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• My most memorable meal is every Thanksgiving. I love the food: The turkey and stuffing; the sweet potatoes and rice, which come from my mother's Southern heritage; the mashed potatoes, which come from my wife's Midwestern roots; the Campbell's green bean casserole; and of course, pumpkin pie.

  Douglas Conant

  Mother, Sweet, Memorable

  "Thanksgiving Stories: A Recipe for Celebration" by Suzannah Galland, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 23, 2016.

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• Shakespeare is like mashed potatoes, you can never get enough of him.

  Frank McCourt

  Potatoes, Enough

  Frank McCourt (1999). “Angela's Ashes: A Memoir”, p.274, Simon and Schuster

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• To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.

  Bette Davis

  Inspirational, Life, Dream

  Bette Davis (1962). “The lonely life: an autobiography”, Putnam's

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• Today's brains are yesterday's mashed potatoes.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Yesterday, Brain, Today

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• And if you worry that not finishing the food on your plate is a slap in the face of all the hungry people everywhere, you are not living in reality. The truth is that you either throw the food out or you throw it in, but either way it turns to waste. World hunger will not be solved by finishing the garlic mashed potatoes on your plate.

  Geneen Roth

  Reality, People, Worry

  Geneen Roth (2011). “Women Food and God: An Unexpected Path to Almost Everything”, p.153, Simon and Schuster

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• Don’t tell me you’re going to eat a mashed-potato sandwich

  Veronica Roth

  Sandwiches, Potatoes

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• When I was a kid, my mother used to feed me mashed-potato sandwiches, brussel sprout sandwiches; my brain cells were starving from lack of food. I'll eat anything. I'll eat dirt.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Mother, Kids, Cells

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• I grew up in Austria, and for me real comfort food is Wiener Schnitzel. Wiener Schnitzel and mashed potatoes because it reminds me of my youth... It reminds me when I grow up and it feels very comforting.

  Wolfgang Puck

  Growing Up, Real, Comforting

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• My first pastoral letter's gonna be a condemnation of light beer and instant mashed potatoes -- I hate those two things.

  Timothy M. Dolan

  Hate, Beer, Light

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• I didn't leave home until 27. I was an only child raised in Philadelphia by my mother and grandmother. My grandmother controlled the stove. She made a lot of potato meals - mashed potato, potato souffle, potato pancakes. When we didn't have electricity we ate romantically, by candlelight.

  Jill Scott

  Mother, Children, Home

  "Jill Scott: 'In Botswana I ate wopani worms. They were terrible. They crawl and have legs'". Interview with John Hind, www.theguardian.com. June 18, 2011.

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• It was Joseph Smith who taught me how to prize the endearing relationships of father and mother, husband and wife; of brother and sister, son and daughter, mashed potatoes and gravy.

  Parley P. Pratt

  Thanksgiving, Daughter, Mother

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• You can never get enough of 'Jeopardy.'

  Kirsten Dunst

  Happiness, Simple, Satisfaction

  "Kirsten Dunst: after the apocalypse" by Xan Brooks, www.theguardian.com. October 4, 2011.

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• I can't really cook, but the first dish I ever made was for my girlfriend, Eleanor. I made chicken breast wrapped in ham, homemade mashed potatoes, and gravy.

  Louis Tomlinson

  Girlfriend, Ham, Potatoes

  "Exclusive Interview With 1D's Louis!". Interview with Emily Laurence, www.seventeen.com. July 9, 2012.

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• I have a corn creamer that I love. It extracts pulp and juice from kernels, and I simmer that down into a creamed corn that has an almost mashed potato-like consistency. I add butter and hit it with chopped fresh chives at the end for an accent of color.

  Nick Offerman

  Color, Consistency, Corn

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• Now the Thanksgiving meal is just so unnecessarily difficult. I mean even mashed potatoes - it's like the most difficult kind of, you know, medieval idea. All right, instead of just cooking them, why don't you spend, like, eight hours peeling them and then we'll have to mash them up. It feels like prison labor, really.

  Jim Gaffigan

  Mean, Eight, Ideas

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Beer drinkers have been duped by mass marketing into the belief that it makes sense to drink only one brand of beer. In truth, brand loyalty in beer makes no more sense than 'vegetable loyalty' in food. Can you imagine it? “No thanks, I'll pass on the mashed potatoes, carrots, bread and roast beef. Me, I'm strictly a broccoli man.'

  Stephen Beaumont

  Loyalty, Beer, Men

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• I don't think any other holiday embraces the food of the Midwest quite like Thanksgiving. There's roasted meat and mashed potatoes. But being here is also about heritage. Cleveland is really a giant melting pot - not only is my family a melting pot, but so is the city.

  Michael Symon

  Thanksgiving, Holiday, Thinking

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• Zen... does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes.

  Alan Watts

  Spiritual, Humor, Godly

  "The Way of Zen". Book by Alan Watts, 1957.

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• I heard the opening bar of 'Help' as I headed down Polk Street. Every single time I've heard that tune I've taken it as some message from God, a warning of things to come, a perfect description of my mashed-potato character

  Oscar Zeta Acosta

  Taken, Character, Perfect

  Oscar Zeta Acosta (2013). “Autobiography of a Brown Buffalo”, p.51, Vintage

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• My biggest addictions have been chocolate cake, mashed potatoes, and butter sandwiches.

  Frank Iero

  Cake, Addiction, Chocolate

  "Loveline" with Adam Carolla and Dr Drew, www.youtube.com. April 4, 2005.

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