Peas Quotes

• Being pretty on the inside means you don't hit your brother and you eat all your peas - that's what my grandma taught me.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Funny, Brother, Sibling

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• Here are sweet peas, on tiptoe for a flight; With wings of gentle flush o'er delicate white, And taper fingers catching at all things, To bind them all about with tiny rings.

  John Keats

  Sweet, Wings, White

  John Keats, Helen Vendler (1990). “Poetry Manuscripts at Harvard”, p.34, Harvard University Press

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• For a hungry man, green peas are more shiny than gleaming pearls.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Men, Pearls, Green

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• How lucious lies the pea within the pod.

  Emily Dickinson

  Lying

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• Lives are snowflakes - unique in detail, forming patterns we have seen before, but as like one another as peas in a pod (and have you ever looked at peas in a pod? I mean, really looked at them? There's not a chance you'd mistake one for another, after a minute's close inspection.)

  Neil Gaiman

  Life, Mistake, Mean

  "American Gods". Book by Neil Gaiman, June 19, 2001.

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• A minister has to be able to read a clock. At noon, it's time to go home and turn up the pot roast and get the peas out of the freezer.

  Garrison Keillor

  Home, Able, Noon

  Garrison Keillor (1990). “Lake Wobegon Days”, p.83, Penguin

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• I'm obsessed with broccoli, carrots, celery, string beans, snap peas, black kale, brussels sprouts, cabbage - I could go on! They used to call me 'rabbit' when I was a kid. I hate mushrooms, though. I apologize to fungi lovers, but this way, there's more for you!

  Lisa Edelstein

  Hate, Kids, Kale

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• Mostly, I spend my time being a mother to my two children, working in my organic garden, raising masses of sweet peas, being passionately involved in conservation, recycling and solar energy.

  Blythe Danner

  Mother, Sweet, Children

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• I am as comfortless as a pilgrim with peas in his shoes - and as cold as Charity, Chastity or any other Virtue.

  Lord Byron

  Shoes, Charity, Misery

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• I'm good in the kitchen. I can cook seafood, collard greens, black-eyed peas.

  Monique Coleman

  Kitchen, Black, Cooks

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• All I wanted was to be a pea of being inside the green pod of time.

  Billy Collins

  Green, Wanted

  Billy Collins (2012). “The Trouble with Poetry and Other Poems”, p.20, Pan Macmillan

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• An election cannot give a country a firm sense of direction if it has two or more national parties which merely have different names but are as alike in their principles and aims as peas in the same pod.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Country, Party, Names

  Fireside Chat in the night before signing the Fair Labor Standards, June 24, 1938.

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• The sower may mistake and sow his peas crookedly; the peas make no mistake, but come up and show his line.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Mistake, Lines

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.4050, Delphi Classics

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• Our full humanity is contingent on our hospitality; we can be complete only when we are giving something away; when we sit at the table and pass the peas to the person next to us we see that person in a whole new way.

  Alice Waters

  Giving, Humanity, Tables

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• A monkey was carrying two handfuls of peas. One little pea dropped out. He tried to pick it up, and split twenty. He tried to pick up the twenty, and split them all. Then he lost his temper, scattered the peas in all directions and ran away

  Leo Tolstoy

  Two, Twenties, Splits

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• What you discover about life’s shell game is that it’s hardest to follow the pea when you’re the pea.

  Robert Breault

  Funny Life, Games, Shells

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• I have a few cavities. I don't like to call them cavities, though - I like to call them 'places to put stuff'. 'Do you know where I can store a pea' 'Yes, I have some locations available.'

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Humor, Stuff

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• There must be a way to get more of these in me faster, thought the inventor of pea soup as he sat eating peas.

  Dana Gould

  Soup, Way, Eating

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• If you want to grow up to be a big, strong pea, you have to eat your candy," Papa Pea would say.

  Amy Krouse Rosenthal

  Strong, Growing Up, Papa

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• Dried peas and beans, being rather on the dull side, much like dull people respond readily to the right contacts.

  Irma S. Rombauer

  Food, People, Cooking

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• There are few pleasures like really burrowing one's nose into sweet peas.

  Angela Thirkell

  Sweet, Nature, Smell

  Angela Thirkell (1968). “The Brandons, and others”, Hamish Hamilton

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• I never dream in French, but certain French words seem better or more fun than English words - like 'pois chiches' for chick peas!

  Lydia Davis

  Dream, Fun, English Words

  Our Live Chat with Lydia Davis, www.newyorker.com. December 10, 2009.

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• I liked playing Morph in Mash and Peas and doing Phil Daniels in the Blur Rock Profile was a giggle too.

  Paul Putner

  Rocks, Profile, Blur

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• Peas went with carrots as infallibly as ham went with eggs. For years I thought carrots and peas grew on the same vine.

  Peg Bracken

  Years, Eggs, Vines

  Peg Bracken (1982). “A Window Over the Sink”, Avon Books

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• She could not explain or quite understand that it wasn't altogether jealousy she felt, it was rage. And not because she couldn't shop like that or dress like that. It was because that was what girls were supposed to be like. That was what men - people, everybody - thought they should be like. Beautiful, treasured, spoiled, selfish, pea-brained. That was what a girl should be, to be fallen in love with. Then she would become a mother and she'd be all mushily devoted to her babies. Not selfish anymore, but just as pea-brained. Forever.

  Alice Munro

  Love, Beautiful, Girl

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