Potatoes Quotes - Page 12

• They don't live here. They live in Heaven.' Where's that?' I don't know,' I said. 'Enos says it's right here, on this side of the wall, but I never saw an angel over here. Kuba says it's in Russia. Olek says Washington America.' What's Washington America?' Enos says it's a place with no wall and no lice and lots of potatoes.

  Jerry Spinelli

  Wall, Angel, Russia

  Jerry Spinelli (2003). “Milkweed”, p.136, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• I had a nickname in junior high, and I'm loathe to say this: 'potato lady.'

  Rashida Jones

  Nicknames, Juniors, Junior High

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• In the summer you want fresh, light and sort of quick things; in winter you want things that are comforting, so your body really tells you you want to go towards potatoes, apples, fennel, things that are warm and comforting. And loin of pork.

  Ina Garten

  Summer, Winter, Light

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• My father was grounded, a very meat-and-potatoes man. He was a baker.

  Anthony Hopkins

  Father, Men, Meat

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• Too bad guys aren’t like Mr. Potato Head Where you can pick and choose which parts you want. Then we might come up with a guy who meets your standards. - Maggie

  Susane Colasanti

  Guy, Want, Might

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• Being a kind, emperor, or president is mighty small potatoes compared to being a mother. Commanding an army is little more than sweeping a street compared with training a boy or girl. The mother of Moses did more for the world than all the kinds that Egypt ever had. Oh, you wait until you reach the mountains of eternity, then read the mothers' names in God's Hall of Fame.

  Billy Sunday

  Girl, Mother, Army

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• Albert and I would spend hours and hours looking at them. Cleo had this big magnifying glass on his desk, and we'd find centipedes and grasshoppers and beetles and potato bugs, ants . . . and put them in a jar and look at them. They have the sweetest little faces and the cutest expressions. After we'd looked at them all we wanted to, we'd put them in the yard and let them go on about their business.

  Fannie Flagg

  Glasses, Expression, Ants

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• Hot dogs and Red Vines and potato chips and French fries are my favorite foods.

  Betty White

  Dog, Hot, Vines

  "Betty White Reveals the Secret to Her Longevity" by Dahvi Shira, people.com. August 25, 2012.

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• 'Constitutional' is just a real pip of a word. Positively rolls off the tongue. In fact, it's downright fun to say. 'Con-stit-too-shun-al.' It's the verbal equivalent of skipping down the street with an ice cream cone in your hand. It's like a semantic bag of Lays potato chips. You simply can't just say it once.

  Paul Feig

  Fun, Real, Ice Cream

  "Test Marketing a New Term ..." by Paul Feig, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 25, 2005.

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• I'm really into food; it's one of my favourite things - everything from potato waffles to lobster.

  Paloma Faith

  Lobster, Waffles, Favourite

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• I'm not a potato sack; I've never sat on my couch. If I'm home, I'm cleaning, feeding my dogs, doing stuff. Life is too precious to waste time.

  Gisele Bundchen

  Dog, Home, Stuff

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• My personality, when tasked with creating meals, goes something like this: Is there a way we can make this more difficult? Because let's do that. I don't mean to complicate things. It's just - why buy pre-packaged potato salad when you can spend your morning boiling potatoes and flipping out because there's no dill in the house?

  Sloane Crosley

  Morning, Mean, Creating

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• Rule number one of anime," Simon said. He sat propped up against a pile of pillows at the foot of his bed, a bag of potato chips in one hand and the TV remote in the other. He was wearing a black T-shirt that said I BLOGGED YOUR MOM and a pair of jeans that were ripped in one knee. "Never screw with a blind monk.

  Cassandra Clare

  Mom, Anime, Hands

  Cassandra Clare (2009). “Sample of the CITYs”, p.47, Simon and Schuster

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• Well, what did you have for lunch?” I snapped. “Surely that’s not top secret superhero information.” “Steak with mashed potatoes and a side salad,” Striker replied. “And a piece of chocolate cheesecake for dessert.” I gave up on conversation after that. I was too jealous of the cheesecake to continue.

  Jennifer Estep

  Jealous, Lunch, Superhero

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• I was just peeling some potatoes for dinner and they all looked like crisp white potatoes until I cut them in half. Every single one had a rotten, gray core. [. . .] I feel like the whole world is black, rotting, and evil. Even when it looks crisp on the outside, that's a lie, because you can't trust anything - on the inside it's nothing like mold. [. . .] So, see, nothing good is ever going to happen, and anyone who says it is, is lying to you.

  Jaclyn Moriarty

  Lying, Cutting, White

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• Even during the rationing period, during World War II, we didn't have the anxiety that we'd starve, because we grew our own potatoes, you know? And our own hogs, and our own cows and stuff, you know.

  James Earl Jones

  War, Food, Anxiety

  "The Voice of Triumph". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 29, 1996.

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• It was among farmers and potato diggers and old men in workhouses and beggars at my own door that I found what was beyond these and yet farther beyond that drawingroom poet of my childhood in the expression of love, and grief, and the pain of parting, that are the disclosure of the individual soul.

  Lady Gregory

  Pain, Grief, Men

  Lady Gregory (1919). “The Kiltartan Poetry Book”, p.16, Library of Alexandria

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• Somali is turning into a desert. Rwanda, you can hardly find a place to plant a potato, it's so crowded.

  Jim Fowler

  Desert, Plant, Crowded Places

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• You say potato; I say potahto..." I say integrity; you say deceit.

  Melissa Marr

  Integrity, Deceit

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• High fashion has the shelf life of potato salad. And when past its prime, it is similarly deadly.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Fashion, Past, Salad

  Barbara Kingsolver (2011). “High Tide in Tucson”, p.46, Faber & Faber

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• She dreams a lot. She dreams of Ondines and falling maidens and houses burning in the night. But search her dreams all you like and you'll never find Prince Charming. No knight on a white horse gallops into her dreams to carry her away. When she dreams of love, she dreams of smashed potatoes.

  Jerry Spinelli

  Dream, Horse, Fall

  Jerry Spinelli (2012). “The Stargirl Collection”, p.237, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Why don't women have respect for themselves nowadays? What happen to the woman who learned her grandmama's recipes and made her man sweet potato pie? I tell you, they don't make 'em like they used to. Will my real women stand up, please?

  Brandon T. Jackson

  Sweet, Real, Men

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

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• I did not know that the planning for biological and chemical warfare was so widespread in England, and even in France before France fell. It was news to me that there had been talk, even in the First World War, of dropping Colorado beetles on German potato crops and that kind of thing.

  Nicholson Baker

  War, England, Colorado

  "Nicholson Baker: Human Smoke". Interview with James Mustich, www.barnesandnoble.com. April 7, 2008.

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• Meat is a big deal in my life. I do love breakfast food, but I don't think that's extraordinary. I'm a normal American. We love eggs and meat and potatoes and gravy.

  Nick Offerman

  Thinking, Breakfast Food, Eggs

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• I'll never forget my first experience of swede. It was at school and I thought I was getting mashed potato. I've never got over it.

  Paul Merton

  School, Firsts, Never Forget

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