Potatoes Quotes - Page 17

• I sweet potato what I sweet potato.

  Tom Robbins

  Sweet, Sweet Potatoes

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• And so, Thanksgiving. Its the most amazing holiday. Just think about it — it's a miracle that once a year so many millions of Americans sit down to exactly the same meal as one another, exactly the same meal they grew up eating, and exactly the same meal they ate a year earlier. The turkey. The sweet potatoes. The stuffing. The pumpkin pie. Is there anything else we all can agree so vehemently about? I don't think so.

  Nora Ephron

  Sweet, Holiday, Thinking

  FaceBook post by Nora Ephron from Nov 22, 2012

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• Judging foods without regard to price is a rich mans game, and yet poor people can be gourmets able to discern a good potato from a bad one.

  Mark Kurlansky

  Food, Games, People

  Mark Kurlansky (2013). “Choice Cuts”, p.26, Random House

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• Propose to an Englishman any principle, or any instrument, however admirable, and you will observe that the whole effort of the English mind is directed to find a difficulty, a defect, or an impossibility in it. If you speak to him of a machine for peeling a potato, he will pronounce it impossible: if you peel a potato with it before his eyes, he will declare it useless, because it will not slice a pineapple.

  Charles Babbage

  Eye, Effort, Mind

  Charles Babbage (1989). “Scientific and Miscellaneous Papers”

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• A man who thinks too much about his ancestors is like a potato-the best part of him is underground.

  Henry S. F. Cooper

  Men, Thinking, Tree

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• Old school new school need to learn though I burn baby, burn like Disco Inferno Burn slow like blunts with ya-yo Peel more skins than Idaho potato

  The Notorious B.I.G.

  Weed, Baby, School

  Song: Who Shot Ya?, Album: Born Again, 1999

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• Even that was all consumed after two days, and the patients had to try to choke down fresh fish, just boiled in water, without salt, pepper or butter; mutton, beef, and potatoes without the faintest seasoning

  Nellie Bly

  Two, Water, Trying

  Nellie Bly (2015). “10 Days in a Madhouse (Annotated)”, p.66, Golgotha Press

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• Nobody had ever told me junk food was bad for me. Four years of medical school, and four years of internship and residency, and I never thought anything was wrong with eating sweet rolls and doughnuts, and potatoes, and bread, and sweets.

  Robert Atkins

  Sweet, School, Years

  "What the doctor ordered" by William Leith, www.theguardian.com. February 9, 2003.

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• I've spent a lot of Thanksgivings on the road with my band, so anytime that I can spend Thanksgiving with my family in a traditional aspect, eating sweet potatoes and cranberries and stuffing and all the trappings of Thanksgiving and then get on a treadmill the next day extra long, I'm happy.

  Richie Sambora

  Thanksgiving, Sweet, Next Day

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• In films, we are trained by the American way of moviemaking to think we must understand and 'get' everything right away. But this is not possible. When you eat a potato, you don't understand each atom of the potato!

  Jean-Luc Godard

  Thinking, Atoms, Way

  "Ideas, Not Plots, Inspire Jean-Luc Godard" by David Sterritt, www.csmonitor.com. August 03, 1994.

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• There are those who say that trees shade the garden too much, and interfere with the growth of the vegetables. There may be something in this:but when I go down the potato rows, the rays of the sun glancing upon my shining blade, the sweat pouring down my face, I should be grateful for shade.

  Charles Dudley Warner

  Grateful, Garden, Vegetables

  Charles Dudley Warner (2006). “My Summer in a Garden: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.17, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The word 'vegetable' has no precise botanical meaning in reference to food plants, and we find that almost all parts of plants have been employed as vegetables - roots (carrot and beet), stems (Irish potato and asparagus), leaves (spinach and lettuce), leaf stalk (celery and Swiss chard), bracts (globe artichoke), flower stalks and buds (broccoli and cauliflower), fruits (tomato and squash), seeds (beans), and even the petals (Yucca and pumpkin).

  Charles Heiser

  Flower, Vegetables, Squash

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• The French fried potato has become an inescapable horror in almost every public eating place in the country. 'French fries', say the menus, but they are not French fries any longer. They are a furry-textured substance with the taste of plastic wood.

  Russell Baker

  Country, Food, America

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• In the southern half of the country perhaps no crop has larger possibilities for quick increase of production of food for both men and animals than the sweet potato.

  David F. Houston

  Country, Sweet, Animal

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• If they want to come out and watch me paint or dig potatoes or mend fences, I don't care. I don't do interviews not because I have anything to hide, but when you retire, the word has a meaning to me. It's a place in life, a part of the journey. You just don't quit work. You develop an attitude where you can do what you please.

  Tom T. Hall

  Attitude, Journey, Watches

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• At Thanksgiving, my mom always makes too much food, especially one item, like 700 or 800 pounds of sweet potatoes. She's got to push it during the meal. "Did you get some sweet potatoes? There's sweet potatoes. They're hot. There's more in the oven, some more in the garage. The rest are at the Johnson's."

  Louie Anderson

  Thanksgiving, Mom, Sweet

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• When I was in kindergarten, I had one line in a little play. I said, I am Patrick Potato and this is my cousin, Mrs. Tomato, and I heard laughter. I wanted to be an actress from that moment on.

  Doris Roberts

  Happiness, Cousin, Laughter

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• The ability and intelligence is remarkable...Prince was able to walk the length of the furrow, between the growing potatoes, and when he was done you might never guess that he passed that way, so sure and careful was every footfall.

  Paul Heiney

  Horse, Done, Growing

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• The human diet consists of just nine plants: corn, rice, wheat, potatoes, cassava, sorghum, millet, beans, barley, rye and oats.

  Bill Bryson

  Oats, Corn, Nine

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• There is no Latter day Saint who dies after having lived a faithful life who will lose anything because of having failed to do certain things when opportunities were not furnished him or her. In other words, if a young man or a young woman has no opportunity of getting married, and they live faithful lives up to the time of their death, they will have all the blessings, exaltation, and glory that any man or woman will have who had this opportunity and improved it. But if they think marshmallows and sweet potatoes are delicious, they're going to burn. That is sure and positive.

  Lorenzo Snow

  Thanksgiving, Sweet, Blessing

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• I was raised almost entirely on turnips and potatoes, but I think that the turnips had more to do with the effect than the potatoes.

  Marlene Dietrich

  Women, Food, Memorable

  Marlene Dietrich (2012). “Marlene Dietrich's ABC: Wit, Wisdom, & Recipes”, p.121, Open Road Media

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• The road to hell is paved with leeks and potatoes

  Julie Powell

  Writing, Sisterhood, Skulls

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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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• Rub a half potato on your wart
  and wrap it in a damp cloth. Close
  your eyes and whirl three times and throw.
  Then bury rag and spud exactly where they fall.

  Richard Hugo

  Fall, Eye, Rags

  Richard Hugo, Ripley S. Hugo (1992). “The Real West Marginal Way: A Poet's Autobiography”, p.169, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I am thinking of the onion again. . . . Not self-righteous like the proletarian potato, nor a siren like the apple. No show-off like the banana. But a modest, self-effacing vegetable, questioning, introspective, peeling itself away, or merely radiating halos like ripples.

  Erica Jong

  Thinking, Self, Vegetables

  Erica Jong (1991). “Becoming light: poems, new and selected”, HarperCollins Publishers

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