Tomatoes Quotes

• Home grown tomatoes, home grown tomatoes
  What would life be like without homegrown tomatoes
  Only two things that money can't buy
  That's true love and home grown tomatoes.

  John Denver

  Summer, Food, Home

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  Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit; wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.

  Miles Kington

  Funny, Hilarious, Wise

  The Independent (UK), March 28, 2003.

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• A world without tomatoes is like a string quartet without violins.

  Laurie Colwin

  Summer, Food, July

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• The tomato offers its gift of fiery color and cool completeness.

  Pablo Neruda

  Food, Color, Cooking

  Pablo Neruda, Margaret Sayers Peden (2000). “Selected Odes of Pablo Neruda”, p.143, Univ of California Press

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• It's difficult to think anything but pleasant thoughts while eating a homegrown tomato.

  Lewis Grizzard

  Summer, Food, Garden

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• There is nothing better than picking up sun-warmed tomatoes and smelling them, feeling them and scrutinizing their shiny skins for imperfections, dreaming of ways to serve them.

  Jose Andres

  Dream, Imperfection, Feelings

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• You need an entire life just to know about tomatoes.

  Ferran Adria

  Needs, Knows

  "This column will change your life: mise en place" by Oliver Burkeman, www.theguardian.com. August 30, 2014.

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• A tomato may be a fruit, but it is a singular fruit. A savory fruit. A fruit that has ambitions far beyond the ambitions of other fruits.

  E. Lockhart

  Ambition, May, Fruit

  E. Lockhart (2014). “The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks”, p.61, Hot Key Books

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• The tomato hides its griefs. Internal damage is hard to spot.

  Julia Child

  Grief, Food, Damage

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• He says I'm beautiful as a red tomato

  Jeanne DuPrau

  Beautiful, Red

  Jeanne DuPrau (2012). “The Books of Ember Omnibus”, p.84, Random House Books for Young Readers

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• The raw tomato, devoured in the garden when freshly picked, is a horn of abundance of simple sensations, a radiating rush in one's mouth that brings with it every pleasure. . . . a tomato, an adventure.

  Muriel Barbery

  Adventure, Simple, Garden

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• When I eat a tomato I look at it the way anyone else would. But when I paint a tomato, then I see it differently.

  Henri Matisse

  Creative, Looks, Way

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• Of plants tomatoes seemed the most human, eager and fragile and prone to rot.

  John Updike

  Food, Plant, Humans

  John Updike (2012). “The Witches of Eastwick: A Novel”, p.7, Random House

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• Do not ask your children to strive for extraordinary lives. Such striving may seem admirable, but it is the way of foolishness. Help them instead to find the wonder and the marvel of an ordinary life. Show them the joy of tasting tomatoes, apples and pears. Show them how to cry when pets and people die. Show them the infinite pleasure in the touch of a hand. And make the ordinary come alive for them. The extraordinary will take care of itself.

  William Martin

  Inspirational, Life, Sympathy

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• You say tomato, I say bourbon and coke.

  Drew Carey

  Coke, Bourbon

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• Just when you're beginning to think pretty well of people, you run across somebody who puts sugar on sliced tomatoes.

  Will Cuppy

  Beauty, Running, Thinking

  Will Cuppy (1951). “How to Get from January to December”

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• Some kids have never seen what a real tomato looks like off the vine. They don't know where a cucumber comes from. And that really affects the way they view food. So a garden helps them really get their hands dirty, literally, and understand the whole process of where their food comes from. And I wanted them to see just how challenging and rewarding it is to grow your own food, so that they would better understand what our farmers are doing every single day across this country and have an appreciation for ... that American tradition of growing our own food and feeding ourselves.

  Michelle Obama

  Country, Appreciation, Children

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• Grilled cheese and tomato soup is the ultimate comfort meal.

  Ina Garten

  Comfort, Meals, Soup

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• High-tech tomatoes. Mysterious milk. Supersquash. Are we supposed to eat this stuff? Or is it going to eat us?

  Anita Manning

  Funny Inspirational, Food, Cooking

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• I took three steps back; he nudged the door closed with his foot. “You like Mexican?” he asked. “I—” I’d like to know what you’re doing inside my house! “Tacos?” “Tacos?” I echoed. This seemed to amuse him. “Tomatoes, lettuce, cheese.” “I know what a taco is!

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Doors, Feet, Mexican

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2009). “Hush, Hush”, p.98, Simon and Schuster

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• I'm a tomato freak, but sometimes you have to get it in ketchup form for people to be able to open to tomatoes.

  Tori Amos

  People, Able, Freak

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• I maintain that anyone who still refuses to see, for instance, a horse galloping on a tomato, must be an idiot. A tomato is also a child's balloon - Surrealism, again, having suppressed the word "like."

  Andre Breton

  Horse, Men, Imagination

  "Break of Day". Book by Andrä Breton, 1999.

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• Stock up your pantry and your freezer with things that aren't perishable: Your favorite jar of tomato sauce that lists "tomato" as the first ingredient, lots of grains, olive oils, vinegars, tomato pastes, onions, shallots. When you go to the store, you only have to pick up meats and produce.

  Giada De Laurentiis

  Oil, Meat, Onions

  "Giada De Laurentiis' Slim-Cooking Secrets". Interview with Alison Prato, www.health.com. February 04, 2013.

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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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• You know, a heart can be broken, but it keeps on beating, just the same.

  Fannie Flagg

  Love, Broken Heart, Knows

  Fannie Flagg (2013). “Fried Green Tomatoes, Can't Wait to Get to Heaven, and I Still Dream About You: Three Bestselling Novels”, p.54, Random House

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