Tomatoes Quotes - Page 3

• Face it girls. I'm older and I have more insurance.

  Fannie Flagg

  Girl, Faces

  "Fried Green Tomatoes". www.imdb.com. 1991.

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• I'm not saying my golf game went bad, but if I grew tomatoes, they'd come up sliced.

  Lee Trevino

  Dirty, Golf, Games

  Quoted in Scholastic Coach,'Coaches' Corner', Dec 1982.

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• I think most of us are torn. We have at least two people at war in our body. One person wants to retire and grow fabulous tomatoes, and the other wants to stand up on a pedestal and be worshipped and get bigger and bigger and bigger until she explodes.

  Bette Midler

  War, Thinking, Two

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• When people tell you to walk a certain way, it's like not thinking of a purple tomato. You can't not do it.

  Helen Fisher

  Thinking, Purple, People

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• ...To be honest, I'd be the last person who should be doling out gardeinng advice. I don't have the patience for growing things. Yes, I realize there's nothing quite as satisfying as eating food that you've pulled up from the ground and that's why, at the height of the planting season, I bury cans of tomato soup in my backyard and dig them up in late spring.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Spring, Advice, Backyards

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• Strangely enough, the first character in Fried Green Tomatoes was the cafe, and the town. I think a place can be as much a character in a novel as the people.

  Fannie Flagg

  Writing, Character, Thinking

  Fannie Flagg (2013). “Fried Green Tomatoes, Can't Wait to Get to Heaven, and I Still Dream About You: Three Bestselling Novels”, p.458, Random House

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• I grew up in a family where the women were just nuts. They didn't stand around in cardigans making polite conversation while they chopped tomatoes.

  Nadia Giosia

  Nuts, Grew Up, Cardigans

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• Danger is to adventure what garlic is to spaghetti sauce. Without it, you just end up with stewed tomatoes.

  Tom Robbins

  Adventure, Sauce, Garlic

  "(Revisiting) The Syntax of Sorcery: An Interview with Tom Robbins". Interview with Tony Vigorito, realitysandwich.com. May 9, 2014.

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• Clary wondered what exactly peanut-fish-olive-tomato soup tasted like.

  Cassandra Clare

  Soup, Olives, Peanuts

  Cassandra Clare (2012). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls”, p.136, Simon and Schuster

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• You rarely get satisfaction sitting in an easy chair. If you work in a garden on the other hand, and it yields beautiful tomatoes, that's a good feeling.

  Dan Buettner

  Beautiful, Garden, Yield

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• Amazingly, we’ve become a culture that considers Twinkies, Cocoa Puffs, and Mountain Dew safe, but raw milk and compost-grown tomatoes unsafe.

  Joel Salatin

  Mountain, Puff, Safe

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• I found that when I went from Albany to Savannah, that I needed to put that white rice away, and I needed to turn that into Savannah red rice because they were big into that sausage, tomato-y, bell pepper-y rice mixture.

  Paula Deen

  White, Bells, Sausage

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• Tomato and lettuce-especially lettuce-is an abomination.

  Mimi Sheraton

  Abomination, Lettuce

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• Ripe vegetables were magic to me. Unharvested, the garden bristled with possibility. I would quicken at the sight of a ripe tomato, sounding its redness from deep amidst the undifferentiated green. To lift a bean plant's hood of heartshaped leaves and discover a clutch of long slender pods handing underneath could make me catch my breath.

  Michael Pollan

  Garden, Sight, Vegetables

  Michael Pollan (2007). “Second Nature: A Gardener's Education”, p.17, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Look, getting bullied in school and coming home crying in the rain and my mom making me a can of Campbell's Tomato Soup with some oysterettes. It was comfort food; that is what food should be.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Mom, Rain, Home

  Source: www.usatoday.com

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• I am open to the accusation that I see compost as an end it itself. But we do grow some real red damn tomatoes such as you can't get in the stores. And potatoes, beans, lettuce, collards, onions, squash, cauliflower, eggplant, carrots, peppers. Dirt in you own backyard, producing things you eat. Makes you wonder.

  Roy Blount, Jr.

  Real, Eggplant, Squash

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• In this world of uncertainty and woe, one thing remains unchanged: Fresh, canned, pureed, dried, salted, sliced, and served with sugar and cream, or pressed into juice, the tomato is reliable, friendly, and delicious. We would be nothing without it.

  Laurie Colwin

  Friendly, Would Be, Juice

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• The world is wider in all directions, more dangerous and bitter, more extravagant and bright. We are making hay when we should be making whoopee; we are raising tomatoes when we should be raising Cain and Lazarus.

  Annie Dillard

  Hay, Cain, World

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• Many of the things the slow food people honor were innovations within historical times. Somebody had to be the first European to eat a tomato.

  Nathan Myhrvold

  People, Innovation, Historical

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• Once I was on a plane and a woman said to me, 'Now, what's the matter with my tomatoes?' And I said, 'Well, it's a bit difficult to see from here.' She took offence and said, 'I was only trying to be friendly.'

  Alan Titchmarsh

  Trying, Friendly, Matter

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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• They got how many trillions of dollars in gold and silver and jewelry and art and real estate and stained glass and they're passing the basket on Sunday so they can get the tomato farmers' donation?

  Ted Nugent

  Art, Real, Sunday

  "Vegans, Keep Out: It's Hunting Season". Interview with Danny Hakim, The New York Times, September 27, 2005.

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• For as long as I can remember, my father saved. He saves money, he saves disfigured sticks that resemble disfigured celebrities, and most of all, he saves food. Cherry tomatoes, sausage biscuits, the olives plucked from other people's martinis --he hides these things in strange places until they are rotten. And then he eats them.

  David Sedaris

  Father, Food, Strange Places

  David Sedaris (2000). “Me talk pretty one day”

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• What's this?" "That's a mango." Simon stared at Jace. Sometimes it really is like Shadowhunters were from an alien planet. "I don't think I've seen one of those that wasn't already cut up," Jace mused. "I like mangoes." Simon grabbed the mango and tossed it into the cart. "Great. What else do you like?" Jace pondered for a moment. "Tomato soup," he said finally. "Tomato soup? You want tomato soup and a mango for dinner?" Jace shrugged. "I don't really care about food.

  Cassandra Clare

  Cutting, Thinking, Care

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• These days it's cool to be ethnic and to be different, but when I was a kid, it was not cool - at all. My friends would come over and my mom would make crepes with eggs, stuffed with mozzarella cheese, tomatoes and spinach. And they'd be like, 'What is this?'

  Giada De Laurentiis

  Mom, Kids, Eggs

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• At home, I make a large batch of tomato sauce and freeze it in meal-size portions in freezer bags.

  Joe Bastianich

  Home, Meals, Bags

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