Vegetables Quotes - Page 27

• I just planted the family vegetables yesterday. You name it, I grow it.

  Steve Zahn

  Names, Yesterday, Grows

  "Riding Along with Steve Zahn". Interview with Aaron Hillis, www.ifc.com. May 14, 2009.

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• On the show, we are not trying to get people to eat their vegetables; we are not trying to get people to become Democrats. We are basically trying to encourage people to get involved with public life so that politics isn't left to the wealthy and privileged.

  Martin Sheen

  People, Trying, Politics

  Interview with David Kupfer, progressive.org. July 1, 2003.

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• I quickly realized that more than any other vegetable, the potato evokes strong reactions in people. As the head of communications for the International Potato Centre in Peru put it, 'No one gets worked up over lettuce like they do the potato.'

  Elizabeth A. Johnson

  Strong, Communication, People

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• If you have never tasted a braised vegetable, you'll find it is a revelation.

  James Beard

  Revelations, Ifs

  James Beard (2015). “James Beard's Theory and Practice of Good Cooking”, p.167, Open Road Media

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• For the first time American astronauts on the International Space Station ate vegetables grown in space. In other words, even space is getting more rain than California.

  Conan O'Brien

  Rain, California, Space

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• No vegetable exists which is not better slightly undercooked.

  James Beard

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• It may indeed be doubted whether butchers' meet is anywhere a necessary of life. Grain and other vegetables, with the help of milk, cheese, and butter, or oil where butter is not to be had, afford the most plentiful, the most wholesome, the most nourishing, and the most invigorating diet. Decency nowhere requires that any man should eat butchers' meat.

  Adam Smith

  Men, Vegetarianism, Oil

  Adam Smith (1869). “An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, Volume 2”, p.473

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• I don’t eat meat because meat brings out negative qualities such as fear, anger, anxiety, aggressiveness, etc. Vegetables peacefully offer themselves to the earth when ripe, thus allowing a sublime and peaceful thought-conscio usness

  Carlos Santana

  Anxiety, Peaceful, Sublime

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• I just became a vegetable for three months. I couldn't talk to people. I was very ill and that was part of the reason I left college.

  Adam Ant

  College, People, Three

  "You wouldn't know him from Adam". Interview with Higginbotham, www.theguardian.com. September 7, 2002.

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• Throughout the whole vegetable, sensible, and rational world, whatever makes progress towards maturity, as soon as it has passed that point, begins to verge towards decay.

  Robert Blair

  Maturity, Progress, Decay

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• Mayonnaise, like hollandaise, was invented by the French to cover up the flavor of spoiled flesh, stale vegetables, rotten fish. Beware the sauce! Where food comes beslobbered with an elegant slime you may well suspect the integrity of the basic ingredients.

  Edward Abbey

  Integrity, Cover Ups, Rotten

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• Most men would feel shame if caught preparing with their own hands precisely such a dinner, whether of animal or vegetable food, as is every day prepared for them by others. Yet till this is otherwise we are not civilized, and, if gentlemen and ladies, are not true men and women. This certainly suggests what change is to be made.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Animal, Men, Hands

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.132, Graphic Arts Books

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• Get in some pasta or brown rice with your vegetables like a sweet potato and some meat. You need a little bit of everything on your plate to make sure your energy levels are right for the match.

  Jozy Altidore

  Sweet, Energy, Meat

  Source: www.askmen.com

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• You have to eat right. I eat a lot of vegetables. Keep a very, very healthy diet. It translates to how your body feels. The better your body feels, the better endurance and stamina you're going to have.

  Jozy Altidore

  Healthy, Endurance, Body

  Source: www.askmen.com

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• Some people are absolutely funny and you want to wish them Happy Thanksgiving in funniest way possible. Here is the list of Funny Thanksgiving sayings. Just chose the quote you want to wish that person. Vegetables are a must on a diet. I suggest carrot cake, zucchini bread and pumpkin pie.

  Jim Davis

  Thanksgiving, Zucchini, Cake

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• The cabbage surpasses all other vegetables. If, at a banquet, you wish to dine a lot and enjoy your dinner, then eat as much cabbage as you wish, seasoned with vinegar, before dinner, and likewise after dinner eat some half-dozen leaves. It will make you feel as if you had not eaten, and you can drink as much as you like.

  Cato the Younger

  Wish, Half, Dozen

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• My mother was making $135 a week, but she had resilience and imagination. She might take frozen vegetables, cook them with garlic, onion and Spam, and it would taste like a four-star dinner.

  Andre Dubus

  Mother, Stars, Imagination

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• PALM, n. A species of tree . . . of which the familiar "itching palm" ("Palma hominis") is most widely distributed . . . . This noble vegetable exudes a kind of invisible gum, which may be detected by applying to the bark a piece of gold or silver.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Tree, Gold, Noble

  Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.2476, Delphi Classics

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• Man is a carnivorous production, And must have meals, at least one meal a day; He cannot live, like woodcocks, upon suction, But, like the shark and tiger, must have prey; Although his anatomical construction Bears vegetables, in a grumbling way, Your laboring people think beyond all question, Beef, veal, and mutton better for digestion.

  Lord Byron

  Food, Men, Thinking

  Lord Byron (2017). “Don Juan”, p.102, BookRix

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• If your blood is formed from eating the foods I teach [fruits and green-leaf vegetables] your soul will shout for joy and triumph over all misery of life. For the first time you will feel a vibration of vitality through your body (like a slight electric current) that shakes you delightfully.

  Arnold Ehret

  Blood, Joy, Soul

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• If vegetarians eat vegetables, what do humanitarians eat

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Humor, Vegan Food

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• Vegetables....a waste of good plate space

  Mark Hoppus

  Space, Waste, Plates

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• I eat more vegetables than the average vegetarian.

  Robert Atkins

  Average, Vegetarian

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• You may have the best vegetables, you may be the most capable cook, but, if the copper vessel in which you prepare the vegetable soup is not tinned, the concretion you cook will be highly poisonous! So 'tin' your heart with truth, right conduct, peace and divine love; it will then become a vesssel fit for repeating holy name or symbols, meditation, religious vows, pilgrimage, ritualistic worship and the other dishes that you prepare in it.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Religious, Heart, Names

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• Pray how does your asparagus perform?

  John Adams

  Food, Cooking, Asparagus

  Abigail Adams, John Adams, L. H. Butterfield, Marc Friedlaender, Mary-Jo Kline (1975). “The Book of Abigail and John: Selected Letters of the Adams Family, 1762-1784”, p.174, UPNE

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