Vegetables Quotes - Page 6

• I never eat salad. I make sure I don't put a lot of junk into my system, but I hate vegetables!

  Rihanna

  Hate, Junk, Salad

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• Life is like eating artichokes; you have got to go through so much to get so little.

  Tad Dorgan

  Love, Life, Littles

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• I never worry about diets. The only carrots that interest me are the number of carats in a diamond.

  Mae West

  Food, Humor, Sassy

  "The wit and wisdom of Mae West".

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• I keep my diet simple by sticking to mostly fruits and vegetables all day and then having whatever I want for dinner. I end up making healthy choices, like sushi or grilled fish, because I feel so good from eating well.

  Jennifer Morrison

  Simple, Eating Well, Healthy Choices

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I love root vegetables: carrots, parsnips, and turnips.

  Julia Child

  Roots, Carrots, Parsnips

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Cooking is 80 percent confidence, a skill best acquired starting from when the apron strings wrap around you twice.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Animal, Skills, Miracle

  Barbara Kingsolver (2010). “Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: Our Year of Seasonal Eating”, p.282, Faber & Faber

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• It's been many years since I had such an exemplary vegetable.

  Jane Austen

  Years, Exemplary

  "Fictional character: Mr. Collins". "Pride and Prejudice", www.imdb.com. 2005.

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• So, if I'm cooking, I'll be steaming vegetables, making some nice salad, that kind of stuff.

  Paul McCartney

  Nice, Cooking, Stuff

  Interview with Barbara Ellen, www.theguardian.com. July 17, 2010.

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• Things that influence me are my kids, their happiness, colorfulness, and vitality. My husband - he comes up with some great quotes and ideas. God - He is the Ultimate artist. And what I see around me - flowers, leaves, trees, birds, fruit, vegetables.

  Mary Engelbreit

  Husband, Flower, Kids

  Source: sara-mincy.blogspot.com

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• Artichoke: That vegetable of which one has more at the finish than at the start of dinner.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Food, Cooking, Dinner

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• And he gave it for his opinion, "that whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass, to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind, and do more essential service to his country, than the whole race of politicians put together.

  Jonathan Swift

  Country, Agriculture, Race

  Gulliver's Travels "A Voyage to Brobdingnag" ch. 7 (1726)

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• I don't want any vegetables, thank you. I paid for the cow to eat them for me.

  Douglas Coupland

  Thank You, Thanksgiving, Want

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• An idealist is one who, on noticing that roses smell better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.

  H. L. Mencken

  Life, Food, Smell

  H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.617, Vintage

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• The first gatherings of the garden in May of salads, radishes and herbs made me feel like a mother about her baby - how could anything so beautiful be mine. And this emotion of wonder filled me for each vegetable as it was gathered every year. There is nothing that is comparable to it, as satisfactory or as thrilling, as gathering the vegetables one has grown.

  Alice B. Toklas

  Beautiful, Mother, Baby

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• Cabbage as a food has problems. It is easy to grow, a useful source of greenery for much of the year. Yet as a vegetable it has original sin, and needs improvement. It can smell foul in the pot, linger through the house with pertinacity, and ruin a meal with its wet flab. Cabbage also has a nasty history of being good for you.

  Jane Grigson

  Food, Years, Smell

  Jane Grigson (2007). “Jane Grigson's Vegetable Book”, p.125, U of Nebraska Press

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• My fridge is really just vegan: coconut water, Gatorade (my favorite!), cucumbers, mint, kale, vegetables, ginger, and wheat grass.

  Serena Williams

  Kale, Water, Cucumbers

  Source: www.bonappetit.com

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• I'm on the diet where you eat vegetables and drink wine. That's a good diet. I lost 10 pounds and my driver's license.

  Larry the Cable Guy

  Wine, Pounds, Drink

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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, Apples

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

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• I look forward to the spring vegetables because the season is so short. Mushrooms, edible foraged herbs, wild leeks, early season asparagus.

  David Chang

  Spring, Mushrooms, Asparagus

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• My final, considered judgment is that the hardy bulb [garlic] blesses and ennobles everything it touches - with the possible exception of ice cream and pie.

  Angelo Pellegrini

  Food, Blessed, Ice Cream

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• All the arts are based on the presence of man, only photography derives an advantage from his absence. Photography affects us like a phenomenon in nature, like a flower or a snowflake whose vegetable or earthly origins are an inseparable part of their beauty.

  Andre Bazin

  Photography, Art, Flower

  André Bazin (2005). “What is Cinema?”, p.13, Univ of California Press

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• Primarily I'm a meat man, although once in a while I toy with a few vegetables.

  Nat King Cole

  Men, Meat, Toys

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• Natural bodies are divided into three kingdomes of nature: viz. the mineral, vegetable, and animal kingdoms. Minerals grow, Plants grow and live, Animals grow, live, and have feeling.

  Carl Linnaeus

  Nature, Science, Animal

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• Last night we had three small zucchini for dinner that were grown within fifty feet of our back door. I estimate they cost somewhere in the neighborhood of $371.49 each.

  Andy Rooney

  Night, Zucchini, Doors

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• Our vegetable garden is coming along well, with radishes and beans up, and we are less worried about revolution that we used to be.

  E. B. White

  Garden, Revolution, Worried

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