Vegetables Quotes - Page 7

• My vegetable love should grow Vaster than empires, and more slow.

  Andrew Marvell

  Empires, Sexuality, Should

  "To His Coy Mistress" l. 7 (1681)

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• My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.

  Orson Welles

  Food, Health, Weight Loss

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• To grow up in intimate association with nature - animal and vegetable - is an irreplaceable form of wealth and culture.

  Miles Franklin

  Nature, Growing Up, Animal

  Miles Franklin (2017). “Childhood At Brindabella: My First Ten Years”, p.75, ETT Imprint

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• No occupation is more worthy of an intelligent and enlightened mind, than the study of Nature and natural objects; and whether we labour to investigate the structure and function of the human system, whether we direct our attention to the classification and habits of the animal kingdom, or prosecute our researches in the more pleasing and varied field of vegetable life, we shall constantly find some new object to attract our attention, some fresh beauties to excite our imagination, and some previously undiscovered source of gratification and delight.

  Joseph Paxton

  Nature, Science, Animal

  Sir Joseph Paxton (1838). “A Practical Treatise on the Cultivation of the Dahlia”, p.1

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• Microsoft has a new version out, Windows XP, which according to everybody is the 'most reliable Windows ever.' To me, this is like saying that asparagus is 'the most articulate vegetable ever.'

  Dave Barry

  Technology, Microsoft, Asparagus

  Dave Barry (2003). “Boogers Are My Beat: More Lies, but Some Actual Journalism”, p.177, Crown Archetype

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• The key dietary messages are stunningly simple: Eat less, move more, eat more fruits and vegetables, and don't eat too much junk food. It's no more complicated than that.

  Marion Nestle

  Food, Moving, Simple

  "A Conversation with Marion Nestle: Straight Talk About Obesity, Nutrition, and Food Policy". Interview with Jon Stewart, www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov. 2006.

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• The pleasure of eating should be an extensive pleasure, not that of the mere gourmet. People who know the garden in which their vegetables have grown and know that the garden is healthy will remember the beauty of the growing plants, perhaps in the dewy first light of morning when gardens are at their best. Such a memory involves itself with the food and is one of the pleasures of eating. (pg. 326, The Pleasures of Eating)

  Wendell Berry

  Morning, Memories, Garden

  Wendell Berry (2010). “What Are People For?: Essays”, p.151, Counterpoint Press

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• Do you like vegetables?" Sophie asked, hoping to steer the conversation towards a slightly less dangerous kind of food. "You is trying to change the subject," the Giant said sternly. "We is having an interesting babblement about the taste of the human bean. The human bean is not a vegetable.

  Roald Dahl

  Interesting, Trying, Giants

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• Seven Guidelines For a Healthy Diet
  1. Substitute low-fat foods for high-fat foods
  2. Cut down on meat-eat low on the food chain
  3. Avoid salty and sugary foods
  4. Cut down on sugar
  5. Emphasize whole grains
  6. Beware of alcohol
  7. Emphasize the Healthy Five:
  Raw unsalted nuts and sesame seeds
  Sprouted seeds such as soybeans
  Fresh raw wheat bran and wheat germ
  Yogurt and kefir
  Fresh fruits and vegetables

  Jane Fonda

  Loss, Cutting, Nuts

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• And I will never, ever respond to anybody - man, woman, vegetable, or mineral - who tells me to keep my mouth shut.

  Janice Dickinson

  Men, Mouths, Minerals

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• I stalk certain words... I catch them in mid-flight, as they buzz past, I trap them, clean them, peel them, I set myself in front of the dish, they have a crystalline texture to me, vibrant, ivory, vegetable, oily, like fruit, like algae, like agates, like olives... I stir them, I shake them, I drink them, I gulp them down, I mash them, I garnish them... I leave them in my poem like stalactites, like slivers of polished wood, like coals, like pickings from a shipwreck, gifts from the waves... Everything exists in the word.

  Pablo Neruda

  Past, Ivory, Fruit

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• in my garden I pick a musk melon feeling like a thief

  Yosa Buson

  Garden, Feelings, Thieves

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• The greatest delight the fields and woods minister is the suggestion of an occult relation between man and the vegetable. I am not alone and unacknowledged. They nod to me and I to them.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Food, Men, Cooking

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.34, Penguin

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• Red beans and ricely yours.

  Louis Armstrong

  Red, Beans

  Louis Armstrong, Thomas Brothers (2001). “Louis Armstrong, in His Own Words: Selected Writings”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• There's no getting blood out of a turnip.

  Frederick Marryat

  Blood, Turnips

  Frederick Marryat (1857). “Japhet, in Search of a Father ... A new edition”, p.13

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• I have lived temperately, eating little animal food, and that not as an aliment, so much as a condiment for the vegetables, which constitute my principal diet.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Animal, Vegetarian Diet, Vegetarianism

  B. L. Rayner, Thomas Jefferson (1834). “Life of Thomas Jefferson: with selections from the most valuable portions of his voluminious and unrivalled private correspondence : with portrait”, p.394

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• I recommend...bread, meat, vegetables, and beer.

  Sophocles

  Drinking, Book, Beer

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• It's ironic that those who till the soil, cultivate and harvest the fruits, vegetables, and other foods that fill your tables with abundance have nothing left for themselves.

  Cesar Chavez

  Justice, Diversity, Ironic

  Cesar Chavez (2008). “An Organizer's Tale: Speeches”, p.352, Penguin

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• I always take working out seriously, but before a shoot I do extra sit ups and squats. I also eat more vegetables and drink a ton of water, because it really helps my skin glow.

  Lily Aldridge

  Work Out, Water, Skins

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• One good thing about California is we have quite a broad-based economy. We provide more fruits and vegetables and produce to the United States than any other state. So we have actually the single largest agricultural sector in the country.

  Meg Whitman

  Country, California, Fruit

  "Former eBay CEO Shares Her Values In A New Book". Interview with Ari Shapiro, www.npr.org. January 25, 2010.

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• I used to visit and revisit it a dozen times a day, and stand in deep contemplation over my vegetable progeny with a love that nobody could share or conceive of who had never taken part in the process of creation. It was one of the most bewitching sights in the world to observe a hill of beans thrusting aside the soil, or a rose of early peas just peeping forth sufficiently to trace a line of delicate green.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Summer, Taken, Garden

  Nathaniel Hawthorne (2015). “Complete Short Stories of Nathaniel Hawthorne (Illustrated Edition): Over 120 Short Stories Including Rare Sketches From Magazines of the Renowned American Author of “The Scarlet Letter”, “The House of Seven Gables” and “Twice-Told Tales””, p.703, e-artnow

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• Hot lavender, mints, savory, marjoram; The marigold, that goes to bed wi' the sun, and with him rise weeping.

  William Shakespeare

  Hot, Herbs, Sun

  'The Winter's Tale' (1610-1) act 4, sc. 3, l. 103

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• Completely dried up, They've become beans.

  Santoka Taneda

  Beans

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• Rain is good for vegetables, and for the animals who eat those vegetables, and for the animals who eat those animals.

  Samuel Johnson

  Nature, Rain, Animal

  James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1799). “Boswell's Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour of the Hebrides, and Johnson's Diary of A Journey Into North Wales”, p.493

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• The people who say: 'You are what you eat' have always seemed addled to me. In my opinion, you are what you think, and if you don't think, you can eat all the meat in Kansas City and still be nothing but a vegetable.

  Russell Baker

  Thinking, Cities, Kansas City

  Russell Baker (1990). “The rescue of Miss Yaskell, and other pipe dreams”, Plume

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