Vegetables Quotes - Page 15

• Whatever I decide will not work.  It's what people want that will work.  So no one decided whether you become a vegetarian or anything else.  What determines that is the availability of food.  If we run out of vegetation due to floods or natural disasters, people will consume meat and if we run out of meat they will consume vegetables.  I have no control over that.  That would be up to people.

  Jacque Fresco

  Running, Availability, People

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• Speaking biologically, fruit in a slightly shriveled state is holding its respiration and energy consumption down to the lowest possible level. It is like a person in meditation: his metabolism, respiration, and calorie consumption reach an extremely low level. Even if he fasts, the energy within the body will be conserved. In the same way, when mandarin oranges grow wrinkled, when fruit shrivels, when vegetables wilt, they are in the state that will preserve their food value for the longest possible time.

  Masanobu Fukuoka

  Orange, Meditation, Energy

  Masanobu Fukuoka (2010). “The One-Straw Revolution: An Introduction to Natural Farming”, p.88, New York Review of Books

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• In the Mexican repertoire there's a lot of super delicious things you can do with vegetables and beans and grains and all that sort of stuff. So I can do this thing.

  Rick Bayless

  Mexican, Stuff, Beans

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• You will be astonished when I tell you what this curious play of carbon amounts to. A candle will burn some four, five, six, or seven hours. What, then, must be the daily amount of carbon going up into the air in the way of carbonic acid! ... Then what becomes of it? Wonderful is it to find that the change produced by respiration ... is the very life and support of plants and vegetables that grow upon the surface of the earth.

  Michael Faraday

  Life, Growing Up, Science

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• Carob is a brown powder made from the pulverized fruit of a Mediterranean evergreen. Some consider carob an adequate substitute for chocolate because it has some similar nutrients (calcium, phosphorus), and because it can. when combined with vegetable fat and sugar, be made to approximate the colour and consistency of chocolate. Of course, the same arguments can as persuasively be made in favour of dirt.

  Sandra Boynton

  Food, Color, Consistency

  "Chocolate: The Consuming Passion". Book by Sandra Boynton, 1982.

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• But still, I’d be darned if I was going to be one of those Americans who stomp around Italy barking commands in ever-louder English. I was going to be one of those Americans who traversed Italy with my forehead knit in concentration, divining wordsw from their Latin roots and answering by wedging French cognates into Italian pronunciations spliced onto a standard Spanish verb conjugation.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Latin, Animal, Italian

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• Down South, even our vegetables have some pig hidden somewhere in it. A vegetable isn't a vegetable without a little ham hock.

  Paula Deen

  Pigs, Ham, Littles

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• If it's a cocktail party, I generally make five or six different things, and I try to choose recipes that feel like a meal: a chicken thing, a fish or shrimp thing, maybe two vegetable things, and I think it's fun to end the cocktail party with a sweet thing.

  Ina Garten

  Sweet, Fun, Party

  "Barefoot Contessa: Back to Basics". Q&A, www.washingtonpost.com. November 24, 2008.

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• I grow as many of our vegetables as I can, because my granddad was a professional gardener, and it's in the blood.

  Terry Pratchett

  Blood, Grows, Gardener

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• I don't like vegetables and most fruit.

  Emma Roberts

  Fruit

  Interview with Seventeen magazine, www.seventeen.com. June 12, 2007.

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• I cook mostly vegetarian vegetable and bean stews. Quinoa salads. I make my mother-in-law's recipe for chicken and barley stew all the time.

  Gail Simmons

  Mother, Law, Recipes

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• I support Alice Waters in her desire that there be a vegetable garden at the White House. I don't think they should rip up the Rose Garden, because that's something that I love. They should probably dig up another patch and grow some vegetables there.

  Martha Stewart

  Rip, Garden, Thinking

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• I wasn't eating the right kinds of calories. I didn't know about healthy carbs such as brown rice and lentils. Now I eat small meals throughout the day: oatmeal with cinnamon to start, fruit and yogurt as a snack, and vegetables or with chicken or tuna, and a healthy carb, like a yam, for lunch.

  Alison Sweeney

  Snacks, Lunch, Oatmeal

  "Alison Sweeney's Stay-Slim Secrets". Interview with Ashley Mateo, www.self.com. August 13, 2011.

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• Can you cook books and feed them to your husband? Stay at home with your mother. Learn to cook and clean. Grow vegetables.

  Tsitsi Dangarembga

  Mother, Husband, Book

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• In Cleveland, I'm so fortunate that we're surrounded by farms with an endless variety of beautiful vegetables. For me, I always eat very tightly with the season, even if the season is only six weeks.

  Michael Symon

  Beautiful, Cleveland, Six

  "Meat Man Michael Symon Does Meatless Monday". Interview with Peggy Neu, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 31, 2012.

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• I'm still that little girl who lisped and sat in the back of the car and threw vegetables at the back of her head when we drove home from the market. That never goes.

  Tracey Ullman

  Girl, Home, Car

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• Playwrights are like men who have been dining for a month in an Indian restaurant. After eating curry night after night, they deny the existence of asparagus.

  Peter Ustinov

  Food, Night, Men

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• I think in England you eat too much sugar and meat and not enough vegetables.

  Arsene Wenger

  Thinking, Ice Cream, Meat

  "French Lessons". www.theguardian.com. October 01, 2006.

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• The West is color. Its colors are animal rather than vegetable, the colors of earth and sunlight and ripeness.

  Jessamyn West

  Animal, Color, Earth

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• So when I do Chinese cooking, I mix everything together, then the kids have to eat their vegetables. They won't have the patience to pick them out.

  Martin Yan

  Patience, Kids, Cooking

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• Humans can be fairly ridiculous animals.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Animal, Miracle, Ridiculous

  Barbara Kingsolver (2010). “Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: Our Year of Seasonal Eating”, p.55, Faber & Faber

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• The execution was set for the 29th of March, at nine in the morning. This delay was due to a desire on the part of the authorities to act slowly and impersonally, in the manner of planets or vegetables.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Morning, Desire, Delay

  Jorge Luis Borges (2015). “Ficciones”, p.67, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Tobacco is my favorite vegetable.

  Frank Zappa

  My Favorite, Tobacco

  Interview on the Today Show NBC, 1993.

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• I have no pity for myself either. So let it be Veronal. But I wish Hercule Poirot had never retired from work and come here to grow vegetable marrows.

  Agatha Christie

  Wish, Pity, Hercule Poirot

  Agatha Christie (1985). “Agatha Christie: Five Complete Murder Mysteries”, Avenel

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• It requires twenty years for a man to rise from the vegetable state in which he is within his mother's womb, and from the pure animal state which is the lot of his early childhood, to the state when the maturity of reason begins to appear. It has required thirty centuries to learn a little about his structure. It would need eternity to learn something about his soul. It takes an instant to kill him.

  Voltaire

  Mother, Men, Maturity

  Francois Voltaire (1977). “The Portable Voltaire”, p.108, Penguin

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