Asparagus Quotes

• You know, when you get your first asparagus, or your first acorn squash, or your first really good tomato of the season, those are the moments that define the cook's year. I get more excited by that than anything else.

  Mario Batali

  Summer, Years, Squash

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• Are you casting asparagus on my cooking?

  Curly Howard

  Hair, Cooking, Casting

  "Fictional character: Curly". "Busy Buddies", www.imdb.com. 1944.

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• Asparagus inspires gentle thoughts.

  Charles Lamb

  Food, Inspire, Cooking

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• Let there be seasons so that our tongues will be rich in asparagus and limes.

  Anne Sexton

  Tongue, Rich, Limes

  Anne Sexton, Diane Wood Middlebrook, Diana Hume George (2000). “Selected Poems of Anne Sexton”, p.219, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• (on asparagus) Europeans of the Renaissance swore by it as an aphrodisiac, and the church banned it from nunneries.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Church, Aphrodisiac, Renaissance

  Barbara Kingsolver (2010). “Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: Our Year of Seasonal Eating”, p.27, Faber & Faber

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• Respecting the dignity of a spectacular food means enjoying it at its best. Europeans celebrate the short season of abundant asparagus as a form of holiday. In the Netherlands the first cutting coincides with Father's Day, on which restaurants may feature all-asparagus menus and hand out neckties decorated with asparagus spears.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Father, Holiday, Mean

  Barbara Kingsolver (2010). “Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: Our Year of Seasonal Eating”, p.30, Faber & Faber

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• You needn't tell me that a man who doesn't love oysters and asparagus and good wines has got a soul, or a stomach either. He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.

  Hector Hugh Munro

  Food, Wine, Men

  Saki, Hector Hugh Munro (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Saki (Illustrated)”, p.391, Delphi Classics

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• For a lot of people, poetry tends to be dull. It's not read much. It takes a special kind of training and a lot of practice to read poetry with pleasure. It's like learning to like asparagus.

  Thomas M. Disch

  Practice, People, Training

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• I was doing stand-up at a restaurant and there was a chalkboard on the street out front. It said, Soup of the Day: Cream of Asparagus. Ellen DeGeneres.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Funny, Humor, Soup

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• The love of reading can be contagious.

  Brandon Mull

  Reading, Love Of Reading, Contagious

  Brandon Mull, Brandon Dorman (2009). “Grip of the Shadow Plague”, p.282, Simon and Schuster

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• The attorney general will not cast aspersions on my asparagus.

  Louie Gohmert

  Aspersion, Attorney, Casts

  "Louie Gohmert Goes Off On Eric Holder At House Hearing" By Luke Johnson, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 15, 2013.

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• Work! labor the asparagus me of life; the one great sacrament of humanity from which all other things flow - security, leisure, joy, art, literature, even divinity itself.

  Sean O'Casey

  Inspirational, Life, Art

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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, Vegetables, Mushrooms

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• It wasn't success, because Teller and I, by the time Asparagus Valley got together - within a year, we had achieved all our goals. I mean, our goal was to earn our living doing exactly what we wanted. Which is many people's goal.

  Penn Jillette

  Congratulations, Mean, Years

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

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• Marriage? It's like asparagus eaten with vinaigrette or hollandaise, a matter of taste but of no importance.

  Francoise Sagan

  Matter, Taste, Importance

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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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• my rebelliousness went so deep that, faced with a can of asparagus that instructed me to open at this end, I always, stubbornly, opened it at the other.

  Dorothy Gilman

  Rebellion, Ends, Disobedience

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• Asparagus in a lean in a lean is to hot. This makes it art and it is wet weather wet weather wet

  Gertrude Stein

  Art, Weather, Hot

  Gertrude Stein (2014). “Tender Buttons: The Corrected Centennial Edition”, p.52, City Lights Publishers

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• He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.

  Hector Hugh Munro

  Happiness, Oysters, Unhappy

  Chronicles of Clovis (1911) "The Match-Maker"

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• Good luck with your asparagus.

  Eric Holder

  Good Luck, Luck

  "Eric Holder Trolls Louie Gohmert: ‘Good Luck With Your Asparagus’" By Ryan J. Reilly, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 8, 2014.

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• I love fresh vegetables and we always include them in our meals. I don't force my kids to eat asparagus, but they do eat peas, broccoli, and carrots.

  Alison Sweeney

  Kids, Vegetables, Meals

  "The Mommy Diet". Interview with Caylin Harris, www.goodhousekeeping.com. May 9, 2011.

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• It was an emergency!" Seth blurted. "Read my lips - emergency reading - not some demented idea of fun. If I was starving, I would eat asparagus. If somebody held a gun to my head, I would watch a soap opera. And to save Fablehaven, I would read a book, okay, are you happy?" You had best be careful, Seth," Grandma warned. "The love of reading can be contagious." I just lost my appetite," he declared.

  Brandon Mull

  Fun, Book, Grandma

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• I revere the memory of Mr. F. as an estimable man and most indulgent husband, only necessary to mention Asparagus and it appeared or to hint at any little delicate thing to drink and it came like magic in a pint bottle; it was not ecstasy but it was comfort.

  Charles Dickens

  Memories, Husband, Men

  'Little Dorrit' (1857) bk. 1, ch. 24 (Flora Finching)

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• After twenty annual visits, I am still surprised each time I return to see this giant asparagus bed of alabaster and rose and green skyscrapers.

  Cecil Beaton

  Rose, Bed, Twenties

  Cecil Beaton (1955). “I take great pleasure”

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• Some people are like ants. Give them a warm day and a piece of ground and they start digging. There the similarity ends. Ants keepon digging. Most people don't. They establish contact with the soil, absorb so much vernal vigor that they can't stay in one place, and desert the fork or spade to see how the rhubarb is coming and whether the asparagus is yet in sight.

  Hal Borland

  Sight, People, Giving

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