Broccoli Quotes

• Don't be a salad. Be the best god damn broccoli you can ever be.

  PewDiePie

  Salad, Being The Best, Best God

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• Listen to your broccoli and it will tell you how to eat it.

  Anne Lamott

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• Without pain, how could we know joy?' This is an old argument in the field of thinking about suffering and its stupidity and lack of sophistication could be plumbed for centuries but suffice it to say that the existence of broccoli does not, in any way, affect the taste of chocolate.

  John Green

  Inspiring, Pain, Thinking

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.35, Penguin

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• I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it. And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.

  George H. W. Bush

  Funny, Mother, Food

  George H.W. Bush (2009). “Speaking of Freedom: The Collected Speeches”, p.113, Simon and Schuster

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• the existence of broccoli does not in any way affect the taste of chocolate

  John Green

  Chocolate, Doe, Way

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.35, Penguin

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• You want to save more fish? Eat more broccoli.

  Barton Seaver

  Want, Fishes

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• Never eat broccoli when there are cameras around.

  Michael Stipe

  Cameras

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• Nothing heals the soul like chocolate ... It's God's apology for broccoli.

  Richard Paul Evans

  Apology, Soul, Chocolate

  Richard Paul Evans (2010). “Richard Paul Evans Ebook Christmas Set: Christmas List, Christmas Box Miracle, Finding Noel”, p.463, Simon and Schuster

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• Researchers in the U.K. have developed a vegetable called "super broccoli" designed to fight heart disease. Not to be outdone, researchers in America have developed a way to stuff an Oreo inside another Oreo.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Heart, Fighting, Vegetables

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• My mother told me, you don't have to put anything in your mouth you don't want to. Then she made me eat broccoli, which felt like double standards.

  Sarah Millican

  Mother, Double Standard, Mouths

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• I'm President of the United States, and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli!

  George H. W. Bush

  Vegetables, Funny Mothers Day, President

  George H.W. Bush (2009). “Speaking of Freedom: The Collected Speeches”, p.101, Simon and Schuster

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• If I could uninvent anything, I would uninvent Hitler's mum, guns and broccoli.

  Dominic Monaghan

  Gun, Mum, If I Could

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• There are truckloads of broccoli at this very minute descending on Washington. My family is divided. For the broccoli vote out there: Barbara loves broccoli. She has tried to make me eat it. She eats it all the time herself. So she can go out and meet the caravan of broccoli that's coming in.

  George H. W. Bush

  Vote, My Family, Minutes

  George H.W. Bush (2009). “Speaking of Freedom: The Collected Speeches”, p.113, Simon and Schuster

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• Fatherhood is telling your daughter that Michael Jackson loves all his fans, but has special feelings for the ones who eat broccoli.

  Bill Cosby

  Daughter, Vegetables, Feelings

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• Villains fear me because I am unpredictable and broccoli. See what I mean?

  Demetri Martin

  Mean, Villain, Unpredictable

  Demetri Martin (2011). “This Is a Book”, p.201, Hachette UK

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• I know when you think about the South, you think about fried foods, but we eat a tremendous amount of vegetables. I have my own garden, so vegetables have always been a big part of my life. I love broccoli. I love fresh beets. It's not all about the fried chicken and the biscuits.

  Paula Deen

  Garden, Thinking, Vegetables

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• Choosing one thing over another doesn't necessarily mean we love the thing we choose. If given the choice to eat spinach or broccoli, you may choose broccoli. It may only mean you don't want to eat spinach. Heaven is not for people who just want to skip Hell. Heaven is reserved for those who love Jesus, who have been rescued by Him and who long to praise Him. If someone doesn't have much use for praising Him now, it's foolish to think they're ready for Heaven.

  Matt Chandler

  Jesus, Mean, Thinking

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• The only way to get vegetables at a diner late night is to order the omelette. A feta cheese and broccoli omelette.

  Lisa Loeb

  Night, Order, Vegetables

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• Luckily, my children love broccoli, and although we sometimes enter into UN-like negotiations about how many 'trees' they need to eat before they can partake of ice cream, it is a vegetable that they tend to embrace.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Children, Ice Cream, Vegetables

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• The word 'vegetable' has no precise botanical meaning in reference to food plants, and we find that almost all parts of plants have been employed as vegetables - roots (carrot and beet), stems (Irish potato and asparagus), leaves (spinach and lettuce), leaf stalk (celery and Swiss chard), bracts (globe artichoke), flower stalks and buds (broccoli and cauliflower), fruits (tomato and squash), seeds (beans), and even the petals (Yucca and pumpkin).

  Charles Heiser

  Flower, Vegetables, Squash

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• Without Pain, How Could We Know Joy?

  John Green

  Pain, Joy, Knows

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.28, Penguin

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• Mother: It's broccoli, dear. ---
  Child: I say it's spinach, and I say the hell with it.

  E. B. White

  Mother, Children, Hell

  Cartoon caption, New Yorker, 8 Dec. 1928

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• I can't even tolerate my own playing on electric keyboards. It's not about the musical ideas - the sound itself is toxic. It's like eating plastic broccoli.

  Keith Jarrett

  Ideas, Musical, Keyboards

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• If Congress were to pass a 'flat' tax, you'd simply pay a fixed percentage of your income, and you wouldn't have to fill out any complicated forms, and there would be no loopholes for politically connected groups, and normal people would actually understand the tax laws, and giant talking broccoli stalks would come around and mow your lawn for free, because Congress is NOT going to pass a flat tax, you pathetic fool.

  Dave Barry

  Talking, Law, People

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• I have this wonderful personal chef who sources and stocks all my organic produce and I basically live on five smoothies a day. I'm totally vegan. I blend this green concoction with kale, cucumber, broccoli, string beans, avocado. My protein comes from protein powder. There is absolutely no milk, butter, cheese.

  Larry Hagman

  Kale, Green, Cucumbers

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