Peas Quotes - Page 6

• When you look at the Lady Gagas of the world, or the Jay-Zs, or the Black Eyed Peas, these are people who have one album release and it's a worldwide one.

  Tinie Tempah

  People, Black, Albums

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• A solid man of Boston; A comfortable man with dividends, And the first salmon and the first green peas.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Men, Boston, Salmon

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, J. D. McClatchy (2000). “Poems and Other Writings”, p.540, Library of America

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• I listen to my iPod as I walk on. If I'm winning I'll listen to the same song, that's like a good luck thing - usually The Black Eyed Peas' Let's Get It Started.

  Andy Murray

  Song, Good Luck, Winning

  "INTERROGATION: Andy Murray". Mirror Online Interview, www.mirror.co.uk. July 1, 2007.

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• Memory overshadows the present and dims the future "into something thicker than its usual pea soup."

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Memories, Usual, Soup

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• Hebrew was frozen, like frozen peas, fresh out of the Bible.

  Etgar Keret

  Frozen, Hebrew

  "Etgar Keret: We Can Try to Be Human". Interview with Meakin Armstrong, www.guernicamag.com. August 17, 2015.

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• I will say A Pea in the Pod saved my life - at the end of my pregnancy. I even wear their tanks now to work out in because they're really long.

  Kim Kardashian

  Pregnancy, Long, Work Out

  "Kim Kardashian on North West's Princess Style, Wipe Warmers, and Why Pregnant Women Should Never Leave the House". Interview with Sally Holmes, www.elle.com. July 10, 2014.

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• As cows need milking and sweet peas need picking, so writers must continually exercise their mental muscles by a daily stint.

  Joan Aiken

  Sweet, Writing, Exercise

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• Some are trapped in boxes of pea-sized Christianity, full of myths about missions that rob them of incentive to care about the unreached

  David Bryant

  Missionary, Incentives, Care

  David Bryant (1984). “In the gap: what it means to be a world Christian”

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• Mainstream people dislike homosexuality because they can't help concentrating on what homosexual men do to one another. And when you contemplate what people do, you think of yourself doing it. And they don't like that. That's the famous joke: I don't like peas, and I'm glad I don't like them, because if I liked them I would eat them and I hate them.

  Quentin Crisp

  Hate, Men, Thinking

  "The Celluloid Closet". Documentary, History, www.imdb.com. 1995.

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• Poetry is a rich, full-bodied whistle, cracked ice crunching in pails, the night that numbs the leaf, the duel of two nightingales, the sweet pea that has run wild, Creation's tears in shoulder blades.

  Boris Pasternak

  Running, Sweet, Night

  LIFE magazine, June 13, 1960.

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• No member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints who has canned peas, topped beets, hauled hay, shoveled coal, or helped in any way to serve others ever forgets or regrets the experience of helping provide for those in need.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Jesus, Regret, Church

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• October, baptize me with leaves! Swaddle me in corduroy and nurse me with split pea soup. October, tuck tiny candy bars in my pockets and carve my smile into a thousand pumpkins. O autumn! O teakettle! O grace!

  Rainbow Rowell

  Autumn, Nurse, Grace

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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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• Nobody wants somebody who wants them for what they have or the position their in- you want somebody who wants you for you. In case it all goes crazy and it all turns to dust. I want somebody who loves me in the welfare line, eating gumbo, eating fish,black eyed peas and rice. I want somebody that loves me. God wants you to love him, not his cars, not his house, not his blessing- love him.

  T. D. Jakes

  Crazy, Blessing, Dust

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