Potatoes Quotes - Page 9

• He set fire to some potatoes, then cooked some undelivered post in the embers." - Dad "Did he now? What a strange fellow. I would have done it the other way around." - Stafford

  Jasper Fforde

  Dad, Fire, Done

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• Carved above the lintel were the words SCIENTIA POTESTAS EST. Science points east, I wondered? Science is portentous, yes? Science protests too much. Scientific potatoes rule. Had I stumbled on the lair of dangerous plant geneticists?

  Ben Aaronovitch

  East, Too Much, Plant

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• I noticed the plants growing around me. Tall with leaves like arrowheads. Blossoms with three white petals. I knelt down in the water, my fingers digging into the soft mud, and I pulled up handfuls of the roots. Small, bluish tubers that don’t look like much but boiled or baked are as good as any potato. “Katniss,” I said aloud. It’s the plant I was named for. And I heard my father’s voice joking, “As long as you can find yourself, you’ll never starve.

  Suzanne Collins

  Father, Plants Growing, Voice

  Suzanne Collins (2009). “The Hunger Games”, p.47, Scholastic Inc.

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• Your face looks like a sack of purple potatoes

  Jim Butcher

  Purple, Looks, Faces

  Jim Butcher (2001). “Fool Moon: Book two of The Dresden Files”, p.173, Penguin

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• Hello, my sister, Libby, also your daughter, is snogging a potato in my bed. What are you going to do about it?' Dad started yelling uncontrollably. I wonder if he is having the male menopause? If he starts growing breasts, I will definitely be running away with the Circus.

  Louise Rennison

  Daughter, Running, Dad

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• Ordinary life did not stop just because kings rose and fell, Mosca realized. People adapted. If the world turned upside down, everyone ran and hid in their houses, but a very short while later, if all seemed quiet, they came out again and started selling each other potatoes.

  Frances Hardinge

  Kings, People, Rose

  Frances Hardinge (2011). “Fly By Night”, p.315, Pan Macmillan

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• The goblins of the city may hold committees to divide a single potato, but the strong and the cruel still sit on the hill, and drink vodka, and wear black furs, and slurp borscht by the pail, like blood. Children may wear through their socks marching in righteous parades, but Papa never misses his wine with supper. Therefore, it is better to be strong and cruel than to be fair. At least, one eats better that way. And morality is more dependent on the state of one’s stomach than of one’s nation.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Strong, Children, Wine

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• At one store, Gansey had started to pay for Blue's potato chips and she'd snatched them away. "I don't want you to buy me food!" Blue said. "If you pay for it, then it's like I'm... be---be---" "Beholden to me?" Gansey suggested pleasantly. "Don't put words into my mouth." "It was your word." "You assumed it was my word. You can't just go around assuming." "But that is what you meant, isn't it?" She scowled. "I'm done with this conversation.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Blue, Done, Mouths

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• Out of the thirty thousand types of edible plants thought to exist on Earth, just eleven—corn, rice, wheat, potatoes, cassava, sorghum, millet, beans, barley, rye, and oats—account for 93 percent of all that humans eat, and every one of them was first cultivated by our Neolithic ancestors.

  Bill Bryson

  Oats, Wheat, Firsts

  FaceBook post by Bill Bryson from Jul 05, 2016

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• Let the sky rain potatoes," said a musing voice. "Let it thunder to the tune of Greensleeves.

  Cassandra Clare

  Rain, Sky, Voice

  Cassandra Clare (2014). “Clockwork Princess”, p.519, Simon and Schuster

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• Vanity, right?" Nash reappeared in the living room with an open bag of potato chips. "I nominate my venerable brother. He likes to play hero, and one look at him should establish the vanity angle." "Nash!" I really shouldn't have been surprised by the dig. But I was. "What?" He raised one brow at me in challenge. "It's okay to call me jealous, but not to call him vain?" "Awareness of one's obvious advantages doesn't imply vanity," Tod insisted calmly. Nash turned on him. "Does it imply narcissism?" Tod huffed. "This coming from the guy who owns more hair products than his girlfriend.

  Rachel Vincent

  Girlfriend, Brother, Hero

  Rachel Vincent (2014). “Soul Screamers: Volume 4”, p.33, Harlequin

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• If there were only turnips and potatoes in the world, someone would complain that plants grow the wrong way.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Food, Complaining, World

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• Art alone makes life possible - this is how radically I should like to formulate it. I would say that without art man is inconceivable in physiological terms...
  Even the act of peeling a potato can be an artistic act if it is consciously done.

  Joseph Beuys

  Art, Men, Creative

  Interview in "Artforum" Magazine, November 1969; as quoted in "Six Years: The Dematerialization of the Art Object from 1966 to 1972" by Lucy R. Lippard, University of California Press, (p. 121), 1973.

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• The worst thing about television is that everybody you see on television is doing something better than what you're doing. You never see anybody on TV just sliding off the front of the sofa, with potato chip crumbs all over their shirt.

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Doing You, Television, Potato Chips

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• I heard the opening bar of 'Help' as I headed down Polk Street. Every single time I've heard that tune I've taken it as some message from God, a warning of things to come, a perfect description of my mashed-potato character

  Oscar Zeta Acosta

  Taken, Character, Perfect

  Oscar Zeta Acosta (2013). “Autobiography of a Brown Buffalo”, p.51, Vintage

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• Make Earth Day Every Day.”  While we might not always live up to this ideal, I try to keep this quote from Denis Hayes, founder of the Earth Day Network and president of Seattle’s Bullitt Foundation, in mind when I need a little extra motivation to be a better environmentalist: “Listen up, you couch potatoes: each recycled beer can saves enough electricity to run a television for three hours.

  Denis Hayes

  Running, Motivation, Beer

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• These days all you need is the ability to watch television and hold a potato at the same time to call yourself a designer.

  Glenn Martinez

  Watches, Needs, Television

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• My first pastoral letter's gonna be a condemnation of light beer and instant mashed potatoes -- I hate those two things.

  Timothy M. Dolan

  Hate, Beer, Light

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• I am open to the accusation that I see compost as an end it itself. But we do grow some real red damn tomatoes such as you can't get in the stores. And potatoes, beans, lettuce, collards, onions, squash, cauliflower, eggplant, carrots, peppers. Dirt in you own backyard, producing things you eat. Makes you wonder.

  Roy Blount, Jr.

  Real, Eggplant, Squash

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• Whoever would have guessed that in the land of cheap sausages and mashed potatoes there could be such a change which would actually bring the French from Paris every weekend to invade Britain en masse to eat great food and drink great wine.

  Robin Leach

  Wine, Weekend, Land

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• Put your hand on your heart to keep it from flying off to the lovely magical literary island Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows have created in The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society. This novel is a delightful mix of fine writing, powerful emotions, glorious settings and amazing characters who deal with life in a way that will have readers falling in love on every single page.

  Kris Radish

  Falling In Love, Powerful, Character

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• I'm a big cook and prefer to make meals at home when I can. I'm either cooking or we're going to a drive-through somewhere. I'm really proud of my homemade sweet potato pie. At Thanksgiving I make five of them because they go quick.

  Chandra Wilson

  Sweet, Home, Pie

  Interview with Rachael Ray, www.rachaelraymag.com. November 1, 2005.

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• The mode of clearing and planting is to fell the trees, and burn once what will burn, then cut them up into suitable lengths, rollinto heaps, and burn again; then, with a hoe, plant potatoes where you can come at the ground between the stumps and charred logs; for a first crop the ashes suffice for manure, and no hoeing being necessary the first year. In the fall, cut, roll, and burn again, and so on, till the land is cleared; and soon it is ready for grain, and to be laid down.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Fall, Cutting, Years

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “The Maine Woods”, p.12, Graphic Arts Books

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• Get in some pasta or brown rice with your vegetables like a sweet potato and some meat. You need a little bit of everything on your plate to make sure your energy levels are right for the match.

  Jozy Altidore

  Sweet, Vegetables, Energy

  Source: www.askmen.com

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• A township where one primitive forest waves above while another primitive forest rots below,--such a town is fitted to raise not only corn and potatoes, but poets and philosophers for the coming ages. In such a soil grew Homer and Confucius and the rest, and out of such a wilderness comes the Reformer eating locusts and wild honey.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Poetry, Age, Honey

  Henry David Thoreau (1993). “Civil Disobedience, and Other Essays”, p.63, Courier Corporation

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