Tomatoes Quotes

• The tomato offers its gift of fiery color and cool completeness.

  Pablo Neruda

  Food, Color, Cooking

  Pablo Neruda, Margaret Sayers Peden (2000). “Selected Odes of Pablo Neruda”, p.143, Univ of California Press

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• A world without tomatoes is like a string quartet without violins.

  Laurie Colwin

  Summer, Food, July

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  Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit; wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.

  Miles Kington

  Funny, Hilarious, Wise

  The Independent (UK), March 28, 2003.

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• Home grown tomatoes, home grown tomatoes
  What would life be like without homegrown tomatoes
  Only two things that money can't buy
  That's true love and home grown tomatoes.

  John Denver

  Summer, Food, Home

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• It's difficult to think anything but pleasant thoughts while eating a homegrown tomato.

  Lewis Grizzard

  Summer, Food, Garden

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• There is nothing better than picking up sun-warmed tomatoes and smelling them, feeling them and scrutinizing their shiny skins for imperfections, dreaming of ways to serve them.

  Jose Andres

  Dream, Imperfection, Feelings

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• You need an entire life just to know about tomatoes.

  Ferran Adria

  Needs, Knows

  "This column will change your life: mise en place" by Oliver Burkeman, www.theguardian.com. August 30, 2014.

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• A tomato may be a fruit, but it is a singular fruit. A savory fruit. A fruit that has ambitions far beyond the ambitions of other fruits.

  E. Lockhart

  Ambition, May, Fruit

  E. Lockhart (2014). “The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks”, p.61, Hot Key Books

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• He says I'm beautiful as a red tomato

  Jeanne DuPrau

  Beautiful, Red

  Jeanne DuPrau (2012). “The Books of Ember Omnibus”, p.84, Random House Books for Young Readers

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• The tomato hides its griefs. Internal damage is hard to spot.

  Julia Child

  Grief, Food, Damage

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• The raw tomato, devoured in the garden when freshly picked, is a horn of abundance of simple sensations, a radiating rush in one's mouth that brings with it every pleasure. . . . a tomato, an adventure.

  Muriel Barbery

  Adventure, Simple, Garden

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• When I eat a tomato I look at it the way anyone else would. But when I paint a tomato, then I see it differently.

  Henri Matisse

  Creative, Looks, Way

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• Of plants tomatoes seemed the most human, eager and fragile and prone to rot.

  John Updike

  Food, Plant, Humans

  John Updike (2012). “The Witches of Eastwick: A Novel”, p.7, Random House

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• Do not ask your children to strive for extraordinary lives. Such striving may seem admirable, but it is the way of foolishness. Help them instead to find the wonder and the marvel of an ordinary life. Show them the joy of tasting tomatoes, apples and pears. Show them how to cry when pets and people die. Show them the infinite pleasure in the touch of a hand. And make the ordinary come alive for them. The extraordinary will take care of itself.

  William Martin

  Inspirational, Life, Sympathy

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• You say tomato, I say bourbon and coke.

  Drew Carey

  Coke, Bourbon

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• Just when you're beginning to think pretty well of people, you run across somebody who puts sugar on sliced tomatoes.

  Will Cuppy

  Beauty, Running, Thinking

  Will Cuppy (1951). “How to Get from January to December”

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• I'm a tomato freak, but sometimes you have to get it in ketchup form for people to be able to open to tomatoes.

  Tori Amos

  People, Able, Freak

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• High-tech tomatoes. Mysterious milk. Supersquash. Are we supposed to eat this stuff? Or is it going to eat us?

  Anita Manning

  Funny Inspirational, Food, Cooking

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• You know, a heart can be broken, but it keeps on beating, just the same.

  Fannie Flagg

  Love, Broken Heart, Knows

  Fannie Flagg (2013). “Fried Green Tomatoes, Can't Wait to Get to Heaven, and I Still Dream About You: Three Bestselling Novels”, p.54, Random House

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• Country to me is living life at its simplest: Learning to appreciate a sliced vine-ripe tomato with a dash of salt, served between two slices of good bread and eaten over the kitchen sink.

  Art Smith

  Country, Live Life, Two

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• Subtly, in the little ways, joy has been leaking out of our lives. The small pleasures of the ordinary day seem almost contemptible, and glance off us lightly...Perhaps it's a good time to reconsider pleasure at its roots. Changing out of wet shoes and socks, for instance. Bathrobes. Yawning and stretching. Real tomatoes.

  Barbara Holland

  Real, Shoes, Roots

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• I maintain that anyone who still refuses to see, for instance, a horse galloping on a tomato, must be an idiot. A tomato is also a child's balloon - Surrealism, again, having suppressed the word "like."

  Andre Breton

  Horse, Men, Imagination

  "Break of Day". Book by Andrä Breton, 1999.

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• There is always the temptation in life to diddle around making itsy-bitsy friends and meals and journeys for years on end. It is all so self conscience, so apparently moral...But I won't have it. The world is wilder than that in all directions, more dangerous...more extravagant and bright. We are...raising tomatoes when we should be raising Cain, or Lazarus.

  Annie Dillard

  Journey, Self, Years

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• I found that when I went from Albany to Savannah, that I needed to put that white rice away, and I needed to turn that into Savannah red rice because they were big into that sausage, tomato-y, bell pepper-y rice mixture.

  Paula Deen

  White, Bells, Sausage

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• Face it girls. I'm older and I have more insurance.

  Fannie Flagg

  Girl, Faces

  "Fried Green Tomatoes". www.imdb.com. 1991.

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