Turnips Quotes

• I was raised almost entirely on turnips and potatoes, but I think that the turnips had more to do with the effect than the potatoes.

  Marlene Dietrich

  Women, Food, Memorable

  Marlene Dietrich (2012). “Marlene Dietrich's ABC: Wit, Wisdom, & Recipes”, p.121, Open Road Media

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• The turnip is a capricious vegetable, which seems reluctant to show itself at its best.

  Waverley Root

  Food, Vegetables, Cooking

  Waverley Root (1996). “Food”, William S. Konecky Associates

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• If the man who turnips cries, Cry not when his father dies, 'Tis proof that he had rather Have a turnip than his father.

  Samuel Johnson

  Father, Men, Tears

  Burlesque of Lope de Vega's lines 'Si a quien los leones vence...', in Hester Lynch Piozzi 'Anecdotes of the Late Samuel Johnson' (1786) p. 67

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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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• This diamond has so many carats it's almost a turnip.

  Richard Burton

  Jewels, Jewelry, Diamond

  "Sex Devotional: 365 Days of Passion, Positions, and Pure Pleasure" by Olivia St. Claire, Adams Media, (p. 309), November 18, 2009.

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• I was the fattest baby in Clark County, Arkansas. They put me in the newspaper. It was like a prize turnip.

  Billy Bob Thornton

  Baby, Arkansas, Newspapers

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

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• There's no getting blood out of a turnip.

  Frederick Marryat

  Blood, Vegetables

  Frederick Marryat (1857). “Japhet, in Search of a Father ... A new edition”, p.13

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• Draw things that have some meaning to you. An apple, what does it mean? The object drawn doesn't matter so much. It's what you feel about it, what it means to you. A masterpiece could be made of a dish of turnips.

  Sherwood Anderson

  Mean, Apples, Doe

  Sherwood Anderson (1953). “Letters: selected and edited with an introd. and notes by Howard Mumford Jones, in association with Walter B. Rideout”

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• I love root vegetables: carrots, parsnips, and turnips.

  Julia Child

  Vegetables, Roots, Carrots

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Pyp had stabbed a turnip with his knife. "The night is dark and full of turnips," he announced in a solemn voice. "Let us all pray for venison, my children, with some onions and a bit of tasty gravy.

  George R. R. Martin

  Children, Dark, Night

  George R. R. Martin (2011). “A Dance with Dragons: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book Five”, p.172, Bantam

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• Women. You'll interpret anything as love. You see a man wearing an idiotic expression, and you assume he's been struck by Cupid's arrow when in reality, he's digesting a bad turnip.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Love You, Reality, Men

  Lisa Kleypas (2010). “Married By Morning: Number 4 in series”, p.99, Hachette UK

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• Long ago I yearned to be a hero without knowing, in truth, what a hero was. Now, perhaps, I understand it a little better. A grower of turnips or a shaper of clay, a Commot farmer or a king--every man is a hero if he strives more for others than for himself alone. Once you told me that the seeking counts more than the finding. So, too, must the striving count more than the gain.

  Lloyd Alexander

  Kings, Hero, Men

  Lloyd Alexander (2014). “The High King: The Chronicles of Prydain”, p.160, Usborne Publishing Ltd

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• I look like a turnip with hair in the morning!

  Dominic Cooper

  Morning, Hair, Looks

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• ....try the mustard, - a man can't know what turnips are in perfection without mustard.

  Mark Twain

  Men, Perfection, Trying

  Mark Twain, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Mark Twain: All 13 Novels, Short Stories, Poetry and Essays”, p.990, GENERAL PRESS

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• The only really sane person in there is Igor, and possibly the turnip. And I'm not sure about the turnip.

  Terry Pratchett

  Not Sure, Sane, Persons

  Terry Pratchett (2007). “Making Money”, Harper

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• The swift December dusk had come tumbling clownishly after its dull day and, as he stared through the dull square of the window of the schoolroom, he felt his belly crave for its food. He hoped there would be stew for dinner, turnips and carrots and bruised potatoes and fat mutton pieces to be ladled out in thick peppered flourfattened sauce. Stuff it into you, his belly counselled him.

  James Joyce

  Food, Squares, Cooking

  James Joyce (2016). “The Complete Works of James Joyce: Novels, Short Stories, Plays, Poetry, Essays & Letters: Ulysses, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Finnegan’s Wake, Dubliners, The Cat and the Devil, Exiles, Chamber Music, Pomes Penyeach, Stephen Hero, Giacomo Joyce, Critical Writings & more”, p.86, e-artnow

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• In German, a young lady has no sex, but a turnip has

  Mark Twain

  Sex, Young, Young Ladies

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• To him who is stinted of food a boiled turnip will relish like a roast fowl.

  Saadi

  Fowl, Hunger, Relish

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• From fried witchetty grubs to gold-plated turnips, when you're a writer you never know what's going to appear on your plate next. It keeps a woman alert, it does.

  Lois McMaster Bujold

  Gold, Doe, Next

  "The Vorkosigan Companion". Book by John Helfers and Lillian Stewart Carl, 2008.

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• The huge round lunar clock was a gristmill. Shake down all the grains of Time—the big grains of centuries, and the small grains of years, and the tiny grains of hours and minutes—and the clock pulverized them, slid Time silently out in all directions in a fine pollen, carried by cold winds to blanket the town like dust, everywhere. Spores from that clock lodged in your flesh to wrinkle it, to grow bones to monstrous size, to burst feet from shoes like turnips. Oh, how that great machine…dispensed Time in blowing weathers.

  Ray Bradbury

  Feet, Wrinkles, Dust

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• You can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear.

  Jonathan Swift

  Ears, Purses, Silk

  Jonathan Swift (1856). “The Works of Jonathan Swift ...: Containing Interesting and Valuable Papers, Not Hitherto Published ... With Memoir of the Author”, p.349

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• Every man is a hero if he strives more for others than for himself alone.

  Lloyd Alexander

  Hero, Men, Strive

  Lloyd Alexander (2014). “The High King: The Chronicles of Prydain”, p.160, Usborne Publishing Ltd

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• With me, you never know what is going to happen

  Goran Ivanisevic

  Homeless, Never Say Never, Aerosmith

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• For the night is dark and full of terrors.

  George R. R. Martin

  Dark, Night, Thrones

  George R. R. Martin (2012). “George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons”, p.1746, Bantam

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• If you'd take your head home and boil it for a turnip it might be useful. I can't say. But it might.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Home, Might, Ifs

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.191, Simon and Schuster

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