Vegetables Quotes - Page 13

• There's a country spread out in the sky, a credulous carpet of rainbows and crepuscular plants: I move toward it just a bit haggardly, trampling a gravedigger's rubble still moist from the spade to dream in a bedlam of vegetables.

  Pablo Neruda

  Dream, Country, Moving

  Pablo Neruda (1974). “Pablo Neruda: Five Decades, a Selection (poems, 1925-1970)”, p.3, Grove Press

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• My husband is the cook at our house. I can make dessert and salad, but I stay away from meals. He makes amazing omelets, fish, and grilled vegetables like Brussels sprouts and cauliflower.

  Dylan Lauren

  Husband, House, Salad

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• It is not hard to change when your biggest problem is whether the weeds prosper in a vegetable patch.

  David Gemmell

  Weed, Problem, Patches

  "The King Beyond the Gate". Book by David Gemmell, Ch. 7, 1985.

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• Chemistry, in its application to animals and vegetables. Endeavours jointly with physiology to enlighten us respecting the mysterious processes and sources of organic life.

  Justus von Liebig

  Animal, Mysterious, Enlightening

  Justus von Liebig (1844). “Familiar Letters on Chemistry, and its relation to Commerce, Physiology, and Agriculture: Edited by John Gardner”, p.10

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• It's a bunch of bull! If God, or nature, or whatever you want to call it didn't want you to mix carbohydrates, starches and fats, you'd never have a grain, you'd never have a vegetable or a fruit, would you? What's in a grain? It's got carbohydrates, starches, fats, sugar. It's got everything in it. Why does nature do that? One guy says don't mix carbohydrates, and the other guy says don't mix protein with it; it's all a bunch of lard, something to sell a book. And the poor public is so confused, they don't know what to do.

  Jack LaLanne

  Confused, Book, Guy

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• In the nineteenth century the Germans painted their dream and the outcome was invariably vegetable. The French needed only to paint a vegetable and it was already a dream.

  Theodor Adorno

  Dream, Outcomes, Paint

  Theodor W. Adorno, E. F. N. Jephcott (2005). “Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life”, p.49, Verso

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• And there are also languages that divide nouns into much more specific genders. The African language Supyire from Mali has five genders: humans, big things, small things, collectives, and liquids. Bantu languages such as Swahili have up to ten genders, and the Australian language Ngan’gityemerri is said to have fifteen different genders, which include, among others, masculine human, feminine human, canines, non-canine animals, vegetables, drinks, and two different genders for spears (depending on size and material).

  Guy Deutscher

  Animal, Two, Nouns

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• The choice is yours: Enjoy a delicious meal of, say, veal fantarella with grilled vegetables. Or spend a quiet hour reading David Gregory's book. You may find an altogether different sort of hunger has been sated by the final page. Brilliant in its simplicity, fearless in its presentation of the truth, Dinner with a Perfect Stranger is one invitation you'll want to RSVP.

  Liz Curtis Higgs

  Book, Reading, Perfect

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• Nature, at all events, humanly speaking, is manifestly very fond of color; for she has made nothing without it. Her skies are blue; her fields, green; her waters vary with her skies; her animals, vegetables, minerals, are all colored. She paints a great any of them in apparently superfluous hues, as if to show the dullest eye how she loves color.

  Leigh Hunt

  Nature, Eye, Animal

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• In the late 1980s, Soviets were allowed to keep the wealth they created by raising vegetables on their garden plots. Although these plots composed only about 2% of the agricultural lands in the Soviet Union, they produced 25% of the food! When Soviets kept the wealth they created, they produced almost 16 times more than when it was taken from them at gunpoint, if necessary!

  Mary Ruwart

  Taken, Garden, Land

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• VeggieTales is something that, on paper, makes no sense at all. It is a series of children's videos where limbless, talking vegetables act out Bible stories. Try raising money with that pitch.

  Phil Vischer

  Children, Talking, Trying

  "The Philosophical Implications of Talking Vegetables". Speech at Yale University, March 02, 2005.

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• Are you looking for me? I am in the next seat. My shoulder is against yours. you will not find me in the stupas, not in Indian shrine rooms, nor in synagogues, nor in cathedrals: not in masses, nor kirtans, not in legs winding around your own neck, nor in eating nothing but vegetables. When you really look for me, you will see me instantly - you will find me in the tiniest house of time. Kabir says: Student, tell me, what is God? He is the breath inside the breath.

  Kabir

  Spiritual, House, Looks

  Kabir (1977). “The Kabir book: forty-four of the ecstatic poems of Kabir”

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• Hoeing: A manual method of severing roots from stems of newly planted flowers and vegetables.

  Henry Beard

  Weed, Flower, Roots

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• Carob is a brown powder made from the pulverized fruit of a Mediterranean evergreen. Some consider carob an adequate substitute for chocolate because it has some similar nutrients (calcium, phosphorus), and because it can. when combined with vegetable fat and sugar, be made to approximate the colour and consistency of chocolate. Of course, the same arguments can as persuasively be made in favour of dirt.

  Sandra Boynton

  Food, Color, Consistency

  "Chocolate: The Consuming Passion". Book by Sandra Boynton, 1982.

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• The execution was set for the 29th of March, at nine in the morning. This delay was due to a desire on the part of the authorities to act slowly and impersonally, in the manner of planets or vegetables.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Morning, Desire, Delay

  Jorge Luis Borges (2015). “Ficciones”, p.67, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• I love fresh fruit and vegetables. I'm not a strict dieter. I don't think that anything in life should be so regimented that you're not having fun or can't enjoy like everybody else. Just know that fresh food is always going to be better for you.

  Carrie Ann Inaba

  Fun, Thinking, Fruit

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• You've got to stop eating unhealthy crap. You've got to eat vegetables, fruit and lean meat.

  Mike Moreno

  Meat, Fruit, Eating

  Mike Moreno (2013). “The 17 Day Diet Breakthrough Edition”, p.14, Simon and Schuster

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• We always had our own vegetables growing up and now I'm doing it with my kids at our house in the country.

  Stella McCartney

  Country, Growing Up, Kids

  "Lunch with Mariella: Stella McCartney" by Mariella Frostrup, www.theguardian.com. July 17, 2010.

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• Call any vegetable and the chances are good that the vegetable will respond to you.

  Frank Zappa

  Insanity, Chance, Chances Are

  Song: Soft-Sell Conclusion, Album: Absolutely Free

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• I don't think I ate a green vegetable until I was 30. I didn't grow up with a mom who enforced that at all.

  Keri Russell

  Mom, Growing Up, Thinking

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• I definitely gravitate towards things like vegetables, chicken, brown rice, but I don't deprive myself of anything. If I want a Sprinkles cupcake, I'm having a Sprinkles cupcake. But I'm not going to have one every day... you just have to have a sensible outlook on all of it.

  Abigail Spencer

  Cupcakes, Sprinkles, Want

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

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• I think of my studio as a vegetable garden, where things follow their natural course. They grow, they ripen. You have to graft. You have to water.

  Joan Miro

  Garden, Thinking, Water

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• After man there would be the mighty beetle civilisation, the bodies of whose members the cream of the Great Race would seize when the monstrous doom overtook the elder world. Later, as the earth's span closed, the transferred minds would again migrate through time and space -- to another stopping place in the bodies of the bulbous vegetable entities of Mercury. But there would be races after them, clinging pathetically to the cold planet and burrowing to its horror-filled core, before the utter end.

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Men, Civilization, Space

  H. P. Lovecraft (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of H. P. Lovecraft (Illustrated)”, p.1404, Delphi Classics

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• I don't eat vegetables. I only eat food like cheeseburgers, Spam, hot dogs and pizza.

  Art Donovan

  Dog, Hot, Spam

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• People tell me if I don't eat vegetables, I'm going to get scurvy. Well, what the hell. But I was never overweight as a player. There was a clause in my contract that said I had to weigh in at 270 every Friday morning. I always made it. I'd have dinner on Monday, and then I wouldn't eat until Friday.

  Art Donovan

  Friday, Monday, Morning

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