Vegetables Quotes - Page 14

• 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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• In onion is strength; and a garden without it lacks flavour. The onion, in its satin wrappings, is among the most beautiful of vegetables; and it is the only one that represents the essence of things. It can almost be said to have a soul.

  Charles Dudley Warner

  Beautiful, Food, Essence

  "My Summer in a Garden".

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• Because normally with Western cuisine, you'll serve vegetables separate from the meat, so kids will eat the meat and never touch the vegetables.

  Martin Yan

  Kids, Meat, Cuisine

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• Be careful what you say. It comes true. It comes true. I had to leave home in order to see the world logically, logic the new way of seeing. I learned to think that mysteries are for explanation. I enjoy the simplicity. Concrete pours out of my mouth to cover the forests with freeways and sidewalks. Give me plastics, periodical tables, TV dinners with vegetables no more complex than peas mixed with diced carrots. Shine floodlights into dark corners: no ghosts.

  Maxine Hong Kingston

  Home, Learning, Dark

  FaceBook post by Maxine Hong Kingston from Dec 18, 2011

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• I'm upset by the happiness of all these men who don't know they're unhappy. Because of that, though, I love them all. Dear vegetables!

  Fernando Pessoa

  Men, Upset, Unhappy

  "A Factless Autobiography". Book by Fernando Pessoa, Richard Zenith Edition, Lisbon, p. 266, 2006.

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• Some people just wanted to blow it all to hell, animal, vegetable and mineral. They wanted a Vietnam they could fit into their car ashtrays.

  Michael Herr

  Animal, Blow, People

  Michael Herr (2011). “Dispatches”, p.59, Vintage

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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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• The roots of tobacco plants must go clear through to hell. Satan's principal agent Dyspepsia must have charge of this branch of the vegetable kingdom.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Roots, Agents, Branches

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• When you mature in your relationship with God you realize how suffering and patience are like eating your spiritual vegetables.

  Criss Jami

  Spiritual, Suffering, Realizing

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.46, Criss Jami

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• You take souls for vegetables.... The gardener can decide what will become of his carrots but no one can choose the good of others for them.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Soul, Carrots, Gardener

  "Dirty Hands". Book by Jean-Paul Sartre, Act 5, sc. 3, 1948.

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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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• Human longings are perversely obstinate; and to the man whose mouth is watering for a peach, it is of no use to offer the largest vegetable marrow.

  George Eliot

  Men, Desire, Use

  George Eliot (1869). “Silas Marner, and Scenes of Clerical Life”, p.168

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• It must be hard to cook if you anthropomorphisize your vegetables.

  Bill Watterson

  Cooking, Cooks, Hard

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• How terribly hard and almost impossible it is to tell the truth. More than anything else, the artist in us prevents us from telling aught as it really happened. We deal with the truth as the cook deals with meat and vegetables.

  Eric Hoffer

  Artist, Meat, Impossible

  "Eric Hoffer and the Art of the Notebook" by Tom Bethell in Harper's Magazine, July 2005.

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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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• 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 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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• How do you know what's really organic? Today, there's all these impurities in the water and the air. The water for the fruits and vegetables has junk in it. If you get enough vitamins and minerals out of normal food and whole grains, and you get enough proteins and exercise (that's the key) then nature builds up a tolerance to all of these things. It's survival of the fittest. You can't have everything perfect, that's impossible, but the fit survive.

  Jack LaLanne

  Exercise, Vitamins And Minerals, Keys

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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 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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• 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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• the incredible new medical technology has made it possible for highly disciplined teams of surgeons ... to keep stricken organisms alive even if the brain is irretrievably damaged or lung and heart incapable of functioning without mechanical help. Now it is not dust to dust, but human to vegetable.

  Marya Mannes

  Team, Heart, Technology

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