Vegetables Quotes - Page 28

• I quickly realized that more than any other vegetable, the potato evokes strong reactions in people. As the head of communications for the International Potato Centre in Peru put it, 'No one gets worked up over lettuce like they do the potato.'

  Elizabeth A. Johnson

  Strong, Communication, People

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• Both sides of my family had come from Ireland in the 19th century for the same reason: There was nothing to eat over there. Since then, I've tried to make up for the potato famine by making the potato the only vegetable that passes these lips.

  Art Donovan

  Potatoes, Sides, Lips

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• Interesting, he later reflected, was perhaps not the correct word.By the time he and Henry arrived back at the house for their midday meal-a scrumptious bowl of hot, sticky porridge-he had mucked out the stable stalls, milked a cow, been pecked by three separate hens, weeded a vegetable garden, and fallen into a trough.

  Julia Quinn

  Garden, Interesting, House

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• It's more important that you eat vegetables, even if they are conventional -- I'm talking about for your health -- then it is until you wait until you can afford organic, or you can find organic.

  Michael Pollan

  Talking, Waiting, Important

  "Michael Moss, Michael Pollan Go Food Shopping, Make Lunch Together", www.huffingtonpost.com. May 1, 2013.

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• If my wife made childhood obesity her mission and I signed a law making 1/8 cup of tomato paste a vegetable, I'd be sleeping on the sofa.

  Alton Brown

  Sleep, Law, Wife

  Twitter post from Nov 30, 2011

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• The strongest animals on earth are plant eaters. Every creature we've enlisted to do the work we couldn't handle - the horse, donkey, elephant, camel, water buffalo, ox, yak - is an herbivore... whose huge muscles were built from plant protein, and whose strong bones got that way, and stayed that way, from grazing on grass and eating other vegetables.

  Victoria Moran

  Horse, Strong, Animal

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• Refuse to allow yourself to become a vegetable that simply absorbs information, pre-packaged, pre-ideologized , because no message.. is anything but an ideological package that has gone through a kind of processing.

  Edward Said

  Gone, Information, Messages

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• As any gardener will tell you, the cycles of nature require patience...Even a fast-growing vegetable like a radish requires time.

  M. J. Ryan

  Patience, Growing, Gardener

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• We all grew up in communities with grandmothers who cooked two, three vegetables that you had to eat. There was no ifs, ands or buts about it. But that's because many of our grandparents, they had community gardens; there was the vegetable man that came around. There were many other resources that allowed them to have access. So it's not that people don't know or don't want to do the right thing; they just have to have access to the foods that they know will make their families healthier.

  Michelle Obama

  Children, Grandmother, Men

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• I don't drink any coffee or take any drugs and I don't smoke cigarettes and I don't eat sugar and I don't take any medicine at all. I eat a lot of fish, vegetables, and I stay away from starches.

  Vincent Gallo

  Coffee, Medicine, Drug

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

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• When my mother was raising me, she moved us upstate to the Woodstock area. Our closest neighbor was a mile away. She planted all her own vegetables.

  Debi Mazar

  Mother, Neighbor, Woodstock

  "Debi Mazar and husband make an 'Extra Virgin' blend". Interview with Kristine M. Kierzek, archive.jsonline.com. April 1, 2014.

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• Right now I'd love to be sitting on a Greek island somewhere because of being Greek American, eating great octopus salad and some fantastic lamb. Or sipping a little ouzo. I think the Mediterranean diet is one of the healthiest... Lots of nuts, vegetables, fruits, fresh fish, lean meats, yogurt.

  Cat Cora

  Thinking, Islands, Nuts

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• My eating is pretty consistent. I like Greek yogurt for breakfast. I eat two giant salads a day, a broiled meat or fish, and a dark green vegetable at every meal.

  Veronica Webb

  Dark, Two, Greek Yogurt

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• Just washed, How chill The white leeks!

  Matsuo Basho

  White, Justice, Chill

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• The hospital that feeds you refined sugar, white bread, canned soup, bouillon cubes, and frozen vegetables should be closed by the health department as a menace to the public health.

  David Reuben

  Dark, White, Age

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• I am better off with vegetables at the bottom of my garden than with all the fairies of the Midsummer Night's Dream.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Dream, Night, Garden

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• Vegetables when not sufficiently cooked are know to be so exceedingly unwholesome and indigestible, that the custom of serving them 'crisp' should be altogether disregarded when health is considered of more importance than fashion.

  Eliza Acton

  Fashion, Should, Importance

  Eliza Acton (1845). “Modern Cookery, in All Its Branches: Reduced to a System of Easy Practice, for the Use of Private Families. In a Series of Receipts, which Have Been Strictly Tested, and are Given with the Most Minute Exactness”, p.228

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• Sagebrush is a very fair fuel, but as a vegetable it is a distinguished failure. Nothing can abide the taste of it but the jackass and his illegitimate child the mule.

  Mark Twain

  Children, Fuel, Mules

  Mark Twain (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)”, p.4619, Delphi Classics

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• I'm such a fitness freak that I eat so plain, it's gross. I have oatmeal in the morning and then I have chicken breasts and vegetables and spinach shakes.

  Jason Sellards

  Morning, Oatmeal, Freak

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• One who loves Krishna will give Him whatever He wants, and he avoids offering anything which is undesirable or unasked for. Thus, meat, fish and eggs should not be offered to Krishna...Vegetables, grains, fruits, milk and water are the proper foods for human beings and are prescribed by Lord Krishna Himself. Whatever else you eat, can not be offered to Him, since He will not accept it.

  A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

  Offering, Vegetarianism, Eggs

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• I would follow my mother around the kitchen watching and trying to find any way to help. One of the first dishes my mother taught me to make was hollandaise sauce. Though she always served it with broccoli, I soon realized it was equally delicious with asparagus, artichokes, or any other vegetable.

  Tracy Pollan

  Mother, Kitchen, Trying

  Corky Pollan, Lori Pollan, Dana Pollan, Tracy Pollan (2016). “The Pollan Family Table: The Best Recipes and Kitchen Wisdom for Delicious, Healthy Family Meals”, p.8, Simon and Schuster

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• All our progress is an unfolding, like the vegetable bud. You have first an instinct, then an opinion, then a knowledge, as the plant has root, bud, and fruit. Trust the instinct to the end, though you can render no reason. It is vain to hurry it. By trusting it to the end it shall ripen into truth, and you shall know why you believe.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Believe, Roots, Progress

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.419, Library of America

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• I believe in the magic of preparation. You can make just about any foods taste wonderful by adding herbs and spices. Experiment with garlic, cilantro, basil and other fresh herbs on vegetables to make them taste great.

  Jorge Cruise

  Believe, Magic, Preparation

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• Keep as near as ever you can to the first sources of supply—fruits and vegetables.

  Benjamin Ward Richardson

  Food, Fruit, Firsts

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• If you’re eating vegetables you are probably pushing unhealthier food out of your diet.

  Dan Buettner

  Pushing, Eating, Diets

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