Vegetables Quotes - Page 3

• We can make a commitment to promote vegetables and fruits and whole grains on every part of every menu. We can make portion sizes smaller and emphasize quality over quantity. And we can help create a culture - imagine this - where our kids ask for healthy options instead of resisting them.

  Michelle Obama

  Health, Kids, Commitment

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• I live alone, with cats, books, pictures, fresh vegetables to cook, the garden, the hens to feed.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Book, Cat, Garden

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• I can't grill vegetables, shellfish or steaks without tongs. Don't bother with those long-handled grilling tongs normally found in the BBQ section of your home store. Get intimate with your grill and opt for the regular stainless steel tongs.

  Bobby Flay

  Home, Bbq, Long

  Bobby Flay (2010). “Bobby Flay's Grill It!”, p.21, Clarkson Potter

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• I love to cook comfort food. I'll make fish and vegetables or meat and vegetables and potatoes or rice. The ritual of it is fun for me, and the creativity of it.

  Reese Witherspoon

  Love, Fun, Creativity

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• I was eating lots of vegetables and fruit every day during my pregnancy - my baby needed the best of the best, so it was the opposite of overeating. I had this being inside of me, and I was responsible for everything he got.

  Gisele Bundchen

  Baby, Pregnancy, Opposites

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• Luckily, my children love broccoli, and although we sometimes enter into UN-like negotiations about how many 'trees' they need to eat before they can partake of ice cream, it is a vegetable that they tend to embrace.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Children, Ice Cream, Tree

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• No pills, not even aspirin, and certainly no supplements ever enter my mouth - everything I need comes from my fish and vegetarian diet, which incorporates many different kinds of fruit and vegetables every week.

  David H. Murdock

  Vegetarian Diet, Pills, Different

  "My Healthy, Weekly Shopping List" by David H. Murdock, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 21, 2011.

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• Unbelievable as it may seem, one-third of all vegetables consumed in the United States come from just three sources: french fries, potato chips, and iceberg lettuce.

  Marion Nestle

  May, Potato Chips, Potatoes

  Marion Nestle (2010). “What to Eat”, p.63, Macmillan

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• Caesar's armies marched on vegetarian foods.

  Will Durant

  Army, Vegetarian, Vegetarian Food

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• I find that vegetables like butternut squash, which I feel unexcited about as a side dish, I'm thrilled to eat in a soup.

  Cynthia Nixon

  Squash, Side Dishes, Soup

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• Those modern analysts, they charge so much! In my day, for five marks Freud himself would treat you. For ten marks he would treat you and press your pants. For fifteen marks Freud would let you treat him - that included a choice of any two vegetables.

  Woody Allen

  Two, Choices, Pants

  Woody Allen (2007). “The Insanity Defense: The Complete Prose”, Random House Incorporated

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• How do I look so young? Quite simple: a complete vegetable diet, 12 hours sleep a night, and lots and lots of make-up.

  Truman Capote

  Sleep, Simple, Night

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• This root [the potato], no matter how much you prepare it, is tasteless and floury. It cannot pass for an agreeable food, but it supplies a food sufficiently abundant and sufficiently healthy for men who ask only to sustain themselves. The potato is criticized with reason for being windy, but what matters windiness for the vigorous organisms of peasants and laborers?

  Denis Diderot

  Men, Roots, What Matters

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• Botany, the science of the vegetable kingdom, is one of the most attractive, most useful, and most extensive departments of human knowledge. It is, above every other, the science of beauty.

  Joseph Paxton

  Knowledge, Science, Kingdoms

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• Black was bestlooking. ... Ebony was the best wood, the hardest wood; it was black. Virginia ham was the best ham. It was black on the outside. Tuxedos and tail coats were black and they were a man's finest, most expensive clothes. You had to use pepper to make most meats and vegetables fit to eat. The most flavorsome pepper was black. The best caviar was black. The rarest jewels were black: black opals, black pearls.

  Ann Petry

  Men, Clothes, Virginia

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• One day Mum saved up for this exciting new thing - a frozen chicken. She cooked it on the Sunday and we all sat around waiting for it, but there was a terrible smell from the kitchen. She didn't realise that the giblets were in a plastic bag inside it. We just ate vegetables and she cried and cried.

  Carol Vorderman

  Sunday, Smell, Waiting

  "Carol Vorderman: My family values". Interview with Nick McGrath, www.theguardian.com. August 19, 2011.

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• I wasn’t going anywhere and neither was the rest of the world. We were all just hanging around waiting to die and meanwhile doing little things to fill the space. Some of use weren’t even doing little things. We were vegetables.

  Charles Bukowski

  Space, Waiting, Use

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• Many of the delicious soups you eat in French homes and little restaurants are made just this way, with a leek-and-potato base to which leftover vegetables or sauces and a few fresh items are added.

  Julia Child

  Home, Soup, Littles

  Julia Child, Louisette Bertholle, Simone Beck (2011). “Mastering the Art of French Cooking”, p.98, Knopf

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• One farmer says to me, "You cannot live on vegetable food solely, for it furnishes nothing to make the bones with;" and so he religiously devotes a part of his day to supplying himself with the raw material of bones; walking all the while he talks behind his oxen, which, with vegetable-made bones, jerk him and his lumbering plow along in spite of every obstacle.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Philosophical, Animal, Oxen

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• The purest natural food for human beings would be fresh, uncooked food and nuts. A fare which consists of three-quarters of vegetable food and one-quarter meat would appear to be the most satisfactory.

  George Hackenschmidt

  Nuts, Meat, Would Be

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• All sorts of dung and compost contain some matter which, when mixed with the soil, ferments therein; and by such ferment dissolves, crumbles, and divides the earth very much. This is the chief and almost only use of dung. ... This proves, that its (manure) use is not to nourish, but to dissolve, i.e., divide the terrestrial matter, which affords nourishment to the Mouths of vegetable roots.
  His underestimate of the value of manure.

  Jethro Tull

  Roots, Use, Mouths

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• That's a lot of vegetables. "It is, yes, and if you eat them like a good girl..." He lifted the silver lid on another plate, revealed a small pizza, with pepperoni arranged into a smiley face. She tried to give him a stony stare, but the laugh won out. "You think you're cute, don't you, pal?" "Adorable." "In this case, you can have adorable. Ow!" She managed the stony stare when he slapped her hand away from the pizza. "Vegetables first.

  Nora Roberts

  Cute, Girl, Thinking

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• A great many people in Los Angeles are on special diets that restrict their intake of synthetic foods. The reason for this appears to be a widely held belief that organically grown fruits and vegetables make the cocaine work faster.

  Fran Lebowitz

  People, Special, Fruit

  Fran Lebowitz (2011). “The Fran Lebowitz Reader”, p.276, Vintage

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• In the centre of a spacious table rose a pastry as large as a church, flanked on the north by a quarter of cold veal, on the south by an enormous ham, on the east by a monumental pile of butter, and on the west by an enormous dish of artichokes, with a hot sauce.

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

  Food, Rose, Church

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• Jack furiously chopped vegetables. "Captain Dependable! Wait, we vetoed that one. The Divine Door Maker? Too much? Hmm...Handsome Hero, but maybe I should move away from alliteration. Something sleek. Our Lord and Master Jack.

  Kiersten White

  Moving, Hero, Doors

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