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Some people are like ants. Give them a warm day and a piece of ground and they start digging. There the similarity ends. Ants…

— Hal Borland

I revere the memory of Mr. F. as an estimable man and most indulgent husband, only necessary to mention Asparagus and it appeared or…

— Charles Dickens

Respecting the dignity of a spectacular food means enjoying it at its best. Europeans celebrate the short season of abundant asparagus as a form…

— Barbara Kingsolver

“As quick as boiled asparagus!”

— Robert Graves

I was doing stand-up at a restaurant and there was a chalkboard on the street out front. It said, Soup of the Day: Cream…

— Ellen DeGeneres

(on asparagus) Europeans of the Renaissance swore by it as an aphrodisiac, and the church banned it from nunneries.

— Barbara Kingsolver

The attorney general will not cast aspersions on my asparagus.

— Louie Gohmert

“keep bees and grow asparagus. listen to the wind instead of the politicians, make up your own stories and believe them if you want…

— Miriam Waddington

Romesco with asparagus is simple and brilliant.

— Anonymous

You know, when you get your first asparagus, or your first acorn squash, or your first really good tomato of the season, those are…

— Mario Batali

“What most enraptured me were the asparagus.”

— Marcel Proust

“Asparagus is the serpent of the vegetable world.”

— Jarod Kintz

Marriage? It's like asparagus eaten with vinaigrette or hollandaise, a matter of taste but of no importance.

— Francoise Sagan

Until-as often happened during those first months travel, whenever I would feel such happiness-my guilt alarm went off. I heard my ex-husband's voice speaking…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

Pray how does your asparagus perform?

— John Adams