Potatoes Quotes · Page 2

I love potatoes - roast potatoes, mashed potatoes - I just love potatoes.

— Johanna Konta

Don't give me no rotten tomato, 'cause all I ever wanted was your sweet potato.

— Sarah Dessen

I am a pure vegetarian and my favourite dish is jacket potatoes.

— Tulsi Kumar

Don’t tell me you’re going to eat a mashed-potato sandwich

— Veronica Roth

I loved to get all dusty and ride horses and plant potatoes and cotton.

— Dorothy Malone

Using these toolkits is like trying to make a bookshelf out of mashed potatoes.

— Jamie Zawinski

Marry me, princess. I'll give you my kingdom—small potatoes that it is.

— Cindy Gerard

Reading one book is like eating one potato chip.

— Diane Duane

“wheat, rice and potatoes. These plants domesticated Homo sapiens, rather than vice versa. Think”

— Yuval Noah Harari

I love hanging out with friends and family, going to the beach or just being a couch potato and binge watching TV…

— Yvette Gonzalez-Nacer

Listen up, you couch potatoes: each recycled beer can saves enough electricity to run a television for three hours.

— Denis Hayes

Someone creeping into his yard in the dead of night? More likely there's a very shell-shocked cat wandering somewhere, covered in potato…

— Anonymous

I'm really into food; it's one of my favourite things - everything from potato waffles to lobster.

— Paloma Faith

And they have a display of bananas, which are not bananas but called plantains and are more like a potato pretending to…

— Lauren Child

We need to ban all air-freighted food. Carrots from Holland. Potatoes from Egypt. It's got to stop.

— Ian Brown

Pathetic Earthlings... There's not enough makeup in the universe to cover those hideous, age-ravaged potato sacks that you call faces.

— Mary Kay Ash

“People have been cooking and eating for thousands of years, so if you are the very first to have thought of adding…

— Fran Lebowitz

My mum and my husband are from Irish backgrounds so we have a lot of potatoes. Chips, mashed, boiled, new potatoes, I…

— Jo Brand

My most memorable meal is every Thanksgiving. I love the food: the turkey and stuffing; the sweet potatoes and rice, which come…

— Douglas Conant

There are those who say that trees shade the garden too much, and interfere with the growth of the vegetables. There may…

— Charles Dudley Warner

We also knew [ me and Ewan McGregor] that, on a practical level, if there was going to be that much sex…

— Tilda Swinton

It was fine for my Polish Ashkenazi forebears to live on dumplings and potatoes, because they laboured in the fields. But that…

— Giles Coren

I do love my wine. I'd opt to drink my calories rather than eat them every time, so I cut out the…

— Rachel Nichols

It is very frustrating not to be understood in this world. If you say one thing and keep being told that you…

— Anonymous

As for bread, I count that for nothin'. We always have bread and potatoes enough; but I hold a family to be…

— James F. Cooper

The goblins of the city may hold committees to divide a single potato, but the strong and the cruel still sit on…

— Catherynne M. Valente

Those who came to the United States didn't realize they were white until they got here. They were told they were white.…

— Cornel West

One time we were having dinner and some guy came by and took a potato off of Frank Sinatra's plate. And Frank…

— Joey Bishop

“White potatoes, although introduced into England during Shakespeare’s lifetime, were not commonly eaten until late in the eighteenth century. White potatoes originated…

— Francine Segan

When something like this happens, you suddenly have no sense of reality at all. You have lost a piece of your past.…

— Nora Ephron

Modern masters of science are much impressed with the need of beginning all inquiry with a fact. The ancient masters of religion…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

I love to cook. In fact, at this exact moment, I am trying something new: I am cooking a whole chicken in…

— Nancy Grace

If you're poor, potato chips are the food of life for you. It's the caviar.

— Sandra Cisneros

Shakespeare is like mashed potatoes, you can never get enough of him.

— Frank McCourt

Murder is like potato chips: you can't stop with just one.

— Stephen King

She lives in Mojave in a Winnebago. His name is Bobby, he looks like a potato.

— Frank Zappa

Potatoes are to food what sensible shoes are to fashion.

— Linda Wells

They [potatoes] are good for boys cold fingers at suppertime on winter nights.

— Mary Virginia Terhune

Your face looks like a sack of purple potatoes

— Jim Butcher

“I only want to live in peace, plant potatoes and dream!”

— Tove Jansson