Potatoes Quotes · Page 3

Potatoes are to food what sensible shoes are to fashion.

— Linda Wells

Being a king, emperor, or president is mighty small potatoes compared to being a mother.

— Billy Sunday

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'm vegetarian, but I love Thanksgiving dinner: faux turkey, stuffing and mashed potatoes.

— Leigh Lezark

“potatoes off his pants. “Carbs,” he moans. “I’m going to gain at least ten pounds.”

— Sarah Castille

What do you get when you eat all the potatoes?

— Salty Biscuit

The whole plan hinged upon the natural curiosity of potatoes.

— Stanislaw Lem

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

When I was a kid, my mother used to feed me mashed-potato sandwiches, brussel sprout sandwiches; my brain cells were starving from…

— Sylvester Stallone

I benefit from the Mr. Potato Head syndrome. Put a wig and a nose and glasses on me, and I disappear.

— Phil Hartman

It's so funny because my mom is Thai and my dad is this big American guy - and our food tastes were…

— Chrissy Teigen

My favorite meal is turkey and mashed potatoes. I love Thanksgiving, it's just my favorite. I can have Thanksgiving all year round.

— Cindy Margolis

I'll never forget my first experience of swede. It was at school and I thought I was getting mashed potato. I've never…

— Paul Merton

I'd like to live off the band, but if not, I'll just retire to Mexico or Yugoslavia with a few hundred dollars,…

— Kurt Cobain

My personality, when tasked with creating meals, goes something like this: Is there a way we can make this more difficult? Because…

— Sloane Crosley

The dirty little secret is that I grew up in a household where there were no carbohydrates allowed, ever. No cookies, no…

— Ina Garten

WHO KNOWS WHAT EVIL LURKS IN THE HEART OF MEN? The Death of Rats looked up from the feast of the potato.…

— Terry Pratchett

I didn't leave home until 27. I was an only child raised in Philadelphia by my mother and grandmother. My grandmother controlled…

— Jill Scott

Human nature will not flourish, any more than a potato, if it be planted and replanted, for too long a series of…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

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

Both sides of my family had come from Ireland in the 19th century for the same reason: There was nothing to eat…

— Art Donovan

“Early as it was, every one had breakfasted, and my basin of bread and milk was put on the oven-top to await…

— Elizabeth Gaskell

Albert and I would spend hours and hours looking at them. Cleo had this big magnifying glass on his desk, and we'd…

— Fannie Flagg

The pattern of a newspaperman's life is like the plot of 'Black Beauty.' Sometimes he finds a kind master who gives him…

— A. J. Liebling

I think we'll have a good potato crop this year," a newspaper editor told his housekeeper one morning. "No such thing," asserted…

— James Keller

Probably "Mrs. Potato Head" or "Training Wheels". "Mrs. Potato Head" because it was the hardest song to write and it took me…

— Melanie Martinez

I was just peeling some potatoes for dinner and they all looked like crisp white potatoes until I cut them in half.…

— Jaclyn Moriarty

“I invested in a fifteen-dollar handheld mandoline, knowing that my knife skills would never be good enough to get the potatoes thin…

— Stacey Ballis

I was a devil of a scapegrace in my time… Father racked his head for days together to find a punishment that…

— Stijn Streuvels

Hindsight is common and bland as boiled potatoes.

— Maureen Howard

Papa, potatoes, poultry, prunes and prism, are all very good words for the lips.

— Charles Dickens

Friends are like potatoes. I don't have any potatoes.

— Anonymous

I can name a LOT of things that taste better than skinny feels… Potatoes! Bread!

— Jennifer Lawrence

They were throwing potatoes at me. It's only supposed to be rotten fruit.

— Merlin

Mashed potatoes with stuff in it? That's '90s.

— Alex Guarnaschelli

You say potato; I say potahto..." I say integrity; you say deceit.

— Melissa Marr

I'm really enamored of the potato in all its guises.

— James Beard