The human diet consists of just nine plants: corn, rice, wheat, potatoes, cassava, sorghum, millet, beans, barley, rye and oats. — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
People who eat potatoes will never be able to perform their abilities in whatever job they choose to have. — Richard Cobden Copy Share Image
“What I say is that, if a man really likes potatoes, he must be a pretty decent sort of fellow.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I used to walk into a party and scan the room for attractive women. Now I look for women to hold my… — Paul Reiser Copy Share Image
All food starting with p is comfort food: pasta, potato chips, pretzels, peanut butter, pastrami, Pizza, pastry. — Sara Paretsky Copy Share Image
“The only thing that helps me keep my slender grip on reality is the friendship I have with my collection of singing… — Holly Copy Share Image
I grew up in Scotland in the 1970s. There was not much money. The most popular Christmas toy was probably a potato. — Craig Ferguson Copy Share Image
Meat is a big deal in my life. I do love breakfast food, but I don't think that's extraordinary. I'm a normal… — Nick Offerman Copy Share Image
It's so funny because my mom is Thai and my dad is this big American guy - and our food tastes were… — Chrissy Teigen Copy Share Image
I mostly eat peanut butter sandwiches. Peanut butter and banana, peanut butter and jelly, peanut butter and potato chips, peanut butter and… — Janet Evanovich Copy Share Image
I'm a big cook and prefer to make meals at home when I can. I'm either cooking, or we're going to a… — Chandra Wilson Copy Share Image
Smell brings to mind... a family dinner of pot roast and sweet potatoes during a myrtle-mad August in a Midwestern town. Smells… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
I have taken the marshmallows off the sweet potatoes, however. They would make a big pan of sweet potatoes and cover it… — Edie Brickell Copy Share Image
I have memories of my grandfather Kirkman making mashed potatoes that were so good because they tasted like a bowl of butter.… — Jen Kirkman Copy Share Image
Why don't women have respect for themselves nowadays? What happen to the woman who learned her grandmama's recipes and made her man… — Brandon T. Jackson Copy Share Image
No mockery in the world ever sounds to me as hollow as that of being told to cultivate happiness. Happiness is not… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
“The meaning of sex is illustrated by two eponymous heroes of British history, King Edward VII (who flourished in the years before… — Steve Jones Copy Share Image
I suppose there is something in all of us that harks back to the soil. When you come to think of it,… — Mary Roberts Rinehart Copy Share Image
The only thing better than good English writing is - I can't think of anything. You just don't pour it pureed over… — William Murchison Copy Share Image
It seemed like a matter of minutes when we began rolling in the foothills before Oakland and suddenly reached a height and… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
There are certain products that it's worth buying organic just because the alternatives have so much pesticide. There's a list of the… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Put your hand on your heart to keep it from flying off to the lovely magical literary island Mary Ann Shaffer and… — Kris Radish Copy Share Image
Vanity, right?" Nash reappeared in the living room with an open bag of potato chips. "I nominate my venerable brother. He likes… — Rachel Vincent Copy Share Image
A man cannot free himself by any self-denying ordinances, neither by water nor potatoes, nor by violent possibilities, by refusing to swear,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
What a business is this of a portrait painter! You bring him a potato and expect he will paint you a peach. — Gilbert Stuart Copy Share Image
Potatoes are very interesting folks. I think they must see a lot of what is going on in the earth - they… — Opal Whiteley Copy Share Image
In all the good Greek of Plato I lack my roastbeef and potato. A better man was Aristotle, Pulling steady on the… — John Crowe Ransom Copy Share Image
People in towns are always preoccupied. 'Have I missed the bus? Have I forgotten the potatoes? Can I get across the road? — Nancy Mitford Copy Share Image
My grandfather had a wonderful funeral... On the buffet table there was a replica of the deceased in potato salad. — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
Few people sufficiently appreciate the colossal task of feeding a world of billions of omnivores who demand meat with their potatoes. — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“The potatoes were starch grenades. The canned carrots were revolting because that is their nature.” — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
Rub a half potato on your wart and wrap it in a damp cloth. Close your eyes and whirl three times and… — Richard Hugo Copy Share Image
Maybe I needed to make like a potato, winnow myself down, be part of something that was not easy, just simple. — Julie Powell Copy Share Image
You will find the poet who wrings the heart of the world, or the foremost captain of his time, driving a bargain… — Rebecca Harding Davis Copy Share Image
Said Aristotle unto Plato, 'Have another sweet potato?' Said Plato unto Aristotle, 'Thank you, I prefer the bottle.' — Owen Wister Copy Share Image
I never heard anything about 'potatoes' or 'kanaken' during my time in the national team. However I have been called 'potato,' too. — Per Mertesacker Copy Share Image
Sometimes when I'm making a potato salad I don't boil my own potatoes, I take them straight out of a can. — Nadiya Hussain Copy Share Image
If you ask any lady they want to be taller, they want to be slimmer, you know, and they want a waist.… — Alexander McQueen Copy Share Image
I do not believe that you have to spend a lot of money to eat well: it is hard to beat a… — Laurie Colwin Copy Share Image
“In a lot of ways that poor little potato' – Evan pointed directly at Jade’s French fries – 'symbolizes the reckless consumerism… — Francine Pascal Copy Share Image
