Olive Quotes

141 quotes by 107 authors

I always use my 'Holy Trinity' which is salt, olive oil and bacon. My motto is, 'bacon always makes it better.' I try to use… — Anne Burrell
I come bearing an olive branch in one hand, and the freedom fighter's gun in the other. Do not let the olive branch fall from… — Yasser Arafat
Mark how fleeting and paltry is the estate of man-yesterday in embryo, tomorrow a mummy or ashes. So for the hairsbreadth of time assigned to… — Marcus Aurelius
When a man's pride is subdued it's like the sides of Mount Aetna. It was terrible during the eruption, but when that is over and… — Henry Ward Beecher
The peoples of the Mediterranean began to emerge from barbarism when they learned to cultivate the olive and the vine. — Thucydides
I detest . . . anything over-cooked, over-herbed, over-sauced, over elaborate. Nothing can go very far wrong at table as long as there is honest… — Sybille Bedford
An olive, with a pit... — Victor Feguer
Aristotle, in spite of his reputation, is full of absurdities. He says that children should be conceived in the Winter, when the wind is in… — Bertrand Russell
The strands of spaghetti were vital, almost alive in my mouth, and the olive oil was singing with flavor. It was hard to imagine that… — Ruth Reichl
I've been very successful doing voices in movies. I did Olive, the Other Reindeer, with Drew Barrymore, and I did Cats and Dogs. My children… — Joe Pantoliano
A woman who can eat a real bruschetta is a woman you can love and who can love you. Someone who pushes the thing away… — Nick Harkaway
It's promising and seductive, that huge Italian family, sitting around the dinner table, surrounded by olive trees. But it's not my family and I am… — Gabrielle Hamilton
You spoke about things they couldn't see and so they laughed. Yet to row up the dark river against the current, to take the unknown… — Giorgos Seferis
Sometimes an unimportant incident is capable of turning everything beautiful into a moment of anxiety. We insist on seeing the mote in the eye and… — Paulo Coelho
I love grilling. Grilling is an incredible way to keep healthy. And you can marinate both with a dry rub and also wet marinades. You… — Curtis Stone
Just as oil is present in every part of the olive, so love permeates every part of creation. — Paramahansa Yogananda
Good olive oil, good butter, milk - they give food taste and depth and a richness that you cant reproduce with low-fat ingredients. — Nigella Lawson
To all new truths, or renovation of old truths, it must be as in the ark between the destroyed and the about-to-be renovated world. The… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Good oil, like good wine, is a gift from the gods. The grape and the olive are among the priceless benefactions of the soil, and… — George Ellwanger
The olive grove of Academe, Plato's retirement, where the Attic bird Trills her thick-warbled notes the summer long. — John Milton

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