Olive Quotes
141 quotes by 107 authors
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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
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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
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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
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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
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The peoples of the Mediterranean began to emerge from barbarism when they learned to cultivate the olive and the vine.
— Thucydides
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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
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An olive, with a pit...
— Victor Feguer
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Just as oil is present in every part of the olive, so love permeates every part of creation.
— Paramahansa Yogananda
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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
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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
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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
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The olive grove of Academe, Plato's retirement, where the Attic bird Trills her thick-warbled notes the summer long.
— John Milton
Who Wrote These Olive Quotes
107 authors contributed a total of 141 Olive Quotes, led by these top contributors: