Onion Quotes

118 Onion quotes by 110 unique authors

It's toughest to forgive ourselves. So it's probably best to start with other people. It's almost like peeling an onion. Layer by layer, forgiving others,… — Patty Duke
A woman's chastity consists, like an onion, of a series of coats. — Nathaniel Hawthorne
Life is like an onion: you peel off layer after layer and then you find there is nothing in it. — James Huneker
Yesterday, I did some painting then went out to buy an onion and came home and watched 'University Challenge.' The onion was probably the highlight. — Karl Pilkington
An onion can make people cry but there's never been a vegetable that can make people laugh. — Will Rogers
Life is like an onion. You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep. — Carl Sandburg
When you get into statistical analysis, you don't really expect to achieve fame. Or to become an Internet meme. Or be parodied by 'The Onion'… — Nate Silver
One my favorite things is to go to the provinces of Russia and see the 18th century wood churches with the onion dome architecture. These… — Andre Leon Talley
Since the advent of the Internet - more recently compounded by blogging - everyone can be a published voice. Any cowardly, anonymous anger-monger can have… — Lynda Resnick
No, women like you don't write. They carve onion sculptures and potato statues. They sit in dark corners and braid their hair in new shapes… — Edwidge Danticat
On a sticky August evening two weeks before her due date, Ashima Ganguli stands in the kitchen of a Central Square apartment, combining Rice Krispies… — Jhumpa Lahiri
Onion sauce! Onion Sauce! — Kenneth Grahame
He picked up the skull and knocked an onion ring out of its eye socket. "I see Sophie has been busy again. Couldn't you have… — Diana Wynne Jones
Man is an onion made up of a hundred integuments, a texture made up of many threads. The ancient Asiatics knew this well enough, and… — Hermann Hesse
Her life was a slow realization that the world was not for her and that for whatever reason she would never be happy and honest… — Jonathan Safran Foer
She would always feel this wild girl was the truest of any of the people she had already been: adored daughter, bourgeois priss, rebel, runaway,… — Lauren Groff
Calvin: Why are you crying mom? Mom: I'm cutting up an onion. Calvin: It must be hard to cook if you anthrpomorphisize your vegetables. — Bill Watterson
When I say that life is like an onion, I mean this: if you don't do anything with it, it goes rotten. So far, that's… — Steven Brust
pulled into my convenient neighborhood fast food restaurant. I ordered shrimp salad, onion rings, and a beer. The shrimp were straight out of the freezer,… — Haruki Murakami
The black asphalt wouls shimmer with vapors I had a theory about those vapors...not released by the sun but by a huge onion buried under… — Gary Soto
You give her all your french fries, even when she won't give you back onion rings,' Sophie says. 'And when you say her name it… — Jodi Picoult
If you are clinically insane, by which I mean you wake up in the morning, and you think you are an onion, this is your… — Jeremy Clarkson
I belonged in Idle Valley like a pearl onion on a banana split. — Raymond Chandler
We kiss. Her hands are freezing on my face, and she tastes like coffee and the smell of the onion is still stuck in my… — John Green
It was what we Japanese called the onion life, peeling away a layer at a time and crying all the while. — Arthur Golden

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