Vegetable Quotes

198 quotes by 176 authors

There was something I was always very good at, however, and that was teaching myself not to be frightened while frightening things are going on.… — Daniel Handler
I stalk certain words... I catch them in mid-flight, as they buzz past, I trap them, clean them, peel them, I set myself in front… — Pablo Neruda
Botany, the science of the vegetable kingdom, is one of the most attractive, most useful, and most extensive departments of human knowledge. It is, above… — Joseph Paxton
No occupation is more worthy of an intelligent and enlightened mind, than the study of Nature and natural objects; and whether we labour to investigate… — Joseph Paxton
The greatest delight the fields and woods minister is the suggestion of an occult relation between man and the vegetable. I am not alone and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
A fruit is a vegetable with looks and money. Plus, if you let fruit rot, it turns into wine, something brussel sprouts never do. — P.J. O'Rourke
The earth is not a mere fragment of dead history, stratum upon stratum like the leaves of a book, to be studied by geologists and… — Henry David Thoreau
We have really, that I know of, no philosophical basis for high and low. Moreover, the vegetable kingdom does not culminate, as the animal kingdom… — Asa Gray
Broccoli is not a Chinese vegetable; in fact, it is originally an Italian vegetable. It was introduced into the United States in the 1800s, but… — Jennifer Lee
I had a ton of animals; I had a goat growing up, a bunch of rabbits, a vegetable garden. — Kelli Williams
I make sure I get a lot of vegetables, a lot of fruit. I am a big fruit man; I am a vegetable man, anyway. — Magic Johnson
I get great pleasure from stuffed foods, from an apple strudel to a vegetable samosa, from a whole roasted bird with a sweet and savoury… — Yotam Ottolenghi
If the British Isles had an official vegetable, it would have to be the potato. — Yotam Ottolenghi
My vegetable patch is my pride and joy. — Sheherazade Goldsmith
I love to roast vegetables - carrots, fennel, and so on. I also love to mash or puree pretty much any vegetable! — April Bloomfield
A hunk of beef raised on Scottish moorland has a very different ecological footprint from one created in an intensive feedlot using concentrated cereal feed,… — Tristram Stuart
Listen to me: Leek is a vegetable. It can be the center of a dish. — Jose Andres Puerta
It was a small farm in a little rural town by the Indiana state border. I lived there from ages 5 to 12, I would… — Scott Michael Foster
It has been possible to trace historically back to a very early age the taxes which were imposed on medicines, spices and similar substances in… — Otto Wallach
I got a job immediately after leaving high school; I was lucky - three dollars a week and all I could eat, working on a… — Ernest Borgnine

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