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Vegetable Quotes by Jane Grigson
- This special feeling towards fruit, its glory and abundance, is I would say universal.... We respond to strawberry fields or cherry orchards with a delight…
- Cabbage as a food has problems. It is easy to grow, a useful source of greenery for much of the year. Yet as a vegetable…
- The artichoke above all is the vegetable expression of civilised living, of the long view, of increasing delight by anticipation and crescendo. No wonder it…
More Vegetable Quotes
- Cabbage: a familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man's head. — Ambrose Bierce
- In Barcelona, things seem so different. For example, I know that it's traditionally the least Spanish city, but you'd never know they… — Julie Burchill
- Microsoft has a new version out, Windows XP, which according to everybody is the 'most reliable Windows ever.' To me, this is… — Dave Barry
- I used to visit and revisit it a dozen times a day, and stand in deep contemplation over my vegetable progeny with… — Nathaniel Hawthorne
- One farmer says to me, "You cannot live on vegetable food solely, for it furnishes nothing to make the bones with;" and… — Henry David Thoreau
- There is no foundation in geological facts, for the popular theory of the successive development of the animal and vegetable world, from… — Charles Lyell
- The smell of manure, of sun on foliage, of evaporating water, rose to my head; two steps farther, and I could look… — Doris Lessing
- Alan Paul plunges into Chinese life and takes us along for the ride, through vegetable markets, used-car lots, Taoist temples, divey bars,… — Peter Hessler