Vegetables Quotes
540 quotes by 418 authors
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Hot lavender, mints, savory, marjoram; The marigold, that goes to bed wi' the sun, and with him rise weeping.
— William Shakespeare
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The meal was pretentious - a kind of beetroot soup with greasy croutons; pork underdone with loud vulgar cabbage, potato croquettes, tinned peas in tiny…
— Anthony Burgess
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Everything I do, I do on the principle of Russian borscht. You can throw everything into it beets, carrots, cabbage, onions, everything you want. What's…
— Yevgeny Yevtushenko
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There is no foundation in geological facts, for the popular theory of the successive development of the animal and vegetable world, from the simplest to…
— Charles Lyell
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You will be astonished when I tell you what this curious play of carbon amounts to. A candle will burn some four, five, six, or…
— Michael Faraday
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Natural bodies are divided into three kingdomes of nature: viz. the mineral, vegetable, and animal kingdoms. Minerals grow, Plants grow and live, Animals grow, live,…
— Carl Linnaeus
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I don't want any vegetables, thank you. I paid for the cow to eat them for me.
— Douglas Coupland
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A man, even if seriously sick or prevented in the exercise of its higher functions, is and will be always a man ... [he] will…
— Pope John Paul II
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Our ancestors were eating meat over 2.5 million years ago. We mainly ate meat, fish, fruits, vegetables and nuts. We have to assume our physiology…
— Lionel Tiger
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One of the makeup artists once dyed my dog blue with vegetable blue.
— Mia Kirshner
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The smell of manure, of sun on foliage, of evaporating water, rose to my head; two steps farther, and I could look down into the…
— Doris Lessing
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Life is like eating artichokes; you have got to go through so much to get so little.
— Tad Dorgan
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Banish (the onion) from the kitchen and the pleasure flies with it. Its presence lends color and enchantment to the most modest dish; its absence…
— Elizabeth Robins Pennell
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A man taking basil from a woman will love her always.
— Thomas More
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My final, considered judgment is that the hardy bulb [garlic] blesses and ennobles everything it touches - with the possible exception of ice cream and…
— Angelo Pellegrini
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My boy, the 'quenelles de sole' were splendid, but the peas were poor. You should shake the pan gently, all the time, like this.
— Marie-Antoine Careme
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They [potatoes] are good for boys cold fingers at suppertime on winter nights.
— Mary Virginia Terhune
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I'm eating a lot of organic proteins and vegetables! Maintaining a healthy, balanced diet is my No. 1 priority because I'm nursing my daughter.
— Lily Aldridge
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It is very significant that some of the most thoughtful and cultured men are partisans of a pure vegetable diet
— Mahatma Gandhi
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I'm truly grateful for my microwave, which allows me to easily clarify butter, steam vegetables, and - when I am really lazy - feed my…
— Sara Gruen
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