Complaining Quote by Georg C. Lichtenberg

I was raised almost entirely on turnips and potatoes, but I think that the turnips had more to do with the effect than the…

— Marlene Dietrich

The turnip is a capricious vegetable, which seems reluctant to show itself at its best.

— Waverley Root

“Not all vegetables are this draining. Lettuce doesn't bring heartache. Turnips don't ask for your soul. Potatoes don't care where you are or even…

— Joan Bauer

“I had expected the turnip metaphor to go over better, but it seems not everyone appreciates a clever philosophically grounded root vegetable reference.”

— Jessica Park

It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes.

— Douglas Adams

In the southern half of the country perhaps no crop has larger possibilities for quick increase of production of food for both men and…

— David F. Houston

Potatoes are very interesting folks. I think they must see a lot of what is going on in the earth - they have so…

— Opal Whiteley

If every seed turned into a plant, we'd be living in a very different world.

— Hope Jahren

If the British Isles had an official vegetable, it would have to be the potato.

— Yotam Ottolenghi

Human nature will not flourish, any more than a potato, if it be planted and replanted, for too long a series of generations, in…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

We grow our own vegetables.

— Christina Applegate

“When things (in the vegetable world) have displayed their luxuriant growth, we see each of them return to its root.”

— Lao Tzu