Went Missing Quote by Jarod Kintz

“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

“I know the pleasure of pulling up root vegetables. They are solvable mysteries.”

— Novella Carpenter

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

— Waverley Root

“DO NOT PUT ALL YOUR TRUST IN ROOT VEGETABLES. WHAT THINGS SEEM TO BE MAY NOT BE WHAT THEY ARE. -Death”

— Terry Pratchett

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

— Lao Tzu

“some vegetables are supposed to stay in the dirt and shouldn't be eaten at all.”

— Ember Casey

“I think we are all about to become rootless. It may be time. The soil has become poisonous.”

— Stan Goff

“call any vegetable, call it by name, and the chances are good that the vegetable will respond to you”

— Frank Zappa

“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

“Whoops there goes another rubber tree plant.”

— Jimmy Van Heusen

“You're a vegetable!”

— Michael Jackson

If there were only turnips and potatoes in the world, someone would complain that plants grow the wrong way.

— Georg C. Lichtenberg