Quote by Jessica Park

“A root vegetable went missing. Maybe it will turnip in my next bad pun.”

— Jarod Kintz

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

— Waverley Root

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

— Novella Carpenter

“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

“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

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

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

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

— Frank Zappa

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

— Stan Goff

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

“He dug and ploughed over his piece of land, and then sowed some turnip seed. Soon the seed began to show itself above ground,…

— Grimm Brothers

“what good are roots if you can't take them with you”

— Gertrude Stein