Cabbage Quote by John Ashbery Download Open image “A yak is a prehistoric cabbage; of that, we can be sure.” — John Ashbery ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Cabbage Prehistoric Yaks
My first yak was fairly quiet and looked a noble steed with my Mexican saddle and gay blanket among rather than upon his thick… — Isabella Bird Copy Share Image
Cabbage: a familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man's head. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
If the British Isles had an official vegetable, it would have to be the potato. — Yotam Ottolenghi Copy Share Image
There's so many people that don't really recognize a vegetable unless it's in a bit of plastic with an instruction packet on the top. — Suman Rai Copy Share Image
“It was a stamp. It was a yellowy-green color. It showed—Moist peered—a field of cabbages, with some buildings on the horizon. He sniffed. It… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
In North Korea I thought a frozen potato was the fanciest food in the world. — Park Yeon-mi Copy Share Image
Call any vegetable and the chances are good that the vegetable will respond to you. — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
Down South, even our vegetables have some pig hidden somewhere in it. A vegetable isn't a vegetable without a little ham hock. — Paula Deen Copy Share Image
“To tell the truth, sir, I believe I had rather sit in the shelter for a while. The cabbage seems to have turned my… — Patrick O'Brian Copy Share Image
“Yes, they are alive and can have those colors, But I, in my soul, am alive too. I feel I must sing and dance,… — John Ashbery Copy Share Image
How many people came and stayed a certain time, Uttered light or dark speech that became part of you Like light behind windblown fog… — John Ashbery Copy Share Image
Some certified nut Will try to tell you it's poetry, (It's extraordinary, it makes a great deal of sense) But watch out or he'll… — John Ashbery Copy Share Image
The ellipse is as aimless as that, Stretching invisibly into the future so as to reappear In our present. Its flexing is its account,… — John Ashbery Copy Share Image
Somewhere someone is traveling furiously toward you, At incredible speed, traveling day and night.... — John Ashbery Copy Share Image
“The genius of Cornell is that he sees and enables us to see with the eyes of childhood, before our vision got clouded by… — John Ashbery Copy Share Image
The mind Is so hospitable, taking in everything Like boarders, and you don't see until It's all over how little there was to learn… — John Ashbery Copy Share Image
In the increasingly convincing darkness The words become palpable, like a fruit That is too beautiful to eat. — John Ashbery Copy Share Image
What I like about music is its ability to be convincing, to carry an argument through successfully to the finish, though the terms of… — John Ashbery Copy Share Image
“The Unknown Travelers Lugged to the gray arbor, I have climbed this snow-stone on my face, My stick, but what, snapped the avalanche The… — John Ashbery Copy Share Image
Slugs crawl and crawl over our cabbages, like the world's slander over a good name. You may kill them, it is true; but there… — Douglas William Jerrold Copy Share Image
In the first place, lawyers better remember they are human beings, and a human being who hasn't his periods of doubts and distresses and… — Felix Frankfurter Copy Share Image
He tapped my chest. 'Happy is here.' He tapped his own chest. 'Here.' I looked down past my chin. 'Inside?' 'Inside.' It was getting… — Jerry Spinelli Copy Share Image
The cabbage surpasses all other vegetables. If, at a banquet, you wish to dine a lot and enjoy your dinner, then eat as much… — Cato the Younger Copy Share Image
I was put off by people at school - my cabbage wasn't as good as other people's, you know, so that put me off. — Roger McGough Copy Share Image
And still I look for the men who will dare to be roses of England wild roses of England men who are wild roses… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
It is clear that men accept an immediate pain rather than an immediate pleasure, but only because they expect a greater pleasure in the… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
The wildest dreams of wild men, even, are not the less true, though they may not recommend themselves to the sense which is most… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
He is useless on top of the ground; he ought to be under it, inspiring the cabbages. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I too acknowledge the all-out omnipotence of early culture and nature; hereby we have either a doddered dwarf-bush, or a high-towering, wide-shadowing tree! either… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
