Capricious Quote by Waverley Root

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

— 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

....try the mustard, - a man can't know what turnips are in perfection without mustard.

— Mark Twain

“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 love root vegetables: carrots, parsnips, and turnips.

— Julia Child

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

To him who is stinted of food a boiled turnip will relish like a roast fowl.

— Saadi

“Having two or more strong-flavored foods (such as broccoli, onions, turnips, cabbage, and cauliflower) in the same meal has been avoided.”

— Ruby Parker Puckett

“I am a strict vegetarian...The usual questions were fired at me about eggnogs and milkshakes being or not being acceptable to one of my…

— Vladmir Nabokov

Who cares if a carrot has a slight bend? They're all the same when they end up on the plate.

— Tristram Stuart

People underestimate the power of the root vegetable.

— Christina Tosi

Call any vegetable and the chances are good that the vegetable will respond to you.

— Frank Zappa