Born Quote by Wilkie Collins

“Nature has so much to do in this world, and is engaged in generating such a vast variety of co-existent productions, that she must…

— Wilkie Collins

“It’s as though a cabbage tried to investigate the causes and effects of its existence,”

— Andrzej Sapkowski

Enough of acting the infant who has been told so often how he was found under a cabbage that in the end he remembers…

— Samuel Beckett

“(Cabbages were a Kel idiosyncrasy. They were adamant about their spiced cabbage pickles.) Appearance-wise”

— Yoon Ha Lee

“Curious anomaly, fantastic element!" said an ingenious naturalist, "in which the animal kingdom blossoms, and the vegetable does not!”

— Jules Verne

“Pray for miracles, but plant cabbages.”

— Ken Follett

“I want death to find me planting my cabbages, not concerned about it or—still less—my unfinished garden.”

— Nina Riggs

Vegetables are something God invented to let women get even with their children.

— P. J. O'Rourke

“But oh how sure I am that it is so much better to have love with all its pains and terrors and fanaticism than…

— Stevie Smith

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

— Lao Tzu

“Well, for a considerable time after you were born, you had no such reason for rejoicing in your form. You were then a mere…

— Lafcadio Hearn

“I tell you I have created this thing out of the squashed cabbage leaves of Covent Garden; and now she pretends to play the…

— George Bernard Shaw