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Even men without a gospel have their Mount of Olives. And one must not fall asleep on theirs either. — Albert Camus

I like Pirate's Booty. Prunes and olives, too. I love hummus. I can eat that until I die. I tend to eat mostly organic food. — Queen Latifah

Beetroot, garlic, lemon ... and buy a bottle of olive oil. All these things are very critical. — Manto Tshabalala-Msimang

Clary wondered what exactly peanut-fish-olive-tomato soup tasted like. — Cassandra Clare

There is nothing hard inside the olive; nothing hard outside the nut. — Horace

Happiness is ... finding two olives in your martini when youre hungry. — Johnny Carson

For we are like olives: only when we are crushed do we yield what is best in us. After — Bohumil Hrabal

The peoples of the Mediterranean began to emerge from barbarism when they learned to cultivate the olive and the vine. — Thucydides

If you deconstruct Greece, you will in the end see an olive tree, a grapevine, and a boat remain. That is, with as much, you reconstruct her. — Odysseas Elytis

Well I've fucked the olives. Not literally I might hasten to add! — David Nicholls

Olives are the wishbones of the cocktail world; rarely are they freely passed along to somebody else. — Augusten Burroughs

You must be conquerors through him who hath loved you, if conquerors at all. Our laurels must grow among his olives in Gethsemane. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Compared to a novel, a film is like an economy pizza where there are no olives, no ham, no anchovies, no mushrooms, and all you've got is the dough. — Louis De Bernieres

All my life I've been terrible at remembering people's names. I once introduced a friend of mine as Martini. Her name was actually Olive. — Tallulah Bankhead

There's a new dividing line in olives: between those who prefer Nocellara to all other varieties, and the people who have never tasted them. — Bee Wilson

In war the olive branch of peace is of use.
[Lat., Adjuvat in bello pacatae ramus olivae.] — Ovid

My father, who grew up picking olives on the Greek island of Lesbos, was a doctor. So my family expected me to become a physician. — Peter Diamandis

Ah, Caviar! I keep on eating it, but can never get my fill. Like olives. It's a lucky thing it's not salty. — Anton Chekhov

Percy pizza with extra olives. — Rick Riordan

They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar — Henry David Thoreau

Good morrow, fair ones; pray you, if you know,
Where in the purlieus of this forest stands
A sheep-cote fenc'd about with olive trees? — William Shakespeare

We're out of cocktail olives, it's a tragedy of historic proportions, but we're coping because we're Americans. — Dean Koontz

He knows his olive trees better than he knows his children. — Rebecca Helm-Ropelato

Call me not an olive, till thou see me gathered. — George Herbert

Were floods of tears to be unloosed In tribute to my grief, The doves of Noah ne'er had roost Nor found an olive-leaf. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

I don't know anything about American history or presidents. I don't know what tailgating is! I've never been to an Olive Garden! — Emma Watson

The tree struck him with such force it would've flattened me into a Percy pizza with extra olives. — Rick Riordan

The olive tree is surely the richest gift of Heaven. I can scarcely expect bread. — Thomas Jefferson

If entertainment ran grocery stores, we'd NEVER get oil cured olives or blue cheese, it would be JUST Coke. — Penn Jillette

Olive oil is a bang for your buck oil. — Vinnie Tortorich

I've always wanted to have a Greek sitcom called Olive Lucy. — Zach Galifianakis

An olive, with a pit ... — Victor Feguer

Give me Pablo Neruda, picnic beneath a full moon & iridescent stars, black olives, cherries, dark things, canoe on a river ... that's romance. — Brandi L. Bates

If olive oil comes from olives, then where does baby oil come from? — Jane Wagner

Just as oil is present in every part of the olive, so love permeates every part of creation. — Paramahansa Yogananda

Food tastes better when you wear it! — Erin Dealey

I was wondering, I mean, I'f we're going to be here a while... Maybe we could order some pizza...? But please, no olives because I can't-- — Nathan Edmondson