Vegetable Quotes: top 100 famous quotes about Vegetable

Vegetable Quotes & Sayings

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

Their faces were scarified in hideous whorls and dots. As for clothing, they dressed in vegetable matter. Another — Annie Proulx

Move with a spring & vegetable swiftness,
Seed-case & burr & tremulous grasses, a grove - vocal in the
wind - — Ronald Johnson

It is very significant that some of the most thoughtful and cultured men are partisans of a pure vegetable diet — Mahatma Gandhi

And, incidentally, tomato ketchup is not a vegetable." Sybil added. "Not even the dried stuff around the top of the bottle. — Terry Pratchett

If you don't follow through on your dreams, you might as well be a vegetable. — Anthony Hopkins

Don't open your diamonds in a vegetable market. Tie them in bundle and keep them in your heart, and go your own way. — Kabir

It's been many years since I had such an exemplary vegetable. — Jane Austen

Cabbage: a familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man's head. — Ambrose Bierce

Touring on 'Folie' was like being the last act at the vaudeville show: We were rotten vegetable targets in clandestine hoods. — Patrick Stump

The stealing began again with carrots, which apparently are the gateway vegetable, because soon it led to all manner of produce theft. — Jewel

Real nutrition comes from soybeans, almonds, rice, and other healthy vegetable sources, not from a cow's udder. — Ingrid Newkirk

The influence of animal or vegetable life on matter is infinitely beyond the range of any scientific inquiry hitherto entered on. — Lord Kelvin

First off, let's clear this up - fries are not a side dish and you can't count those as a vegetable. Sorry. — Tez Brooks

Chocolate is a vegetable. Honest. — Ashok K. Banker

My vegetable love will grow
Vaster than empires, and more slow. — Andrew Marvell

The essential quality of an animal is that it seeks its own living, whereas a vegetable has its living brought to it. — Henry Mayhew

I saw a cavalry captain buy vegetable soup on horseback. He carried the whole mess home in his helmet. — Aristophanes

By all that is sacred in our hope for the human race, I conjure those who love happiness and truth to give a fair trial to the vegetable system! — Percy Bysshe Shelley

To provide optimal levels of protective micronutrients, a diet must be vegetable-based, not grain-based. — Joel Fuhrman

If wine is fruit, then vodka must be a vegetable. — Jann Arden

I think of New York as a puree and the rest of the United States as vegetable soup. — Spalding Gray

Human longings are perversely obstinate; and to the man whose mouth is watering for a peach, it is of no use to offer the largest vegetable marrow. — George Eliot

Every year for decades there had been great excitement over the Largest Vegetable competition ("That would be my husband", was the standard comment). — G.M. Malliet

My grandmother worked on a fruit and vegetable market stall. — Petra Stunt

Bobby Bingo had skin like a baked potato. A complete vegetable man, Lou Ann thought, — Barbara Kingsolver

I think of my studio as a vegetable garden, where things follow their natural course. They grow, they ripen. You have to graft. You have to water. — Joan Miro

Imagination is the real and eternal world of which this vegetable universe is but a faint shadow. — William Blake

Feminism has become a catch-all vegetable drawer where bunches of clingy sob sisters can store their moldy neuroses. — Camille Paglia

Tobacco is my favorite vegetable. — Frank Zappa

I just became a vegetable for three months. I couldn't talk to people. I was very ill and that was part of the reason I left college. — Adam Ant

I had a ton of animals; I had a goat growing up, a bunch of rabbits, a vegetable garden. — Kelli Williams

One of the makeup artists once dyed my dog blue with vegetable blue. — Mia Kirshner

Is an egg a vegetable? — Jodie Marsh

I see things and I hear things I do not understand. I'm a skilled, resourceful ... vegetable! — Robert Ludlum

I brought my own microwavable stuff. And popcorn isn't junk food. It's part of the vegetable group. — Kenya Wright

Artichoke: That vegetable of which one has more at the finish than at the start of dinner. — Lord Chesterfield

If you have never tasted a braised vegetable, you'll find it is a revelation. — James Beard

I got a job immediately after leaving high school; I was lucky - three dollars a week and all I could eat, working on a vegetable truck. — Ernest Borgnine

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

A true Chicago dog looks like someone fired a bazooka at a vegetable stand, then scraped the remnants off the wall and slathered it on a tube of meat. — Brandon Sanderson

Gayety is to good-humor as perfumes to vegetable fragrance: the one overpowers weak spirits; the other recreates and revives them. — Samuel Johnson

A fruit is a vegetable with looks and money. Plus, if you let fruit rot, it turns into wine, something brussel sprouts never do. — P. J. O'Rourke

Taking all vegetable-eating nations together ... they are a larger and much better formed race than the flesh eaters. — Sylvester Graham

I like to think coffee comes from beans; therefore, it's a vegetable. — Jim Gaffigan

In short, the animal and vegetable lines, diverging widely above, join below in a loop. — Asa Gray

I just didn't expect it. It was asparagus ... He literally punched someone over a vegetable. — Kiera Cass

Listen to me: Leek is a vegetable. It can be the center of a dish. — Jose Andres

The West is color. Its colors are animal rather than vegetable, the colors of earth and sunlight and ripeness. — Jessamyn West

Our vegetable garden is coming along well, with radishes and beans up, and we are less worried about revolution that we used to be. — E.B. White

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

Tomorrow morning, he decided, I'll begin clearing away the sand of fifty thousand centuries for my first vegetable garden. That's the initial step. — Philip K. Dick

My father would eat cat shit if it was salted, fried, or frosted, but it took an act of Congress to get him to eat a vegetable. — Janet Evanovich

The normal food of man is vegetable. — Charles Darwin

They've outlawed the number one vegetable on the planet. — Timothy Leary

Pork is not a vegetable. — Jordon Quattlebaum

Sugar is not a vegetable. — Gertrude Stein

All right," sighed Madrigal. "To the baths, then. To make ourselves shiningly clean."
Like vegetable, she thought, before they go in the stew. — Laini Taylor

Americans eat more tomatoes than any other vegetable or fruit. ********************************* — Jack West

the main character saying things like "In my world, chocolate is a vegetable. — Susan Wiggs

If my wife made childhood obesity her mission and I signed a law making 1/8 cup of tomato paste a vegetable, I'd be sleeping on the sofa. — Alton Brown

Now sir, said the bulldog in his business-like way. 'Are you a animal, vegetable, or mineral?'
- The Magician's Nephew — C.S. Lewis

I have no pity for myself either. So let it be Veronal. But I wish Hercule Poirot had never retired from work and come here to grow vegetable marrows. — Agatha Christie

It is not hard to change when your biggest problem is whether the weeds prosper in a vegetable patch. — David Gemmell

If there is one vegetable which is God-given, it is the haricot bean. — Jean-Henri Fabre

The roots of tobacco plants must go clear through to hell. Satan's principal agent Dyspepsia must have charge of this branch of the vegetable kingdom. — Thomas A. Edison

We have may teachers, animal, vegetable and mineral — Jimmy Videle

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

My goal involves a hammock, a vegetable patch, and a solar-powered house. And I hope to eventually get there. — Miranda Kerr

For the first time since 2007, the FDA Has approved a new device to treat obesity. The amazing breakthrough is called a vegetable. — Conan O'Brien

Some people just wanted to blow it all to hell, animal, vegetable and mineral. They wanted a Vietnam they could fit into their car ashtrays. — Michael Herr

I get around nature. I have a vegetable garden, and I enjoy being outside. I do work quite a bit around the house. — Patty Loveless

Most people don't bother about their friends in the vegetable kingdom. — Frank Zappa

An onion can make people cry, but there has never been a vegetable invented to make them laugh. — Will Rogers

I love having sex with you," she says. "If you're a vegetable when this is done, can I still have sex with you? — Gabrielle Zevin

What are those bulb things you're slicing?"
"You've never seen fennel? It looks like celery and tastes like licorice. — Ken Jennings

My vegetable patch is my pride and joy. — Sheherazade Goldsmith

And I will never, ever respond to anybody - man, woman, vegetable, or mineral - who tells me to keep my mouth shut. — Janice Dickinson

I love to roast vegetables - carrots, fennel, and so on. I also love to mash or puree pretty much any vegetable! — April Bloomfield

Non-violence is the policy of the vegetable kingdom. — H.G.Wells

I accept the Organic Trinity of Mineral, Vegetable, and Animal with as much authority as I accept the Holy Trinity. Both are sacred. — Terry Tempest Williams

Man, throughout the ages Hasn't yet made up his mind Whether we're fruit or vegetable. That's okay, we still taste just fine. — Geryn Childress

Look don't sit there behind the computer like a useless vegetable and tell me how to train — Viktoria Komova

Wherever I go, as long as I get a hot vegetable dish, I am okay. If I am in Gujarat, I have Gujarati food. If it's Shillong, it's northeastern. — A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

And the woman in the vegetable shop, she oppresses me all the time. — Terry Pratchett

When I eat something like vegetable bibimbap, I get that warm and fuzzy feeling of eating stuff that I grew up with. — Patrick Stump

I don't think I ate a green vegetable until I was 30. I didn't grow up with a mom who enforced that at all. — Keri Russell

No vegetable exists which is not better slightly undercooked. — James Beard

As any gardener will tell you, the cycles of nature require patience ... Even a fast-growing vegetable like a radish requires time. — M.J. Ryan

The gardens at Rugeley had lots of separate lawns, paths, flower and vegetable borders, the pigeon coop, and plenty of low hedges, — Vanessa Steel

It was against the law to Taser someone in the head because it would have them in a vegetable state for the rest of their life or kill them. — Amanda Lee

A brick could be crushed, mixed with water, and drunk like a sports drink. And hey, with no bromated vegetable oil, it's healthier than Gatorade. — Jarod Kintz

Nearly every historic fruit and vegetable variety once found in the United States has disappeared. — Preeti Simran Sethi

If the British Isles had an official vegetable, it would have to be the potato. — Yotam Ottolenghi

Metaphorically, organizations are like vegetable gardens, where each capability is a different type of vegetable growing in the garden. — Pearl Zhu

My favorite vegetable is the marshmallow. — Jim Gaffigan

Go vegetable heavy. Reverse the psychology of your plate by making meat the side dish and vegetables the main course. — Bobby Flay

Broccoli gets such a bad rap. This is perplexing to those of us who love that green, treelike, stalky vegetable. — Kate Christensen

I lost my virginity to a pumpkin when I was 23. Back then I was convinced I was actually a Vegetable, hell, that's what the song is about. — Thom Yorke

Call any vegetable,
call it by name,
and the chances are good
that the vegetable will respond to you — Frank Zappa