Quotes About Vegetable

Napa cabbage is very beautiful, all those long, pale leaves with ruffled edges.

When you're young you say, "If I become a vegetable, pull the plug!" You get older, you hedge a little. "If I'm a turnip, kill me. If I'm a trendier vegetable, like radicchio, mist me twice a day and trim the wilted leaves."

Omigosh—I'm a squash!

Beetroot is a great salad ingredient, especially when still warm; the colour ain't bad, either.

Don't be silly. There are times freak out about exams and uni and all that stuff. And there are times I'm ready to take on my parents, the vegetable and animal kingdom, the solar system, the entire universe. No one can be gutsy all the time. Imagine how obnoxious and snotty they'd be.

And from that day to this, no power on earth can keep a rabbit out of a vegetable garden, for El-ahrairah prompts them with a thousand tricks, the best in the world.

The apartment was haunted by the ghost of long-departed cabbage.

Whatever his inhibitions and tastes, Western man believes in the natural holiness of seminudism and raw vegetable juice, because these have become for him symbols of unadultered nature.

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

To grow up in intimate association with nature - animal and vegetable - is an irreplaceable form of wealth and culture.

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

Why is a carrot more orange than an orange?

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

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

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

The animal world seizes its food in masses little and big, and often gorges itself with it, but the vegetable, through the agency of the solvent power of water, absorbs its nourishment molecule by molecule.

Cauliflower is a great swap in so many comfort food dishes.

I'm a big sweet potato fan.

I absolutely love sweet potatoes baked in their skins.

Beets, they claim, taste like dirt. And they do, actually, although most beet aficionados prefer the term "earthy.

Medicinally, cabbage eating was said to prevent drunkenness or at least to alleviate hangovers, both recurrent Roman problems; it was also the vegetable of choice for curing colic, paralysis, and the plague.

Historically, kale has been a more popular food for livestock than for people, though for both it is notably nutritious

The greatest delight which the fields and woods minister, is the suggestion of an occult relation between man and the vegetable. I am not alone and unacknowledged. They nod to me, and I to them. The waving of the boughs in the storm, is new to me and old. It takes me by surprise, and yet is not unknown. Its effect is like that of a higher thought or a better emotion coming over me, when I deemed I was thinking justly or doing right. —RALPH WALDO EMERSON

omega-6 fats, which are found in many vegetable oils, including safflower oil, corn oil, canola oil, sunflower oil, and soybean oil; vegetable oil represents the number one source of fat in the American diet. According