Quotes About Vegetable

A huge gust of cabbage blasted in Ben's face. It was like a great big slap of smell.

The only sound was Alvin's snorts of laughter. "Dude, you're the only one standing there! Who are you talking to, the vegetable dip?" he shouted before his grandmother shushed him.

In North Korea, grass is a vegetable eaten by the people, and they've got nuclear weapons and intercontinental ballistic missiles. So, something more stringent than what's been done to North Korea is going to have to work; otherwise, a military strike is the only option.

I very much like potatoes.

In this litany of dereliction weeds are defined as 'any uncultivated vegetable growth taller than nine inches' – which makes about two-thirds of the entire United States' indigenous flora illegal in a Houston yard.

He resembled, to an extraordinary degree, an asparagus.

We is having an interesting babblement about the taste of the human bean. The human bean is not a vegetable.

We are all vegetable, in this country. Are you not vegetable, also? No, answered the Wizard. People on top of the earth are all meat. Will

Valkyrie stood there and waited for her to start making sense. "There is a vegetable-plant hybrid we've been working on, modifying the genes and receptors, mutating the proteins and acids so that they are, in effect, neurotransmitters. Our work on the synapses alone has been quite illuminating." Valkyrie stood there and waited for her to start making sense.

Cabbage A familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man's head.

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

Breakfast was always a slab of cold black toast and a cup of thick black coffee. Lunch and dinner were always the same—a tin plate piled with a suspicious pilaff, mostly rice with occasional bits of lamb and shreds of vegetable matter of indeterminate origin.

Natural bodies are divided into three kingdomes of nature: viz. the mineral, vegetable, and animal kingdoms. Minerals grow, Plants grow and live, Animals grow, live, and have feeling.

Botany, the science of the vegetable kingdom, is one of the most attractive, most useful, and most extensive departments of human knowledge. It is, above every other, the science of beauty.

I wouldLove you ten years before the Flood,And you should, if you please, refuseTill the conversion of the Jews.My vegetable love should growVaster than empires, and more slow.

a rocket-powered carrot-launcher

Soon after the inauguration, the Obamas gave Big Food a case of heartburn when, in the spring of 2009, Michelle Obama planted an organic vegetable garden on the White House lawn, a symbolic but nevertheless powerful act that thrilled the food movement.

It wasn't easy to develop a healthy personality when the canals of your flagellate chambers were held in common with an invaginated mother, incestuous sisters and a bisexual father. When the only anatomical features on which you could construct an identity were the gastral cavity and the aperture of your osculum. The tragedy of being a vegetable was that you couldn't commit suicide. The advantage of being a sponge was that you could drown your sorrows.

She imagined herself lying in the vegetable tray, perhaps, while Mr. J.L.B. Matekoni leaned against the icebox. It would be a refreshing alternative to the heat.

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

These handkerchief gardens are a traditional German solution to apartment dwellers' yearning for a tool shed and a vegetable garden. They make a patchwork of green in odd corners of urban land, along train lines or canals or, as here, in the lee of the Wall.

Christopher Columbus's favorite vegetable?" asked the lunch lady. Deedee knew that one. "Cabbage!

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

I have seen Russians devour, without being visibly inconvenienced, vegetable substances which would infallibly have killed a Neapolitan or an Arab.