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Quotes About Vegetable

See appendix A for a proof that Winston Churchill was a carrot.
~ Charles Seife
Wouldn't it be awful if spinach hain't really healthful after all th' trouble it takes t'git the sand out of it?
~ Kin Hubbard, 1929
Q: What's a cat's favorite vegetable? A: As-purr-agus!
~ Author Unknown
People don't know how good cauliflower is, because they always have this image of cauliflower cheese - awful, sticky, creamy and rich.
~ Yotam Ottolenghi
it will always remain my private persuasion that Nature was absorbed in making cabbages when Mrs. Vesey was born, and that the good lady suffered the consequences of a vegetable preoccupation in the mind of the Mother of us all.
~ Wilkie Collins
Starting from this point of view, it will always remain my private persuasion that Nature was absorbed in making cabbages when Mrs. Vesey was born, and that the good lady suffered the consequences of a vegetable preoccupation in the mind of the Mother of us all.
~ Wilkie Collins
Imagination is the real and eternal world of which this vegetable universe is but a faint shadow.
~ William Blake
Terrified at Non Existence, for such they deemd the death of the body, Los his vegetable hands outstretch'd; his right hand branching out in fibrous Strength siez'd the Sun; his left hand like dark roots cover'd the Moon, and tore them down, cracking the heavens across from immense to immense.
~ William Blake
Mr Cripp's last words were 'Good heavens! It's full of holes!' said Mary. 'Do you have any idea to what he was referring?' 'Most puzzling,' confessed the Vicar. 'He might have been referring to anything - the greenhouse, his cucumber, the plot - anything.' 'The plot?' echoed Mary. 'I mean the vegetable plot,' he said hurriedly.
~ Jasper Fforde
To assist with the dietary requirements of vegetarians, on the first Tuesday of the month a chicken is officially a vegetable.
~ Jasper Fforde
When I was a kid, Halloween was strictly a starchy-vegetable-only holiday, with pumpkins and Indian corn on the front stoop; there was nothing electric, nothing inflatable, nothing with latex membranes or strobes.
~ Susan Orlean
If you can mock a leek, you can eat a leek!
~ William Shakespeare
The combination of radish, butter, salt, and bread seems like it can't be improved upon, except perhaps if you replace the butter with avocado, which I think of as vegetable butter.
~ Unknown
I really think broccoli is my vegetable of choice. You can cook it so many different ways.
~ Mike Conley Jr.
Broccoli gets such a bad rap. This is perplexing to those of us who love that green, treelike, stalky vegetable.
~ Kate Christensen
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
Listen to me: Leek is a vegetable. It can be the center of a dish.
~ Jose Andres
Real nutrition comes from soybeans, almonds, rice, and other healthy vegetable sources, not from a cow's udder.
~ Ingrid Newkirk
Remember a few years ago when Congress declared that the sauce on a slice of pizza should count as a vegetable in school lunches? You don't have to be a nutritionist to know that this doesn't make much sense.
~ Michelle Obama
A gluten-free diet still allows you access to almost every fruit and vegetable, a variety of grains and legumes, your pick of dairy products, fresh meats and fish and a whole slew of special gluten-free delights to satisfy your pretzel-bagel-muffin-doughnut craving.
~ Daphne Oz
Physiology is the science which treats of the properties of organic bodies, animal and vegetable, of the phenomena they present, and of the laws which govern their actions. Inorganic substances are the objects of other sciences, - physics and chemistry.
~ Johannes P. Muller
I had a ton of animals; I had a goat growing up, a bunch of rabbits, a vegetable garden.
~ Kelli Williams
I like having my autonomy; I like going into the vegetable aisle with little fanfare. Very few go into that star category, in that uber above-the-title category. The rest of us, day in and day out, we're there to support what they do.
~ Beth Broderick
It's a touchy subject, but as a Southerner, you can't ignore our history any more than a Renaissance painter can ignore the Virgin Mary. And it's impossible to drive down a road or eat a vegetable or pass a church without being reminded of slavery.
~ Sally Mann