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Quotes About Banana

My son Simon had one of Elvis's favorite meals when we visited Graceland - a peanut butter and banana sandwich. Fried! Can you imagine the cholesterol?
~ Christopher Timothy
The people went out and voted the banana man, and the Tabulation Center counted the tally sheets.
~ Jovenel Moise
It's a lot of people's goal to be the lead in a movie, and that was never my goal. I just wanted to be the third banana in an ensemble comedy.
~ Paul Rust
During a fight with Anderson Silva, I slipped on an imaginary banana peel.
~ Forrest Griffin
I've long thought that for my last meal on earth I will be perfectly happy with a granary loaf toastie with melted crunchy peanut butter and banana.
~ Tamsin Greig
A woman is like a banana; one alone can turn the whole bunch rotten.
~ Proverb
In the D'Acampo family we have pancakes with banana and chocolate sauce for breakfast every Sunday, no matter what.
~ Gino D'Acampo
In 1876 at the World's Fair in Philadelphia, a delicacy called a banana, originally a crop of the Malay Islands, made its public debut in the United States, selling for a dime apiece and wrapped in tinfoil to prevent its phallic shape from offending the crowd's Victorian sensibilities. How else to eat one but with a fork and knife?
~ Daniel Stone
You have to give people permission to laugh. That's why they would always cut to the banana peel in the Laurel and Hardy movies.
~ Danny DeVito
When the Infinite Improbability Drive arrived and whole planets started unexpectedly turning into banana fruitcake, the great history faculty of the University of MaxiMegalon finally gave up, closed itself down and surrendered its buildings to the rapidly growing joint faculty of Divinity and Water Polo, which had been after them for years. Which
~ Douglas Adams
When the Infinite Improbability Drive arrived and whole planets started unexpectedly turning into banana fruitcake, the great history faculty of the University of MaxiMegalon finally gave up, closed itself down and surrendered its buildings to the rapidly growing joint faculty of Divinity and Water Polo, which had been after them for years.
~ Douglas Adams
One might say that modern Honduran history began in 1873, when Jules Verne introduced Americans to the banana in his novel Around the World in 80 Days, where he praised it as being "as healthy as bread and as succulent as cream.
~ Douglas Preston
Bad habit, lunch. A banana and a water biscuit is all any sane healthy man should need in the middle of the day.
~ Agatha Christie
I resent the label on cigarettes. If they're going to warn you, why don't they put the same sign at the entrance to every freeway or on every banana that's sold? You can slip on the peel, you know.
~ Peter Graves
Because the plant is an herb, not a tree, the banana is properly classed as a berry. The plant grows from a rhizome, which, in the way of a potato, has no roots. It's
~ Rich Cohen
I feel pretty good. My body actually looks like an old banana, but it's fine.
~ Mike Piazza
A monkey glances up and sees a banana, and that's as far as he looks. A visionary looks up and sees the moon.
~ Eoin Colfer, Airman
Victor Vigny: A monkey glances up and sees a banana, and that's as far as he looks. A visionary looks up and sees the moon.Conor Broekhart: Which resembles a giant banana.
~ Eoin Colfer
This is perhaps what has made some suspect that the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil was really a banana.
~ Jane Grigson
If love had feathers and tasted like dog food, then I suggest you wear shoes with your banana pudding. (This statement also defines my political beliefs).
~ Jarod Kintz
Not remember? You've got to be kidding. Erik's flying banana-peel back-flop in the mud is the one thing about this game that everybody is going to remember.
~ Edward Bloor
In a pinch, when my leather shoes need a quick shine, I take the inside of a banana peel and rub it on the leather like I would a shoe wax. Then I spit-shine it and buff it with a cloth, and my shoes look great.
~ Chris Diamantopoulos
Caves of blue. Strike the hue. Westward, burning. Pages turning. Indiana. Ripe banana. Happiness approaches. Serpents and roaches. There once was a god named Apollo Who plunged in a cave blue and hollow Upon a three-seater The bronze fire-eater Was forced death and madness to swallow
~ Rick Riordan
he went to the kitchen to get a banana; after each mouthful he pulled back a fraction the four or five strips of striped skin, faded petals, which covered his fist as it clenched the base of the fruit; carefully he detached the friable, cardboard-flavoured filaments that run down its surface like meridian lines, in a word peeling his banana the way the anthropoid will forever peel his. He threw one of the filaments into the fly cage..
~ Jean Echenoz