Quotes About Vegetables

Schelling's God is the totality of Nature struggling towards consciousness, and Man is as far as the struggle has got, with the animals not too far behind, vegetables somewhat lagging, and rocks nowhere as yet. Do we believe this? Does it matter? Think of it as a poem or a painting. Art doesn't have to be true like a theorem. It can be true in other ways. This truth says there is a meaning to it all, and Man is where the meaning begins to show.

I eat so poorly during the stressful part of my day I need to have a vegetable orgy for dinner just to make up for it.

Vegetarian: A person who eats only side dishes.

Flavonoids and polyphenols. These substances—found in virtually all fruits and vegetables—have been shown to have protective effects throughout the body. They've also been shown to have influence on the brain. For example, some research has shown that flavonoids may significantly decrease oxidative stress in the brain.

Dark leafy greens in your diet—such as spinach, arugula, kale, and Swiss chard—provide an array of vitamins and minerals needed for blood and lymph vessel repair.

Red and orange foods—such as pomegranates, carrots, red peppers, squash, and tomatoes—

beans, berries, veggies, and more. The reason we love them: They're known lymphagogues—meaning they promote the production of lymph.

Mother: It's broccoli, dear. Child: I say it's spinach, and I say the hell with it.

I have a green juice in the morning - a big one - with kale, spinach, celery, cucumber, two lemons and lots of ginger.

I love spinach - I eat it like a crazy woman.

I love greens, like spinach, avocado, broccoli.

I'm big on green veggies: arugula, spinach, and kale.

"Slightly lower than the angels" is a whole lot better than slightly higher than the apes. Let's get the order straight. God, angelic beings, man, animals, and vegetables.

Through the uneven morning mist, she could make out the ruin of the monastery on the northern verge. The broken, roofless walls of outbuildings stretched south of the main ruins in a broken curve. Birches and a few young oaks had grown up where monks had likely once raised vegetables. The rest of the clearing was filled with grass and brambles cut through with newly blazed paths. Four lean-tos had been erected just beyond the stone fence of an overgrown graveyard.

If I could uninvent anything, I would uninvent Hitler's mum, guns and broccoli.

It's all about a beautiful table on Christmas day. I put out lovely napkins and napkin holders, and maybe put a wreath in the centre. I like to dish all the veg up into massive serving platters, for everyone to help themselves - it feels so abundant.

Right now I'd love to be sitting on a Greek island somewhere because of being Greek American, eating great octopus salad and some fantastic lamb. Or sipping a little ouzo. I think the Mediterranean diet is one of the healthiest... Lots of nuts, vegetables, fruits, fresh fish, lean meats, yogurt.

In my family, we let our boys have a say in what veggie side they want for dinner that night. We list off a handful of options and get them excited about helping to plan the dinner menu. They're much more inclined to finish their plates when they've helped decide what goes on them.

A vegetable garden in the beginning looks so promising and then after all little by little it grows nothing but vegetables, nothing, nothing but vegetables.

Of course, figuring out what actually works in reducing childhood obesity is not really the point of these programs. (If it were, then the government might finally stop categorizing french fries as "vegetables.") The real point is the same thing it always is: conformity, control, and eventually fundamental transformation.

A golfer's diet: Live on greens as much as possible.

If you're going to saute something, lightly spray olive oil in the pan or on veggies before you serve them. It adds a nice flavor. We grill a lot, so I'll use a little on my corn or my shrimp.

The age was the Elizabethan; their morals were not ours; nor their poets; nor their climate; nor their vegetables even. Everything was different. The weather itself, the heat and cold of summer and winter, was, we may believe, of another temper altogether.

Ho! 'tis the time of salads.