Quotes About Vegetables

You know, there is no language of vegetables, which converts a cucumber into a formal declaration of attachment.

in the U.S. during the Second World War, victory gardens were responsible for 40 percent of all vegetables grown during that period: 9-10 million tons...This just goes to show how our notions of what is possible or realistic depend on cultural perceptions. Cultural perceptions change, must change, and are changing. If by realistic we mean keeping everything the same, then we are going to have to stop being so 'realistic.

My favorite meal would be a big piece of steak with salad and then Brussels sprouts and Jerusalem artichokes.

Her soul's already knotted over the choice of side-order, you can tell. She'll end up getting coleslaw anyway, on account of Mom says it's healthy. It's vegetables, see. Me, I need something healthier today. Like the afternoon bus out of town.

The pleasure of eating should be an extensive pleasure, not that of the mere gourmet. People who know the garden in which their vegetables have grown and know that the garden is healthy will remember the beauty of the growing plants, perhaps in the dewy first light of morning when gardens are at their best. Such a memory involves itself with the food and is one of the pleasures of eating. (pg. 326, The Pleasures of Eating)

More health tips: Eat lots of fruits and vegetables. Get plenty of rest. And learn to duck.

So, bring on my Food, Fruit, Vegetables and Milk Security Act. Did I miss something in that? Oh yes, nuts. We do need nuts. Some nuts for all Indians, please. You know the kind of nuts I am talking about, right?

Someone has to stand up and say that the answer isn't another pill. The answer is spinach.

For happy health, fuel yourself with dreams and greens.

Please understand the reason why Chinese vegetables taste so good. It is simple. The Chinese do not cook them, they just threaten them!

Every cloud has a silver lining and every plate of vegetable soup is filled with vegetables.

I am broccoli, and I look like a tree. I am a walnut, and I look like a brain. I am a mushroom, and I hate this game.

Welcome to the Church of the Holy Cabbage. Lettuce pray.

Golfer's diet: live on greens as much as possible.

One farmer says to me, "You cannot live on vegetable food solely, for it furnishes nothing to make the bones with;" and so he religiously devotes a part of his day to supplying his system with the raw material of bones, walking all the while he talks behind his oxen, which, with vegetable-made bones, jerk him and his lumbering plough along in spite of every obstacle.

[My father] didn't make much money, and I tell a lot of people, you know, I was a vegetarian before people knew what a vegetarian was. That's all I ate was vegetables.

Vegetables contain more nutriment than an equal amount of dead flesh. This will sound a surprising and incredible statement to many people, because they have been brought up to believe that they cannot exist unless they defile themselves with flesh, and this delusion is so widely spread that it is difficult to awaken the average man from it.

My father would eat cat shit if it was salted, fried, or frosted, but it took an act of Congress to get him to eat a vegetable.

I eat three home-cooked meals a day, all prepared in advance. My ethos is to stay away from unsustainable low-calorie diets and aim for something balanced: loads of veg, protein and enjoy the carbs you love. Be realistic. I don't count sugar or salt or grams of fat: it's very restrictive and unenjoyable.

humans were very healthy before they began eating the modern industrial diet with its high amounts of sugar, refined grains, trans fats and vegetable oils.

There's the issue of hunger, and there's an issue of if you're going to cut out food programs. We should be focusing on healthy food. Right now, fruits and vegetables are very expensive. So what can we do on the policy side to bring the cost of fruits and vegetables down?

This was like going grocery shopping and quitting the peas.

According to Dr Bouget, a nutritionist at the Bichat Hospital in Paris, the difference in diets between French and English women goes back tot he industrial revolution. 'The English working in the factories quickly lost touch with fundamentals such as fruit, and vegetables that are so central to the French diet even today,' he says. 'England changed its habits very quickly and became a fast-food nation, eating chips and drinking too much alcohol.

One farmer says to me, "You cannot live on vegetable food solely, for it furnishes nothing to make the bones with;" and so he religiously devotes a part of his day to supplying himself with the raw material of bones; walking all the while he talks behind his oxen, which, with vegetable-made bones, jerk him and his lumbering plow along in spite of every obstacle.