60 Quotes About Potatoes
- Author Mark Kurlansky
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Antoine-Auguste Parmentier was an eighteenth-century officer who popularized the potato in the French Army, and his name has ever since meant "with potatoes".
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- Author Sarah Jio
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First, I'd stop by the butcher and select a special steak to accompany his favorite dish, gratin dauphinois, a simple yet inexplicably divine mixture of thinly sliced and layered potatoes, garlic, Gruyère cheese, and cream.
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- Author Jerome K. Jerome
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The more we peeled, the more peel there seemed to be left on; by the time we had got all the peel off and all the eyes out, there was no potato left - at least none worth speaking of.
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- Author Brandon Sanderson
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You're like a potato, in a minefield!""A potato.
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- Author Matthew Inman
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Just don't fall into a tanning bed. These machines are for vapid, narcissistic, idiots who have barren vacuums where their thoughts, fears, and passions should be. Spending time in a tanning bed will only earn you the appearance and intellect of an inbred baked potato.Don't be a baked potato.Be a person.
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- Author Georg Rauch
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Suddenly I had visions of being sent to prison, drilling until I fell over dead, or, at the very least, peeling potatoes into eternity.
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- Author Charlotte Brontë
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No mockery in the world ever sounds to me as hollow as that of being told to cultivate happiness. Happiness is not a potato, to be planted in mould, and tilled with manure.
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- Author Francis Bacon
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They who derive their worth from their ancestors resemble potatoes, the most valuable part of which is underground.
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- Author James Beard
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I'm really enamored of the potato in all its guises.
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