212 Quotes About Vegetables

  • Author Maureen Seaton
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    The first time I saw hundreds of fiddlehead ferns boiling in an enormous pot I realized what an odd person I must be to hear tiny cries from the mouths of cooking vegetables.

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  • Author Cynthia Harrod-Eagles
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    He had nothing against cherry tomatoes except that any attempt to cut them shot them off the plate with a velocity that could lay out a gemsbok at fifty paces, and putting them in the mouth whole and biting down was a not entirely pleasant experience that could result in doing the nose trick with tomato seeds.

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  • Author Adam Ant
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    I just became a vegetable for three months. I couldn't talk to people. I was very ill and that was part of the reason I left college.

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  • Author Aristophanes
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    I saw a cavalry captain buy vegetable soup on horseback. He carried the whole mess home in his helmet.

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  • Author Ted Allen
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    My whole problem is that all of my favorite things at Thanksgiving are the starches, and everyone is trying to go low-carb this year, even a green vegetable has carbs in it.

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  • Author Theodor Adorno
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    In the nineteenth century the Germans painted their dream and the outcome was invariably vegetable. The French needed only to paint a vegetable and it was already a dream.

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