212 Quotes About Vegetables

If my wife made childhood obesity her mission and I signed a law making 1/8 cup of tomato paste a vegetable, I'd be sleeping on the sofa.

PALM, n. A species of tree . . . of which the familiar "itching palm" ("Palma hominis") is most widely distributed . . . . This noble vegetable exudes a kind of invisible gum, which may be detected by applying to the bark a piece of gold or silver.

I love to roast vegetables - carrots, fennel, and so on. I also love to mash or puree pretty much any vegetable!

The meal was pretentious - a kind of beetroot soup with greasy croutons; pork underdone with loud vulgar cabbage, potato croquettes, tinned peas in tiny jam-tart cases, watery gooseberry sauce; trifle made with a resinous wine, so jammy that all my teeth lit up at once.

Vegetables deplete soil. They're extractive. If soil has a bank account, vegetables make the largest withdrawals.

If you’re eating vegetables you are probably pushing unhealthier food out of your diet.

I'm President of the United States, and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli!

I have a lot of fruit trees and my own little vegetable garden and chickens. And every time I eat, I bless my food; I say I'm grateful for for it and let it nourish every part of my body.

No vegetable exists which is not better slightly undercooked.