quotes about Yams
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I wasn't eating the right kinds of calories. I didn't know about healthy carbs such as brown rice and lentils. Now I eat small meals throughout the day: oatmeal with cinnamon to start, fruit and yogurt as a snack, and vegetables or with chicken or tuna, and a healthy carb, like a yam, for lunch.
-- Alison SweeneySource : "Alison Sweeney's Stay-Slim Secrets". Interview with Ashley Mateo, www.self.com. August 13, 2011.
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You cannot plant greatness as you plant yams or maize. Who ever planted an iroko tree — the greatest tree in the forest? You may collect all the iroko seeds in the world, open the soil and put them there. It will be in vain. The great tree chooses where to grow and we find it there, so it is with the greatness in men.
-- Chinua Achebe -
May your stuffing be tasty May your turkey plump, May your potatoes and gravy Have nary a lump. May your yams be delicious And your pies take the prize, And may your Thanksgiving dinner Stay off your thighs!
-- Grandpa Jones -
In her bottled up is a woman peppery as curry, a yam of a woman of butter and brass,
-- Marge Piercy -
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CAN'T TAN PON IT LONG.....NAW EAT NO YAM...NO STEAM FISH....NOR NO GREEN BANANA BUT DOWN IN JAMAICA WE GIVE IT TO YOU HOT LIKE A SAUNA..
-- Sean PaulSource : Song: Temperature, Album: The Trinity, 2005
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I hate okra and grated mountain yam for the same reason. They're both slimy.
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What is happening to the daughters of the yam? Seem like they just don't know how to draw up the powers from the deep like before. Not full sunned and sweet anymore.
-- Toni Cade Bambara
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Source : Keigo Higashino (2011). “The Devotion of Suspect X: A Detective Galileo Novel”, p.219, Macmillan
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Source : Source: collider.com
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Source : "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.
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“Once you can reproduce a phenomenon, you are well on the way to understanding it.”