quotes about Peas
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Civilisation makes us all as alike as peas in a pod, and it is the very uncouth - uncivilised, if you will - element which individualises nations.
-- Alec-TweedieSource : Ethel Alec-Tweedie, Mrs Alec-Tweedie (1904). “Sunny Sicily: Its Rustics and Its Ruins”
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Some days confidence shrinks to the size of a pea, and the backbone feels like a feather. We want to be somewhere else, and don't know where - want to be someone else and don't know who.
-- Jean HerseySource : Jean Hersey (1967). “The Shape of a Year”
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Children pick up words as pigeons peas And utter them again as God shall please.
-- John Ray -
I never dream in French, but certain French words seem better or more fun than English words - like 'pois chiches' for chick peas!
-- Lydia DavisSource : Our Live Chat with Lydia Davis, www.newyorker.com. December 10, 2009.
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The peanut is neither a pea nor a nut. Discuss.
-- Mike Myers -
I'm good in the kitchen. I can cook seafood, collard greens, black-eyed peas.
-- Monique Coleman -
I liked playing Morph in Mash and Peas and doing Phil Daniels in the Blur Rock Profile was a giggle too.
-- Paul Putner -
What you discover about life’s shell game is that it’s hardest to follow the pea when you’re the pea.
-- Robert Breault -
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When you're the only pea in the pod, your parents are likely to get you confused with the Hope diamond.
-- Russell BakerSource : Russell Baker, William Knowlton Zinsser (1998). “Inventing the Truth: The Art and Craft of Memoir”, p.26, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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William Tell could take an apple off your head, [Phil] Taylor could take out a processed pea.
-- Sid WaddellSource : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.