Quotes and Sayings About Vegetables
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One who loves Krishna will give Him whatever He wants, and he avoids offering anything which is undesirable or unasked for. Thus, meat, fish and eggs should not be offered to Krishna...Vegetables, grains, fruits, milk and water are the proper foods for human beings and are prescribed by Lord Krishna Himself. Whatever else you eat, can not be offered to Him, since He will not accept it.
-- A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada -
After decimating several vegetables, I decide juicing is my favorite form of food preparation. There's something perversely appealing about subjecting an innocent plant to that much violence.
-- A. J. JacobsSource : A. J. Jacobs (2012). “Drop Dead Healthy: One Man's Humble Quest for Bodily Perfection”, p.226, Simon and Schuster
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I definitely gravitate towards things like vegetables, chicken, brown rice, but I don't deprive myself of anything. If I want a Sprinkles cupcake, I'm having a Sprinkles cupcake. But I'm not going to have one every day... you just have to have a sensible outlook on all of it.
-- Abigail Spencer -
There is nothing that is comparable to it, as satisfactory or as thrilling, as gathering the vegetables one has grown.
-- Alice B. Toklas -
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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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I love fresh vegetables and we always include them in our meals. I don't force my kids to eat asparagus, but they do eat peas, broccoli, and carrots.
-- Alison Sweeney -
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.
-- Alton Brown -
Botany, n. The science of vegetables - those that are not good to eat, as well as those that are. It deals largely with their flowers, which are commonly badly designed, inartistic in color, and ill-smelling.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
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Thin ribbons of fear snake bluely through you like a system of rivers. We need a cloudburst or soothing landscape fast, to still this panic. Maybe a field of dracaena, or a vast stand of sugar pines—generous, gum-yielding trees—to fill our minds with vegetable wonder and keep dread at bay.
-- Amy GerstlerSource : Amy Gerstler (2000). “Medicine”, p.21, Penguin
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Beans are highly nutritious and satisfying, they can also be delicious if and when properly prepared, and they posses over all vegetables the great advantage of being just as good, if not better, when kept waiting, an advantage in the case of people whose disposition or occupation makes it difficult for them to be punctual at mealtime.
-- Andre Simon -
My vegetable love should grow Vaster than empires, and more slow;
-- Andrew MarvellSource : "To His Coy Mistress" l. 7 (1681)
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My final, considered judgment is that the hardy bulb [garlic] blesses and ennobles everything it touches - with the possible exception of ice cream and pie.
-- Angelo Pellegrini -
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I grow vegetables - I'm a vegetarian; I've got strawberries, artichokes, leeks, broad beans.
-- Anita PallenbergSource : "Lady Rolling Stone". Interview with Lynn Barber, www.theguardian.com. February 24, 2008.
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Farmers are patient men. They got to be. Got to see those seeds come up week by week, fraction by fraction, and sweat it out for some days not knowing yet is it weeds or vegetables ...
-- Anne Tyler -
I admire vegetarians who refuse to eat nothing but vegetables in their homes, but I also admire those who put aside those principles or those preferences when they travel. Just to be a good guest.
-- Anthony Bourdain -
Leave home, leave the country, leave the familiar. Only then can routine experience--buying bread, eating vegetables, even saying hello--become new all over again.
-- Anthony DoerrSource : Anthony Doerr (2008). “Four Seasons in Rome: On Twins, Insomnia, and the Biggest Funeral in the History of the World”, p.54, Simon and Schuster
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If you don't follow through on your dreams, you might as well be a vegetable.
-- Anthony Hopkins -
Vegetables are organized bodies that grow on the dry areas of the globe and within its waters. Their function is to combine immediately the four elements and to serve as food for animals.
-- Antoine Lavoisier -
I saw a cavalry captain buy vegetable soup on horseback. He carried the whole mess home in his helmet.
-- Aristophanes -
If your blood is formed from eating the foods I teach [fruits and green-leaf vegetables] your soul will shout for joy and triumph over all misery of life. For the first time you will feel a vibration of vitality through your body (like a slight electric current) that shakes you delightfully.
-- Arnold Ehret -
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I think in England you eat too much sugar and meat and not enough vegetables.
-- Arsene Wenger -
I don't eat vegetables. I only eat food like cheeseburgers, Spam, hot dogs and pizza.
-- Art Donovan -
Both sides of my family had come from Ireland in the 19th century for the same reason: There was nothing to eat over there. Since then, I've tried to make up for the potato famine by making the potato the only vegetable that passes these lips.
-- Art Donovan -
Composing a concert is like composing a menu.... If you start with light pieces and play a 45-minute sonata after the interlude, it's like starting dinner with hors d'oeuvres and dessert and finishing with a Châteaubriand and vegetables.
-- Arthur Rubinstein -
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Next it was found that it was physiologically and structurally the same in the plant, that it was the living part of the plant, that which manifested the life and did the work in vegetable as well as in animal organisms.
-- Asa GraySource : Asa Gray (1880). “Natural Science and Religion”
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In short, the animal and vegetable lines, diverging widely above, join below in a loop.
-- Asa GraySource : Asa Gray (1880). “Natural Science and Religion”
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Cooking is 80 percent confidence, a skill best acquired starting from when the apron strings wrap around you twice.
-- Barbara Kingsolver -
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Households that have lost the soul of cooking from their routines may not know what they are missing: the song of a stir-fry sizzle, the small talk of clinking measuring spoons, the yeasty scent of rising dough, the painting of flavors onto a pizza before it slides into the oven.
-- Barbara Kingsolver -
Even feigning surprise, pretending it was unexpected and saying a ritual thanks, is surely wiser than just expecting everything so carelessly.
-- Barbara Kingsolver