Quotes about Potatoes

Potatoes are to food what sensible shoes are to fashion. Votes: 3

I have these big piano-playing hands. I feel like I should be picking potatoes. Votes: 3

Papa, potatoes, poultry, prunes and prism, are all very good words for the lips. Votes: 3

It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes. Votes: 3

Potatoes have such a high GI rating; it's almost the same as eating table sugar. Votes: 3

I can name a LOT of things that taste better than skinny feels"¦ Potatoes! Bread! Votes: 3

My dream is to become a farmer. Just a Bohemian guy pulling up his own sweet potatoes for dinner. Votes: 3

What I say is that, if a fellow really likes potatoes, he must be a pretty decent sort of fellow. Votes: 3

Zen does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes. Votes: 3

My favorite meal is turkey and mashed potatoes. I love Thanksgiving, it's just my favorite. I can have Thanksgiving all year round. Votes: 3

Potatoes are very interesting folks. I think they must see a lot of what is going on in the earth - they have so many eyes. Votes: 3

Money is the root of all evil, and yet it is such a useful root that we cannot get on without it any more than we can without potatoes. Votes: 3

My parents mistook me for a sack of potatoes so I sat in the corner of the kitchen for the first 13 years of my life. My birth name is Thom Potatoes. Votes: 3

To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy. Votes: 3

Vane passed the mashed potatoes across Bride to Fury, who stared at them with a fierce frown "What are these?" he asked. "Potatoes," Vane told him. "What did they do to them? Votes: 3

I am a believer in nutrient timing and supplementation, through 8Zone. I love eggs, apples, wild fish, leafy greens, brown rice, pasta, oatmeal, home grown Washington Potatoes, and cooking with coconut and olive oils. Votes: 3

Potatoes are popped, with no oil, using the same technology used in the rice cake manufacturing business. It took a lot of trial and error and lots of practice, though, to get the right flavor. Votes: 3

Books take their place according to their specific gravity as surely as potatoes in a tub. Votes: 2

For me, a plain baked potato is the most delicious one....It is soothing and enough. Votes: 2

My idea of heaven is a great big baked potato and someone to share it with. Votes: 2

I'm a lager drinker. I'm quite a stupid lager drinker. I do like my lager and mashed potatoes. Votes: 2

I appreciate the potato only as a protection against famine, except for that, I know of nothing more eminently tasteless. Votes: 2

I have made a lot of mistakes falling in love, and regretted most of them, but never the potatoes that went with them. Votes: 2

You should write a book," Ron told Hermione as he cut up his potatoes, "translating mad things girls do so boys can understand them. Votes: 2

Comedy just pokes at problems, rarely confronts them squarely. Drama is like a plate of meat and potatoes, comedy is rather the dessert, a bit like meringue. Votes: 2

If you ask any lady they want to be taller, they want to be slimmer, you know, and they want a waist. I'm not here to make people look like a sack of potatoes. Votes: 2

Many of the delicious soups you eat in French homes and little restaurants are made just this way, with a leek-and-potato base to which leftover vegetables or sauces and a few fresh items are added. Votes: 2

I mostly eat peanut butter sandwiches. Peanut butter and banana, peanut butter and jelly, peanut butter and potato chips, peanut butter and olives, and peanut butter and marshmallow goo. So sue me, I like peanut butter. Votes: 2

We nourish the bodies of our children and friends and employees, but how seldom do we nourish their selfesteem? We provide them with roast beef and potatoes to build energy, but we neglect to give them kind words of appreciation that would sing in their memories for years like the music of the morning stars. Votes: 2

Things break all the time. Glass and dishes and fingernails. Cars and contracts and potato chips. You can break a record, a horse, a dollar. You can break the ice. There are coffee breaks and lunch breaks and prison breaks. Day breaks, waves break, voices break. Chains can be broken. So can silence, and fever... promises break. Hearts break. Votes: 2

It seemed like a matter of minutes when we began rolling in the foothills before Oakland and suddenly reached a height and saw stretched out ahead of us the fabulous white city of San Francisco on her eleven mystic hills with the blue Pacific and its advancing wall of potato-patch fog beyond, and smoke and goldenness in the late afternoon of time. Votes: 2

I love potatoes - they're my favorite food. Votes: 1

I like French fries; I like mashed. I love potatoes. Votes: 1

Every single diet I ever fell off of was because of potatoes and gravy of some sort. Votes: 1

Talk of joy: there may be things better than beef stew and baked potatoes and home-made bread - there may be. Votes: 1

How can a society that exists on instant mashed potatoes, packaged cake mixes, frozen dinners, and instant cameras teach patience to its young? Votes: 1

Meat is a big deal in my life. I do love breakfast food, but I don't think that's extraordinary. I'm a normal American. We love eggs and meat and potatoes and gravy. Votes: 1

One cannot live on potatoes alone. It is said that one wants bread with potatoes. And when there's no bread, a Jew takes his stick, and goes through the village in search of business. Votes: 1

My wife is a terrific Southern cook. My favorite of all the great things she cooks is 'trash potatoes.' That's mashed potatoes with sour cream, bacon, cheddar cheese, and horseradish. It's a total gut bomb. Votes: 1

I do love my wine. I'd opt to drink my calories rather than eat them every time, so I cut out the breads, potatoes, pastas, cheeses and desserts in an effort to get my healthy angel and unhealthy demon to compromise. Votes: 1

Nobody had ever told me junk food was bad for me. Four years of medical school, and four years of internship and residency, and I never thought anything was wrong with eating sweet rolls and doughnuts, and potatoes, and bread, and sweets. Votes: 1

I try to work out my mind more these days. I try to eat right. I don't drink, I don't smoke, and I take the skin off chicken. But I'm not on no special diet. I like my steak and potatoes, ice cream, doughnuts. Votes: 1

My most memorable meal is every Thanksgiving. I love the food: the turkey and stuffing; the sweet potatoes and rice, which come from my mother's Southern heritage; the mashed potatoes, which come from my wife's Midwestern roots; the Campbell's green-bean casserole; and of course, pumpkin pie. Votes: 1

I don't think any other holiday embraces the food of the Midwest quite like Thanksgiving. There's roasted meat and mashed potatoes. But being here is also about heritage. Cleveland is really a giant melting pot - not only is my family a melting pot, but so is the city. Votes: 1

I like both potatoes and rice. You can do a lot with both of them. But if I could eat only one carbohydrate for the rest of my life, I wouldn't choose bread, potatoes or even noodles. I'd go for rice instead; I eat more of that than anything else. Votes: 1

My personality, when tasked with creating meals, goes something like this: Is there a way we can make this more difficult? Because let's do that. I don't mean to complicate things. It's just - why buy pre-packaged potato salad when you can spend your morning boiling potatoes and flipping out because there's no dill in the house? Votes: 1

For me, it's the unexpected and surprising combinations of produce that are the most exciting and lure me into the kitchen for a little bit of experimenting. Apples and sweet potatoes together? Who knew? Carrots with grapes? Okay. I may not be Julia Child, but I can do pretty well with a simple recipe and a lot of enthusiasm. Votes: 1

Men are not potatoes! Votes: 0

Forget grammar and think about potatoes Votes: 0

Today's brains are yesterday's mashed potatoes. Votes: 0

Hindsight is common and bland as boiled potatoes. Votes: 0

A 10-pound sack of potatoes lasts a long time. Votes: 0

Your face looks like a sack of purple potatoes Votes: 0

Important families are like potatoes. The best parts are underground. Votes: 0

The whole plan hinged upon the natural curiosity of potatoes. Votes: 0

I think of myself as a meat-and-potatoes kind of director. Votes: 0

One pearl is better than a whole necklace of potatoes. Votes: 0

The road to hell is paved with leeks and potatoes Votes: 0

I only like food without color, like potatoes, bread, and pasta. Votes: 0

I'm like a sack of potatoes, to be abused at will. Votes: 0

What small potatoes we all are, compared with what we might be! Votes: 0

My biggest addictions have been chocolate cake, mashed potatoes, and butter sandwiches. Votes: 0

My father was grounded, a very meat-and-potatoes man. He was a baker. Votes: 0

Shakespeare is like mashed potatoes, you can never get enough of him. Votes: 0

I'd like something that peels potatoes really quickly - that would be wonderful. Votes: 0

The meat-and-potatoes work of world journalism is performed by the wire service reporters. Votes: 0

I'm vegetarian, but I love Thanksgiving dinner: faux turkey, stuffing and mashed potatoes. Votes: 0

They [potatoes] are good for boys cold fingers at suppertime on winter nights. Votes: 0

Marry me, princess. I'll give you my kingdom—small potatoes that it is. Votes: 0

People are like hot potatoes, if they don't make you happy, drop them. Votes: 0

I was a big Jersey meat-and-potatoes kind of guy before I got here. Votes: 0

Using these toolkits is like trying to make a bookshelf out of mashed potatoes. Votes: 0

Television remote controls encourage couch potatoes to exercise their options while broadening their base. Votes: 0

I loved to get all dusty and ride horses and plant potatoes and cotton. Votes: 0

Being a king, emperor, or president is mighty small potatoes compared to being a mother. Votes: 0

I love the combination of the words 'spies' and 'Balkans.' It's like meat and potatoes. Votes: 0

Peter lost one of his shoes among the cabbages, and the other shoe amongst the potatoes. Votes: 0

This guy (Marlon Brando) - he'll be doing Hamlet when the rest of us are selling potatoes. Votes: 0

Let the sky rain potatoes," said a musing voice. "Let it thunder to the tune of Greensleeves. Votes: 0

Slavic peoples get their physical characteristics from potatoes, their smoldering inquietude from radishes, their seriousness from beets. Votes: 0

Prayer is good, but when baked potatoes and milk are needed, prayer will not supply their place. Votes: 0

Hot dogs always seem better out than at home; so do French-fried potatoes; so do your children. Votes: 0

They who derive their worth from their ancestors resemble potatoes, the most valuable part of which is underground. Votes: 0

Not explicitly, no. Compared to this enormous, relentless evolutionary activity in the built environment, writing is small potatoes. Votes: 0

We're having a traditional Thanksgiving - turkey, mashed potatoes, hat buckles, smallpox, genocide, a blue corn moon, etc. Votes: 0

Halt shook his head. Frankly, he'd seen sacks of potatoes that could sit a horse better than Erak Votes: 0

It's not just the small-potatoes post-9/11 Homeland spending that feels a little off mission. It's the big-ticket stuff too. Votes: 0

Listen up, you couch potatoes: each recycled beer can saves enough electricity to run a television for three hours. Votes: 0

a fat Reichian wife screeching over potatoes Get a job! And five nose running brats in love with Batman Votes: 0

If there were only turnips and potatoes in the world, someone would complain that plants grow the wrong way. Votes: 0

Sweet potatoes are ideal for lazy days: just bake, then mash and mix with yogurt, butter or olive oil. Votes: 0

People who eat potatoes will never be able to perform their abilities in whatever job they choose to have. Votes: 0

The human diet consists of just nine plants: corn, rice, wheat, potatoes, cassava, sorghum, millet, beans, barley, rye and oats. Votes: 0

My specialty was baked potatoes with cheese melted over broccoli. I was also very good at melting cheese on bread. Votes: 0

What I say is that, if a man really likes potatoes, he must be a pretty decent sort of fellow. Votes: 0

Few people sufficiently appreciate the colossal task of feeding a world of billions of omnivores who demand meat with their potatoes. Votes: 0

My first pastoral letter's gonna be a condemnation of light beer and instant mashed potatoes -- I hate those two things. Votes: 0

I try to eat a lot of baked foods, fish, chicken, potatoes, stuff like that. Grab me a Muscle Milk. That helps. Votes: 0

If you have some potatoes, green beans and cauliflower, you have a heck of a dish that can feed an entire family. Votes: 0

People in towns are always preoccupied. 'Have I missed the bus? Have I forgotten the potatoes? Can I get across the road? Votes: 0

The table was covered with food like roast chicken, roast potatoes, roast parsnips, roast turkey, roast liquorice and, the centrepiece, a roasted knight. Votes: 0

It was a good thing I recognized you or I might have had a lovely meal of you with some parsley. And potatoes. Votes: 0

Capitalism has turned human beings into commodities. To the owner of a restaurant: the cook and a bag of potatoes are equally important. Votes: 0

Steak and its accompaniments - wine, vegetables, potatoes and generous desserts - is a primal source of pleasure to which many people can relate. Votes: 0

Public and private food in America has become eatable, here and there extremely good. Only the fried potatoes go unchanged, as deadly as before Votes: 0

My maternal grandmother made fantastic ox tongue with velvety roasted potatoes. She cooked sweet red cabbage and lovely cauliflower with butter and bread crumbs. Votes: 0

Public and private food in America has become eatable, here and there extremely good. Only the fried potatoes go unchanged, as deadly as before. Votes: 0

I always remind people from outside our state that there's plenty of room for all Alaska's animals — right next to the mashed potatoes. Votes: 0

It is thought that potato water is unhealthy; and therefore do not boil potatoes in soup, but boil elsewhere, and add them when nearly cooked. Votes: 0

At the potluck, I brought two dishes: knowledge and mashed potatoes and gravy. Guess which one got cleaned out and which one hardly got touched. Votes: 0

I was raised almost entirely on turnips and potatoes, but I think that the turnips had more to do with the effect than the potatoes. Votes: 0

If it was just the potatoes that were affected, at the end of the day you will pay the price if you're a fussy eater. Votes: 0

If shoppers looked at crooked carrots, misshapen potatoes, slightly dinged apples or too-small peaches and thought, wow, that looks delicious, imagine the benefits for struggling farmers. Votes: 0

I like one hair, tuna fish, the smell of rain and things that are pink. I hate pimples, baked potatoes, when my mother's mad, and religious holidays. Votes: 0

I don't know what kind of swag I'd get if I were extra Irish. It would just be, like, extra potatoes. Or like a free pint of Guinness. Votes: 0

The life of prayer is so great and various there is something in it for everyone. It is like a garden which grows everything, from alpines to potatoes. Votes: 0

I can't really cook, but the first dish I ever made was for my girlfriend, Eleanor. I made chicken breast wrapped in ham, homemade mashed potatoes, and gravy. Votes: 0

In the 'Mad Men' era, the archetypal dad came home; put down his briefcase; received pipe, Manhattan, roast beef, potatoes, key-lime pie; and was - apparently - content. Votes: 0

I couldn't ever boil potatoes over the heat of your affection. Your love would never bridge a gap; it wouldn't even fill up the hole that the mice came through ... Votes: 0

Fear is a strange soil. It grows obedience like corn, which grow in straight lines to make weeding easier. But sometimes it grows the potatoes of defiance, which flourish underground. Votes: 0

There's a science to ordering potatoes. Are they skinny shoestring or big, fat steak fries? You just have to let your taste buds guide you when deciding what to eat. Votes: 0

You hit a guitar, you hit a note, you hit a drum, you hit an organ. Meat and potatoes. Simplicity. Not getting too caught up in little tweezers of perfection. Votes: 0

Meat is an inefficient way to eat. An acre of land can yield 20,000 pounds of potatoes, but that same acre would only graze enough cows to get 165 pounds of meat. Votes: 0

Your boyfriend had a dream about potatoes and you're asking me to interpret it? I'm just old. Being old doesn't mean you know more; it means you ate enough fiber. Votes: 0

It was Joseph Smith who taught me how to prize the endearing relationships of father and mother, husband and wife; of brother and sister, son and daughter, mashed potatoes and gravy. Votes: 0

I love to cook comfort food. I'll make fish and vegetables or meat and vegetables and potatoes or rice. The ritual of it is fun for me, and the creativity of it. Votes: 0

I basically have the diet of a 19th-century Irish navy, apart from the litre of stout a day. It's meat and potatoes and bread and cheese: those are my four food groups. Votes: 0

The parrot holds its food for prim consumption as daintily as any debutante, [with] a predilection for pot roast, hashed-brown potatoes, duck skin, butter, hoisin sauce, sesame seed oil, bananas and human thumb. Votes: 0

Accounts of eating Christmas sweet potatoes baked in ashes and jackrabbit stewed with white flour dumplings are testaments to pioneer resilience and pleasure - and they help inspire my own best scratch cooking. Votes: 0

I farm taro. I have eight varieties of taro, which is a staple of the Hawaiian people from about 2,000 years ago, and sweet potatoes, and it's a sustainable living, agriculture, off the grid. Votes: 0

I farm taro. I have eight varieties of taro, which is a staple of the Hawaiian people from about 2,000 years ago, and sweet potatoes, and it's a sustainable living, agriculture, off the grid. Votes: 0

A lot of my work is like picking potatoes; you have to get into the rhythm of it. It is different than patience. It is not thinking. It is working with the rhythm. Votes: 0

When I'm home, I cook and try to eat really clean. I try to eat vegetables at every meal. I stay away from pasta and bread and have brown rice and potatoes instead. Votes: 0

I am not a fine chef, but I can certainly get dinner on the table for 14 people. With that many, I try to keep it simple: salmon, mashed potatoes, sauteed spinach, and salad. Votes: 0

I've always liked to be a meat and potatoes kind of actor who doesn't believe in any of the highfalutin stuff about acting, so I tend to be a little bit more cynical. Votes: 0

Lord, you're Irish," said Will. "Can you make things that don't have potatoes in them? We had an Irish cook once when I was a boy. Potato pie, potato custard, potatoes with potato sauce... Votes: 0

He set fire to some potatoes, then cooked some undelivered post in the embers." - Dad "Did he now? What a strange fellow. I would have done it the other way around." - Stafford Votes: 0

Skiers make the best lovers because they don't sit in front of a television like couch potatoes. They take a risk and they wiggle their behinds. They also meet new people on the ski lift. Votes: 0

Growing up at my grandmother's table, she always had rice. She might do something as exotic as potatoes or spaghetti, but there was still always rice, just in case you needed a little rice fix. Votes: 0

Out of 30,000 edible plants thought to exist on earth, just eleven account for 93% of all that humans eat: oats, corn, rice, wheat, potatoes, yucca (also called tapioca or cassava), sorghum, millet, beans, barley, and rye. Votes: 0