Quotes about Vegetable

Vegetable box schemes, local greengrocers, farmers' markets and organic stores are a great place to source package-free foods. Votes: 3

...every year for decades there had been great excitement over the Largest Vegetable competition ("That would be my husband", was the standard comment). Votes: 3

I accept the Organic Trinity of Mineral, Vegetable, and Animal with as much authority as I accept the Holy Trinity. Both are sacred. Votes: 3

Louis Kelso's formula sounds like Lydia Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. The whole theory sounds crazy. But, then, one may recall, they said all that of Copernicus too. Votes: 3

I lost my virginity to a pumpkin when I was 23. Back then I was convinced I was actually a Vegetable, hell, that's what the song is about. Votes: 3

When about 16 Years of Age, I happened to meet with a Book written by one Tryon, recommending a Vegetable Diet. I determined to go into it.... My refusing to eat Flesh occasioned an inconveniency, and I was frequently chid for my singularity.... Votes: 3

The Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Program is a very effective way to raise awareness and consumption of two vital food groups that are sometimes ignored, especially by children. The program results in more children consuming more fruits and vegetables, helping their health and Idaho's farmers. Votes: 3

My vegetable patch is my pride and joy. Votes: 2

Cabbage: a familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man's head. Votes: 2

An onion can make people cry but there's never been a vegetable that can make people laugh. Votes: 2

Imagination is the real and eternal world of which this vegetable universe is but a faint shadow. Votes: 2

Real nutrition comes from soybeans, almonds, rice, and other healthy vegetable sources, not from a cow's udder. Votes: 2

I had a ton of animals; I had a goat growing up, a bunch of rabbits, a vegetable garden. Votes: 2

Go vegetable heavy. Reverse the psychology of your plate by making meat the side dish and vegetables the main course. Votes: 2

Touring on 'Folie' was like being the last act at the vaudeville show: We were rotten vegetable targets in clandestine hoods. Votes: 2

Down South, even our vegetables have some pig hidden somewhere in it. A vegetable isn't a vegetable without a little ham hock. Votes: 2

A vegetable garden in the beginning looks so promising and then after all little by little it grows nothing but vegetables, nothing, nothing but vegetables. Votes: 2

Throughout the whole vegetable, sensible, and rational world, whatever makes progress towards maturity, as soon as it has passed that point, begins to verge towards decay. Votes: 2

Most people are really stunned to find out that the technology has been around for more than 100 years, and that the diesel engine was in fact invented to run on vegetable oil. Votes: 2

My whole problem is that all of my favorite things at Thanksgiving are the starches, and everyone is trying to go low-carb this year, even a green vegetable has carbs in it. Votes: 2

My favorite hobby is being alone. I like to be alone. I also like dancing, fishing, playing poker sometimes and vegetable gardening - corn, tomatoes, cucumbers, I have a big garden every year. Votes: 2

The road passed through a curtain of pine forest and came out on a flat, rolling snow field. In this field the sprawled or bunched bodies of Germans lay thick, like some dark shapeless vegetable. Votes: 2

I always have breakfast, say, scrambled egg whites, a vegetable smoothie, or whole-grain cereal with low-fat milk. For lunch and dinner, I eat a lot of fish and vegetables. And throughout the day, I try to stay hydrated. Votes: 2

I like to cook simple things, like vegetable egg-white omelets; roast chicken; sauteed chicken breast with curry powder; and Greek salad. Just things that are fresh and healthy and fast and easy, because I have such a crazy schedule. Votes: 2

A hunk of beef raised on Scottish moorland has a very different ecological footprint from one created in an intensive feedlot using concentrated cereal feed, and a wild venison or rabbit casserole is arguably greener than a vegetable curry. Votes: 2

Physiology is the science which treats of the properties of organic bodies, animal and vegetable, of the phenomena they present, and of the laws which govern their actions. Inorganic substances are the objects of other sciences, - physics and chemistry. Votes: 2

I always think if you have to cook once, it should feed you twice. If you're going to make a big chicken and vegetable soup for lunch on Monday, you stick it in the refrigerator and it's also for Wednesday's dinner. Votes: 2

In North Korea, grass is a vegetable eaten by the people, and they've got nuclear weapons and intercontinental ballistic missiles. So, something more stringent than what's been done to North Korea is going to have to work; otherwise, a military strike is the only option. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

I could happily lean on a gate all the livelong day, chatting to passers-by about the wind and the rain. I do a lot of gate-leaning while I am supposed to be gardening; instead of hoeing, I lean on the gate, stare at the vegetable beds and ponder. Votes: 2

I'm in this absolutely gorgeous manor house with acres of quite beautiful countryside. I've got trout in the river, an organic vegetable garden, I've got my work 40 yards from my home. I don't mind being criticised, but where are they criticising from? Which hut are they criticising me from, exactly? Votes: 2

The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that, if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves, that hundreds may come up, that tens may live to maturity; that, at least one may replace the parent. Votes: 2

The supermarket chain Whole Foods has quite a radical employee empowerment program, where employees get to decide whether another employee can work in their team or not. If they think this person's a slacker, doesn't have good ideas, they can vote and say, no, we don't want this person to be working with us on the vegetable aisle. Votes: 2

Tobacco is my favorite vegetable. Votes: 0

Chocolate is a vegetable. Honest. Votes: 0

Is an egg a vegetable? Votes: 0

My favorite vegetable is the marshmallow. Votes: 0

The normal food of man is vegetable. Votes: 0

Non-violence is the policy of the vegetable kingdom. Votes: 0

They've outlawed the number one vegetable on the planet. Votes: 0

No vegetable exists which is not better slightly undercooked. Votes: 0

If wine is fruit, then vodka must be a vegetable. Votes: 0

My grandmother worked on a fruit and vegetable market stall. Votes: 0

My vegetable love should grow Vaster than empires, and more slow; Votes: 0

It's been many years since I had such an exemplary vegetable. Votes: 0

Most people don't bother about their friends in the vegetable kingdom. Votes: 0

He who has never envied the vegetable has missed the human drama. Votes: 0

The brussels sprout. This is also the worst vegetable of next year. Votes: 0

One of the makeup artists once dyed my dog blue with vegetable blue. Votes: 0

If there is one vegetable which is God-given, it is the haricot bean. Votes: 0

To provide optimal levels of protective micronutrients, a diet must be vegetable-based, not grain-based. Votes: 0

If you have never tasted a braised vegetable, you'll find it is a revelation. Votes: 0

The turnip is a capricious vegetable, which seems reluctant to show itself at its best. Votes: 0

In short, the animal and vegetable lines, diverging widely above, join below in a loop. Votes: 0

If the British Isles had an official vegetable, it would have to be the potato. Votes: 0

If you don't follow through on your dreams, you might as well be a vegetable. Votes: 0

Call any vegetable and the chances are good that the vegetable will respond to you. Votes: 0

I see things and I hear things I do not understand. I'm a skilled, resourceful... vegetable! Votes: 0

Artichoke: That vegetable of which one has more at the finish than at the start of dinner. Votes: 0

Look don't sit there behind the computer like a useless vegetable and tell me how to train Votes: 0

Shall I not have intelligence with the earth? Am I not partly leaves and vegetable mould myself. Votes: 0

I think of New York as a puree and the rest of the United States as vegetable soup. Votes: 0

Taking all vegetable-eating nations together . . . they are a larger and much better formed race than the flesh eaters. Votes: 0

Feminism has become a catch-all vegetable drawer where bunches of clingy sob sisters can store their moldy neuroses. Votes: 0

It is not hard to change when your biggest problem is whether the weeds prosper in a vegetable patch. Votes: 0

I saw a cavalry captain buy vegetable soup on horseback. He carried the whole mess home in his helmet. Votes: 0

My goal involves a hammock, a vegetable patch, and a solar-powered house. And I hope to eventually get there. Votes: 0

The West is color. Its colors are animal rather than vegetable, the colors of earth and sunlight and ripeness. Votes: 0

Gayety is to good-humor as perfumes to vegetable fragrance: the one overpowers weak spirits; the other recreates and revives them. Votes: 0

Broccoli gets such a bad rap. This is perplexing to those of us who love that green, treelike, stalky vegetable. Votes: 0

It is very significant that some of the most thoughtful and cultured men are partisans of a pure vegetable diet Votes: 0

Now sir, said the bulldog in his business-like way. 'Are you a animal, vegetable, or mineral?' - The Magician's Nephew Votes: 0

To grow up in intimate association with nature - animal and vegetable - is an irreplaceable form of wealth and culture. Votes: 0

As any gardener will tell you, the cycles of nature require patience...Even a fast-growing vegetable like a radish requires time. Votes: 0

For the first time since 2007, the FDA Has approved a new device to treat obesity. The amazing breakthrough is called a vegetable. Votes: 0

I love to roast vegetables - carrots, fennel, and so on. I also love to mash or puree pretty much any vegetable! Votes: 0

When I eat something like vegetable bibimbap, I get that warm and fuzzy feeling of eating stuff that I grew up with. Votes: 0

The essential quality of an animal is that it seeks its own living, whereas a vegetable has its living brought to it Votes: 0

Take what the British call the "greengrocer's apostrophe," named for aberrant signs advertising cauliflower's or carrot's in local fruit and vegetable shops. Votes: 0

The essential quality of an animal is that it seeks its own living, whereas a vegetable has its living brought to it. Votes: 0

How do I look so young? Quite simple: a complete vegetable diet, 12 hours sleep a night, and lots and lots of make-up. Votes: 0

I get around nature. I have a vegetable garden, and I enjoy being outside. I do work quite a bit around the house. Votes: 0

All right," sighed Madrigal. "To the baths, then. To make ourselves shiningly clean." Like vegetable, she thought, before they go in the stew. Votes: 0

I cook mostly vegetarian vegetable and bean stews. Quinoa salads. I make my mother-in-law's recipe for chicken and barley stew all the time. Votes: 0

And I will never, ever respond to anybody - man, woman, vegetable, or mineral - who tells me to keep my mouth shut. Votes: 0

Don't open your diamonds in a vegetable market. Tie them in bundle and keep them in your heart, and go your own way. Votes: 0

I don't think I ate a green vegetable until I was 30. I didn't grow up with a mom who enforced that at all. Votes: 0

Our vegetable garden is coming along well, with radishes and beans up, and we are less worried about revolution that we used to be. Votes: 0

A fruit is a vegetable with looks and money. Plus, if you let fruit rot, it turns into wine, something brussel sprouts never do. Votes: 0

The roots of tobacco plants must go clear through to hell. Satan's principal agent Dyspepsia must have charge of this branch of the vegetable kingdom. Votes: 0

Some people just wanted to blow it all to hell, animal, vegetable and mineral. They wanted a Vietnam they could fit into their car ashtrays. Votes: 0

A vegetable garden in the beginning looks so promising and then after all little by little it grows nothing but vegetables, nothing, nothing but vegetables Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Fibers in a variety of colors protrude out of my skin like mushrooms after a rainstorm. They cannot be forensically identified as animal, vegetable, or mineral. Votes: 0

There is no disease, bodily or mental, which adoption of vegetable diet, and pure water has not infallibly mitigated, wherever the experiment has been fairly tried. Votes: 0

I think of my studio as a vegetable garden, where things follow their natural course. They grow, they ripen. You have to graft. You have to water. Votes: 0

Human longings are perversely obstinate; and to the man whose mouth is watering for a peach, it is of no use to offer the largest vegetable marrow. Votes: 0

I got a job immediately after leaving high school; I was lucky - three dollars a week and all I could eat, working on a vegetable truck. Votes: 0

I just became a vegetable for three months. I couldn't talk to people. I was very ill and that was part of the reason I left college. Votes: 0

Natural bodies are divided into three kingdomes of nature: viz. the mineral, vegetable, and animal kingdoms. Minerals grow, Plants grow and live, Animals grow, live, and have feeling. Votes: 0

Then a sentimental passion of a vegetable fashion must excite your languid spleen, An attachment a la Plato for a bashful young potato, or a not-too-French French bean! Votes: 0

Whatever his inhibitions and tastes, Western man believes in the natural holiness of seminudism and raw vegetable juice, because these have become for him symbols of unadultered nature. Votes: 0

Gleaming skin; a plump elongated shape: the eggplant is a vegetable you'd want to caress with your eyes and fingers, even if you didn't know its luscious flavor. Votes: 0

All right, two dozen house specials. Any chance one of you might want to live dangerously and try a vegetable? (Aimee) Do we look like rabbits to you? (Fury) Votes: 0

In the nineteenth century the Germans painted their dream and the outcome was invariably vegetable. The French needed only to paint a vegetable and it was already a dream. Votes: 0

Coconut oil contains the most concentrated natural source of medium-chain fatty acids (MCFA) available. Substituting coconut oil for other vegetable oils in your diet will help promote weight loss. Votes: 0

By all that is sacred in our hope for the human race, I conjure those who love happiness and truth to give a fair trial to the vegetable system! Votes: 0

I have no pity for myself either. So let it be Veronal. But I wish Hercule Poirot had never retired from work and come here to grow vegetable marrows. Votes: 0

There is no foundation in geological facts, for the popular theory of the successive development of the animal and vegetable world, from the simplest to the most perfect forms. Votes: 0

My meal arrived. It was a bowl of tepid, green curried water with two spinach leaves floating in it. The waiter called it 'vegetable soup'. I called it inedible slop. Votes: 0

Refuse to allow yourself to become a vegetable that simply absorbs information, pre-packaged, pre-ideologized , because no message.. is anything but an ideological package that has gone through a kind of processing. Votes: 0

It is impossible that had Buonaparte descended from a race of vegetable feeders that he could have had either the inclination or the power to ascend the throne of the Bourbons. Votes: 0

Botany, the science of the vegetable kingdom, is one of the most attractive, most useful, and most extensive departments of human knowledge. It is, above every other, the science of beauty. Votes: 0

Never was a continent naturally so clean, and made so dirty, as Australia. There was not an animal pest, scarcely a vegetable pest; fools and the old world supplied them all. Votes: 0

I often go on a liquid fast a couple of days a week. I never take just water. Instead, I'll have maybe six glasses of vegetable and fruit juices a day. Votes: 0

Most chartreuse recipes call for one bird, a fat one, like a pigeon or a partridge, secreted inside the casing, a vegetable mold, which is then turned out onto a plate. Votes: 0

Sagebrush is a very fair fuel, but as a vegetable it is a distinguished failure. Nothing can abide the taste of it but the jackass and his illegitimate child the mule. Votes: 0

My eating is pretty consistent. I like Greek yogurt for breakfast. I eat two giant salads a day, a broiled meat or fish, and a dark green vegetable at every meal. Votes: 0

My agent was ambitious for me. But going out and chasing it? No, I'd rather work in my vegetable garden or play with my kid. I guess I'm kind of boring. Votes: 0

That the vegetable creation should restore the air which is spoiled by the animal part of it, looks like a rational system, and seems to be of a piece with the rest. Votes: 0

When I was a kid, Halloween was strictly a starchy-vegetable-only holiday, with pumpkins and Indian corn on the front stoop; there was nothing electric, nothing inflatable, nothing with latex membranes or strobes. Votes: 0

And I don't mean this metaphorically. I want to be taken seriously as proposing that the ennui of modernity is the consequence of a disruptive symbiotic relationship between ourselves and vegetable nature. Votes: 0

Our typical Western diet is full of inflammatory fats - saturated fats, trans fats, too many omega-6, inflammatory, processed vegetable oils like soy and corn oils. These increase IGF-1 and stimulate pimple follicles. Votes: 0

I'm very good at integral and differential calculus, I know the scientific names of beings animalculous; In short, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral, I am the very model of a modern Major-General. Votes: 0

The purest natural food for human beings would be fresh, uncooked food and nuts. A fare which consists of three-quarters of vegetable food and one-quarter meat would appear to be the most satisfactory. Votes: 0

Our typical Western diet is full of inflammatory fats - saturated fats, trans fats, too many omega-6, inflammatory, processed vegetable oils like soy and corn oils. These increase IGF-1 and stimulate pimple follicles. Votes: 0

I think using waste oils as fuel makes sense. We do waste a huge amount of vegetable oil in the United States and using that as a fuel source strikes me as fine. Votes: 0

Microsoft has a new version out, Windows XP, which according to everybody is the 'most reliable Windows ever.' To me, this is like saying that asparagus is 'the most articulate vegetable ever.' Votes: 0

The cucumber and the tomato are both fruit; the avocado is a nut. To assist with the dietary requirements of vegetarians, on the first Tuesday of the month a chicken is officially a vegetable. Votes: 0

I am the very model of a modern Major-General, I've information vegetable, animal, and mineral, I know the kings of England, and I quote the fights historical, From Marathon to Waterloo, in order categorical. Votes: 0

The greatest delight the fields and woods minister is the suggestion of an occult relation between man and the vegetable. I am not alone and unacknowledged. They nod to me and I to them. Votes: 0

You think I'm gonna feel better eatin' a carrot? Get a grip. There's two idiots out there trying to kill me, and you think I'm gonna waste my last breath on a vegetable? (Lula) Votes: 0

If you think of ice cream, it (Helvetica) is a cheap, nasty, supermarket brand made of water, substitutes and vegetable fats. The texture is wrong and it leaves a little bit of a funny aftertaste. Votes: 0

I get great pleasure from stuffed foods, from an apple strudel to a vegetable samosa, from a whole roasted bird with a sweet and savoury stuffing to a vine leaf filled with rice and spices. Votes: 0

Researchers in the U.K. have developed a vegetable called "super broccoli" designed to fight heart disease. Not to be outdone, researchers in America have developed a way to stuff an Oreo inside another Oreo. Votes: 0

What's my weirdest adventure? Yikes, there've been so very many. Perhaps the pig+vegetable+Taiwanese-army-guys boat ride to the island off the coast of Taiwan qualifies as the weirdest. Or at least the most seasick. Votes: 0

Long live the weeds that overwhelm My narrow vegetable realm! The bitter rock, the barren soil That force the son of man to toil; All things unholy, marred by curse, The ugly of the universe. Votes: 0