(130 quotes found)
“An onion can make people cry but there's never been a vegetable that can make people laugh.”
Will Rogers
“Vegetables are a must on a diet. I suggest carrot cake, zucchini bread, and pumpkin pie.”
Jim Davis
“Give up salt, give up sugar, give up spices, give up vegetables, give up chutnies, give up tamarind. Serve Bhangis, serve rogues, serve inferiors, remove faecal matter. Do not revenge, resist not evil, return good for evil, bear insult and injury. Forget like a child any injury done by somebody immediately. Never keep it in the heart. It kindles hatred.”
Swami Sivananda
“We became a vegetarian. But that didn't last very long, because, um, I don't like vegetables. Or salad, nothing like that!”
Dakota Fanning
“Imagination is the real and eternal world of which this vegetable universe is but a faint shadow.”
William Blake
“Human beings, vegetables, or comic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible player”
Albert Einstein
“LAUREL, n. The _laurus_, a vegetable dedicated to Apollo, and formerly defoliated to wreathe the brows of victors and such poets as had influence at court. (_Vide supra._)”
Ambrose Bierce
“I consider nature a vast chemical laboratory in which all kinds of composition and decompositions are formed. Vegetation is the basic instrument the creator uses to set all of nature in motion.”
Antoine Lavoisier
“An onion can make people cry, but there has never been a vegetable invented to make them laugh.”
“I also like to garden. I grow things, vegetables, flowers... I particularly like orchids. I raise orchids.”
Beau Bridges
