Yams famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

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 Sweeney

#Yams #Vegetables #Snacks
You cannot plant greatness as you plant yams or maize. Who ever planted an iroko tree â€” the greatest tree in the forest? You may collect all the iroko seeds in the world, open the soil and put them there. It will be in vain. The great tree chooses where to grow and we find it there, so it is with the greatness in men.
-- Chinua Achebe

#Greatness #Men #Yams
May your stuffing be tasty May your turkey plump, May your potatoes and gravy Have nary a lump. May your yams be delicious And your pies take the prize, And may your Thanksgiving dinner Stay off your thighs!
-- Grandpa Jones

#Thanksgiving #Pie #Yams
In her bottled up is a woman peppery as curry, a yam of a woman of butter and brass,
-- Marge Piercy

#Yams #Curry #Brass
CAN'T TAN PON IT LONG.....NAW EAT NO YAM...NO STEAM FISH....NOR NO GREEN BANANA BUT DOWN IN JAMAICA WE GIVE IT TO YOU HOT LIKE A SAUNA..
-- Sean Paul

#Yams #Jamaica #Giving
I hate okra and grated mountain yam for the same reason. They're both slimy.
-- Tom Colicchio

#Hate #Yams #Mountain
What is happening to the daughters of the yam? Seem like they just don't know how to draw up the powers from the deep like before. Not full sunned and sweet anymore.
-- Toni Cade Bambara

#Daughter #Sweet #Yams

It's fine to live in the now. But the best thing about now is that there's another one tomorrow. I'm going to start making them count.
Taking on challenging projects is the way that one grows and extends one's range as a writer, one's technical command, so I consider the time well-spent
Okay - the world needs its cogs, all of them; and even a cog may say how it gets used. In fact, only a cog may determine its eventual meaning in the system. That's what I wanted to tell you.
I suppose you could pass for a starlet. You do have that femme fatale air about you. Like you crush boysâ€™ dreams in your spare time.
What you realize is that a lot of actors want to be directed. They're there to do the best job they can for the director. They have a lot of questions, and your job is to have answers.
Evolution, of course, is not something that simply applies to life here on earth; it applies to the whole universe.
Success is created through the performance of a few small daily disciplines that stack up over time to produce achievements far beyond anything you could of ever planned for. Failure, on the other hand, is just as easy to slip into. Failure's is nothing more than the inevitable outcome of a few small acts of daily neglect performed consistently over time so that they take you past the point of no return.
There have been nine Super Bowls in New Orleans, and not all of them have brought the best of luck to NFL Films. We got robbed twice there, got food poisoning, and my hotel room was broken into on the day the Bears played the Patriots in January 1986.
Once you can reproduce a phenomenon, you are well on the way to understanding it.