Vegetables famous quotes

I don't think there's anything wrong with a hot dog or other convenience foods, as long as they're balanced with fresh vegetables. It's hard to ignore 95 percent of the grocery store.
-- Tyler Florence

#Dog #Thinking #Vegetables

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.
-- Veronica Webb

#Dark #Vegetables #Two

I'm a very, very healthy eater. I eat lots of fish, lots of vegetables, lots of fruit. I don't eat junk food.
-- Victoria Beckham

#Vegetables #Healthy #Fruit

Look don’t sit there behind the computer like a useless vegetable and tell me how to train
-- Viktoria Komova

#Vegetables #Useless #Looks

When I was a child we were sufficiently well off for me to be a picky eater and I still cannot eat vegetables cooked in the traditional British manner.
-- Vince Cable

#Children #Vegetables #British

My late wife Olympia was Goan and I've been to India many times. I love the food there. We used to do our shopping in Southall, where you can find cheap but wonderful fruit like mangoes, vegetables and spices. I didn't do much of the cooking, as Olympia did a lot - I was the under-chef and did some of the chopping.
-- Vince Cable

#Vegetables #Shopping #Wife

I don't drink any coffee or take any drugs and I don't smoke cigarettes and I don't eat sugar and I don't take any medicine at all. I eat a lot of fish, vegetables, and I stay away from starches.
-- Vincent Gallo

#Coffee #Vegetables #Medicine

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.
-- W. S. Gilbert

#Animal #Vegetables #Names

I don't see that many plays, and for me, musicals are rarely pleasing. I feel the actors are being put through a kind of nightmarish labor. They're like animals being forced to pull heavy carts of vegetables at incredible speeds.
-- Wallace Shawn

#Animal #Vegetables #Play

A diet rich in fruits and vegetables plays a role in reducing the risk of all the major causes of illness and death
-- Walter Willett

#Vegetables #Play #Risk

The evidence that folic acid reduces the risk of heart disease is pretty strong. [...] And fruits and vegetables are a major source of folic acid.
-- Walter Willett

#Strong #Heart #Vegetables

There's a lot of evidence that fruits and vegetables are beneficial for reducing the risk of stroke.
-- Walter Willett

#Vegetables #Risk #Fruit

The turnip is a capricious vegetable, which seems reluctant to show itself at its best.
-- Waverley Root

#Vegetables #Capricious #Shows

...it will always remain my private persuasion that Nature was absorbed in making cabbages when Mrs. Vesey was born, and that the good lady suffered the consequences of a vegetable preoccupation in the mind of the Mother of us all.
-- Wilkie Collins

#Mother #Vegetables #Mind

One word, in this place, respecting asparagus. The young shoots of this plant, boiled, are the most unexceptionable form of greens with which I am acquainted.
-- William Alcott

#Vegetables #Asparagus #Plant

The world of imagination is the world of eternity. It is the divine bosom into which we shall all go after the death of the vegetated [i.e. mortal] body. This world of imagination is infinite and eternal, whereas the world of generation is finite and temporal. There exist in that eternal world the eternal realities of everything which we see reflected in this vegetable glass of nature.
-- William Blake

#Reality #Vegetables #Glasses

I like the vegetables, the fruits, the beans, the stuff I eat now...All my blood tests are good, and my vital signs are good, and I feel good, and I also have, believe it or not, more energy.
-- William J. Clinton

#Believe #Blood #Vegetables

Those modern analysts, they charge so much! In my day, for five marks Freud himself would treat you. For ten marks he would treat you and press your pants. For fifteen marks Freud would let you treat him - that included a choice of any two vegetables.
-- Woody Allen

#Vegetables #Two #Choices

Everything I do, I do on the principle of Russian borscht. You can throw everything into it beets, carrots, cabbage, onions, everything you want. What's important is the result, the taste of the borscht.
-- Yevgeny Yevtushenko

#Vegetables #Important #Onions

in my garden I pick a musk melon feeling like a thief
-- Yosa Buson

#Garden #Vegetables #Feelings

In the water bucket a melon and an eggplant nodding to each other
-- Yosa Buson

#Vegetables #Eggplant #Water

Just-poached vegetables show off their natural attributes and taste fresh and light in a way you never get with roasting or frying.
-- Yotam Ottolenghi

#Vegetables #Light #Way

It's good to have fresh ingredients, but let's not completely ignore some frozen ingredients. Vegetables are absolutely brilliant because as soon as they come out of the ground they are prepared and frozen instantly.
-- Ainsley Harriott

#Vegetables #Frozen #Ingredients

Even where the land was more receptive, settlers soon learned to take some precautions before planting their vegetables. Maize and pumpkin seeds were soaked in water for several days and then blackened with tar before planting - the most effective way to deter rats, mice and birds.
-- Bee Dawson

#Vegetables #Land #Water

Keep as near as ever you can to the first sources of supply—fruits and vegetables.
-- Benjamin Ward Richardson

#Food #Vegetables #Fruit

For the first time since 2007, the FDA Has approved a new device to treat obesity. The amazing breakthrough is called a vegetable.
-- Conan O'Brien

#Fda #Vegetables #Firsts

For the first time American astronauts on the International Space Station ate vegetables grown in space. In other words, even space is getting more rain than California.
-- Conan O'Brien

#Rain #Vegetables #California

If home cooks shopped in their own vegetable bin before going to the market, they would save money and help the environment, too, and all because they decided to rescue a vegetable before it turned bad.
-- Dana Cowin

#Home #Vegetables #Helping

No pills, not even aspirin, and certainly no supplements ever enter my mouth - everything I need comes from my fish and vegetarian diet, which incorporates many different kinds of fruit and vegetables every week.
-- David H. Murdock

#Vegetarian Diet #Vegetables #Pills

We sell only fresh fruit and vegetables. I sell no saturated fats or anything like that.
-- David H. Murdock

#Vegetables #Fruit #Fats

The hospital that feeds you refined sugar, white bread, canned soup, bouillon cubes, and frozen vegetables should be closed by the health department as a menace to the public health.
-- David Reuben

#Dark #Vegetables #White

An egg white omelet with vegetables is one of my favorite breakfasts.
-- Gabriela Isler

#Vegetables #Eggs #White

Eat lots of fresh vegetables, drink water, exercise often, and meditate daily.
-- Gretchen Bleiler

#Exercise #Vegetables #Water

As for vegetables, I do not consider a plot of ground devoted to them worthy of the honorable name of garden. Vegetables are, of course, a part of gardening, but the least, the last, -for those who do not have to raise them, the most dishonorable part.
-- Harrison Gray Otis Dwight

#Garden #Vegetables #Names

The stressful part of that is that you're not a chef. People who have learnt to be chefs have spent years in kitchens just on the vegetable section and then move up to the fish section, etc, whereas you have to do everything and it's really full on, but it's an amazing experience.
-- Jayne Middlemiss

#Moving #Vegetables #Years

Make sure you eat healthy food. You can have the occasional treat, but you also need to balance your diet with foods such as meat and vegetables. It will prevent you from getting colds and enable you to train and to do whatever you want in every day life.
-- Jenny Meadows

#Vegetables #Healthy #Balance

You have to eat right. I eat a lot of vegetables. Keep a very, very healthy diet. It translates to how your body feels. The better your body feels, the better endurance and stamina you're going to have.
-- Jozy Altidore

#Vegetables #Healthy #Endurance

Get in some pasta or brown rice with your vegetables like a sweet potato and some meat. You need a little bit of everything on your plate to make sure your energy levels are right for the match.
-- Jozy Altidore

#Sweet #Vegetables #Energy

Women find ways to give sense and meaning to daily life--ways to be useful in the community, to keep mind active and soul growingeven while they change diapers and cook vegetables.
-- Lillian B. Rubin

#Vegetables #Giving #Community

Health messages are simply overwhelmed, in volume and in effectiveness, by junk-food ads that often deploy celebrities or cartoon characters to great effect. We may know that eating fruits and vegetables is good for us, but the preponderance of the signals we get - and especially the signals children get - push us in the direction of junk food.
-- Michael Moss

#Children #Character #Vegetables

The only really good vegetable is Tabasco sauce. Put Tabasco sauce in everything. Tabasco sauce is to bachelor cooking what forgiveness is to sin. The next best vegetable is the jalapeno pepper. It has the virtue of turning salads into practical jokes.
-- P. J. O'Rourke

#Vegetables #Stupidity #Cooking

Vegetables are something God invented to let women get even with their children.
-- P. J. O'Rourke

#Children #Vegetables

You need good energy and you need to be fit because it's very tiring. A lot of the work is quite heavy and quite smelly. That's why girls drift out of the kitchen because they get fed up smelling like fish and vegetables and things like that.
-- Paul Rankin

#Girl #Vegetables #Kitchen

Vegetables, herbs and spices. If you can combine those ingredients, that would be the best dish you'd ever cook!
-- Rinrin Marinka

#Vegetables #Herbs #Ingredients

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.
-- Roger Verge

#Eye #Eggplant #Vegetables

My boyfriend is a chef, so he cooks for me, but I cook too. The only time I felt pressure was when he asked how I wanted vegetables chopped, so I described in sizes whereas he knows the right words. I felt a bit daft then.
-- Sharleen Spiteri

#Vegetables #My Boyfriend #Pressure

People who are lazy may smoke pot and remain lazy. That is aging the person finding a drug to help one create the vegetable style the person wants, as the person cannot live in the real world.
-- Steven Machat

#Real #Vegetables #People

My message is use grass-fed beef, use heirloom pork varieties, use organic chickens, wait until wild salmon or wild seafood are in season, smoke organic vegetables.
-- Steven Raichlen

#Vegetables #Waiting #Pork

In my life I see no difference between making pots, cooking and growing vegetables. They are all so related. However, there is a need for me to work in clay. It is so gratifying and I get so much joy from it, and it gives me many answers in my life.
-- Toshiko Takaezu

#Vegetables #Differences #Giving

It's hard to fully enjoy your time on Earth without having your health. Ask anyone battling health issues - most especially, issues that could have been avoided. For me, I read food labels, I seek out places to purchase the best-quality foods available to me, and I inquire about how they are produced (meats and fruits/vegetables).
-- Adam Rodriguez

#Vegetables #Issues #Quality

I cannot bear the language TV chefs use - they don't seem able to look at a plate of vegetables without accusing it of sexual activity.
-- Ann Widdecombe

#Vegetables #Looks #Use

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

#Vegetables #Carrots

The cabbage surpasses all other vegetables. If, at a banquet, you wish to dine a lot and enjoy your dinner, then eat as much cabbage as you wish, seasoned with vinegar, before dinner, and likewise after dinner eat some half-dozen leaves. It will make you feel as if you had not eaten, and you can drink as much as you like.
-- Cato the Younger

#Vegetables #Wish #Half

Boni de Castellane drawing his chins onto his chest; shiny boots, embroidered morning coat, white gloves with black piping, big tie, light vest, the overwashed, bleached impression - 'blanched' as cooks say of boiled vegetables. That was the opposite of a dandy whose stylishness would remain imperceptible to Americans. Boni's style was highly visible.
-- Paul Morand

#Morning #Light #Vegetables

I had to make my body fit like Bruce Lee. I trained for eight months, five days a week, eight hours a day. I just ate chicken breasts and vegetables, sometimes just egg whites.
-- Rain

#Eight #Vegetables #Eggs

I eat more vegetables than the average vegetarian.
-- Robert Atkins

#Average #Vegetables #Vegetarian

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.
-- Robert Blair

#Maturity #Vegetables #Progress

Don't drink at all, don't smoke, you must exercise and eat vegetables and fruit.
-- Robert Mugabe

#Inspirational #Exercise #Vegetables

I quickly realized that more than any other vegetable, the potato evokes strong reactions in people. As the head of communications for the International Potato Centre in Peru put it, 'No one gets worked up over lettuce like they do the potato.'
-- Elizabeth A. Johnson

#Strong #Communication #Vegetables

The language of Christianity is the language of substitution. It is not primarily the language of morals. God is not presented as a mother saying “eat all your vegetables”. Instead, Christianity is about a one-sided rescue, that we didn’t want and certainly didn’t deserve, and he did it anyway.
-- Rod Rosenbladt

#Mother #Vegetables #Want

When you think about a barbecue, most people think of slabs of ribs, but you don't need to do that in today's culinary barbecue world. Short ribs, barbecue chicken, skewered shrimp, vegetable kebabs, lobster mac and cheese with or without the lobster, and a donut bread pudding for dessert that's absolutely amazing. These are things that are safe whether you're a novice or a professional. Be creative and stay within your culinary pantheon.
-- G. Garvin

#Thinking #Vegetables #Bread Pudding

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.
-- George Hackenschmidt

#Nuts #Vegetables #Meat

CO2 from air can replace petroleum: it can produce plastics and acetate, it can produce carbon fibers that replace metals and clean hydrocarbons, such as synthetic gasoline. We can use CO2 to desalinate water, enhance the production of vegetables and fruit in greenhouses, carbonate our beverages and produce biofertilizers that enhance the productivity of the soil without poisoning it. Carbon negative technology is absolutely needed now.
-- Graciela Chichilnisky

#Technology #Vegetables #Air

Waitresses, soldiers, rickshaw drivers, old ladies selling vegetables - my father would schmooze anybody. He was Clintonesque before the word existed. And, of course, it paid dividends. Ill-tempered guards at the most notorious border crossings waved him through with cheery smiles. Haughty maitre d's fawned over him.
-- Scott Anderson

#Father #Vegetables #Soldier

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

#Food #Race #Vegetables

I like doing things that are very wildly different. I find that the meat and vegetables of being an actor is doing things that are completely different, all the time.
-- James Purefoy

#Vegetables #Meat #Different

Serve this dish with much too much wine for your guests, along with some cooked green vegetables and a huge salad. You will be famous in about half an hour.
-- Jeff Smith

#Food #Wine #Vegetables

Look don’t sit there behind the computer like a useless vegetable and tell me how to train
-- Viktoria Komova

#Vegetables #Looks #Useless

If you get vegetables in season, the difference is remarkable compared to vegetables that might have been imported. You can't beat fresh ingredients and seasonal fresh ingredients. There's nothing quite like the taste of a beautiful summer strawberry.
-- William Katt

#Beautiful #Summer #Vegetables