Quotes of Potato - somelinesforyou

“ 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. ”

- Marlene Dietrich

“ Zen does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes. ”

- Alan W. Watts

“ I'm a sweet eater. I love lemon pie and sweet potato pie. ”

- Claude Williams

“ My idea of heaven is a great big baked potato and someone to share it with. ”

- Oprah Winfrey

“ Usually I trundle about in trainers and baggy jeans, looking about as attractive as a potato. ”

- Gail Porter

“ If you are to give him the whole of Great Britain and Ireland for an estate, he would ask the Isle of Man for a potato garden. ”

- Lord North

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

- A. A. Milne

“ I'm a loser on Sunday. Yeah, I'm a couch potato. I get up and try and eat and then back on the couch. And watch anything. ”

- Adam Garcia

“ A man who thinks too much about his ancestors is like a potato-the best part of him is underground. ”

- Henry S. F. Cooper

“ 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. ”

- Louisa May Alcott

“ When you make a career change there has to be some kind of connection. I remember a Beverly Hills attorney who wanted to become a potato farmer in Oregon. Well, there's a guy who's born to lose. ”

- Lew Richfield

“ The person who has nothing to brag about but their ancestors is like a potato; the best part of them is underground. ”

- Sir Thomas Overbore

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

- Georg C. Lichtenberg

“ 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. ”

- Woody Allen

“ High fashion has the shelf life of potato salad. ”

- Barbara Kingsolver

“ It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes. ”

- Douglas Adams

“ The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry is like the potato - the best part under ground. ”

- Thomas Overbury

“ Those who came to the United States didn't realize they were white until they got here. They were told they were white. They had to learn they were white. An Irish peasant coming from British imperial abuse in Ireland during the potato famine in the 1840s, arrives in the United States… ”

- Cornel West

“ A perfectly reasonable slab of chicken arrived coutured in garlands of watercress and crinolines of cilantro, but like Snow White was inevitably accompanied by a coterie of dwarfs-baby zucchini, baby carrots, tiny peas, small new potatoes in their jackets. ”

- Ellis Weiner

“ 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. ”

- Alexander Theroux
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