Potatoes – Quotes

Usually I trundle about

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

The life of prayer

The life of prayer is so great and various there is something in it for everyone. It is like a garden which grows everything, from alpines to potatoes. Evelyn Underhill

One pearl is better

One pearl is better than a whole necklace of potatoes. Etienne Decroux

You have to love a nation that celebrates its independence every July 4, not with a parade of guns, tanks, and soldiers who file by the White House in a show of strength and muscle, but with family picnics where kids throw Frisbees, the potato salad gets iffy, and the flies die from happiness. You … Read more

I am thinking of

I am thinking of the onion again. . . . Not self-righteous like the proletarian potato, nor a siren like the apple. No show-off like the banana. But a modest, self-effacing vegetable, questioning, introspective, peeling itself away, or merely radiating halos like ripples. Erica Jong

When you go into

When you go into a fast food restaurant, you may just think about how good your meal tastes while you’re eating it. But you’re not thinking about all the consequences that come from that one purchase – the consequences for your body, the consequences for supporting this company and how it’s treating it workers, all … Read more

I only like food

I only like food without color, like potatoes, bread, and pasta. Emma Roberts

I like pork chops

I like pork chops and country ham, creamed potatoes, stuff like that. Redeye gravy. It comes from ham, bacon, stuff like that. It’s the grease that you fry it in. I eat a lot of Jell-O. Fruit Jell-O. Elvis Presley

I quickly realized that

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

No, women like you

No, women like you don’t write. They carve onion sculptures and potato statues. They sit in dark corners and braid their hair in new shapes and twists in order to control the stiffness, the unruliness, the rebelliousness. Edwidge Danticat