I Yam What I Yam Quotes

#1. The only thing that's worse than people who say "I am what I am" is people who say "I yam what I yam" while doing a Popeye imitation.

Ariel Leve

#2. I hate okra and grated mountain yam for the same reason. They're both slimy.

Tom Colicchio

#3. Yam hi na vyathayanthy,
ete purusan purursarsabha,
Sama-dhuka-sugam dhirm
so mrtavaya kalpate - Bhagavt Gita

"The person who is not disturbed by happiness or distress and steady in both is certainly eligible for liberation

Bhagavatam

#4. Old yam digger please explain this mountain's sorrows

Basho Matsuo

#5. Then you panic because you've never known the difference between a sweet potato and a yam and both are on the counter, and if you start making a yam pie you'll never hear the end of it.

Ellen DeGeneres

#6. I yam what I am.

E.C. Segar

#7. What kind of power was it if everybody knew that it would never be used? Better to say that it was not there, that it was no more than the power in the anus of the proud dog who tried to put out a furnace with his puny fart ... He turned the yam with a stick.

Chinua Achebe

#8. In her bottled up is a woman peppery as curry,
a yam of a woman of butter and brass,

Marge Piercy

#9. Things I will never like: 1. Drying off with a cold, damp towel. 2. The feeling of seaweed wrapping around my legs. 3. Anything that was popular in the 70's. 4. Licorice, yam, or raisins. 5. That high-pitched screech that babies make. 6. Writhing maggots.

Bill Watterson

#10. Most people who lose their lives because life might be down for them only refuse to know what a tuber of yam that is put into the soil goes through before it comes up as a fresh green creeping plant to bear yet another bigger tuber

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#11. A slice of chocolate cake - priorities! - a scoop of chicken potpie, slice of chocolate cake, scoop of yam casserole, slice of chocolate cake, two scoops of mashed potatoes, a slice of chocolate cake, a scoop of buttery green beens, a slice of chocolate cake -

Gena Showalter

#12. [Death] was not at home by that time, he was in his yam garden.

Amos Tutuola

#13. Instead of coconut yam kootu, why not boiled beef tongue with a mustard sauce?"
"That sounds non-veg.

Yann Martel

#14. 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

#15. Here's what I realized about the yam - it's the same colour as a Nerf ball. You may be wondering: 'Is he saying he ate a Nerf ball?' ...

Jon Stewart

#16. 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

#17. 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