Lentils To Quotes

#1. New Year's Day: Eat lentils to bring riches.

Sara Midda

#2. A good-sized Ptolemaic vessel could carry three hundred tons of wheat down the river. At least two such ships made the trip daily - with wheat, barley, lentils - to feed Alexandria alone.

Stacy Schiff

#3. I hate with a bitter hatred the names of lentils haricots - those pretentious cheats of the appetite, those tabulated humbugs, those certified aridites calling themselves human food!

George Gissing

#4. To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.

Oscar Wilde

#5. A trail twists through the stone cliffs toward Arques. At its end lies a broken man, his soul lifting away from his body, fluttering on a butterfly's wing, as fragile as a dream.

Julie Christine Johnson

#6. Do not waste your life waiting for wings. Trust that you can already fly.

Audrey Gene

#7. So, I do what any reasonable person would do when faced with a crying girl.
I get the frex out of there.

Beth Revis

#8. I believe in financial retirement. I don't necessarily believe in physical retirement.

Jerry Doyle

#9. I blame the lentils.

Beth Fantaskey

#10. Overrun with Goths wearing sandals and soaking lentils at home, the future I wanted is gone. The future I was promised. Everything I expected. The way everything was supposed to turn out. Happiness and peace and love and comfort.

Chuck Palahniuk

#11. I couldn't look away. My guts wrenched with the transient impact, like walking through a humming electric shock.

S.J. Lomas

#12. Architecture arises out of our need to shelter the human animal in a spatial environment and to enclose the social animal in a group space. In this sense architecture serves our institutions and expresses the values of our culture.

Robert L. Geddes

#13. To be a patriot, one had to say, and keep on saying, "Our Country, right or wrong," and urge on the little war. Have you not perceived that that phrase is an insult to the nation?

Mark Twain

#14. The person who knows one thing and does it better than anyone else, even if it only be the art of raising lentils, receives the crown he merits. If he raises all his energy to that end, he is a benefactor of mankind and its rewarded as such.

Og Mandino

#15. [in regards to his mom and her new boyfriend]
At least they never do it while I'm in the house, because that would make me quite literally barf my lentils.

Anthony McGowan

#16. Antoine, you have a phone call." Chef Fanelli

Christy Barritt

#17. The dumpling is indeed of more ancient institution, and of foreign origin; but alas, what were those dumplings? Nothing but a few lentils sodden together, moisten'd and cemented with a little seeth'd fat.

John Arbuthnot

#18. We go to Italy every winter, and my husband's mother has a bingo party on Christmas. Every woman brings a dish: lentils, cavolo nero, tons of beans, polenta, every type of cheese, bruschetta, fresh vegetables, and local olive oil and wine.

Debi Mazar

#19. Lentils are friendly - the Miss Congeniality of the bean world.

Laurie Colwin

#20. Leadership is a journey. Each one of us has to take our own path, and get there our own way.

David Gergen

#21. If I use the word 'khichdi' in my novel, I don't have to get into the trouble of explaining that it is a dish of rice and lentils. My Indian readers know it.

Ashwin Sanghi

#22. The combination of lentils with rice or bulgur is the absolute height of Levantine comfort food. I could eat it every day.

Yotam Ottolenghi

#23. [Her] idea of a fair trade--her lentils for your caviar.

Maya Corrigan

#24. I eat very well. I cook for my family every night. We eat a variety of things, including chicken, fish, pork, lentils, all veggies, pastas, and salads. You name it, we eat it - except salmon, which I find disgusting. Sorry, salmon.

Alicia Coppola

#25. Prof's ability makes mine look like a piece of rice. And not even a cooked one.

Brandon Sanderson

#26. We've all seen chicken portrayed as the low-fat, heart-healthy alternative to red meat for years, but it no longer adds up. You might want to lean away from eating birds and lean toward more plant-based options of protein like black beans, lentils, tofu, chickpeas and whole grains.

Kathy Freston

#27. I like beans. Lentils are beans, right? I love beans and rice.

Prince Fielder

#28. Hell is Whole Foods on a Sunday. It's hordes of moms in lightweight fleeces pushing one another out of the way to get to bins of dry lentils.

Mindy Kaling

#29. My favorite dish is brown rice with lentils, roasted red and yellow peppers, and fennel, with a sweet potato and a salad on the side.

Christie Brinkley

#30. A square egg in a dish of lentils won't make a marrow bend with the wind, nor will it make rhubarb grow up the milkmaid's leg.

Les Dawson

#31. It's important to think. It's what separates us from lentils. (The Fisher King)

Jack H. Lucas

#32. My doctor felt that the main contributing factor was so many years of malnutrition, especially during my formative years, even before I got into modeling.

Carre Otis

#33. So much of what we do in life stays unexplained

Jane Borodale

#34. 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

#35. Kids in aprons appeared, putting tureens of vegetable soup on the tables and plates of boiled eggs, potatoes and lentils, bowls of endive-and-radish salad, small rounds of cheese and loaves of brown bread, all looking quite delicious, in Zoe's opinion.

Christine Brodien-Jones