Quotes About Lentils

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

Yotam Ottolenghi

#2. 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

#3. 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

#4. [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

#5. 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

#6. 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

#7. I blame the lentils.

Beth Fantaskey

#8. 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

#9. 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

#10. 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

#11. 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

#12. 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

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

Jack H. Lucas

#14. 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

#15. 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

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

Sara Midda

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

Maya Corrigan

#18. 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

#19. 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

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

Prince Fielder

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

Laurie Colwin

#22. 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

#23. The historian records, but the novelist creates.

E. M. Forster

#24. Unless and until you inspire the people, you will not get results. Imposition will never give you the results. Inspiration will always give you the results.

Narendra Modi

#25. I'm just feeling like it was meant to be. What can I say? The birth of my son, and in the first year of his life, we won a Super Bowl Championship.

Drew Brees

#26. She didn't understand a damned thing about life except that it was arbitrary and cruel, and some people got away with murder while others made one tiny, careless mistake and paid a terrible price.

Liane Moriarty

#27. I do here speak it before the court. I look that the Lord should deliver me by his providence.

Anne Hutchinson

#28. The lucky person passes for a genius.

Euripides

#29. I listen to nothing or classical music just because after being in the studio for twelve hours, the last thing you want to do is listen to anything.

Casey Spooner

#30. I found that the clergy did not understand their own book.

Robert Green Ingersoll

#31. Sometimes the very thing I am looking for is staring me straight in the face, but I can't see it.

Cecelia Ahern

#32. The public must come to see that chess is a violent sport. Chess is mental torture.

Garry Kasparov

#33. buying from. 4. I perceive a value in the product that I am purchasing.

Jeffrey Gitomer

#34. Accents can be a great tool to tell a story - but if you do it wrong, it pulls you right out of the movie.

Jeremy Renner

#35. I'm sorry I made you cry, it's the last thing I would ever want to do....Unless it's out loud....during a moment of passion

Lesley Jones

#36. Around this world will I be enough?
From the liquor stores, to the train stop floors, your filthy room, your drama blues
I am nothing if I'm not with you.

Sara Quin