Quotes About Parsnips

#1. Better I would have been at pulling parsnips out of my nose than charming any man, even if I so desired it, even if I quadrupled my studies in her unique curriculum.

Catherine Gilbert Murdock

#2. Will set his fork down and began cheerfully, in the manner of Edward Lear's Book of Nonsense:
"There was once a lass from New York
Who found herself hungry in York.
But the bread was like rocks
The parsnips shaped like -"

Cassandra Clare

#3. There is a southern proverb - fine words butter no parsnips.

Walter Scott

#4. On some subconscious level, I've been prejudiced against turnips, parsnips, swedes and other roots. Do they taste of much? Are they really special? How wrong I was.

Yotam Ottolenghi

#5. In entertainment value, the Democratic clambake usually lays it over the Republican conclave like ice cream over parsnips.

Red Smith

#6. Beware, beware of those who care,' as some wise person said. Not that I'm suggesting there is anything wrong with caring. But as Granny Maud used to say, 'Fine words butter no parsnips,' and she might have added, 'Caring should be felt and not heard.

Salley Vickers

#7. The table was covered with food like roast chicken, roast potatoes, roast parsnips, roast turkey, roast liquorice and, the centrepiece, a roasted knight.

Elias Zapple

#8. Blushes and sighs are all very pretty, but soft words butter no parsnips.

Alyssa Everett

#9. Who was the blundering idiot who said 'fine words butter no parsnips'? Half the parsnips of society are served and rendered palatable with no other sauce.

William Makepeace Thackeray

#10. And that is ... how they are. So terribly physically all over one another. They pour themselves one over the other like so much melted butter over parsnips. They catch each other under the chin, with a tender caress of the hand, and they smile with sunny melting tenderness into each other's face.

D.H. Lawrence

#11. I live in Harlem, New York City. I am unmarried. I like 'Tristan,' goat's milk, short novels, lyric poems, heat, simple folk, boats and bullfights; I dislike 'Aida,' parsnips, long novels, narrative poems, cold, pretentious folk, buses and bridges.

Langston Hughes

#12. Good motives butter no parsnips, and hell is paved with buttered parsnips.

Irvin S. Cobb

#13. I love root vegetables: carrots, parsnips, and turnips.

Julia Child

#14. From the Far Eastern perspective, 29 is considered a very special age.

Frederick Lenz

#15. 'Will Grayson, Will Grayson' is about two guys named Will Grayson who live in different Chicago suburbs who eventually meet each other.

John Green

#16. A darkened Sun would liberate us from the parsnip threat.

Randall Munroe

#17. Whatever you do, do with great care, great love, and great passion.

Debasish Mridha

#18. I could define poetry this way: it is that which is lost out of both prose and verse in translation.

Robert Frost

#19. We all have an obligation as citizens of this earth to leave the world a healthier, cleaner, and better place for our children and future generations.

Blythe Danner