Quotes About Potatoes

#1. Steak and its accompaniments - wine, vegetables, potatoes and generous desserts - is a primal source of pleasure to which many people can relate.

Danny Meyer

#2. If you ask any lady they want to be taller, they want to be slimmer, you know, and they want a waist. I'm not here to make people look like a sack of potatoes.

Alexander McQueen

#3. Marry me, princess. I'll give you my kingdom - small potatoes that it is.

Cindy Gerard

#4. If I had to pick another career, I'd be an optometrist for potatoes. That's where the money is.

Peter Wisan

#5. While England endeavors to cure the potato-rot, will not any endeavor to cure the brain-rot, which prevails so much more widely and fatally?

Henry David Thoreau

#6. The only thing that helps me keep my slender grip on reality is the friendship I have with my collection of singing potatoes.

Holly

#7. The typical Irish peasant ate about 10 pounds of potatoes each day and soon towered in physical size over their rural English equivalents who mainly ate bread.

Rashers Tierney

#8. Today we take New England clam chowder as something traditional that makes our roots as American cooking very solid, with a lot of foundation. But the first person who decided to mix potatoes and clams and bacon and cream, in his own way 100 to 200 years ago, was a modernist.

Jose Andres

#9. Let the sky rain potatoes," said a musing voice. "Let it thunder to the tune of Greensleeves.

Cassandra Clare

#10. I love food: hamburgers, pizza, gnocci, mashed potatoes, and especially chocolate. I enjoy eating for the sake of eating. Sometimes I feel sad for the models who don't eat. When you love food, you love life. When you love life, you love to love.

Laetitia Casta

#11. My father was grounded, a very meat-and-potatoes man. He was a baker.

Anthony Hopkins

#12. Potatoes are very interesting folks. I think they must see a lot of what is going on in the earth - they have so many eyes.

Opal Whiteley

#13. The unlikely combination of potatoes and pasta does appear in some Italian recipes.

Yotam Ottolenghi

#14. If you have some potatoes, green beans and cauliflower, you have a heck of a dish that can feed an entire family.

Jose Andres

#15. Imaginative cook, and her experiments weren't always edible. I was surprised, and sad, that he seemed to remember that far back. "Steak and potatoes," I answered, and he looked relieved. He seemed to feel awkward standing in the kitchen doing nothing; he lumbered

Stephenie Meyer

#16. People who eat potatoes will never be able to perform their abilities in whatever job they choose to have.

Richard Cobden

#17. I like both potatoes and rice. You can do a lot with both of them. But if I could eat only one carbohydrate for the rest of my life, I wouldn't choose bread, potatoes or even noodles. I'd go for rice instead; I eat more of that than anything else.

Nobu Matsuhisa

#18. It is thought that potato water is unhealthy; and therefore do not boil potatoes in soup, but boil elsewhere, and add them when nearly cooked.

Catharine Beecher

#19. Out of 30,000 edible plants thought to exist on earth, just eleven account for 93% of all that humans eat: oats, corn, rice, wheat, potatoes, yucca (also called tapioca or cassava), sorghum, millet, beans, barley, and rye.

Daniel Levitin

#20. One day I was driving down the farm track in the pickup,with two of the little boys, aged about four or five, sitting beside me. One of them turned to me conversationally and said, "Baba, don't worry. When you get old one day you'll be sitting here where we are, and we'll be driving you around!

Angus Buchan

#21. Zen does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes.

Alan W. Watts

#22. When I'm home, I cook and try to eat really clean. I try to eat vegetables at every meal. I stay away from pasta and bread and have brown rice and potatoes instead.

Marisa Miller

#23. I still can't unsee Tommy's outfit: nighttime sunglasses, a dark blazer as loose and baggy as rain gear, sand-colored cargo pants with pockets filled to capacity (was he smuggling potatoes?), a white tank top, clunky Frankenstein combat boots, and two belts. Yes, two belts.

Greg Sestero

#24. A fat Reichian wife screeching over potatoes Get a job!
And five nose running brats in love with Batman

Gregory Corso

#25. I love potatoes - they're my favorite food.

Trisha Yearwood

#26. Accounts of eating Christmas sweet potatoes baked in ashes and jackrabbit stewed with white flour dumplings are testaments to pioneer resilience and pleasure - and they help inspire my own best scratch cooking.

Isabel Gillies

#27. It's so funny because my mom is Thai and my dad is this big American guy - and our food tastes were so similar growing up. He was meat and potatoes, I was meat and potatoes.

Chrissy Teigen

#28. I like French fries; I like mashed. I love potatoes.

Mary J. Blige

#29. I look back and wonder why I wasted my time talking about fried potatoes with the great John Lennon. But that's what was so fabulous about him - he was very down to earth.

Kiki Dee

#30. We know," Nudge said apologetically. "It's just - she's going to make sweet potatoes with raisins and little marshmallows on top.

James Patterson

#31. Jefferson, incidentally, was also a great adventurer with foods. Among his many other accomplishments, he was the first person in America to slice potatoes lengthwise and fry them. So as well as being the author of the Declaration of Independence, he was also the father of the American French fry.

Bill Bryson

#32. A lucky person is one who plants pebbles and harvests potatoes.

Julia Stuart

#33. Dinner waited for us: steaks and potatoes and manly things, items of a manly meal. Also vodka cranberries.

Adam P. Knave

#34. potatoes off his pants. "Carbs," he moans. "I'm going to gain at least ten pounds.

Sarah Castille

#35. She watched the dark highway and entertained me with her vegetable-soup song, except that now there were people mixed in with the beans and potatoes: Dwayne Ray, Mattie, Esperanza, Lou Ann and all the rest.
And me. I was the main ingredient.

Barbara Kingsolver

#36. Once the interlude was over and I was released, I fled the room and, taking the stairs two at a time, found refuge in a dank corner of the basement filled with potatoes and mice. I stayed there until dinner, doing my best to stop crying by staring at the glowing face of my father's wristwatch.

Allen Kurzweil

#37. Reading is a lot like fine dining ... Some readers prefer just the meat and potatoes; I enjoy a seven-course meal.

Carmen DeSousa

#38. My mum and my husband are from Irish backgrounds, so we have a lot of potatoes. Chips, mashed, boiled, new potatoes, I love them all. Even the slightly wonky ones like Duchess potatoes that go up in a little spiral.

Jo Brand

#39. It was a good thing I recognized you or I might have had a lovely meal of you with some parsley. And potatoes.

G.A. Aiken

#40. Money is the root of all evil, and yet it is such a useful root that we cannot get on without it any more than we can without potatoes.

Louisa May Alcott

#41. Firewater Sometimes I think how alcohol's a marvelous solvent, can remove red people from a continent, turn bronze to guilt. What was DuPont's old motto - Better things for better living through chemistry? You take potatoes from Peru, barley from Palestine, maize from Mexico, sugar cane from

MariJo Moore

#42. Fear is a strange soil. It grows obedience like corn, which grow in straight lines to make weeding easier. But sometimes it grows the potatoes of defiance, which flourish underground.

Terry Pratchett

#43. Are you going to eat me in my sleep?"
"Friends are like potatoes. If you eat them, they die."
"Is that a no?"
"Are you a potato?

Rain Oxford

#44. I loved to get all dusty and ride horses and plant potatoes and cotton.

Dorothy Malone

#45. Every Sunday I nudge Sam in her direction, and he walks to where she is sitting and hugs her. She smells him behind the ears, where he most smells like sweet unwashed new potatoes. This is in fact what I think God may smell like, a young child's slightly dirty neck.

Anne Lamott

#46. Lord, you're Irish," said Will. "Can you make things that don't have potatoes in them? We had an Irish cook once when I was a boy. Potato pie, potato custard, potatoes with potato sauce ...

Cassandra Clare

#47. Revenge is a dish best served cold but Mama prefers to serve it with hot gravy, potatoes, and roast turkey.

Jonathan Dunne

#48. Yes, it is a rich language, Lieutenant, full of the mythologies of fantasy and hope and self-deception - a syntax opulent with tomorrows. It is our response to mud cabins and a diet of potatoes; our only method of replying to ... inevitabilities.

Brian Friel

#49. Liz asked me the other day what I thought about twice baked potatoes. How the fuck should I know? Was I supposed to be thinking about twice baked potatoes all this time? Is this where I went wrong? Are grown men supposed to have an opinion about twice baked potatoes?

Tara Sivec

#50. Mama was a natural cook. At harvest time, she would whip up a noontime dinner for the men in the field: fried chicken with milk gravy, ham, mashed potatoes, lima beans, field peas, corn, slaw, sliced tomatoes, fried apples, biscuits, and peach pie.

Bobbie Ann Mason

#51. The human diet consists of just nine plants: corn, rice, wheat, potatoes, cassava, sorghum, millet, beans, barley, rye and oats.

Bill Bryson

#52. The road to hell is paved with leeks and potatoes

Julie Powell

#53. The fork fell from my fingers, splatterng mashed potatoes across the table. I mustered my best "ice princess" look at met his gaze. "You're in my personal space, buddy.

Jenny Trout

#54. I always remind people from outside our state that there's plenty of room for all Alaska's animals - right next to the mashed potatoes.

Sarah Palin

#55. Hot dogs always seem better out than at home; so do French-fried potatoes; so do your children.

Mignon McLaughlin

#56. Purchase items that can be made into several meals, like a whole roasted chicken, or bag of sweet potatoes, and shop the periphery of the grocery store, avoiding the middle aisles full of processed and higher-priced foods.

Cat Cora

#57. I'd prefer not to be the pretty thing in a film. It's such a bloody responsibility to look cute, because people know when you don't and they're like, They're trying to pass her off as the cute girl and she's looking like a bedraggled sack of potatoes.

Minnie Driver

#58. The potatoes were starch grenades. The canned carrots were revolting because that is their nature.

David Mitchell

#59. I can't see potato chips being popular where there's not land to grow potatoes in or where frying in lots of oil isn't easy or convenient.

Ann Leckie

#60. Using these toolkits is like trying to make a bookshelf out of mashed potatoes.

Jamie Zawinski

#61. Potatoes at six o'clock, Marie. Mushrooms at three. Now?

Anthony Doerr

#62. Forget grammar and think about potatoes

Gertrude Stein

#63. Today's brains are yesterday's mashed potatoes.

Richard P. Feynman

#64. I'm just a potato that won't quit. I'm a potato with some legs. Some have eyes, I've got legs.

Bill Murray

#65. My work is very controlled. I leave nothing to chance. Chance comes afterward ... Making a film is like cooking a pot au feu. You choose the best carrots, the best potatoes the best meat, etc., and you throw all that together - but if there's no soul, so to speak, it won't yield much.

Philippe Claudel

#66. A thick carrot soup, green salad, lamb chops and mashed potatoes, cheese and fruit, a chocolate cake.

Suzanne Collins

#67. Peter lost one of his shoes among the cabbages, and the other shoe amongst the potatoes.

Beatrix Potter

#68. Men are not potatoes!

Robert A. Heinlein

#69. Degree is much: the whole Atlantic might be lukewarm and never boil us a potato.

George Iles

#70. Few people sufficiently appreciate the colossal task of feeding a world of billions of omnivores who demand meat with their potatoes.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#71. The worst thing about television is that everybody you see on television is doing something better than what you're doing. You never see anybody on TV just sliding off the front of the sofa, with potato chip crumbs all over their shirt.

Jerry Seinfeld

#72. vigorously than she had intended at a pile of potatoes

J.K. Rowling

#73. Eulalie in a remote fashion belonged to him, Jody, to do with as he pleased, if only to throw potatoes at her.

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

#74. Potatoes have much more staying power than caviar.

Mark Helprin

#75. My parents mistook me for a sack of potatoes so I sat in the corner of the kitchen for the first 13 years of my life. My birth name is Thom Potatoes.

Thom Yorke

#76. I have these big piano-playing hands. I feel like I should be picking potatoes.

Sandra Bullock

#77. This is your way of telling me I should be doing something far more worthwhile than peeling your potatoes.

Jojo Moyes

#78. The grags came down heavily on those who did not conform and seemed not to realize that this was like stamping potatoes into the mud to stop them growing.

Terry Pratchett

#79. Viv, I just made you wild-caught Alaskan salmon baked with mango chutney, on a bed of garlic red potatoes and arugula. While talking about an Audrey Hepburn movie. I think you are maybe falling in love with me.

Emery Lord

#80. I always felt that the boiled potato, not the tudor rose, should be the national emblem.

Ilka Chase

#81. Comedy just pokes at problems, rarely confronts them squarely. Drama is like a plate of meat and potatoes, comedy is rather the dessert, a bit like meringue.

Woody Allen

#82. People's hearts are like baked potatoes; you warm em up and then you stab them with a fork.

Unknown

#83. I would far prefer to have things happen as they naturally do, such as the mousse refusing to leave the mold, the potatoes sticking to the skillet, the apple charlotte slowly collapsing. One of the secrets of cooking is to learn to correct something if you can, and bear with it if you cannot.

Julia Child

#84. Halt shook his head. Frankly, he'd seen sacks of potatoes that could sit a horse better than Erak

John Flanagan

#85. Food transport has become a bizarre and profitable economic equation that's no longer really about feeding anyone: in our own nation we export 1.1 million tons of potatoes, while we also import 1.4 million tons.

Barbara Kingsolver

#86. I love to cook comfort food. I'll make fish and vegetables or meat and vegetables and potatoes or rice. The ritual of it is fun for me, and the creativity of it.

Reese Witherspoon

#87. Can you suggest any suitable aspersions to spread abroad about Mrs. Thatcher? It is idle to suggest she has unnatural relations with Mrs. Barbara Castle; what is needed is something socially lower: that she eats asparagus with knife and fork, or serves instant mash potatoes.

Sylvia Townsend Warner

#88. I've pretty much been portrayed as every style thing you can be. After Wimbledon you are Andy Everyman, who everybody is rooting for. I think the meat and potatoes of who I am hasn't been covered yet.

Andy Roddick

#89. Who was responsible? Neither kings, nor priests, nor merchants. The culprits were a handful of plant species, including wheat, rice and potatoes. These plants domesticated Homo sapiens, rather than vice versa. Think

Yuval Noah Harari

#90. I don't think any other holiday embraces the food of the Midwest quite like Thanksgiving. There's roasted meat and mashed potatoes. But being here is also about heritage. Cleveland is really a giant melting pot - not only is my family a melting pot, but so is the city.

Michael Symon

#91. My childhood favourite is mum's shepherd's pie, Yorkshire pudding and roasted potatoes. I remember coming home from school and going to the kitchen to help her. It's because of her that I discovered my love for cooking.

Gordon Ramsay

#92. I'm a visual thinker. Research tells us that only 20 per cent of people think visually. So what about the other 80 per cent? Don't they think in pictures? I mean if you imagine washing and preparing potatoes you visualise the process, right?

Douglas Coupland

#93. Cyrus is the meat and potatoes of my life, but Prudence was a cupcake I could enjoy just for the sheer sweetness of being with her.

Bette Lee Crosby

#94. Skiers make the best lovers because they don't sit in front of a television like couch potatoes. They take a risk and they wiggle their behinds. They also meet new people on the ski lift.

Ruth Westheimer

#95. I have a feeling this is more dangerous than hoeing potatoes in the hot sun.

Cheryl Landmark

#96. Lisette set out browned chicken, warm butternut squash salad, blue potatoes, and blackberry bread with a crust of sugar that looked like ice crystals.

Sarah Addison Allen

#97. In the NFL, you know how people love going to fancy restaurants? I am not a fancy-restaurant guy. I am a good-tasting steak-and-potatoes guy.

Tim Tebow

#98. Unlike the stereotypical author, I've never had a job as a short-order cook, but I love cooking hot breakfasts for lots of people, juggling the eggs and the bacon and the tomatoes and the fried potatoes and so on.

Garth Nix

#99. If it was just the potatoes that were affected, at the end of the day you will pay the price if you're a fussy eater.

Steve Coogan

#100. Smell brings to mind ... a family dinner of pot roast and sweet potatoes during a myrtle-mad August in a Midwestern town. Smells detonate softly in our memory like poignant land mines hidden under the weedy mass of years.

Diane Ackerman