Top 42 Quotes About Turnips
#1. Cuisine has become too complicated - this is about subject, verb, adjective: duck, turnips, sauce.
Alain Ducasse
#2. I eat only white foods: eggs, sugar, grated bones, the fat of dead animals; veal, salt, coconut, chicken cooked in white water; fruit mold, rice, turnips; camphorated sausage, dough, cheese (white), cotton salad, and certain fish (skinless).
Erik Satie
#3. But we had young turnips and mustard greens in our befuddled stomach that day, and these things make bravery.
Catherynne M Valente
#4. Tyrion Lannister: Someone should tell the cooks that turnips isn't a meat.
George R R Martin
#6. What kinds of truths were being hidden? Were there lying turnips? Were there lying leeks?
Timur Vermes
#7. Trees have no dogmas. Turnips are singularly broad-minded.
G.K. Chesterton
#8. These Atlantikoinonia. They're human? (Acheron)
What else would they be? Turnips? (Tory)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#9. Their faces were clay-coloured and featureless, yet not stupid; they might have been shrewd turnips.
Rebecca West
#10. Draw things that have some meaning to you. An apple, what does it mean? The object drawn doesn't matter so much. It's what you feel about it, what it means to you. A masterpiece could be made of a dish of turnips.
Sherwood Anderson
#11. I love root vegetables: carrots, parsnips, and turnips.
Julia Child
#12. She would read anything from a dictionary to a treatise on turnips. Print fascinated her, dazed her, made her good for nothing...Kylie Tennant
Kylie Tennant
#13. 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
#14. How would some townsman feel who loved his city, and knew that a band of farmers with their ploughs threatened his very pavements and would tear his high buildings down? As he would feel, fearing that turnips would thrive where his busses ran, so I felt and feared for Lisronagh.
Lord Dunsany
#15. He tapped my chest. 'Happy is here.' He tapped his own chest. 'Here.'
I looked down past my chin. 'Inside?'
'Inside.'
It was getting crowded in there. First angel. Now happy. It seemed there was more to me than cabbage and turnips.
Jerry Spinelli
#16. Parents sat gloomy and still, like rows of turnips in a grocer's box. Their little criminals sat with them, tapping LOLs on their phones, or milled in the yard outside stinking of Lynx and taut nonchalance. Solicitors strode in and out in a twist of slacks and briefcases.
Lisa McInerney
#17. I'm nothing to you, am I' Peter said once in a particularly intense arguement about where to find wild turnips. To these kinds of accusations, Tiger Lily would reply that he was trying to make her into his little chicken, and that she would never be anyone's 'little obedient chicken
Jodi Lynn Anderson
#18. Pyp had stabbed a turnip with his knife. "The night is dark and full of turnips," he announced in a solemn voice. "Let us all pray for venison, my children, with some onions and a bit of tasty gravy.
George R R Martin
#19. For the blind poor, Rx: bleed. For yourself; Rx: love nothing.
Sow rows of onions only. Plant turnips in the dark of the moon.
T.R. Hummer
#20. He doesn't seem to have been one of those food faddists who'll eat any mortal thing so long as it isn't cooked. My sister's husband's like that. Raw carrots, raw peas, raw turnips. But
Agatha Christie
#22. A lot of chefs don't have a natural sense of economy. I was with one guy the other day, and I had to show him how to peel a turnip, because the way he was peeling turnips, he was throwing half of it in the garbage. It's not about being cheap. It's about being proper.
Daniel Boulud
#24. In the middle of the night she woke up dreaming of huge white heads like turnips, that came trailing after her, at the end of interminable necks, and with vast black eyes. But being a sensible woman, she subdued her terrors and turned over and went to sleep again.
H.G.Wells
#25. He always suspected the poetic description of Time like an ever-rolling stream. Time, in his experience, moved more like rocks ... sliding, pressing, building up force underground and then, with one jerk that shakes the crockery, a whole field of turnips mysteriously slips sideways by six feet.
Terry Pratchett
#26. From fried witchetty grubs to gold-plated turnips, when you're a writer you never know what's going to appear on your plate next. It keeps a woman alert, it does.
Lois McMaster Bujold
#27. By July we had strawberries, red currants, raspberries, veal, dill, baby turnips, marrow. Mussolini resigned, and Italy capitulated. Roses could be had.
Elise Blackwell
#28. If the man who turnips cries, Cry not when his father dies, 'Tis proof that he had rather Have a turnip than his father.
Samuel Johnson
#29. If there is a solar flare or a nuclear war, a thousand cans of pickled turnips aren't going to save you.
Sarah Lotz
#30. DARK AGE LOSERS PROBLY USED TURNIPS FOR IPHONES LOL!!!!
Charlie Brooker
#31. I was raised almost entirely on turnips and potatoes, but I think that the turnips had more to do with the effect than the potatoes.
Marlene Dietrich
#32. Make that a condition of being the Mockingjay." "That I can feed you turnips?" he says. "No, that we can hunt." That gets
Suzanne Collins
#33. If there were only turnips and potatoes in the world, someone would complain that plants grow the wrong way.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
#34. With reason did the Athenians adjudge Diagoras guilty of atheism, in that he not only divulged the Orphic doctrine, and published the mysteries of Eleusis and of the Cabiri, and chopped up the wooden statue of Hercules to boil his turnips, but openly declared that there were no gods at all.
Athenagoras Of Athens
#35. (Potatoes were, for some reason, more prone to fits of random magic than most vegetables. It would take a remarkable magic to affect turnips or kale. No one bothered planting eggplants - they would run into the woods or fly away on leafy kites the instant your back was turned.)
T. Kingfisher
#36. They were frightening enough, but Tessa could not help but feel that if Will were there, he would have commented that they looked like turnips, and perhaps made up a song about it.
Cassandra Clare
#37. Try the mustard, - a man can't know what turnips are in perfection without mustard.
Mark Twain
#38. It was as true," said Mr. Barkis, " as turnips is. It was as true," said Mr. Barkis, nodding his nightcap, which was his only means of emphasis, " as taxes is.
Charles Dickens
#39. To him who is stinted of food a boiled turnip will relish like a roast fowl.
Saadi
#41. If you'd take your head home and boil it for a turnip it might be useful. I can't say. But it might.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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