Root Vegetable Quotes

#1. I think I'm painting a picture of two women but it may turn out to be a landscape.

Willem De Kooning

#2. Substitute any vegetable that grows with its leafy head aboveground for another: a flower for a flower, a root for a root, shoot for shoot, stem for stem, tuber for tuber. (No rules apply to beets.

Tamar Adler

#3. With empathy, I'm fully with them, and not full of them - that's sympathy.

Marshall B. Rosenberg

#4. Be men, or be more than men. Be steady to your purposes and firm as a rock. This ice is not made of such stuff as your hearts may be; it is mutable and cannot withstand you if you say that it shall not.

Mary Shelley

#5. To make punishments efficacious, two things are necessary. They must never be disproportioned to the offence, and they must be certain.

William Gilmore Simms

#6. People talk about the miracle of birth. No. There's the miracle of conception. I did IVF, but nothing happened. So I began to think of adoption, and then I got pregnant. It was definitely a miracle.

Iman

#7. When things (in the vegetable world) have displayed their luxuriant growth, we see each of them return to its root.

Lao-Tzu

#8. When Newt walked in the barn to get a rope, the Captain turned and handed him a holstered pistol and a gun belt. "Better to have it and not need it than to need it and not have it," he added, a little solemnly.

Larry McMurtry

#9. The turnip is a capricious vegetable, which seems reluctant to show itself at its best.

Waverley Root

#10. This is a precious gateway into the alleviation of suffering, which I believe to be our principal task on this earth.

Dalai Lama XIV