Top 33 Yam Quotes
#1. What is happening to the daughters of the yam? Seem like they just don't know how to draw up the powers from the deep like before. Not full sunned and sweet anymore.
Toni Cade Bambara
#2. Yam hi na vyathayanthy,
ete purusan purursarsabha,
Sama-dhuka-sugam dhirm
so mrtavaya kalpate - Bhagavt Gita
"The person who is not disturbed by happiness or distress and steady in both is certainly eligible for liberation
Bhagavatam
#3. Old yam digger please explain this mountain's sorrows
Basho Matsuo
#4. Then you panic because you've never known the difference between a sweet potato and a yam and both are on the counter, and if you start making a yam pie you'll never hear the end of it.
Ellen DeGeneres
#6. What kind of power was it if everybody knew that it would never be used? Better to say that it was not there, that it was no more than the power in the anus of the proud dog who tried to put out a furnace with his puny fart ... He turned the yam with a stick.
Chinua Achebe
#7. In her bottled up is a woman peppery as curry,
a yam of a woman of butter and brass,
Marge Piercy
#8. Things I will never like: 1. Drying off with a cold, damp towel. 2. The feeling of seaweed wrapping around my legs. 3. Anything that was popular in the 70's. 4. Licorice, yam, or raisins. 5. That high-pitched screech that babies make. 6. Writhing maggots.
Bill Watterson
#9. Most people who lose their lives because life might be down for them only refuse to know what a tuber of yam that is put into the soil goes through before it comes up as a fresh green creeping plant to bear yet another bigger tuber
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#10. I hate okra and grated mountain yam for the same reason. They're both slimy.
Tom Colicchio
#11. A slice of chocolate cake - priorities! - a scoop of chicken potpie, slice of chocolate cake, scoop of yam casserole, slice of chocolate cake, two scoops of mashed potatoes, a slice of chocolate cake, a scoop of buttery green beens, a slice of chocolate cake -
Gena Showalter
#12. [Death] was not at home by that time, he was in his yam garden.
Amos Tutuola
#13. Instead of coconut yam kootu, why not boiled beef tongue with a mustard sauce?"
"That sounds non-veg.
Yann Martel
#14. 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
#15. Here's what I realized about the yam - it's the same colour as a Nerf ball. You may be wondering: 'Is he saying he ate a Nerf ball?' ...
Jon Stewart
#16. CAN'T TAN PON IT LONG ... NAW EAT NO YAM ... NO STEAM FISH ... NOR NO GREEN BANANA
BUT DOWN IN JAMAICA WE GIVE IT TO YOU HOT LIKE A SAUNA..
Sean Paul
#17. The only thing that's worse than people who say "I am what I am" is people who say "I yam what I yam" while doing a Popeye imitation.
Ariel Leve
#18. A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He says 'I was beaten', he does not say 'My men were beaten.
Antoine De Saint-Exupery
#19. Have you ever had that moment when you looked back on something and said, 'Well, gosh, that seems obvious now ... why didn't I see it then?' I like to call this the Face Palm Epiphany. Oh, hindsight, you magical, humbling thing.
Alethea Kontis
#20. How can they beat me? I've been struck by lightning, had two back operations, and been divorced twice.
Lee Trevino
#21. The word 'circumnavigate' is quite a beautiful word.
Cate Blanchett
#22. Rest. Let the letting
go. It is better to heal
than not to have loved at all.
Jerrold Yam
#23. The practical core of democracy, defined functionally, is the peaceful exchange of power between different groups of powerful political players arranged in parties.
Noah Feldman
#24. ... when your palm laced like water
on a cheek of mine, a finger raiding
each contour by oath, we both knew
that in growing up, some signs had to be
sought behind closed doors, and upon discovery,
remain beyond the doors we wrought as ransom.
Jerrold Yam
#25. If a man has to wait before he sleeps with a woman, he'll not only perceive her as more beautiful, he'll also take time to appreciate who she is.
Sherry Argov
#26. I am thinking of our family's women
as faraway bulbs, their history
with crippling loss, and
how I am pieced together, shell and sand,
from the spine of their collective strength.
Jerrold Yam
#27. Truth is no prostitute, that throws herself away upon those who do not desire her; she is rather so coy a beauty that he who sacrifices everything to her cannot even then be sure of her favour.
Arthur Schopenhauer
#28. Those of us who did make it have an obligation to build again. To teach to others what we know, and to try with what's left of our lives to find a goodness and a meaning to this life.
Charlie Sheen
#30. Awareness is about improving social intelligence. If you can't see, hear, or feel the dynamics of a conversation, you can't manage them.
John Stoker
#31. Book - Learning : The dunce's derisive term for all knowledge that transcends his own impertinent ignorance.
Ambrose Bierce
#32. I think that if there can be considered racism it's to do with the lack of opportunities for writers and producers and the people behind the camera.
Denzel Washington
#33. Genuine fearlessness arises with the confidence that we will be able to gather the inner resources to deal with any situation that comes our way.
Matthieu Ricard
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