Tables Quotes - Page 16

I'm committed to evolving and growing and sitting at the head of my own table with no fears or limitations. But I've also learned to be more open now and more spontaneous in life.

to grow old is to have taken away, one by one, all gifts of life, the food and wine, the music and the company. ... the gods unloose, one by one, the mortal fingers that cling to the edge of the table.

The brussels sprout. This is also the worst vegetable of next year.

An English traveller relates how he lived upon intimate terms with a tiger; he had reared it and used to play with it, but always kept a loaded pistol on the table.

Be good at something. It makes you valuable. Have something to bring to the table, because that will make you more welcome.

So, if I'm cooking, I'll be steaming vegetables, making some nice salad, that kind of stuff.

In vegetables and fruits, God has infused medicinal power to help in overcoming disease. Even these, however, have but a limited potency. The organs of the body are essentially sustained by the energy of God, and the person who employs various methods to increase this energy will have at his command a greater power for healing than is afforded by any medicine or diet.

The nut of this tree is hung high aloft, wrapped in a silk wrapper, which is enclosed in a case of sole leather, which again is packed in a mass of shock absorbing, vermin proof pulp, sealed up in a waterproof, ironwood case, and finally cased in a vegetable porcupine of spines, almost impregnable. There is no nut so protected; there is no nut in our woods to compare with it as food. What is a Chesnut?

Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral law is written on the tablets of eternity.

I do not believe that you have to spend a lot of money to eat well: it is hard to beat a plain old baked potato.

Everything from the little house was in the wagon, except the beds and tables and chairs. They did not need to take these, because Pa could always make new ones.

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

To provide optimal levels of protective micronutrients, a diet must be vegetable-based, not grain-based.

Serve this dish with much too much wine for your guests, along with some cooked green vegetables and a huge salad. You will be famous in about half an hour.

If there is one vegetable which is God-given, it is the haricot bean.

There are advantages to being a star though - you can always get a table in a full restaurant.

Hoeing: A manual method of severing roots from stems of newly planted flowers and vegetables.

The purest natural food for human beings would be fresh, uncooked food and nuts. A fare which consists of three-quarters of vegetable food and one-quarter meat would appear to be the most satisfactory.

The oppressed always learned from and copied the oppressor. When the tables were turned, the stage was set for another round of revenge and violence -- roles reversed. And reversed and reversed ad nauseam.

I am thinking of the onion again. . . . Not self-righteous like the proletarian potato, nor a siren like the apple. No show-off like the banana. But a modest, self-effacing vegetable, questioning, introspective, peeling itself away, or merely radiating halos like ripples.

The one happiness is to shut one's door upon a little room, with a table before one, and to create; to create life in that isolation from life.

When my mother was raising me, she moved us upstate to the Woodstock area. Our closest neighbor was a mile away. She planted all her own vegetables.

I look forward to the spring vegetables because the season is so short. Mushrooms, edible foraged herbs, wild leeks, early season asparagus.

The walk downstairs to the breakfast table is excercise enough for any gentleman.

Under the imaginary table that separates me from my readers, don’t we secretly clasp each other’s hands?