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Yams Quotes

May your stuffing be tasty May your turkey plump, May your potatoes and gravy Have nary a lump. May your yams be delicious And your pies take the prize, And may your Thanksgiving dinner Stay off your thighs!

May your stuffing be tasty May your turkey plump, May your potatoes and gravy Have nary a lump. May your yams be delicious And your pies take the prize, And may your Thanksgiving dinner Stay off your thighs!

Grandpa Jones
Thanksgiving, Yams, Turkeys

You cannot plant greatness as you plant yams or maize. Who ever planted an iroko tree — the greatest tree in the forest? You may collect all the iroko seeds in the world, open the soil and put them there. It will be in vain. The great tree chooses where to grow and we find it there, so it is with the greatness in men.

Chinua Achebe
Greatness, Men, Yams
Chinua Achebe (2011). “No Longer at Ease”, p.58, Anchor

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
Daughter, Sweet, Yams

I hate okra and grated mountain yam for the same reason. They're both slimy.

Tom Colicchio
Hate, Yams, Mountain

In her bottled up is a woman peppery as curry, a yam of a woman of butter and brass.

Marge Piercy
Yams, Curry, Brass
Marge Piercy (2013). “Circles on the Water”, p.96, Knopf

"You sound as if you question the authority and the decision of the Oracle, who said he should die." "I do not. Why should I? But the Oracle did not ask me to carry out its decision." [...] "The Earth cannot punish me for obeying her mesenger," Okonkwo said. "A child's fingers are not scalded by a piece of hot yam which its mother puts into its palm."

Chinua Achebe
Mother, Children, Yams
"Things Fall Apart" by Chinua Achebe, Fawcett Premier edition, (p. 64), 1969.

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
Yams, Jamaica, Long
Song: Temperature, Album: The Trinity, 2005

I hate cooking. But I do make the candied yams every year at Thanksgiving. And they're awesome! You could definitely get diabetes and cavities from them, but they're delicious!

Marlon Wayans
Hate, Years, Yams
Source: aalbc.com

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
Yams, Balls, May

As you know, I describe Shirat ha-Yam as part of an epic story that has qualities of history and which also has qualities of the mythological, of an epic.

Elie Wiesel
Epic, Yams, Quality
Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

[Shirat ha-Yam ] is one of the earliest, if not the earliest, pieces of Biblical literature that we possess. It is much closer to history than later traditions of the Exodus.

Elie Wiesel
Biblical, Yams, Pieces
Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

I read the text; and then I come to the Shirat ha-Yam, to the Song of the Sea [Exodus 15], to the poetry. Who could have written such a poem except someone who went through it? It is so full of life, so full of truth, of passion, of concern. And the thousands and thousands of commentaries in the Talmudic tradition that have been written on it. It had to have happened. But even if not, I would attribute the same beauty to the text as I do now.

Elie Wiesel
Song, Passion, Yams
Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

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