Famous Quotes & Sayings

Demetri Martin

When a couch potato is sliced up and then deep fried that is couch french fries.

Augustus Hare

Every Irishman, the saying goes, has a potato in his head.

Frank McCourt

Shakespeare is like mashed potatoes, you can never get enough of him.

Jim Fowler

Somali is turning into a desert. Rwanda, you can hardly find a place to plant a potato, it's so crowded.

Francis Bacon

They who derive their worth from their ancestors resemble potatoes, the most valuable part of which is underground.

Mary J. Blige

I like French fries; I like mashed. I love potatoes.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

Vane passed the mashed potatoes across Bride to Fury, who stared at them with a fierce frown "What are these?" he asked. "Potatoes," Vane told him. "What did they do to them?

Myrtle Reed

Marriage is the cold potato of love.

James Beard

I'm really enamored of the potato in all its guises.

Charles Frazier

When everything is immediately available and infinitely reproducible, nothing is valuable.

Alfred Marshall

The most valuable of all capital is that invested in human beings

David Hare

The one thing that 'Via Dolorosa' has is no opinions. To me, curiosity is 50 times as valuable as opinion.

John Eaton

We need to open up the future. We also need to keep everything valuable from the past.

Alain de Botton

Our sense of what is valuable will hence be radically distorted if we must perpetually condemn as tedious everything we lack, simply because we lack it.

Alice Hamilton

Everything I discovered was new and most of it was really valuable.

Charles Seaton

What makes them so valuable is their familiarity with our system, ... a specialized location.

Barry McCaffrey

Experience is valuable only if it's imbued with meaning from which one can draw salient conclusions. Otherwise, experience becomes imprisoning.

Richard Grasso

would have been a valuable contributor to our board.

Louise Leakey

It's important to remember that we evolved. Now, I know that's a dirty word for some people, but we evolved from common ancestors with the gorillas, the chimpanzee and also the bonobos. We have a common past, and we have a common future.

Abdullah Gul

We have completed our mission to the EU, now we are on our way to the Balkans. Our ancestors went on horse back, we are going by plane.

Kate Forsyth

When our ancestors crouched about the camp fire at night, they told each other tales of gods and heroes, monsters and marvels, to hold back the terrors of the night. Such tales comforted and entertained, diverted and educated those who listened, and helped shape their sense of the world and their place in it.

Tom Snyder

Misers are no fun to live with but they make great ancestors

Greg Iles

My ancestors fought for the Confederacy during the Civil War; I was raised in Natchez, Miss.; I performed in the Confederate Pageant for a decade; I dug ditches and loaded trucks with black men who taught me more than any book ever could; and I graduated from Ole Miss. Anyone who survived that is a de facto expert on the South.

Tristram Stuart

Good food for free has been the holy grail of foragers since our ancestors first climbed down from the trees.

Paul Robeson

My mother was born in your state, Mr. Walter, and my mother was a Quaker, and my ancestors in the time of Washington baked bread for George Washington's troops when they crossed the Delaware, and my own father was a slave.

Cory Booker

This is our history - from the Transcontinental Railroad to the Hoover Dam, to the dredging of our ports and building of our most historic bridges - our American ancestors prioritized growth and investment in our nation's infrastructure.

Luanne Rice

My father gave me an old Olympia portable when I was in fourth grade. Our ancestors came from Ireland. Our family stories of immigration helped me understand more about my characters in 'The Lemon Orchard.'