Top 47 Asparagus Quotes

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Asparagus is one of the healthiest foods you can eat. With that in mind, check out the top 47 asparagus quotes.

#47 – 40. Asparagus Quotes

47. Cut asparagus at night – in desperation. When one is very tired one always does one more thing. – Anne Morrow Lindbergh

46. You know, when you get your first asparagus, or your first acorn squash, or your first really good tomato of the season, those are the moments that define the cook’s year. I get more excited by that than anything else. – Mario Batali

45. Playwrights are like men who have been dining for a month in an Indian restaurant. After eating curry night after night, they deny the existence of asparagus. – Peter Ustinov

44. I was doing stand-up at a restaurant and there was a chalkboard on the street out front. It said, Soup of the Day: Cream of Asparagus. Ellen DeGeneres. – Ellen DeGeneres

43. You needn’t tell me that a man who doesn’t love oysters and asparagus and good wines has got a soul, or a stomach either. He’s simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed. – Hector Hugh Munro

42. Some people are like ants. Give them a warm day and a piece of ground and they start digging. There the similarity ends. Ants keepon digging. Most people don’t. They establish contact with the soil, absorb so much vernal vigor that they can’t stay in one place, and desert the fork or spade to see how the rhubarb is coming and whether the asparagus is yet in sight. – Hal Borland

41. For a lot of people, poetry tends to be dull. It’s not read much. It takes a special kind of training and a lot of practice to read poetry with pleasure. It’s like learning to like asparagus. – Thomas M. Disch

40. In Zurich, in a cafe overlooking the Limmat, I ate butter-drenched white asparagus pulled from the ground that morning; it had the aftertaste of champagne. I’ve been able to appreciate epic meals in San Francisco, New Orleans, Berlin, Paris, Las Vegas. – J. R. Moehringer

#39 – 30. Asparagus Quotes

39. The German asparagus are fabulous. – George W. Bush

38. The love of reading can be contagious. – Brandon Mull

37. It’s Major Ketchup in the bathroom with the laser scalpel.” “Hmm.” He sliced a delicately herbed spear of asparagus. “Obviously we were meant for each other as I can interpret that as you meaning something more like Colonel Mustard in the conservatory with the candlestick. – Nora Roberts

36. After twenty annual visits, I am still surprised each time I return to see this giant asparagus bed of alabaster and rose and green skyscrapers. – Cecil Beaton

35. I love fresh vegetables and we always include them in our meals. I don’t force my kids to eat asparagus, but they do eat peas, broccoli, and carrots. – Alison Sweeney

34. I try to get them working. My older son is 10 and he’s pretty interested. We had a dinner party the other night and he helped a lot. He helped peel asparagus; he hung out. It was great. – Todd English

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

32. Good luck with your asparagus. – Eric Holder

31. What is that smell? (Nick) (It was like three-day-old cat vomit mixed with rotten asparagus.) Duck urine. It keeps the zombies from thinking I’m human. (Mark) Yeah, well it keeps me from thinking you’re sane. (Nick) – Sherrilyn Kenyon

30. It was an emergency!” Seth blurted. “Read my lips – emergency reading – not some demented idea of fun. If I was starving, I would eat asparagus. If somebody held a gun to my head, I would watch a soap opera. And to save Fablehaven, I would read a book, okay, are you happy?” You had best be careful, Seth,” Grandma warned. “The love of reading can be contagious.” I just lost my appetite,” he declared. – Brandon Mull

#29 – 20. Asparagus Quotes

29. It wasn’t success, because Teller and I, by the time Asparagus Valley got together – within a year, we had achieved all our goals. I mean, our goal was to earn our living doing exactly what we wanted. Which is many people’s goal. – Penn Jillette

28. The attorney general will not cast aspersions on my asparagus. – Louie Gohmert

27. … if we have a dollar to spend on some wild excess, we shall spend it on a book, not on asparagus out of season. – Katharine Fullerton Gerould

26. Pray how does your asparagus perform? – John Adams

25. (on asparagus) Europeans of the Renaissance swore by it as an aphrodisiac, and the church banned it from nunneries. – Barbara Kingsolver

24. With passion, if you see the first asparagus of the springtime and you become passionate about it, so much the better, but three weeks later, when you’ve seen that asparagus every day now, passions have subsided. What’s going to make you treat the asparagus the same? It’s the desire. – Thomas Keller

23. Marriage? It’s like asparagus eaten with vinaigrette or hollandaise, a matter of taste but of no importance. – Francoise Sagan

22. I’ve done a lot of kale as well as broccoli. I love it. Asparagus I couldn’t stand before, but now it is part of my meals. All three of those are greens that I never used to eat. Now, a smoothie for me is nothing but fruits and veggies and vanilla Greek yogurt. – Donald Driver

21. One word, in this place, respecting asparagus. The young shoots of this plant, boiled, are the most unexceptionable form of greens with which I am acquainted. – William Alcott

20. Work! labor the asparagus me of life; the one great sacrament of humanity from which all other things flow – security, leisure, joy, art, literature, even divinity itself. – Sean O’Casey

#19 – 10. Asparagus Quotes

19. What most enraptured me were the asparagus.” – Marcel Proust

18. Changing my diet was the big thing. I had to learn correct portion control. . . . I eat an egg-white omelet for breakfast, shrimp and veggies for lunch, and chicken with asparagus for dinner. – Lauren Alaina

17. Are you casting asparagus on my cooking? -Curly Howard

16. Yeah, well, asparagus is good for me, but it still makes me want to throw up. – James Patterson

15. I go for crunchy things – I like green beans, broccoli, asparagus, celery and carrots. I’m not a fruit eater, though. – Rico Rodriguez

14. Good asparagus needs minimal treatment and is best eaten with few other ingredients. – Yotam Ottolenghi

13. That’s like buying asparagus and then leaving it at the checkout. Why would you do that? – Deborah King

12. Respecting the dignity of a spectacular food means enjoying it at its best. Europeans celebrate the short season of abundant asparagus as a form of holiday. In the Netherlands the first cutting coincides with Father’s Day, on which restaurants may feature all-asparagus menus and hand out neckties decorated with asparagus spears. – Barbara Kingsolver

11. It’s a lot harder to get people to ‘ooh’ and ‘aah’ over beets and carrots than it is to get them to ‘ooh’ and ‘aah’ over artichokes or asparagus, and I enjoy being able to take these humble, ‘lowbrow’ foodstuffs up a few notches and serve them with great exuberance. – Charlie Trotter

10. Let there be seasons so that our tongues will be rich in asparagus and limes. – Anne Sexton

#9 – 1. Asparagus Quotes

9. Microsoft has a new version out, Windows XP, which according to everybody is the ‘most reliable Windows ever.’ To me, this is like saying that asparagus is ‘the most articulate vegetable ever.’ – Dave Barry

8. I revere the memory of Mr. F. as an estimable man and most indulgent husband, only necessary to mention Asparagus and it appeared or to hint at any little delicate thing to drink and it came like magic in a pint bottle; it was not ecstasy but it was comfort. – Charles Dickens

7. He’s simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed. – Hector Hugh Munro

6. Romesco with asparagus is simple and brilliant. – Jose Andres Puerta

5. I would follow my mother around the kitchen watching and trying to find any way to help. One of the first dishes my mother taught me to make was hollandaise sauce. Though she always served it with broccoli, I soon realized it was equally delicious with asparagus, artichokes, or any other vegetable. – Tracy Pollan

4. My rebelliousness went so deep that, faced with a can of asparagus that instructed me to open at this end, I always, stubbornly, opened it at the other. – Dorothy Gilman

3. Asparagus in a lean in a lean is to hot. This makes it art and it is wet weather wet weather wet – Gertrude Stein

2. Coppi? Is he the one we followed in the Giro del Piemonte? The guy who is as skinny as an asparagus? He doesn’t lack courage, I’ll give you that, but I think he’s kind of fragile. – Gino Bartali

1. Asparagus inspires gentle thoughts. – Charles Lamb

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