Quotes about peas (13 Quotes)




    I eat my peas with honey I've done it all my life It makes the peas taste funny But it keeps them on the knife I therefore come before you armed with the delusions of adequacy with which so many of us equip ourselves.




    Mostly, I spend my time being a mother to my two children, working in my organic garden, raising masses of sweet peas, being passionately involved in conservation, recycling and solar energy.

    Never would it occur to a child that a sheep, a pig, a cow or a chicken was good to eat, while, like Milton's Adam, he would eagerly make a meal off fruits, nuts, thyme, mint, peas and broad beans which penetrate further and stimulate not only the appetite but other vague and deep nostalgias. We are closer to the Vegetable Kingdom than we know is it not for man alone that mint, thyme, sage, and rosemary exhale ''crush me and eat me'' -- for us that opium poppy, coffee-berry, tea-plant and vine perfect themselves Their aim is to be absorbed by us, even if it can only be achieved by attaching themselves to roast mutton.




    But he said there was little political appetite now for changing Social Security, a top priority of the Bush administration. It's like asking Congress to eat a bowl of cold green peas, ... They don't want to do it.

    The abundance of everything around was so great, that over-ripe fruit strewed the ground unheeded, while peas and beanstalks, still loaded, were blackening and yellowing in the sun and vegetables running on all sides to waste.




Authors (by First Name)

A - B - C - D - E - F - G - H - I - J - K - L - M
N - O - P - Q - R - S - T - U - V - W - X - Y - Z

Other Inspiring Sections