#potato

True the greater part of the Irish people was close to starvation. The numbers of weakened people dying from disease were rising. So few potatoes had been planted that, even if they escaped bight, they would not be enough to feed the poor folk who relied upon them. More and more of those small tenants and cottagers, besides, were being forced off the land and into a condition of helpless destitution. Ireland, that is to say, was a country utterly prostrated. Yet the Famine came to an end. And how was this wonderful thing accomplished? Why, in the simplest way imaginable. The famine was legislated out of existence. It had to be. The Whigs were facing a General Election. ↗

— Edward Rutherfurd

#famine #ireland #potato #whigs #imagination

I think I'm going to give my baby her first food on Thanksgiving, make her some organic sweet potato. I'm very excited! It's going to be a big day and my husband is in charge of the turkey - he's the chef of the family! ↗

— Lily Aldridge

#big #charge #chef #day #excited

I love all kinds of bread. Whenever I crave junk food, I want salty things like peanuts or potato chips. ↗

— Tyra Banks

#bread #chips #crave #i #i love

Faith is a day-to-day lifestyle and experience of Jesus Christ. That's what we are experiencing at Shalom, when we plant in faith - even in the dust - and trust in him for the miracles of his love. ↗

— Angus Buchan

#experience

People who eat potatoes will never be able to perform their abilities in whatever job they choose to have. ↗

— Richard Cobden

#choose #eat #job #never #people

To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy. ↗

— Bette Davis

#chance #create #dream #fulfill #given

Using these toolkits is like trying to make a bookshelf out of mashed potatoes. ↗

— Jamie Zawinski

#like #make #mashed #mashed potatoes #out

I tend to eat things in fours. I'll eat four nuts, four grapes, four chips at a time. I don't know why. It's not really a superstition. I don't think anything bad will happen if I don't, but three potato chips doesn't seem right. ↗

— Jimmy Wales

#bad #chips #eat #four #fours

Zen does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes. ↗

— Alan Watts

#confuse #does #god #just #peel

I'm a sweet eater. I love lemon pie and sweet potato pie. ↗

— Claude Williams

#i #i love #lemon #love #pie