#potato

The meat-and-potatoes work of world journalism is performed by the wire service reporters. ↗

— Bob Greene

#meat-and-potatoes #performed #reporters #service #wire

Even during the rationing period, during World War II, we didn't have the anxiety that we'd starve, because we grew our own potatoes, you know? And our own hogs, and our own cows and stuff, you know. ↗

— James Earl Jones

#because #cows #during #even #grew

To his surprise he felt a moment of regret, of sadness that his quest for his mother and father would soon be over. As long as he searched for them he was prepared to be hungry and ill, but now that the search had ended he felt saddened by the memory of all he had been through, and of how much he had changed. He was closer now to the ruined battlefields and this fly-infested truck, to the nine sweet potatoes in the sack below the driver's seat, even in a sense to the detention center, than he would ever be again to his house in Amherst Avenue. ↗

— J.G. Ballard

#concentration-camps #nine-sweet-potatoes #world-war-two #change

If you allow one little sin to creep into your life, and think it doesn't matter, it will grow and grow until it affects your whole spiritual life, deflecting you from your primary aim of serving God. ↗

— Angus Buchan

#faith

It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes. ↗

— Douglas Adams

#just #major #mistake #potatoes #problems

My dream is to become a farmer. Just a Bohemian guy pulling up his own sweet potatoes for dinner. ↗

— Lenny Kravitz

#bohemian #dinner #dream #farmer #guy

It is easy to think of potatoes, and fortunately for men who have not much money it is easy to think of them with a certain safety. Potatoes are one of the last things to disappear, in times of war, which is probably why they should not be forgotten in times of peace. ↗

— M.F.K. Fisher

#food #peace #potatoes #war #food

I love potatoes - they're my favorite food. ↗

— Trisha Yearwood

#food #i #i love #love #potatoes

A potato can grow quite easily on a very small plot of land. With molecular manufacturing, we'll be able to have distributed manufacturing, which will permit manufacturing at the site using technologies that are low-cost and easily available. ↗

— Ralph Merkle

#available #distributed #easily #grow #land

DO NOT PUT ALL YOUR TRUST IN ROOT VEGETABLES. WHAT THINGS SEEM TO BE MAY NOT BE WHAT THEY ARE. -Death ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#death #potato #death