Broccoli gets such a bad rap. This is perplexing to those of us who love that green, treelike, stalky vegetable.

- Kate Christensen

If the British Isles had an official vegetable, it would have to be the potato.

- Yotam Ottolenghi

Imagination is the real and eternal world of which this vegetable universe is but a faint shadow.

- William Blake

An onion can make people cry but there's never been a vegetable that can make people laugh.

- Will Rogers

A hunk of beef raised on Scottish moorland has a very different ecological footprint from one created in an intensive feedlot using concentrated cereal feed, and a wild venison or rabbit casserole is arguably greener than a vegetable curry.

- Tristram Stuart

I think of New York as a puree and the rest of the United States as vegetable soup.

- Spalding Gray

My vegetable patch is my pride and joy.

- Sheherazade Goldsmith

My grandmother worked on a fruit and vegetable market stall.

- Petra Stunt

Touring on 'Folie' was like being the last act at the vaudeville show: We were rotten vegetable targets in clandestine hoods.

- Patrick Stump

Our typical Western diet is full of inflammatory fats - saturated fats, trans fats, too many omega-6, inflammatory, processed vegetable oils like soy and corn oils. These increase IGF-1 and stimulate pimple follicles.

- Mark Hyman

Cabbage: a familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man's head.

- Ambrose Bierce

Broccoli is not a Chinese vegetable; in fact, it is originally an Italian vegetable. It was introduced into the United States in the 1800s, but became popularized in the 1920s and the 1930s.

- Jennifer Lee

And I will never, ever respond to anybody - man, woman, vegetable, or mineral - who tells me to keep my mouth shut.

- Janice Dickinson

Listen to me: Leek is a vegetable. It can be the center of a dish.

- Jose Andres

Any administration foolish enough to call ketchup a vegetable cannot be expected to cut the mustard.

- John Glenn

I love making vegetable, pea, and broccoli soups. They're pure, low-calorie, and incredibly tasty.

- Ivanka Trump

The essential quality of an animal is that it seeks its own living, whereas a vegetable has its living brought to it.

- Henry Mayhew

Shall I not have intelligence with the earth? Am I not partly leaves and vegetable mould myself.

- Henry David Thoreau

I'm quite happy having stuff like quinoa, sushi, and even vegetable juices.

- Deepika Padukone

In short, the animal and vegetable lines, diverging widely above, join below in a loop.

- Asa Gray