Beans Quotations

Botanically speaking, tomatoes are the fruit of a vine, just as are cucumbers, squashes, beans and peas.

I was eating beans by candle light for a decade.

I do cook a lot for myself. I tend to cook from scratch, a lot of stews and things, lots of beans, because beans have got lots of protein in them but not fat. I am partial to a bit of cheese - I try to limit myself in my cheese intake, but I do enjoy a good smelly cheese. Stinking Bishop is a good one.

I'm Hispanic - don't mess around with my coffee. Leave my beans alone.

My husband is the chef of the family; he's a brilliant cook. Actually, it makes you quite lazy when you have somebody that's so good at cooking under the same roof. It's all beans or spaghetti when I'm left to run it.

For the Gulf States, perhaps no forage crop of which the available seed supply is relatively abundant exceeds the velvet bean in potential value. This legume possesses also the ability to make a crop when planted relatively late.

For a quick, healthy meal that's also fun for kids, I serve fish tacos: soft tortillas, lettuce, tomatoes, black beans and brown rice.

Me, sexy? I'm just plain ol' beans and rice.

I come from a food family, so you would think that I would be great at making baked beans or something, but I'm not.

The value of the beans for oil production, as well as for human food, has become recognized so quickly and so generally during the past year that the crop has acquired a commercial standing far in excess of its previous status.

In future, lots of things will be made from beans and fibres grown on the farmers' fields. This new science is called chemurgy. Plastics, for industry, will come from the soil.

I have always regarded Mr. Bean as a timeless, ageless character, and I would rather he be remembered as a character mostly in his 30s and 40s.

Being in a band didn't buy me my beans on toast!

I could have a roomful of awards and it wouldn't mean beans

I'm very pleased with being a part of the Bean Pole family. It's a relationship that makes sense to me. I'm very pleased to have my name associated with Bean Pole Jeans.

Having grown up in the Middle East, eating beans for breakfast always seemed like a bizarre British eccentricity.

Supposing everyone lived at one time what would they say. They would observe that stringing string beans is universal.

I keep returning to the combination of artichoke, broad beans and lemon. The freshness of young beans and the lemon juice 'lifts' the artichoke and balances its hearty nature.

When I cook for my family on Christmas, I make feijoada, a South American dish of roasted and smoked meats like ham, pork, beef, lamb, and bacon - all served with black beans and rice. It's festive but different.

We've also found wilt in yellow beans, black beans and Great Northerns.

We've used some money to get a dog carrier for Beans and also a leash and collar with the Marine Corps eagle, globe and anchor emblem on them.

We've used a lot of stuff since the Can-Care-A-Van. We go through pork and beans and green beans and things like that so fast. I've had to replenish those twice already.

Then what are you? An electronic Hannibal Lector? You can't eat my liver with fava beans through a modem, you know.

The people in the Legislature evidently don't know beans from barley. By the time they figure out that smaller schools are best, they'll all be gone.

We have a seven-year rotation. Three years of clover and grass where we're building nitrogen and increasing the fertility, followed by four arable crops - wheat, followed by oats, then beans and either rye or barley.

Beans, beans, the magic legumes - the more you ingest, the more you consume.

Nutritionally it's very complete. The unprocessed beans and wholegrains have much higher levels of nutrients than if they are packaged and processed,

Popping broad beans out of their skins can be therapeutic, but it isn't everybody's favourite waste of time.

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.

I don't eat Puerto Rican food in L.A. because it's just too much, too addicting, but I know how to cook, so I can easily make it. I just choose not to because you never stop! I think my favorite would be pollo guisado con arroz blanco y habichuelas. I love tostones, I love maduros! I can eat rice and beans all day long!

Basically I started canning because of the economics of it. And I like the taste of home-canned green beans better than the ones from the store.

Get some of those old-crop beans sold, get some of the new-crop beans sold. We do see some producers selling some added old-crop and new-crop corn.

Fresh eggs, grits in the morning, red beans for lunch, smoked sausage we're getting.

I don't think people should be fed mesclun salad and chicken breast. My grandmother would serve grits and oxtail stew at a formal dinner, and if you didn't like it, well then you ate more beans or you went home and ate a peanut butter and jelly sandwich.

Fortunately, the products we use for common rust in beans are quite effective against soybean rust and in addition we've applied for some products under Section 18, so if the rust had come in we would have been able to give you products that would have been even more effective and would have been newer chemistry,

If the color fades, the beans contain the enzyme and the buyer knows they aren't L-Star soybeans.

What most moved him was a certain meal on beans

I saw him (Robert) standing there, and I knew I had to say something. So I walked over and asked him where the baked beans were. We struck up a conversation, and I wound up inviting him to a dinner party we were having that night.

Pinetop only wanted what he always called a little bit of 'bean money,' a little money to go buy some baked beans or something.

My wife gave me a year to start making money out of writing, and after six months, I'd made not a bean. Suddenly, the books took off, and the beans started coming in!

It doesn't take much to see that the problems of three little people doesn't add up to a hill of beans in this crazy world. Someday you'll understand that. Now, now... Here's looking at you kid.

I would love to meet J.K. Rowling and tell her how much I admire her writing and am amazed by her imagination. I read every 'Harry Potter' book as it came out and looked forward to each new one. I am rereading them now with my kids and enjoying them every bit as much. She made me look at jelly beans in a whole new way.

Most good work habits are just common sense, Don't stick beans up your nostrils.

People were so cheap there... they ate beans to save on bubble bath.

They pick me [to be tested for steroids] every time. I don't know why. I don't know if it's because I'm a big guy, or what, but all I know is all they are going to find is a lot of rice and beans.

I'm not stupid!" In Bean's experience, that was a sentence never uttered except to prove its own inaccuracy.

We have exhausted our supply of canned meats. We need things like cans of chili, crackers, flour, corn meal, dried spaghetti and dried beans and rice. We have plenty of vegetables but we need those things to round the meal out.

Every day we serve fresh salad, bananas, oranges, apples and grapes. We serve a baked potato once a month. Green beans are often from a can due to availability.

Protein contains essential amino acids necessary for growth and repair. Meat and fish can be quite expensive, but lean minced beef is reasonably priced, as are canned fish and fish fingers. Vegetarian students should make sure they eat alternative sources of protein, such as eggs, dairy products, pulses and cereals. Baked beans on toast provide you with just the right ratio of all the essential amino acids, so it's a great student snack.

It's the relative price of corn and beans and the relative yields that will determine this.

It's the first time for me to throw beans at the media. It's kind of revenge.

It's possible that Johnson & Johnson and Guidant have buried themselves in a room. The fact that nobody has spilled the beans yet doesn't mean that there aren't any beans to spill.

That is going to take me two-and-a-half hours - so instead of a nice meal I'm going to be stuck with beans on toast.

The best sources are red meat and fish. Vegetarians should eat fortified cereals, dried fruit, beans and pulses.

It was just sitting perfect, I pushed into it and it was like a razor blade. The green beans weren't worth it last night. Thank the good Lord it was the left hand.

They've got different beans from all over the world. Different beans for different blends.

The Mexican diet tends to be very healthy with lots of beans and whole grains. It's important to remember to eat lots of fresh fruits and vegetables.

I left some green beans and mashed potatoes on that track the first week, I want to tell you. It was hard. Really hard.

If you have some potatoes, green beans and cauliflower, you have a heck of a dish that can feed an entire family.

In addition to being a low-fat source of protein, beans are sky high in soluble fiber.

Buy your fair-trade coffee beans by all means, but don't assume fair-trade principles govern the conditions of the men who fetch it to you. You would be mistaken.

Holy mackerel. ... That's not small beans in these jaded times.

Instant coffee is just old beans that have been cremated.

If there is one vegetable which is God-given, it is the haricot bean.

All middle-income families use carbs to stretch meals, across any ethnic group - whether it's kugel or rice and beans or macaroni and cheese. I remember having pancakes for dinner. But as kids, we thought, 'Breakfast for dinner? This is great.'

The cargo -- consisting of 703 tons of maize, 108 tons of beans and 39 tons of vegetable oil -- was destined for the Lower Juba Valley, which is home to some of the most vulnerable people in Somalia, people who have repeatedly been affected by droughts and floods.

It is better to beAn old man's derling than a yong man's werling.

Hunger makes hard beans sweet.

Red beans and ricely yours.

Beans are a real go-to for me.

Who shall I shoot? You choose. Now, listen very carefully: where's your coffee? You've got coffee, haven't you? C'mon, everyone's got coffee! Spill the beans!

If the end is right, it justifies the beans!

A census taker tried to quantify me once. I ate his liver with some fava beans and a big Amarone. Go back to school, little Starling.

The matter with human beans," the BFG went on, "is that they is absolutely refusing to believe in anything unless they is actually seeing it right in front of their own schnozzles.

I came to love my rows, my beans, though so many more than I wanted. They attached me to the earth, and so I got strength like Antaeus.

I was determined to know beans.