#potatoes

I bought a big bag of potatoes and it's growing eyes like crazy. Other foods rot. Potatoes want to see. ↗

— Bill Callahan

#food

I have taken the marshmallows off the sweet potatoes, however. They would make a big pan of sweet potatoes and cover it with marshmallows. My kids would love it if I would do that for them! ↗

— Edie Brickell

#cover #however #i #kids #love

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

— Bob Greene

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

The father is the head of the home; the mother is the heart of the home; the children are the reward, the joy and the life of the home. ↗

— Angus Buchan

#faith

Comedy just pokes at problems, rarely confronts them squarely. Drama is like a plate of meat and potatoes, comedy is rather the dessert, a bit like meringue. ↗

— Woody Allen

#comedy #confronts #dessert #drama #just

In the morning we received some very thin coffee. For lunch we had potato soup with a few pieces of meat in it, in the evening we had a very thin meat soup with some potatoes in it. ↗

— Leon Askin

#evening #few #had #lunch #meat

Papa, potatoes, poultry, prunes and prism, are all very good words for the lips. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#good words #lips #papa #potatoes #poultry

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 loved to get all dusty and ride horses and plant potatoes and cotton. ↗

— Dorothy Malone

#cotton #dusty #get #horses #i

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