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turnip QUOTES

turnip QUOTES

1 " The turnip cannot thrive in the tulips patch of soil. "

― Jessie Burton , The Miniaturist (The Miniaturist, #1)

2 " Besides its content and methods, the cuisine devised by squaws and hillbilly women, as well as slave women, had another thing in common, which was the belief that you made do with whatever you could lay hands on--pigs' entrails, turnip tops, cowpeas, terrapins, catfish--anything that didn't bite you first. "

― Shirley Abbott , Womenfolks: Growing Up Down South

3 " And then came a damp, cold night in Flanders, through which we marched in silence, and when the day began to emerge from the mists, suddenly an iron greeting came whizzing at us over our heads, and with a sharp report sent the little pellets flying between our ranks, ripping up the wet ground; but even before the little cloud had passed, from two hundred throats the first hurrah rose to meet the first messenger of death. Then a crackling and a roaring, a singing and a howling began, and with feverish eyes each one of us was drawn forward, faster and faster, until suddenly past turnip fields and hedges the fight began, the fight of man against man. And from the distance the strains of a song reached our ears, coming closer and closer, leaping from company to company, and just as Death plunged a busy hand into our ranks, the song reached us too and we passed it along: Deutschland, Deutschland über Alles, über Alles in der Welt! "

― Adolf Hitler , Mein Kampf

4 " You’ll pardon me,” he finally said, “if the suggestion that the minuscule black turnip you call a heart is suddenly overflowing with generosity toward me leaves me wanting to arm myself and put my back against a wall. "

― Scott Lynch , The Lies of Locke Lamora (Gentleman Bastard, #1)

5 " Like a turnip such a head could be blown away very easily. For where a man was weak, a woman has unmanned him. It would be a mercy to blow such a man away. "

― Joyce Carol Oates , Wild Nights!: Stories About the Last Days of Poe, Dickinson, Twain, James, and Hemingway

6 " Turning to Turnip, Miss Dempsey said, 'Do you think?'. 'As little as I can,' Turnip replied honestly. "

― Lauren Willig , The Mischief of the Mistletoe (Pink Carnation, #7)

7 " If the man who turnips cries Cry not when his father dies 'Tis proof that he had rather Have a turnip than his father. "