Onion Quotes

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

Laugh, Cry, Vegetable

Onion rings in the car cushions do not improve with time.
Erma Bombeck

Time, Car, Improve

Life is like an onion. You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep.
Carl Sandburg

Life, Time, Sometimes

A woman's chastity consists, like an onion, of a series of coats.
Nathaniel Hawthorne

Woman, Series, Chastity

Good intentions are not enough. They've never put an onion in the soup yet.
Sonya Levien

Good, Enough, Put

When you get into statistical analysis, you don't really expect to achieve fame. Or to become an Internet meme. Or be parodied by 'The Onion' - or be the subject of a cartoon in 'The New Yorker.' I guess I'm kind of an outlier there.
Nate Silver

Become, Expect, Achieve

We would load up the yellow Cutlass Supreme station wagon and pick blackberries during blackberry season or spring onions during spring onion season. For us, food was part of the fabric of our day.
Mario Batali

Food, Spring, Season

It doesn't matter how precisely the onion is cut as long as the person chewing it is happy.
Padma Lakshmi

Happy, Long, Person

It's toughest to forgive ourselves. So it's probably best to start with other people. It's almost like peeling an onion. Layer by layer, forgiving others, you really do get to the point where you can forgive yourself.
Patty Duke

Best, Yourself, Others

All we have to do is to peel the shrines like an onion, and we will be with the king himself.
Howard Carter

Himself, King, Peel

If you can't think like an onion or a carrot or a tomato, you may be a technician, but you won't understand what you're doing, and your dish will be flat.
Eric Ripert

May, Understand, Won

We're producing a movie now, 'The Onion' Movie, and it's very difficult for me to be on the set. If I'm not right in the trenches, it's very difficult for me to watch another director, because I'm not involved and it's not exciting.
David Zucker

Another, Difficult, Movie

Yesterday, I did some painting then went out to buy an onion and came home and watched 'University Challenge.' The onion was probably the highlight.
Karl Pilkington

Home, Challenge, Painting

The Onion Field, that one got pretty close to me because I was a cop when it happened. I saw some of the indifference that my police department showed to the surviving officer.
Joseph Wambaugh

Pretty, Police, Happened

When I wrote The Onion Field, I realized that my first two novels were just practice.
Joseph Wambaugh

Two, Practice, Realized

The Onion Field made a real writer. And then I knew it was over, I couldn't be a cop anymore.
Joseph Wambaugh

Real, Made, Knew

The real secret to guacamole is that you use exactly the elements that you need, which is cilantro, onion, tomato, and jalapenos. And, of course, avocado.
Demian Bichir

Real, Secret, Elements

My mother was making $135 a week, but she had resilience and imagination. She might take frozen vegetables, cook them with garlic, onion and Spam, and it would taste like a four-star dinner.
Andre Dubus III

Mother, She, Making

It had more layers than an onion. These writers meant business. There was a level for everybody. Your major could be celestial mechanics, and there'd be celestial-mechanics jokes.
Billy West

Business, Everybody, Jokes

I do have body-image issues, just like everyone else. I mean, I wish I had bigger boobs. And I hate my butt. I want an onion butt - you know, a butt that'll bring tears to your eyes?
Leslie Bibb

Hate, Mean, Eyes

Life is like an onion: you peel off layer after layer and then you find there is nothing in it.
James Huneker

Life, Nothing, Find

I never felt ostracized or made to feel strange by obsessing over 'The Onion' or 'Calvin and Hobbes.' That was considered completely normal.
Simon Rich

Made, Strange, Felt

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