Onion
A liliaceous plant of the genus Allium (A. cepa), having a strong-flavored bulb and long hollow leaves; also, its bulbous root, much used as an article of food. The name is often extended to other species of the genus.
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Onion Quotations
Onion rings in the car cushions do not improve with time.
Erma Bombeck
An onion can make people cry but there's never been a vegetable that can make people laugh.
Will Rogers
A woman's chastity consists, like an onion, of a series of coats.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Life is like an onion. You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep.
Carl Sandburg
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
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
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
When I wrote The Onion Field, I realized that my first two novels were just practice.
Joseph Wambaugh
All we have to do is to peel the shrines like an onion, and we will be with the king himself.
Howard Carter
The Onion Field made a real writer. And then I knew it was over, I couldn't be a cop anymore.
Joseph Wambaugh
Onion Translations
onion in Afrikaans is ui
onion in Dutch is ajuin, ui
onion in Finnish is sipuli
onion in French is oignon
onion in German is Zwiebel
onion in Italian is cipolla
onion in Portuguese is cebola
onion in Spanish is cebolla
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