Tomato Quotations

I don't care what anybody says: Nothing is better than a tomato you grow. There's something about it that's different than a tomato you can buy. It's a great thing.

I burn very easily, so if I forget sunscreen, I will be a tomato by the end of the day. I'm very big on sunscreen and hats. I grew up in Florida, and I love the beach, and I think it's healthy to get a little bit of color.

Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is knowing not to put it in a fruit salad.

To grow a tomato or a pepper and prepare a meal from your labor and care is primordially satisfying.

I love judging food by its smell and feel and taste. The healthiest tomato isn't always the perfect one that's been covered in pesticides.

I hate fussing about in the kitchen when I have people over to supper, so I make a rich beef stew cooked in wine with carrots, sundried tomato paste and chopped chorizo sausage.

Whenever possible, I use local, fresh ingredients, just because it tastes and feels better to eat an egg or a tomato or a hamburger that wasn't flown halfway around the world, that didn't travel on a truck and get stuck in traffic jams, that hasn't been sitting in a supermarket's refrigerator case for days.

I happen to enjoy grilled cheese and tomato sandwiches.

The difference between a bland tomato and great one is immense, much like the difference between a standard, sliced white bread and a crusty, aromatic sourdough.

I once had an Early Girl tomato at my friend Jay's house, and I thought that was the best thing I'd ever had. But then I visited friends in Senegal, and I ate sea urchin pulled fresh out of the sea. It tasted like the ocean.

I'll drink water. Sometimes tomato juice, which I like. Sometimes orange juice, which I like. I'll drink different things. But the Coke or Pepsi boosts you up a little.

One of my favorites is chilaquiles. It's corn tortilla chips in a simple, brothy tomato sauce with a little chile for heat. It's wonderfully homey. It has irresistible crispy bits and I love to eat it. And you can play around with it - add chicken, sliced red onions, or all these different things that can easily dress it up.

I grow 10 heirloom varieties in my garden, but I get mine locally from Green Acres on Route 51 near Elizabeth. I just wish they had full slices of bread here so I could have a few tomato sandwiches and really enjoy the day.

When we saw this we were amazed. The first year we came out here, it was just a tomato field.

Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit; Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.

Last winter we canned venison, spaghetti sauce, pizza sauce, chili sauce, tomato soup, turkey, catsup, barbecue sauce, fish, sweet potatoes, duck, butternut squash, pumpkins and potatoes. You might say that whatever we find, we can. The entries will help out the competition at the fair and it will give the boys a little bit of income.

It has a real spicy tomato sauce. That makes the whole pizza.

We do not have any tomato shortages and we do not anticipate any because of our good planning. We have contingency plans if there are any issues, but we haven't had any.

We've got one formula, and it doesn't matter if it's tomato or onion - it gets fed exactly the same thing. That was our big breakthrough.

Well, there's egg and bacon; egg sausage and bacon; egg and spam; egg bacon and spam; egg bacon sausage and spam; spam bacon sausage and spam; spam egg spam spam bacon and spam; spam sausage spam spam bacon spam tomato and spam.

The reason you're seeing the prices coming back to normal is the tomato cycle is a 120-day cycle in replanting, and it's just starting to hit right now.

When we caught him, he still appeared to be covered in fecal matter, ... He told us, though, he was partying with girls the night before and somehow ended up rolling around in tomato paste.

As supplies of tomato become even more plentiful, we anticipate prices will go down even more.

I used to obsess on critical reactions to my films, and it's really not a healthy way to live your life, so my new take on it is simply, 'I hope people like it!' I'm not going to be looking at the tomato meter for at least a year! I was very lucky on '50/50' that most critics really liked it.

The tomato portion of it still is pretty negligible.

The tomato will be back on the bun.

(They) allow you to put your tomato plants out a month early.

What am I to think when six weekends of this year already have been won by slasher movies that were not screened for critics and got bad ratings on the tomato meter when they were screened?

or they'll put posters up saying pizza is the biggest source of tomato sauce in the American diet.

At home, I don't have any blossoms on my tomato plants.

As a result of the merger, retail customers and consumers could suffer from less competition resulting in higher prices for products such as HP brown sauce, tomato ketchup and baked beans.

I'm big on tomato mozzarella salad. That's my favorite all-time food.

I like L.A. It's like a mini break. For a writer, it's hilarious. Like the food. Where I come from, we eat chip sandwiches: white bread, butter, tomato catsup and big fat french fries. It's delicious. Here, you order a creme caramel and the waiter says, 'You know, that contains dairy.'

I've heard of everything from chicken soup to baking soda. Tomato juice is a big one, and that's actually not good for a dog to drink. None of these work, and, in fact, they only serve to make the dog go to the bathroom more often.

I'm extremely disappointed. I send you out for exciting, new designer drugs, you come back with tomato sauce.

Everybody loves pizza, and kids love pizza, and this is a nice variation because it's not your same old tomato sauce and cheese.

Take an exhibit, in the days when we saw the Pop art - Andy Warhol and all that - tomato soup cans, etc., and coming home, you saw everything like A. Warhol.

Daiginjos tend to be the cleanest and the fullest at the same time. For those kind of sakes, you don't want a Western-type sauce based on acids. No vinaigrettes, and no tomato sauces. The classic pairing is fish, especially a rich, fleshy fish -- John Dory, halibut, salmon, hamachi. Depending on the style, daiginjo can go with poultry.

GEOLOGY, n. The science of the earth's crust --to which, doubtless, will be added that of its interior whenever a man shall come up garrulous out of a well. The geological formations of the globe already noted are catalogued thus: The Primary, or lower one, consists of rocks, bones or mired mules, gas-pipes, miners' tools, antique statues minus the nose, Spanish doubloons and ancestors. The Secondary is largely made up of red worms and moles. The Tertiary comprises railway tracks, patent pavements, grass, snakes, mouldy boots, beer bottles, tomato cans, intoxicated citizens, garbage, anarchists, snap-dogs and fools.

Not everybody is going to want a full plot. Some people just want to grow a couple of tomato plants.

Sonny, true love is the greatest thing, in the world -- except for a nice MLT -- mutton, lettuce and tomato sandwich, where the mutton is lean and the tomato is ripe.

The man that cannot visualize a horse galloping on a tomato is an idiot

My greatest strength is... common sense. I'm really a standard brand - like Campbell's tomato soup or Baker's chocolate.