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Onions and bacon cooking up just makes your kitchen smell so good. In fact, one day I'm going to come up with a room deodorizer that smells like bacon and onions. It's a fabulous smell. -- Paula Deen
Onions can make even Heirs and Widows weep. -- Benjamin Franklin
Onions make me sad. A lot of people don't realize that. -- Mitch Hedberg
Ice Water? Get some Onions - that'll make your eyes water! -- Groucho Marx
These managers all know their onions and cut their cloth accordingly. -- Mark Lawrenson
How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
It was dog food. Beef livers with onions in a can. You open it up and it looks like vomit. -- Tom Sizemore
Happy is said to be the family which can eat onions together. They are, for the time being, separate, from the world, and have a harmony of aspiration. -- Charles Dudley Warner
My grandmothers are full of memories, smelling of soap and onions and wet clay, with veins rolling roughly over quick hands, they have many clean words to say, my grandmothers were strong. -- Margaret Walker
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
Onions, along with leeks, garlic, shallots and scallions, make up the allium family of vegetables, which can have beneficial effects on the cardiovascular and immune systems, as well as possible anti-diabetic and anti-cancer effects. -- Joel Fuhrman
Onions make me sad, a lot of people don't realize that. When I'm cutting onions, I'm sad. Because the plight of onions, it's sad. But people don't realize I'm actually crying - they think I'm just reacting. -- Mitch Hedberg
So in our pride we ordered for breakfast an omelet, toast and coffee and what has just arrived is a tomato salad with onions, a dish of pickles, a big slice of watermelon and two bottles of cream soda. -- John Steinbeck
I do not like onions. It's so funny because I am probably one of the least picky eaters ever. Pretty much any type of new food, I'll try it, I'll eat it. But onions, and pork. Pork and onions. -- Stacie Orrico
It is hard to imagine a civilization without onions. -- Julia Child
Onion rings in the car cushions do not improve with time. -- Erma Bombeck
A woman's chastity consists, like an onion, of a series of coats. -- Nathaniel Hawthorne
Good intentions are not enough. They've never put an onion in the soup yet. -- Sonya Levien
Most dear actors, eat no onions nor garlic, for we are to utter sweet breath. -- William Shakespeare
Why should I paint dead fish, onions and beer glasses? Girls are so much prettier. -- Marie Laurencin
When I wrote The Onion Field, I realized that my first two novels were just practice. -- Joseph Wambaugh
An onion can make people cry but there's never been a vegetable that can make people laugh. -- Will Rogers
Life is like an onion. You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep. -- Carl Sandburg
The Onion Field made a real writer. And then I knew it was over, I couldn't be a cop anymore. -- Joseph Wambaugh
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
Charlie Hebdo was and is not The Onion or "The Daily Show." This is a different kind of satire. Might I put it this way - less politically correct. -- Scott Simon
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
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
That would be cool if you could eat a good food with a bad food and the good food would cover for the bad food when it got to your stomach. Like you could eat a carrot with an onion ring and they would travel down to your stomach, then they would get there, and the carrot would say, It's cool, he's with me. -- Mitch Hedberg
That was like throwing three pickled onions into a thimble! -- Sid Waddell
Another way I like to barbecue king salmon is as a whole fish stuffed, literally to the gills, with sweet onions, sliced lemons, and summer sage. -- Tom Douglas
I'm Irish, so I'm used to odd stews. I can take it. Just throw a lot of carrots and onions in there and I'll call it dinner. -- Liam Neeson
As I see it, a green salad is an open invitation to carrots, onions, mushrooms, tomatoes, and the sprouts that grow in jars on my kitchen counter. -- Victoria Moran
There is a charm in making a stew, to the unaccustomed cook, from the excitement of wondering what the result will be, and whether any flavour save that of onions will survive the competition in the mixture. -- Annie Besant
My favorite comfort food would have be braised beef. You know, beef, slow-cooked in a Dutch oven or in a slow cooker until it falls apart with simple mushrooms, some onions and lots of fresh thyme and garlic. -- Tyler Florence
I cannot go to Montreal without going to Beauty's, my favorite place for breakfast, where I have the Mish-Mash omelet with hot dogs, salami, eggs, green peppers, and onions, and the best banana bread in the world. It's legendary! -- Gail Simmons
I'm always thirsty when I wake up, so I guzzle a bottle of Smart water before I scramble tofu with onions, peppers and spinach and top it with salsa. I've been a vegetarian for years, but I recently became vegan. -- Carrie Underwood
When I was young, I used to expect Parisians to wear little black berets, to bicycle about with strings of onions around their necks, and to brandish long sticks of bread, just like they used to do in school textbooks. -- Craig Brown
My mother has told so many times the unbelievable story of how, as a toddler, I would demand raw onions and eat them like apples, I think that, at this juncture, it is a story that just has to be believed. -- Alice Dreger
To this day, I hate walnuts and I hate onions because on weekends when the walnuts and onions were in season, we were out there first thing in the morning and out there until the sun went down topping onions or picking walnuts. -- Scott Brooks
I have to say I love Dempsey's Brew Pub & Restaurant. It's gorgeous with that Camden Yard brick surrounding it, and it just screams Baltimore. I love the Black and Orange Burger that is topped with fresh orange bell peppers, caramelized onions and sharp cheddar cheese. -- Johnathon Schaech
In the United States, there is a restaurant called The Outback Steakhouse, and I could survive in there for several weeks at least, sustaining myself on bloomin' onions and, I'm sure, their legitimate and very Australian cuisine. In the real Outback? I give myself about 14 minutes. -- Steve Carell
We don't need a melting pot in this country, folks. We need a salad bowl. In a salad bowl, you put in the different things. You want the vegetables - the lettuce, the cucumbers, the onions, the green peppers - to maintain their identity. You appreciate differences. -- Jane Elliot
Organizing ahead of time makes the work more enjoyable. Chefs cut up the onions and have the ingredients lined up ahead of time and have them ready to go. When everything is organized you can clean as you go and it makes everything so much easier and fun. -- Anne Burrell
I can't stand quitters. My mother is a very strong, determined woman. I was peeling onions when I was seven, but I walked off when my eyes began to sting. She said to me, 'You start something and you finish it', and that stuck with me. I'm persistent. -- Estelle
Stock up your pantry and your freezer with things that aren't perishable: Your favorite jar of tomato sauce that lists 'tomato' as the first ingredient, lots of grains, olive oils, vinegars, tomato pastes, onions, shallots. When you go to the store, you only have to pick up meats and produce. -- Giada De Laurentiis
Shite and onions! -- James Joyce
Your onions should be thoroughly boiled. -- Jonathan Swift
When chopping onions, just chop onions. -- Michael Pollan
Most folks call them green onions, but -- Stan Freberg
I will not move my army without onions. -- Ulysses S. Grant
Mine eyes smell onions: I shall weep anon. -- William Shakespeare
Self-pity can make one weep, as can onions. -- Jerry Fodor
Next to that kid, we all look like onions. -- Dustin Hoffman
It was for bringing the cook tulip-roots instead of onions. -- Lewis Carroll
Most folks call them green onions, but they're really scallions. -- Stan Freberg
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My headshot is a scratch and sniff, it smells like failure and onions. -- Zach Galifianakis
Sweet Washington cherries and Walla Walla onions are two of my favorite local treats. -- Tom Douglas
Something can be done with people who put pickled onions in: strangulation seems best. -- Bernard DeVoto
It's funny. I don't like onions but I like onion rings. What's up with that? -- Jared Leto
I have so many liver spots, I ought to come with a side of onions. -- Phyllis Diller
I don't like the grilled onions for some reason. I like regular, crispy, stinky onions. -- Chrissy Teigen
Three of the most beneficial, longevity promoting anti-cancer foods are green vegetables, beans, and onions. -- Joel Fuhrman
Do not eat garlic or onions; for their smell will reveal that you are a peasant. -- Miguel de Cervantes
I farted like a pack of crying onions. That was my response to her I love you. -- Jarod Kintz
You might be a redneck if you grow Vidalia onions, rather than considering them a gourmet item. -- Jeff Foxworthy
The only thing he likes better than a nice juicy homicide is a sirloin steak smothered with onions. -- Richard Brautigan
The perfect breakfast is fish with grits and scrambled eggs with onions. I'm getting hungry thinking about that. -- Daymond John
I love those tiny little onions in the spring that are so small they're almost like a little chive. -- Alice Waters
My last refuge, my books: simple pleasures, like finding wild onions by the side of a road, or requited love. -- Tracy Letts
When a couple of young people strongly devoted to each other commence to eat onions, it is safe to pronounce them engaged. -- James Montgomery Bailey
People are mostly layers of violence and tenderness wrapped like bulbs, and it is difficult to say what makes them onions or hyacinths. -- Eudora Welty
Titchy little snapperwhippers like you should not be higgling around with an old sage and onions who is hundreds of years more than you. -- Roald Dahl
I think sometimes that people are like onions. On the outside smooth and whole and simple but inside ring upon ring, complex and deep. -- Karen Cushman
This is every cook's opinion - no savory dish without an onion, but lest your kissing should be spoiled your onions must be fully boiled. -- Jonathan Swift
It's hard to imagine a civilization without onions; in one form or another their flavor blends into almost everything in the meal except the desert. -- Julia Child
Cigars should be like onions," she said, unfastening the catch and pushing back the pane. "Either the whole company does, or the whole company does not. -- Robin McKinley
Anything more low, obscene, feculent, the manifold heaving's of history have not cast up. We shall come to the worship of onions, cats and things vermiculite. -- Rufus Choate
A little tomato who knows her onions can go out with an old potato and come home with a lot of lettuce and a couple of carats. -- Herbert V. Prochnow
So I went down the local supermarket, I said "I want to make a complaint, this vinegar's got lumps in it", he said "Those are pickled onions". -- Tim Vine
He describes it as a large apartment, with a red brick floor and a capacious chimney; the ceiling garnished with hams, sides of bacon, and ropes of onions. -- Charles Dickens
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Why onions? Because they're cheap, last a long time, can be lit any number of ways and force me to think about what happens when the form turns away from the light. -- Nick Stone
In university, in a vain attempt to stave off the frosh fifteen, I used to melt fat-free cheese over broccoli, onions and cauliflower in the cafeteria microwave. That earned me few friends. -- Rachel Sklar
Everything I do, I do on the principle of Russian borscht. You can throw everything into it beets, carrots, cabbage, onions, everything you want. What's important is the result, the taste of the borscht. -- Yevgeny Yevtushenko

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