A Quote by Alice Roosevelt Longworth

He looks as though he's been weaned on a pickle. — © Alice Roosevelt Longworth
He looks as though he's been weaned on a pickle.
I'm a pickle fiend. I like all kinds of pickles: garlic pickle, lemon pickle, mango pickle, jackfruit pickle, you name it.
[Remark about Calvin Coolidge she says was erroneously attributed to her:] I do wish he did not look as if he had been weaned on a pickle.
My father was weaned on books. I'm halfway between being weaned on books and weaned on television. And if you're weaned on television, you're not as good a writer as if you were weaned on books.
When you begin your work, nothing exists. When it is finished it looks as if it just happened, spontaneously, effortlessly, convincingly. It looks as though it had been there all along.
I like a cheese and pickle. Nice cheese and pickle on a real old-fashioned bread. Ploughman's lunch.
Had I accepted the pickle juice, I would be drinking pickle juice right now.
My first taste memory is pickle. Even as a kid, I was really weird. I liked chillis. I used to climb up the shelves in my grandmother's pantry. The pickle jar was kept right at the top. One time, I dropped the jar and it broke. I was totally busted.
It's funny how cucumber water can taste so much better than pickle juice, even though they come from the same source.
I'd like to stand up for the rights of people who put everything on their burger - chutney, mustard, pickle, mustard pickle, tomato sauce... It is common knowledge in my family that I can't tell the difference between a veggie burger and a meat one, because the ratio of burger to pickles is so high.
The dead don't stay interested in us living people for very long. Gradually, gradually, they let go hold of the earth . . . and the ambitions they had . . . and the things they suffered . . . and the people they loved. They get weaned away from the earth - that's the way I put it - weaned away.
There must be reasons why we men are so hipped on breasts as if we'd all been weaned too soon.
As a result of half a century of Soviet rule people have been weaned from a belief in human kindness.
[on Hollywood] It looks, it feels, as though it had been invented by a Sixth Avenue peepshow man.
Oh yeah? What did you have last night?" "Turkey sandwich on wheat. With a pickle." "And the night before?" "Turkey sandwich on wheat. No pickle." She giggled. "What was the last hot meal you cooked?" He pretended to rack his brains. "Uh...beans and franks. On Monday.
Nobody who looks as though he enjoyed life is ever called distinguished, though he is a man in a million.
Not having gone to drama school, I always feel like a bit of a fraud, but so far it looks as though I've not been found out.
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