Top 272 Olive Quotes & Sayings

Olive oil mixed with raw sugar makes for an excellent lip scrub.

Her eyes were olive green?incisive and clear.

Olive Ann describes Sanna as 'a perfectionist and a worrier.' She is obsessed with the idea of finding happiness, and for her, as Olive ann wrote in her notes for the novel, 'happiness means being first with somebody, having perfect, loving children...The theme of Sanna is disillusionment,' Olive Ann wrote. 'Her life is the pursuit of happiness and perfection, but she finds happiness and perfection impossible to obtain-her idea of happiness is constant joy, no changes.

I'm not really interested in promoting 'Olive' as a series about depression or mental illness.

He is my first olive: let me make a face while I swallow it.

Oh, gosh, Olive. I'm so embarrassed." "No need to be," Olive tells her. "We all want to kill someone at some point." (179)

I went to my prom. I wore this olive green, floor-length backless dress. It was rad.

Oh that's lovely," said Bunny. "Olive, you've got a date." "Why would you say something so foolish?" Olive asked, really annoyed. "We're two lonely people having supper." "Exactly," said Bunny. "That's a date.

Olive oil is the cornerstone of Mediterranean cuisine. This tree is the thread from which the tapestry of the Med has been woven.

In war the olive branch of peace is of use. [Lat., Adjuvat in bello pacatae ramus olivae.]

The peoples of the Mediterranean began to emerge from barbarism when they learned to cultivate the olive and the vine.

I am always amazed by the novel angles that people come up with for kids' Christmas books. Even if a family is not religious, who could resist, say, "Olive, the Other Reindeer," about Olive the dog who thinks the song refers to her and heads for the North Pole to help Santa out?

I drink too much. The last time I gave a urine sample it had an olive in it.

There is a Mediterranean feel to my colouring. I have olive skin, brown eyes and my nose is definitely Gallic. It's extremely Roman in profile.

I have more in common with a three-toed sloth or a one-eyed pterodactyl or a Kalamata olive than I have with Winston Churchill.

The very first thing the President [Truman] did was to show me the new Presidential Seal, which he had just redesigned. He explained, 'The seal has to go everywhere the President goes. It must be displayed upon the lectern when he speaks. The eagle used to face the arrows but I have re-designed it so that it now faces the olive branches ... what do you think?' I said, 'Mr. President, with the greatest respect, I would prefer the American eagle's neck to be on a swivel so that it could face the olive branches or the arrows, as the occasion might demand.'

I'm half Italian, and on my mom's side, they've aged amazingly, and all they've put on their faces is olive oil.

Beetroot, garlic, lemon ... and buy a bottle of olive oil. All these things are very critical.

Good morrow, fair ones; pray you, if you know, Where in the purlieus of this forest stands A sheep-cote fenc'd about with olive trees?

I make sure to eat dishes made in olive oil, whether virgin or extra virgin; the dish has to be made in olive oil. I believe it's the healthiest oil that you can consume to stay fit.

The olive tree is surely the richest gift of Heaven. I can scarcely expect bread.

I use honey to condition my hair and eggs for protein. Also, mayonnaise and olive oil are great options for keeping it moisturized.

I always have parmigiano-reggiano, olive oil and pasta at home. When people get sick, they want chicken soup; I want spaghetti with parmesan cheese, olive oil and a bit of lemon zest. It makes me feel better every time.

Liberals would prefer it if the bald eagle on the Great Seal was holding olive branches in both talons, or, better, an olive branch in one, and maybe a soft cushion in the other, to entice our enemies to lie down and snooze.

I come bearing an olive branch in one hand, and the freedom fighter's gun in the other. Do not let the olive branch fall from my hand.

You gotta have good olive oil. You should have a cooking olive oil and you should have a finishing olive oil, like an extra-virgin olive oil.

My hair can get quite dry, so I condition it in olive oil once a week.

If we got an educational program going, we could tell people, "Instead of butter, use avocado." That's something we eat, it has the good fat, and it has a good texture, and it tastes better. Just imagine if you substituted that. Or if we switched to olive oil, the extra virgin olive oil, we could still have our taquitos, but put a little oil on them and put them in the oven and bake them.

The most overrated ingredients are garlic and extra-virgin olive oil. With garlic, it's personal; I have never been that big of a fan of its flavor. As for extra-virgin olive oil, I do use it quite often but its ubiquity serves to overshadow many wonderful oils like pistachio, walnut, argan and even grapeseed.

The olive grove of Academe, Plato's retirement, where the Attic bird Trills her thick-warbled notes the summer long.

Do not let the olive branch fall from my hand.

I've always wanted to have a Greek sitcom called Olive Lucy.

He will hear the rain before he feels it, a clicking on the dry grass, on the olive leaves.

I have olive skin, so if I'm in the sun for even 15 minutes, I turn brown.

I have olive skin, so if I get pale, I look green. I have to tan.

After a year, the aromatics in an olive oil are gone. Sometimes the bottles on the shelf in the supermarket are there a lot longer than you are.

The combination of olive oil, garlic and lemon juice lifts the spirits in winter.

Greek yogurt with some olive oil stirred in can transform many dishes.

If my cuisine were to be defined by just one taste, it would be that of subtle, aromatic, extra-virgin olive oil.

Why is it that an extended olive branch often turns to a clinched fist of hatred?

I'm trying to incorporate colour into my life. Until recently, everything in my closet was black, white, grey, navy or olive.

When summer squash is freshly picked, all it needs is a little olive oil, salt, pepper, and maybe a hit of lemon juice.

My days are jam-packed with carpools, classroom assistance, tending to chickens, dogs and seven acres of olive trees!

At Appassionata we produced relatively small amounts of our very own, premier-class, deliciously peppery olive oil. Olive farming wasn't my trade, but it had become a passion.

The CEO of the Olive Garden blames his company's low profits on Obamacare - which is odd because most people won't eat at the Olive Garden until they have health insurance.

The strands of spaghetti were vital, almost alive in my mouth, and the olive oil was singing with flavor. It was hard to imagine that four simple ingredients [olive oil, pasta, garlic and cheese] could marry so perfectly.

We wrote 'Olive Kitteridge' as six hours, and they asked us to make it in four.

If the Olive Trees knew the hands that planted them, Their Oil would become Tears.

I found olive oil and grated cheese all over my bed. I picked up my comforter, and it was on my sheets, my pillow.

EVOO is extra-virgin olive oil. I first coined 'EVOO' on my cooking show because saying 'extra virgin olive oil' over and over was wordy, and I'm an impatient girl - that's why I make 30-minute meals!

Unbelievable! I said, "What would I be doing walking the streets at night as a stuffed olive- gate-crashing cocktail parties?

Clary wondered what exactly peanut-fish-olive-tomato soup tasted like.

Information is a beacon, a cudgel, an olive branch, a deterrent--all depending on who wields it and how.

For me, there is no better tapa than a really good stuffed olive.

I love a bit of arugula tossed in olive oil and pepper over it to just have something nice and fresh and green.

Knock, Knock." "Who's there?" "Olive." "Olive who?" "Olive...ooh. I love you, too," he said, figuring it out. "You can tell me that one anytime you like." He folded her into his arms.

It is quite affecting to observe how much the olive tree is to the country people. Its fruit supplies them with food, medicine and light; its leaves, winter fodder for the goats and sheep; it is their shelter from the heat and its branches and roots supply them with firewood. The olive tree is the peasant's all-in-all.

If you deconstruct Greece, you will in the end see an olive tree, a grapevine, and a boat remain. That is, with as much, you reconstruct her.

I love nuts and popcorn with olive oil and sea salt.

Usually before matches I eat plain pasta with a little bit olive oil, salt, pepper and chicken.