Top 135 Onions Quotes & Sayings

How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them.

Onions can make even Heirs and Widows weep.

I love onions. I cook with them all the time.

Onions make me sad. A lot of people don't realize that.

It was for bringing the cook tulip-roots instead of onions.

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.

Most folks call them green onions, but they're really scallions.

I love to cook. In fact, at this exact moment, I am trying something new: I am cooking a whole chicken in my crockpot, which I've never done before. I browned it with garlic powder, salt and pepper, and I put a bunch of celery and onions - which I'll have to hide from the children because they claim to hate onions - and I'm going to make homemade mashed cream potatoes. I always, before I leave for work in the morning, have supper cooking. That way, when I come home and they come home from school, there's all kinds of good smells in the house.

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.

People are mostly layers of violence and tenderness wrapped like bulbs, and it is difficult to say what makes them onions or hyacinths.

You might be a redneck if you grow Vidalia onions, rather than considering them a gourmet item.

I love cheese, and I love onions, pickles, and crunchy things. That's as far as I go with having things crunchy on my burger. I wouldn't go as far as having carrots on my burger. I'll just keep it simple with pickles and cucumbers and some raw onions.

Three of the most beneficial, longevity promoting anti-cancer foods are green vegetables, beans, and onions.

All I know is that you can chop up all the onions and the whatevers you want and put it on top of caviar, but you still can't disguise the fact that you're eating fish eggs. Ugh!

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.

Your onions should be thoroughly boiled.

To me, onions are the metaphor for kitchen drudgery. Cutting them is hard to do well, and they fight you the whole way.

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.

I love those tiny little onions in the spring that are so small they're almost like a little chive.

Next to that kid, we all look like onions.

Something can be done with people who put pickled onions in: strangulation seems best.

The universe is simmering down, like a giant stew left to cook for four billion years. Sooner or later we won’t be able to tell the carrots from the onions.

You don't learn knife skills at cooking school, because they give you only six onions and no matter how hard you focus on those six onions there are only six, and you're not going to learn as much as when you cut up a hundred.

I don't like the grilled onions for some reason. I like regular, crispy, stinky onions.

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.

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.

Most dear actors, eat no onions nor garlic, for we are to utter sweet breath.

It is hard to imagine a civilization without onions.

I grow strawberries, watermelon, onions, you name it.

It’s funny. I don’t like onions but I like onion rings. What’s up with that?

Self-pity can make one weep, as can onions.

These managers all know their onions and cut their cloth accordingly.

My last refuge, my books: simple pleasures, like finding wild onions by the side of a road, or requited love.

Mine eyes smell onions: I shall weep anon.

That was like throwing three pickled onions into a thimble!

Sweet Washington cherries and Walla Walla onions are two of my favorite local treats.

It was dog food. Beef livers with onions in a can. You open it up and it looks like vomit.

Why should I paint dead fish, onions and beer glasses? Girls are so much prettier.

Titchy little snapperwhippers like you should not be higgling around with an old sage and onions who is hundreds of years more than you.

The perfect breakfast is fish with grits and scrambled eggs with onions. I'm getting hungry thinking about that.

Ice Water? Get some Onions - that'll make your eyes water!

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.

I love both garlic and onions, and this word pithily captures the rich tastes of both.

When chopping onions, just chop onions.

I chop a lot of onions because I love cooking, and the times where I've never cried chopping onions is when I'm not thinking about it, when I'm talking to someone or I'm listening to music.

Doing the weekly shopping, I stock up on stir-fry kits, Amy's meatless burgers, and armloads of onions and garlic. I put onions and garlic in everything.

Do not eat garlic or onions; for their smell will reveal that you are a peasant.

I just do my own thing, and my flower continues to blossom like one of those delicious Bloomin' Onions from Outback Steakhouse.

Heaven is a bowl of creamed herring and onions. Ditto whitefish salad. But the real object of my desire for all things gilled is gefilte fish.

I love liver and onions or a roast dinner.

My first memory is being taken for Indian food at the Cookham Tandoori on the High Street - I remember the poppadoms, the onions, the chicken tikka.

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.

I have so many liver spots, I ought to come with a side of onions.

My headshot is a scratch and sniff, it smells like failure and onions.

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.

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.

I will not move my army without onions.

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.

I’m trying to think of the last time I had onions.

When a couple of young people strongly devoted to each other commence to eat onions, it is safe to pronounce them engaged.