
3 April 1944
The Diary of a Young Girl (1942 - 1944)
A collection of quotes on the topic of spinach, likeness, child, lot.
3 April 1944
The Diary of a Young Girl (1942 - 1944)
“If you have questions about this salad, give your server the spinach inquisition.”
"Menus: Spinach Salad with Pacific Fish Cakes", Stacey's at Waterford, 2008-01-14 http://www.eatatstaceys.com/staceys-waterford/menus-lunch.php,
Restaurant menus
Source: Nervous Stillness on the Horizon (2006), P. 51 (Ibid., p. 45.)
That Style Thingie (1998 Essay)
young Lautrec comments his own paintings of the landscape, when he was c. 15 years old.
Source: 1879-1884, T-Lautrec, by Henri Perruchot, p. 46 - remark to his friend Etienne Devismes - in Nice, 1879
This quote was attributed to Darrow in the biography Clarence Darrow for the Defence (1949), but its earliest known source is from a journal entry of George Sand from 1835.
Misattributed
“Wars are Spinach. Life in general is the tough part.”
Letter to http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/1547504/Hemingway-and-Dietrich-letters.html?service=print Marlene Dietrich (27 June 1950)
Context: Wars are Spinach. Life in general is the tough part. In war all you have to do is not worry and know how to read a map and co-ordinates.
Many Long Years Ago (1945), Song To Be Sung by the Father of Infant Female Children
Context: A fig for embryo Lohengrins!
I'll open all his safety pins,
I'll pepper his powder, and salt his bottle,
And give him readings from Aristotle.
Sand for his spinach I'll gladly bring,
And Tabasco sauce for his teething ring.
Then perhaps he'll struggle through fire and water
To marry somebody else's daughter.
“"It's broccoli, dear."
"I say it's spinach, and I say the hell with it."”
Caption for a cartoon by Carl Rose in The New Yorker (8 December 1928)