Best Homegrown Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“The word gochisō not only means "feast," but also... ... "to run" or "rush." The host rushes around to gather the ingredients, get them ready, and then cook the food. The vegetables and chicken were homegrown... ... and you must have sought out the halfbeak and quail yourself. Miyasato sensei expended a lot of time and effort to treat us to this meal. The dishes we had are all common ones so that we'd easily be able to compare them with versions we've eaten before. For the wakame and green onion with miso, you pulled the onions out of your own vegetable patch, and you also used fresh wakame and homemade miso. And that's why it tasted so much better than usual. The care you've put into getting all these dishes ready... ... is what made this a real gochisō.”

Homemade Japanese Food Food Preparation Homegrown Rushed Work

Book:Japanese Cuisine

Source: Japanese Cuisine

“Other than chicken and rice, you'll find Tokyo restaurants specializing in fried pork cutlets, curry rice, ramen, udon, soba, gyōza, beef tongue, tempura, takoyaki, yakitori, Korean-style grilled beef, sushi, okonomiyaki, mixed rice dishes, fried chicken, and dozens of other dishes. Furthermore, even if you know something about Japanese food, it's common to come across a restaurant whose menu or plastic food display indicates that it specializes in a particular food you've never seen before and can't quite decipher. Out of this tradition of single-purpose restaurants, Japan has created homegrown fast-food chains. McDonald's and KFC exist in Tokyo but are outnumbered by Japanese chains like Yoshinoya (beef-and-rice bowl), CoCo Ichiban (curry rice), Hanamaru Udon, Gindaco (takoyaki), Lotteria (burgers), Tenya (tempura), Freshness Burger, Ringer Hut (Nagasaki-style noodles), and Mister Donut (pizza) (just kidding). Since the Japanese are generally slim and healthy and I don't know how to read a Japanese newspaper, it was unclear to me whether Japan's fast-food chains are blamed for every social ill, but it seems like it would be hard to pin a high suicide rate on Mister Donut.”

Restaurants Fast Food Tokyo Japanese Cuisine Homegrown

Book:Pretty Good Number One: An American Family Eats Tokyo

Source: Pretty Good Number One: An American Family Eats Tokyo

“Winnie and Big Leo Chao were serving scallion pancakes decades before you could find them outside of a home kitchen. Leo, thirty-five years ago, winning his first poker game against the owners of a local poultry farm, exchanged his chips for birds that Winnie transformed into the shining, chestnut-colored duck dishes of far-off cities. Dear Winnie, rolling out her bing the homemade way, two pats of dough together with a seal of oil in between, letting them rise to a steaming bubble in the piping pan. Leo, bargaining for hard-to-get ingredients; Winnie subbing wax beans for yard-long beans, plus home-growing the garlic greens, chives, and hot peppers you used to never find in Haven. Their garden giving off a glorious smell.”

Homegrown Family Business Chinese Cooking

Book:The Family Chao

Source: The Family Chao

“I think that marijuana should not only be legal, I think it should be a cottage industry. There’s some pretty good homegrown dope. I’m sure it would be even better if you could grow it with fertilizers and have greenhouses.”

Marijuana Stephen King Grow Greenhouses Homegrown

Author:Stephen King

“The Tonys are also kind of like a homegrown party. You know everybody.”

Knows Kind Party Homegrown

Author:Amy Ryan

“I think that the potential for homegrown terrorist attacks is something that we have to be very concerned about, because, in many respects, it's harder to detect when you have an independent actor who may be living in our midst, in our own communities.”

Thinking May Actors Community Concerned Harder Independent Terrorist Midst Terrorist Attacks Homegrown

Author:Jeh Johnson

“As President, I'll invest in renewable energies like wind power, solar power, and the next generation of homegrown biofuels. That's how America is going to free itself from our dependence on foreign oil not through short-term gimmicks, but through a real, long-term commitment to transform our energy sector.”

“Steven Tepper's Not Here, Not Now, Not That! offers invaluable insights into how social change and uncertainty drive protests over art. With fresh data and perspectives, Tepper makes a compelling case that cultural conflicts are largely homegrown, tied to each community's shifting demographics and values. It's an eye-opening work.”

Art Eye Values Social Community Cases Perspective Offers Conflict Insight Opening Data Uncertainty Protest Tied Compelling Social Change Shifting Demographics Invaluable Eye Opening Homegrown

Author:Ken Paulson

“There's a phrase you hear in Israel: "We're not Jews, we're Israelis." What that means is that the stereotype we're familiar with here in the States of the Diaspora Jew, i.e. Jews in America or Europe or Russia, etc. does not fit at all with the reality of the homegrown "sabras" of Israel.”

Mean Doe States Reality America Fit Europe Jew Israel Russia Familiar Phrases Etc Stereotype Diaspora Homegrown

Author:Steven Pressfield

“It's difficult to think anything but pleasant thoughts while eating a homegrown tomato.”

“While I agree that homegrown terrorism and the jihadist threat deserve continuing attention, a single-minded approach ignores all other threats.”

Attention Approach Deserve Agree Threat Terrorism Continuing Homegrown

Author:Bennie Thompson

“Heaven is a homegrown cucumber”

Heaven Cucumbers Homegrown

Author:Alys Fowler

“The riveting moral power of the Arab Spring comes from its homegrown quality. This is about Arabs overcoming fear to become agents of their own transformation and liberation.”

Quality Moral Spring Overcoming Transformation Agents Liberation Overcoming Fear Arab Spring Homegrown

Author:Roger Cohen

“Hip hop has always been, for us, for artists who are pure to the craft - any place overseas, whether it's Australia, any place in Asia, Germany, Africa, it becomes something where you can still go and work. Hip hop is an import culture. We're spoiled by it here. It's homegrown.”

Stills Artist Culture Pure Hip Hop Crafts Hips Germany Hops Australia Asia Spoiled Imports Homegrown

Author:Talib Kweli

“The practical reality that in order for us to identify homegrown violent extremism and prevent it or root it out before it takes action, we are going to need the cooperation of Muslim communities in this country.”

Needs Country Reality Action Order Community Roots Violent Practicals Cooperation Extremism Muslim Community Homegrown

Author:Marco Rubio

“And so to dismiss these homegrown terrorists as boobs, which is one of the terms that was used in one of the New York newspapers after the Miami raid, is true now, but to bet on that is I think a sure way to lose your bank account.”

Thinking Way Used Term Loses New York Accounts Terrorist Newspapers Miami Bank Accounts Homegrown

Author:Michael Scheuer

“Rwanda is a very open and free country. Key to our recovery as a nation has a range of grassroots, citizen-centered polices we call "homegrown solutions." The idea that Rwanda is highly controlled from the center belies the reality, which is that citizens in every village have a powerful say in how things get done. We prize accountability and Rwandans are quickly adapting themselves to the possibilities of a digital economy.”

“I held four clean aces. I had youth, almost a decade of hard-core bar band experience, a good group of homegrown musicians who were attuned to my performance style and a story to tell.”

Hard Stories Four Groups Style Youth Band Musician Performances Clean Decades Core Bars Aces Hard Core Homegrown

Author:Bruce Springsteen

“I wanted to move on. I wanted to do acting. The next thing I did after [MADtv] was a good hybrid of that. I did this show with Bob Odenkirk and Derek Waters (creator of Comedy Central's "Drunk History") and it was a little homegrown thing that we shot and then we sold it to HBO. We made a pilot and HBO didn't pick it up, but then we made all these webisodes. This was before streaming stuff online made any sense. (The episodes are available on YouTube). Nobody even knew how to watch things on the internet.”

Littles Made Shows Wanted Moving Next Stuff Water Acting Watches Comedy Internet Picks Shots Creator Available Drunk Online Pilots Bob Episodes Youtube Hybrid Streaming Hbo Homegrown

Author:Simon Helberg

“I was a guitar player on the streets of Asbury Park and already a member in good standing amongst those who lie in service of the truth - artists with a small A. But I held four clean aces. I had youth, almost a decade of hardcore bar band experience, a good group of homegrown musicians who were attuned to my performance style, and a story to tell.”

Stories Lying Artist Four Player Groups Streets Style Youth Band Members Musician Standing Performances Clean Guitar Decades Bars Parks Guitar Player Hardcore Aces Homegrown Those Who Lie

Author:Bruce Springsteen

“Let me be very clear: We monitor the risks of violent extremism taking root here in the United States. We don't have the luxury of focusing our efforts on one group; we must protect the country from terrorism whether foreign or homegrown, and regardless of the ideology that motivates its violence.”

Country States United Effort United States Clear Violence Risk Groups Protect Roots Let Me Terrorism Violent Ideology Luxury Extremism Homegrown

Author:Janet Napolitano

“People in Scotland appreciate homegrown talent, but it's getting harder and harder to get films made in Britain.”

People Made Film Talent Appreciate Harder Britain Scotland Homegrown

Author:Robert Carlyle

“I think that marijuana should not only be legal, I think it should be a cottage industry. It would be wonderful for the state of Maine. There's some pretty good homegrown dope. I'm sure it would be even better if you could grow it with fertilizers and have greenhouses.”

Source: Bare bones: conversations on terror with Stephen King

“Everybody can see that my swing is homegrown. That means everybody has a chance to do it.”

Mean Chance Golf Swings Golfers Golfing Bubba Golf Swing Homegrown

Author:Bubba Watson

“Home grown tomatoes, home grown tomatoes What would life be like without homegrown tomatoes Only two things that money can't buy That's true love and home grown tomatoes.”

Two Home Life Is Food Summer Cooking Two Things Culinary Life Is Like Tomatoes Homegrown

Author:John Denver

“We are taking challenges and turning them into opportunities by developing homegrown, local energy production to become independent from foreign sources.”

Opportunity Energy Challenges Source Independent Productions Locals Developing Independent Women Homegrown Energy Production

Author:Mitch Daniels

“My music is homegrown from the garden of New Orleans. Music is everything to me short of breathing. Music also has a role to lift you up - not to be escapist but to take you out of misery.”

Roles Music Is Garden Misery Breathing Lifts New Orleans Escapists Lift You Up Homegrown

Author:Allen Toussaint

“Remember, aid cannot achieve the end of poverty. Only homegrown development base on the dynamism of individuals and firms in free markets can do that.”

Ends Remember Individual Can Do Poverty Achieve Development Aids Firm Free Market Dynamism Homegrown

Book:The White Man's Burden: Why the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good

Source: The White Man's Burden: Why the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good

“There is no celebrity quite as powerful as the local, homegrown celebrity.”

Powerful Locals Homegrown

Author:Tony Wilson

“Given the level of anti-Americanism in the world, given the level of frustration with the United States throughout the Muslim world, you've got a homegrown attack or you have a nuclear explosion in the air that is not a test somewhere. Those are still the biggest threats out there.”

World Stills States Given Levels United United States Air Tests Threat Nuclear Frustration Explosions Muslim World Americanism Homegrown

Author:Robert D. Kaplan