Carrots

The carrot (Daucus carota subsp. sativus) is a root vegetable, usually orange in colour, though purple, red, white, and yellow varieties exist.  It has a crisp texture when fresh.  The most commonly eaten part of a carrot is a taproot, although the greens are sometimes eaten as well. 

One carrot

Quotes

• I have the right to do whatever I wish with my property.  If I own a pile of wood, I can set fire to it even if it is currently nailed together in the shape of a barn.  Cigarettes may not be healthy for me in the long run, but I have the freedom to smoke them anyway.  Drinking alcohol may or may not have negative side effects, but even if it does, the government has no authority to prohibit you from consuming it, even if it is "in your own best interest."  Since when do we let the government decide what is or isn't good for us?  What the hell does Congress know about nutrition, anyway?  (For that matter, what does Congress know about the Constitution?)  If the government can use force whenever something is "in our best interest" then government should force everyone to wake up at 6am every morning for calisthenics in the front yard.  Fast food establishments should be torn down and replaced with bars that serve carrot juice and alfalfa sprouts, since—"it's in your best interest."  This paternalistic attitude that "the government knows best" and that you are merely a helpless child is insulting and reprehensible.  Hitler used the same attitude to persuade the Germans to subjugate themselves to the "Fatherland."
  • Michael Badnarik, Good to be King (2004).

• Vladimir:  Was I sleeping, while the others suffered?  Am I sleeping now?  Tomorrow, when I wake, or think I do, what shall I say of today?  That with Estragon my friend, at this place, until the fall of night, I waited for Godot?  That Pozzo passed, with his carrier, and that he spoke to us?  Probably.  But in all that what truth will there be?  [Estragon, having struggled with his boots in vain, is dozing off again.  Vladimir looks at him.]  He'll know nothing.  He'll tell me about the blows he received and I'll give him a carrot.  [Pause.]  Astride of a grave and a difficult birth.  Down in the hole, lingeringly, the grave digger puts on the forceps.  We have time to grow old.  The air is full of our cries.  [He listens.]  But habit is a great deadener.  [He looks again at Estragon.]  At me too someone is looking, of me too someone is saying, He is sleeping, he knows nothing, let him sleep on.  [Pause.]  I can't go on!  [Pause.]  What have I said?
  • Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot, Act II (1952).

• Yes, a bunch of carrots, observed directly, painted simply in the personal way one sees it, worth more than the Ecole’s everlasting slices of buttered bread, that tobacco-juice painting, slavishly done by the book?  The day is coming when a single original carrot will give birth to a revolution
  • Paul Cézanne, "What I know or have seen of his life," Joachim Gasquet’s Cézanne, a Memoir with Conversations, (1897–1906), p. 68.

• From that day on, we was always together.  Jenny and me was like peas and carrots.
  • Forrest Gump (played by Tom Hanks), Forrest Gump (1994).

• If carrots got you drunk, rabbits would be fucked up.
  • Mitch Hedberg, Strategic Grill Locations

• When The Carrot is done with you, you will be nothing but a kumquat!
  • Phil (played by Jeff Garlin), Daddy Day Care (2003).

• And as we descended, cries of impending doom rose from the soil.  One thousand, nay a million voices full of fear.  And terror possesed me then.  And I begged, "Angel of the Lord, what are these tortured screams?"  And the angel said unto me, "These are the cries of the carrots, the cries of the carrots!  You see, Reverend Maynard, tomorrow is harvest day and to them it is the holocaust."  And I sprang from my slumber drenched in sweat like the tears of one million terrified brothers and roared, "Hear me now, I have seen the light!  They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul!  Damn you!  Let the rabbits wear glasses!  Save our brothers!"
  • Tool, "Disgustipated," Undertow (1993).

• I didn't climb to the top of the fuckin' food chain to eat carrots.
  • Ron White, They Call Me Tater Salad