Banana Quotes

Here, we’ve compiled a list of the best Banana Quotes from famous authors such as Vincent Bugliosi, Trish Regan, Gary Jennings, Mireille Enos, Kolo Toure. Let’s look at these pieces of wisdom. We definitely have something to learn from them!

1
This is America, not a banana republic.
Vincent Bugliosi
2
A banana republic we are not.
Trish Regan
3
When I was living in Mexico and writing a book called ‘Aztec,’ I had to make a deliberate effort to ignore a lot of the ‘typically Mexican landscape’ around me – banana and citrus groves, roses and carnations, burros and toros – because they did not exist in Mexico in the 15th century, the time of my book.
Gary Jennings
4
I’m positive and I smile a lot, and I’m kind of a banana, but serious work just seems to find me, so I’m not going to argue with it.
Mireille Enos
5
My wish was to finish my career at Arsenal, but there are always banana skins.
Kolo Toure
6
I compost at home. I’m always taking old banana peels, eggshells, coffee beans, or whatever it is, and putting them in a compost bin and then using it in my backyard.
Peyton List
7
I cannot go to Montreal without going to Beauty’s, my favorite place for breakfast, where I have the Mish-Mash omelet with hot dogs, salami, eggs, green peppers, and onions, and the best banana bread in the world. It’s legendary!
Gail Simmons
8
When we arrived in the U.K. on the banana boat, we settled right by Old Trafford.
Theo Paphitis
9
My favorite dessert is banana pudding.
Lennon Parham
10
An hour and a half before games, I always eat fruit – a banana, an apple, and an orange – because I’m trying to get natural energy. You get natural sugars and natural energy from that.
Serge Ibaka
11
I love making smoothies post-workout. My favorite – depending on the day – is either a chocolate whey protein shake with banana and peanut butter, or one with vanilla and berries.
Parker Young
12
Honduras was the original ‘banana republic,’ and its poverty remains extreme.
Elliott Abrams
13
I never looked at being second banana to anybody, I never felt that way, ever. If other people did, that’s the way they looked at it, but I never did.
Christian Cage
14
I had to be sick for a scene in the first season, and we used some fruit smoothies with little banana chunks. I had to put it in my mouth and spit it out. It was absolutely delicious.
Thomas Middleditch
15
I blow up fireworks all the time, and I love making milkshakes and banana splits.
Chris Isaak
16
My son Simon had one of Elvis’s favorite meals when we visited Graceland – a peanut butter and banana sandwich. Fried! Can you imagine the cholesterol?
Christopher Timothy
17
My favorite healthy foods are Jamaican chicken soup, Jamaican chicken stew peas, Jamaican brown stew chicken, plantains and banana chips.
Sanya Richards-Ross
18
There’s nobody more opposite from John Shaft than a kid who worships a banana as his god.
Richard Roundtree
19
Usually I like to work out in the morning before I eat. After the workout, I like to eat a banana and definitely some oatmeal for a little bit extra boost.
Kacy Catanzaro
20
In a pinch, when my leather shoes need a quick shine, I take the inside of a banana peel and rub it on the leather like I would a shoe wax. Then I spit-shine it and buff it with a cloth, and my shoes look great.
Chris Diamantopoulos
21
I normally don’t love green juices, but Body & Eden makes theirs tasty by blending ingredients like avocado and banana with the usual suspects like kale and spinach. Delicious as they are, they’re low calorie, and the drink names are catchy: I Have Balance, I Have Energy, and my favorite, I Have Calm.
Gayle King
22
I like getting my hand raised and I’ll take it any way I can get it. Slipping on a banana peel, by the skin of my teeth. By any means, you know?
Benson Henderson
23
Treated more like a vegetable than a fruit, plantains can be prepared in various ways depending on their stage of ripeness. Just like a banana, the further the fruit ripens, the more of its starch is converted to sugar.
Sohla El-Waylly
24
I feel pretty good. My body actually looks like an old banana, but it’s fine.
Mike Piazza
25
I used to work for a management consulting company, so I dressed differently – business casual, probably a lot of things from Banana Republic. My wardrobe now is definitely more expensive, but I always dress for the occasion.
John Legend
26
In the D’Acampo family we have pancakes with banana and chocolate sauce for breakfast every Sunday, no matter what.
Gino D’Acampo
27
The best part of Onam is the food. For breakfast, we have ila ada and boiled bananas with banana chips, it’s a brilliant combination.
Anupama Parameswaran
28
Before the military coup in Chile, we had the idea that military coups happen in Banana Republics, somewhere in Central America. It would never happen in Chile. Chile was such a solid democracy. And when it happened, it had brutal characteristics.
Isabel Allende
29
I did, of course, eventually find my way into television, taking all kinds of jobs, climbing the ranks rung by rung. Anyway, it was several years later, when I was working nationally in Hollywood as the announcer and second banana on ABC-TV’s late-night entry, ‘The Joey Bishop Show,’ that I had my big moment.
Regis Philbin
30
I want to sit down, and I want to laugh. Nothing works better for me than watching somebody slip on a banana peel.
Diane Lane
31
I think Chris Rock at the Oscars was a great example. I thought that was intellectually hilarious. The Gap starts a war with Banana Republic… That to me was funny.
Christopher Meloni
32
During a fight with Anderson Silva, I slipped on an imaginary banana peel.
Forrest Griffin
33
If you bite and chew the peel of a banana, then eat the fruit of the banana itself, you will find that it tastes like a tomato. I swear.
Mae Martin
34
I speak as the journalist who, on the first day back at work for ‘The Daily Telegraph’ after the birth of my daughter, went to interview Tom Hanks with an epaulette of banana sick on my jacket.
Allison Pearson
35
I’m a baker. I’m really good at muffins. I’m really good at banana bread. I’m really good at making cookies. I’m really good at making biscuits – all the really bad stuff.
Molly Sims
36
I love to create this green juice shake made from kale, spinach, cucumber and wheatgrass. The nutrients in the juice help me recover after a tough workout. The Kale Banana Smoothie at LYFE Kitchen is very similar to my recipe and is fantastic.
Troy Polamalu
37
I’m a busy mom and I’m a big snacker throughout the day, so I’ll do everything from leftovers from what my children did not eat, whether that’s like a half bowl of cereal or a banana or whatever.
Hilaria Baldwin
38
Above Hilo, broad lands sweeping up cloudwards, with their sugar cane, kalo, melons, pine-apples, and banana groves suggest the boundless liberality of Nature.
Isabella Bird
39
I am Amaxon Corazon Junia Principia Delgado the Third, and I bent over my meal and wept luxurious tears into my green banana porridge. It was a perfect decoction, and it now would not satisfy me.
Nalo Hopkinson
40
Home-made smoothies are a great way of satisfying a sweet tooth. Adding in things like frozen banana will make it taste super sweet and creamy.
Ella Woodward
41
I used to go to Haagen-Dazs and order three banana splits at a time!
Jennifer Jason Leigh
42
Something will pop up in my head. It could be like the weirdest thing. Like all’a sudden like I have like a jumping banana in my head.
Ryan Lochte
43
I love Banana Boat’s brand. They don’t test on animals; they’re natural. Their kids’ products are amazing.
Busy Philipps
44
We are not a banana republic.
Robert C. O’Brien
45
I think cheese smells funny, but I feel bananas ‘are’ funny. I’m assuming Swamp told the whole story of the executives seriously asking us to replace the banana with cheese because they thought it was funnier.
Joe Murray
46
I used to love martial arts movies starring Bruce Lee and Jean Claude Van Damme. In one of Van Damme’s movies, he would break a pine tree. I would kick banana trees because I used to live on a farm. My father would get mad at me because I would break all of the banana trees around.
Glover Teixeira
47
I was asked to go in a banana suit once or eat as many doughnuts as possible. I would not do those things. I don’t eat doughnuts so why would I eat 20.
Adebayo Akinfenwa
48
Without hurting anybody, we all tend to laugh at others’ discomfort. When someone slips on a banana skin and falls it’s funny.
Shah Rukh Khan
49
Banana republics are run on cronyism.
Ratan Tata
50
It so fascinates me how we always laugh when somebody falls on a banana peel, how comedy and injury are often so interwoven. I’ve always been a sucker for that.
James Lapine
51
My next book’s title is going to be, ‘I Have One Foot in the Grave and Another on a Banana Peel.’
Teri Garr
52
When you slip on a banana peel, people laugh at you; but when you tell people you slipped on a banana peel, it’s your laugh. So you become the hero rather than the victim of the joke.
Nora Ephron
53
I have the same thing every day. I find it comforting. I have a banana, but I can never eat the whole banana. And I’ll drink a couple of Actimels. And some kind of cereal with almond milk. And then after that, I have a Coke.
Brandon Flowers
54
As far as I’m concerned, when the Queen, who we all love very much, is finished with her reign then Britain should go and stop being a banana republic as it is when we have the royal family and become a real republic.
Steve Hilton
55
Comfortably middle-class, I had shopped for years at the likes of Saks outlet Off Fifth, Banana Republic, and Zara. My mom raised me to believe clothes should be comfortable and practical, not frivolous.
Christina Binkley
56
The people went out and voted the banana man, and the Tabulation Center counted the tally sheets.
Jovenel Moise
57
Although the plantain is a staple ingredient in cuisines around the world, its not as popular in America as the banana just yet. However, with its limitless versatility, the plantain should make its way into your cooking repertoire if it hasnt already.
Sohla El-Waylly
58
And I don’t want my assets to be stuck inside a banana republic in the midst of a huge socialist experiment.
Porter Stansberry
59
What I do normally is I do the cardio, then I’ll eat – protein shake, oatmeal, banana – then I’ll hit the gym, and I’ll be in the gym for two hours.
Jinder Mahal
60
Indeed it is possible to stand with one foot on the inevitable ‘banana peel’ of life with both eyes peering into the Great Beyond, and still be happy, comfortable, and serene – if we will even so much as smile.
Douglas Fairbanks
61
I drink a lot of Body Armor – it’s a sports drink. It offers great hydration, and it’s the best before/after drink for workouts. Orange mango is my favorite. Strawberry banana is a close second.
Andrew Luck
62
You have to give people permission to laugh. That’s why they would always cut to the banana peel in the Laurel and Hardy movies.
Danny DeVito
63
I love aloe vera, and I apply a lot of fruit and vegetable pulp as masks on my skin – fresh tomatoes, banana, avocado – anything that is around me.
Kirti Kulhari
64
I usually run in the morning and like to have something substantial but light to eat before and after. My go-to choices are either a banana with almond butter or a smoothie.
Christy Turlington
65
I resent the label on cigarettes. If they’re going to warn you, why don’t they put the same sign at the entrance to every freeway or on every banana that’s sold? You can slip on the peel, you know.
Peter Graves
66
We have little bags we pack specifically for touch-up makeup if you’re chosen for the top 16. I knew I had to sneak in my banana because nothing calms my nerves like it! I don’t know if it’s the potassium, but I need it before I get on stage because it always calms me down.
Olivia Culpo