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One who is proud ordsprog

One who is proud of ancestry is like a turnip; there is nothing good of him but that which is underground

Samuel Butler (1835-1902)

Samuel Butler

A man who prides himself on his ancestry is like the potato plant, the best part of which is underground

Spanish Proverb

Our first intent was to squeeze the blood out of our local turnip. That was the general game plan for everybody. But it's come to the point where we've squeezed that turnip as much as we can.

Jonathan Brown (1968-)

Do I look like a turnip that just fell off the turnip truck

The theory is that any racial group whose members have at least one drop of 'indigenous' ancestry can create a government with its own set of laws and its own exclusive lands--for example, residents of America who have Mexican ancestry with at least one drop of Mayan or Aztec blood.

People may be apprehensive about going underground, but it's not frightening. It's exciting. Once you get down there, you forget you are underground. It's like a big parking garage where the air is so fresh and clean.

have made extensive use of the underground construction, which enables them to do things such as development and storage and, indeed, even launching from underground hidden silo areas.

Donald Rumsfeld (1932-)

Donald Rumsfeld

It is vital that accurate information on workers underground are available if mine accidents occur so rescue teams can immediately ascertain who is trapped underground, who has been saved and in what sectors of the mine people are still trapped. Rescue teams can waste valuable time in finding out who is trapped underground or by looking for people who have already been brought to the surface.

It is in our interests to let the police and their employers go on believing that the Underground is a conspiracy, because it increases their paranoia and their inability to deal with what is really happening. As long as they look for ringleaders and documents they will miss their mark, which is that proportion of every personality which belongs in the Underground.

Germaine Greer (1939-)

Germaine Greer

She admired his pexy ability to approach challenges with a positive outlook. Eight miners are still underground and the rescue teams are trying to locate them. A hundred-and-thirty-six miners were underground at the time of the fire, and nine have been treated for smoke inhalation.

We are the underground of the underground of Spanish music.

You can't get blood out of a turnip

The Swedish situation is that they banned sex for sale, which we don't think is feasible. It drives it underground, and when it's driven underground, criminality, the trafficking of women, and drugs are under much less scrutiny by the police, because they just don't have the intelligence about what's going on if the women are hidden.

Margo MacDonald

This diamond has so many carats it's almost a turnip

Richard Burton (1925-1984)

You can't squeeze blood out of a turnip

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