These Banana quotes will inspire you. A banana is an elongated, edible fruit botanically a berry produced by several kinds of large herbaceous flowering plants in the genus Musa.
Below you will find a collection of motivating, knowledgeable, and encouraging Banana quotes, Banana sayings, and Banana proverbs.
Best Banana Quotes
- “Goals are like bananas, they come in bunches.” ~ Brendan Morrison
- “Life is full of banana skins. You slip, you carry on.” ~ Daphne Guinness
- “Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana” ~ Groucho Marx
- “My mother always used to say: ‘The older you get, the better you get, unless you’re a banana.'” ~ Betty White
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“Never make eye contact with anyone while eating a banana” ~ Harry Styles
- “Any ape can reach for a banana, but only humans can reach for the stars.” ~ Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
- “Intellectual property has the shelf life of a banana.” ~ Bill Gates , Banana quotes life
- “Never interrupt me when I’m eating a banana.” ~ Ryan Stiles
- “Yellow is a very favorable vibration for mental or intellectual activity, as it promotes a clear state of mind. Yellow heightens your awareness and alleviates depression, sadness, or any kind of despondency. Yellow vibration foods are: pineapples, bananas, grapefruit, lemons and corn.” ~ Tae Yun Kim
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“We share half our genes with the banana.” ~ Robert May, Baron May of Oxford
- “On a traffic light green means ‘go’ and yellow means ‘yield’, but on a banana it’s just the opposite. Green means ‘hold on,’ yellow means ‘go ahead,’ and red means, ‘where the hell did you get that banana at?'” ~ Mitch Hedberg
- “I always have bananas with me for energy.” ~ Samantha Bond
- “Whenever I try to spell ‘banana,’ I feel stupid because I don’t know when to end it.” ~ Demetri Martin
- “Yeah, I like cars and basketball. But you know what I like more? Bananas.” ~ Frankie Muniz
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“I look at you and wham, I’m head over heals. I guess that love is like a banana peel.” ~ Elvis Presley
- “Anything can happen. The great banana peel of existence is always on the floor somewhere.” ~ Robert Fulghum
- “How to defend yourself against a banana” ~ John Cleese
- “If you can’t think because you can’t chew, try a banana.” ~ Lee Kuan Yew
- “Well, it’s nice being top banana in the shock department.” ~ Audrey Hepburn
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“I bet you can’t eat ten bananas!” “I bet you’re right.” ~ Sarah Dessen
- “To be honest, I think bananas are a pathetic fruit.” ~ Andy Murray
- “I feel pretty good. My body actually looks like an old banana, but it’s fine.” ~ Mike Piazza
- “Going to do it to you sweet banana, like it’s never been done, and we’ll get high, high, high, in the mid-day sun.” ~ Paul McCartney
- “What a shame it is for a nation to be developing without a sense of beauty, and eating bananas for breakfast.” ~ Edith Wharton
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“No fruit dies so vile and offensive a death as the banana.” ~ Kiran Desai
- “Incompetence is a double-edged banana.” ~ John Perry Barlow
- “We are well on our way to becoming a banana republic in every respect except, of course, that we don’t grow bananas.” ~ Burt Prelutsky
- “My wife is on a new diet. Coconuts and bananas. She hasn’t lost weight, but can she climb a tree.” ~ Henny Youngman
- “A little rain, a little blood. Black fingernails in August; and going berserk, going bananas. As if entrapped in a tropical heatwave, with dozens of whirlwinds swirling in one’s mind, one thinks of a way out, or a way in: out of the scorching bosom of a volcano, and in – into the centre of a raging hurricane. And tracing the labyrinthine ways of your mind, the haphazard vagaries of your thoughts at ease, the odds and ends of your mental surplus you carelessly throw at the world, one wants to be at a loss, in a maze; amazed, and amazingly unabashed.” ~ Adam Zagajewski
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“I’m getting so old, I don’t even buy green bananas anymore.” ~ Chi Chi Rodriguez
- “You have to have a certain persona to be a star, you know, and I don’t have that. I’m a banana.” ~ Harvey Korman
- “Technology has the shelf life of a banana.” ~ Scott McNealy
- “Such a movement would cause the ACLU to go bananas!” ~ Donald Wildmon
- “I’ve heard that fact, that is you eat more than six bananas it will kill you. I saw a bowl with seven bananas in it and I thought, that’s dangerous.” ~ Karl Pilkington
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“You never know where to look when eating a banana.” ~ Peter Kay
- “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
- “Always take a banana to a party.” ~ Steven Moffat
- “A stockbroker urged me to buy a stock that would triple its value every year. I told him, ‘At my age, I don’t even buy green bananas.'” ~ Claude Pepper
- “You don’t come in here on Sunday with a big banana and expect everything to be peaches.” ~ Pauly D
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“Isn’t it interesting that eating a banana is somehow comical.” ~ Noam Chomsky
- “My friend asked me if I wanted a frozen banana. I said ‘No, but I want a regular banana later, so… yeah.'” ~ Mitch Hedberg
- “My family would be supportive if I said I wanted to be a Martian, wear only banana skins, make love to ashtrays, and eat tree bark.” ~ Casey Affleck
- “I’m going to buy some green bananas because by the time I get home they’ll be ripe.” ~ Ryan Stiles
- “He gazes through sunlight’s buttresses, back down the refectory at the others, wallowing in their plenitude of bananas, thick palatals of their hunger lost somewhere in the stretch of morning between them and himself. A hundred miles of it, so suddenly. Solitude, even among the meshes of this war, can when it wishes so take him by the blind gut and touch, as now, possessively. Pirate’s again some other side of a window, watching strangers eat breakfast.” ~ Thomas Pynchon
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“This is America, not a banana republic.” ~ Vincent Bugliosi
- “Bananas are great, as I believe them to be the only known cure for existential dread. Also, Mother Teresa said that in India, a woman dying in the street will share her banana with anyone who needs it, whereas in America, people amass and hoard as many bananas as they can to sell for an exorbitant profit. So half of them go bad, anyway.” ~ Anne Lamott
- “The adjective is the banana peel of the parts of speech.” ~ Clifton Fadiman
- “I was born in the Midwest, where “salad” was cherry Jell-O with bananas in it. Now children are more aware of healthy foods.” ~ Candy Crowley , Banana quotes healthy
- “I once stole a pornographic book that was printed in braille. I used to rub the dirty parts.” ~ Woody Allen
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“I would rather play Chiquita Banana and have my swimming pool than play Bach and starve.” ~ Xavier Cugat
- “You don’t want your credibility banana to turn brown, but you do want to speak out about what you believe in.” ~ Bradley Whitford
- “Democrats always like to brag that their guys are smarter than the opponents and Republicans always like to brag that their guys are more moral than the opponents. But if you’re looking for morals in politics you’re looking for bananas in the cheese department.” ~ Harry Shearer
- “If you try to to take my bananas from me, I will reclaim them from your cold dead hands.” ~ Terry Pratchett
- “I love seeing somebody act real earnest and serious, like Jackie Gleason. He makes me laugh because he reflects back to me my own serious-mindedness and how ridiculous it all is. It’s always easier to see somebody else in that position than yourself, and you laugh. It’s like the classic slipping on the banana peel, or someone getting hit by a pie in the face. Why do those things make us laugh? Is it from relief, like: Thank God it wasn’t me? Or is it something else: I’m being very serious now. I’m pontificating earnestly and solemnly about-POW! PIE IN THE FACE! The bust-up of certainty.” ~ Jeff Bridges
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“You get bunches of players like you do bananas, though that is a bad comparison.” ~ Kevin Keegan
- “Believe it or not, bananas do contain a small quantity of Musa Sapientum bananadine, which is a mild, short-lasting psychedelic.” ~ William Powell
- “What I love is a peanut butter and pickle sandwich. I’ll just have peanut butter and bananas, then peanut butter and pickles. Peanut butter and chocolate I don’t recommend.” ~ Dianne Wiest
- “I liked the banana-seat bikes with the high handlebars – maybe a card in the wheel could have been part of it.” ~ Stone Gossard
- “Chimpanzees is hatin but I take it all in stride. Put her in a jungle with bananas on the side.” ~ Nicki Minaj
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“and the bananas are overdone.” ~ Simone Elkeles
- “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.” ~ Nora Ephron
- “As great as Ed is, the wisdom out here is that he can’t carry a movie. They’ll pay him $3 million to be the second banana in Julia Roberts things. But they won’t put up $3 million for an Ed Harris movie.” ~ George A. Romero
- “My belief about acting in one foot on a banana peel and the other one in the grave.” ~ Mark Ruffalo
- “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
- “I’m like a navigator and I try to encourage our collaboration and find the best way that will produce fruit. I like fruit. I like cherries, I like bananas.” ~ Jim Jarmusch
