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
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
In a banana republic, one might slip on a banana peel but things do work – now and then for the people, albeit inefficiently and unreliably. – George Ayittey
There’s nobody more opposite from John Shaft than a kid who worships a banana as his god. – Richard Roundtree
Obama might think of himself as one, but he is not a dictator. We are not a banana republic yet. This is not an authoritarian form of government. This is a constitutional republic, and the president doesn’t allow or disallow. The president can’t buy or purchase. – Rush Limbaugh
My next book’s title is going to be, ‘I Have One Foot in the Grave and Another on a Banana Peel.’ – Teri Garr
