Fruit Quotes - page 4

The soul, too, has her virginity and must bleed a little before bearing fruit. (George Santayana)
I pop a beautiful sentence into my mouth and suck it like a fruit drop. View quote
Bohumil Hrabal
Even if I'd stayed [in the US to finish The Magnificent Ambersons I would've had to make compromises on the editing, but these would've been mine and not the fruit of confused and often semi-hysterical committees. If I had been there myself I would have found my own solutions and saved the pictures in a form which would have carried the stamp of my own effort. View quote
Orson Welles
The canker which the trunk conceals is revealed by the leaves, the fruit, or the flower. View quote
Metastasio
If you can show me how I can cling to that which is real to me, while teaching me a way into the larger society, then I will not only drop my defenses and my hostility, but I will sing your praises and help you to make the desert bear fruit. View quote
Ralph Ellison
Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand. Anyone may gather it and no limit is set. Everyone can reach this love through meditation, spirit of prayer, and sacrifice, by an intense inner life. View quote
Mother Teresa
Envy, like the worm, never runs but to the fairest fruit; like a cunning bloodhound, it singles out the fattest deer in the flock. View quote
Francis Beaumont
[P]ride has no intrinsic substance, being no more than the name given to the soul devouring itself. When that loathsome perversion of love has borne its fruit, it has another, more meaningful and weightier name. We call it hatred. View quote
Georges Bernanos
Speaking biologically, fruit in a slightly shriveled state is holding its respiration and energy consumption down to the lowest possible level. It is like a person in meditation: his metabolism, respiration, and calorie consumption reach an extremely low level. Even if he fasts, the energy within the body will be conserved. In the same way, when mandarin oranges grow wrinkled, when fruit shrivels, when vegetables wilt, they are in the state that will preserve their food value for the longest possible time. View quote
Masanobu Fukuoka
Even today, when an Aboriginal mother notices the first stirrings of speech in her child, she lets it handle the "things" of that particular country: leaves, fruit, insects and so forth. "We give our children guns and computer games," Wendy said. "They gave their children the land." View quote
Bruce Chatwin
I cannot help thinking that it is more natural to have flowers grow out of the head than fruit. (Jane Austen)
Fruit... it's just God showing off. "Look at all the colours I know!" View quote
Dylan Moran
If we spend the time we waste in sighing for the perfect golden fruit in fulfilling the conditions of its growth, happiness will come, must come. It is guaranteed in the very laws of the universe. If it involves some chastening and renunciation, well, the fruit will be all the sweeter for this touch of holiness.... View quote
Helen Keller
Phocion compared the speeches of Leosthenes to cypress-trees. "They are tall," said he, "and comely, but bear no fruit." View quote
Plutarch
It was truly very good reason that we should be beholden to God only, and to the favour of his grace, for the truth of so noble a belief, since from his sole bounty we receive the fruit of immortality, which consists in the enjoyment of eternal beatitude.... The more we give and confess to owe and render to God, we do it with the greater Christianity. View quote
Michel de Montaigne
There is, however, no advantage in reflections on the past further than may be of service to the present. For the future we must provide by maintaining what the present gives us and redoubling our efforts; it is hereditary to us to win virtue as the fruit of labour, and you must not change the habit, even though you should have a slight advantage in wealth and resources; for it is not right that what was won in want should be lost in plenty. View quote
Thucydides
The nuttes schell, thocht it be hard and teuch, Haldis the kirnill, and is delectabill. Sa lyis thair ane doctrine wyse aneuch, And full of fruit, under ane fenyeit Fabill. View quote
Robert Henryson
[Tax] dollars go to projects that have little or nothing to do with the public good - things like fruit fly research in Paris, France. I kid you not. View quote
Sarah Palin
The branch might seem like the fruit's origin: In fact, the branch exist because of the fruit. View quote
Rumi
As they say in Discworld, we are trying to unravel the Mighty Infinite using a language which was designed to tell one another where the fresh fruit was. View quote
Terry Pratchett
The flower and fruit of love are mine The ant, the fieldmouse and the mole. (Stevie Smith)
Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. Even as the stone of the fruit must break, that its heart may stand in the sun, so must you know pain. View quote
Kahlil Gibran
While bringing about reforms and improving institutions, we have to be cautious that while shaking the tree to remove the bad fruit, we do not bring down the tree itself. View quote
Pratibha Patil
Let us draw a lesson from nature, which always works by short ways. When the fruit is ripe, it falls. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
All our progress is an unfolding, like the vegetable bud. You have first an instinct, then an opinion, then a knowledge, as the plant has root, bud, and fruit. Trust the instinct to the end, though you can render no reason. It is vain to hurry it. By trusting it to the end it shall ripen into truth, and you shall know why you believe. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson