Fruit Quotes · Page 19

Not the fruit of experience, but experience itself, is the end.

— Walter Pater

I was a veritable Johnny Appleseed of grand expectations, and all I reaped for my trouble was a harvest of bitter fruit.

— Elizabeth Gilbert

He who gives up action falls. He who gives up the reward rises. But renunciation of fruit in no way means indifference…

— Mahatma Gandhi

Yes, all my illusions will burn into illumination of joy, and all my desires ripen into fruits of love.

— Rabindranath Tagore

Sir, he throws away his money without thought and without merit. I do not call a tree generous that sheds its fruit…

— Samuel Johnson

I am disappointed to find myself accused in some papers of supplying the offending sweets, particularly as I am a fruit pastille…

— Alastair Cook

There were many fruit trees in our house when I was growing up and I never missed climbing any of them.

— Babu Antony

All our civilization is based on invention; before invention, men lived on fruits and nuts and pine cones and slept in caves.

— Reginald Fessenden

Whatever crisis you are going through, fruit will come from it. Allow the crisis to bring fruit.

— Beth Moore

In the Garden of Eden Eve showed more courage than Adam.. when the serpent offered the forbidden fruit. She knew that there…

— Cesare Borgia

On Earth Day, we celebrate all the gifts the world and nature make available to us. We recognize our complete dependence on…

— John Hoeven

I pity the man who can travel from Dan to Beersheba, and cry, 'Tis all barren--and so it is; and so is…

— Laurence Sterne

Tax dollars go to projects that have little or nothing to do with the public good things like fruit fly research in…

— Sarah Palin

Broken lines do not know what they want. With their caprices they cut time up, abuse routes, slash the joyous flowers and…

— Rene Crevel

I feel nothing but the accursed happiness I have dreaded all my life long: the happiness that comes as life goes, the…

— George Bernard Shaw

Wherefore did Nature pour her bounties forth With such a full and unwithdrawing hand, Covering the earth with odours, fruits, flocks, Thronging…

— John Milton

As a toy fruit or a toy elephant reminds one of the real fruit and the living animal, so do the images…

— Ramakrishna

But the poor person does not exist as an inescapable fact of destiny. His or her existence is not politically neutral, and…

— Gustavo Gutiérrez

This world in which we live needs beauty in order not to sink into despair. It is beauty, like truth, which brings…

— Pope Paul VI

I feel like I have a lot more freedom to make these decisions to kind of sit back and enjoy the fruits…

— Cristina Goyanes

You have lost your reason and taken the wrong path. You have taken lies for truth, and hideousness for beauty. You would…

— Anton Chekhov

The true Southern watermelon is a boon apart, and not to be mentioned with commoner things. It is chief of this world'd…

— Mark Twain

You can create substances with other naturally grown substances and you can synthesize beautiful bouquets of flowers without spending an arm and…

— Horst Rechelbacher

To burn always with this hard, gemlike flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life . . . Not the fruit…

— Walter Pater

“... with San Mateo food writer Merrin McGregor's irresistible recipe, you can have your French Toast -- and eat it, too. It's…

— Jackie Burrell

Generally, I snack on lots of fresh fruit and raw nuts, such as almonds.

— Mary Helen Bowers

I'm very lucky because I love fruit and to this day, that has saved me because I'd much rather have fruit than…

— Carrie Ann Inaba

The more colorful the food, the better. I try to add color to my diet, which means vegetables and fruits.

— Misty May-Treanor

I cannot help thinking that it is more natural to have flowers grow out of the head than fruit.

— Jane Austen

There are some people in this world who would never plant a seed because it doesn't produce fruit the first season.

— Ralph Nader

As a father of four, I want our children to enjoy the freedoms and opportunities that are the fruit of progressive values.

— Stephen Pagliuca

Art is a fruit that grows in man, like a fruit on a plant, or a child in its mother's womb.

— Anonymous

“Plant the seeds you have, the Evejah’ting said. For they may bear unexpected fruit.”

— Peter V. Brett

I eat lots of fruit for breakfast because it's cleansing and quickly digested by the body.

— Claudia Schiffer

I try to eat fruit and veggies and meat and all the different categories and have a well rounded diet.

— Andrew Luck

How is it possible to live like a machine and bear fruit like a tree?

— Douglas Wilson

You have first an instinct, then an opinion, then a knowledge, as the plant has root, bud, and fruit.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

When we rejoice in our fullness, then we can part with our fruits with joy.

— Rabindranath Tagore

“I want the flower and fruit of a man; that some fragrance be wafted over from him to me, and some ripeness…

— Henry David Thoreau

Faith does not proceed from ourselves, but is the fruit of spiritual regeneration.

— John Calvin