I also tried to focus on songs that Billie Holiday wrote, songs that she had a hand in shaping, like "Strange Fruit";… — Jose James Copy Share Image
Be true to Love. Do not betray Her. Then, on the day that the forest of the mind bursts into flames, you… — Mooji Copy Share Image
Peppermint swirled into my nostrils, sharp as glass, then raspberry almost to sweet, like too-ripe fruit. Apple, crisp and pure. Nuts, buttery,… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
Mackenzie, you cannot produce trust, just as you cannot 'do' humility. It either is or is not. Trust is the fruit of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Private Property, the Law of Accumulation of Wealth, and the Law of Competition... these are the highest results of human experience, the… — Andrew Carnegie Copy Share Image
When we don’t put the brakes on our self-absorption, we have nothing stopping us from total self-destruction. We become the fruits of… — Zeena Schreck Copy Share Image
...when you buy just two or three tons from a grower, they see the artisan work you do with their grapes, and… — John Bennett Ramsey Copy Share Image
Liberty has not only enemies which it conquers, but perfidious friends, who rob the fruits of its victories: Absolute democracy, socialism. — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
It's a bunch of bull! If God, or nature, or whatever you want to call it didn't want you to mix carbohydrates,… — Jack LaLanne Copy Share Image
Be conscious of yourself, watch your mind, give it your full attention. Don't look for quick results; there may be none within… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
That's the hard part of overdosing on cherries-you have all the pits to tell you exactly how many you ate. Not more… — Andy Warhol Copy Share Image
... A La Recherche du Temps Perdu is like a beautiful hand with long fingers reaching out to pluck a perfect fruit,… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
When we want culture more than potatoes, and illumination more than sugar-plums, then the great resources of a world are taxed anddrawn… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
In keeping with original Mormon teachings, much of the property in Hildale and Colorado City is held in trust for the church.… — Scott Anderson Copy Share Image
When oranges came in, a curious proceeding was gone through. Miss Jenkyns did not like to cut the fruit, for, as she… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
There is no logical basis to support the theory that plants feel pain. The dubious possibility that they might, however, is no… — Joanne Stepaniak Copy Share Image
No other profession is subject to the public contempt and derision that sometimes befalls lawyers. the bitter fruit of public incomprehension of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Everyone who enjoys supposes that the tree was concerned with the fruit, but it was really concerned with the seed. -In this… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
A man watches his pear-tree day after day, impatient for the ripening of the fruit. Let him attempt to force the process,… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Wine is one of the most complex of all beverages: the fruit of a soil, climate, and vintage, digested by a fungus… — Neel Burton Copy Share Image
The more we touch the intimate love of God which creates, sustains, and guides us, the more we recognize the multitude of… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
For me, making music is about my whole life. The basics, the components, simple things - family, living, just going to the… — Neneh Cherry Copy Share Image
I remember going on adventures with my older brother and, when I was 11, being allowed to go to the corner shop… — Jack Monroe Copy Share Image
The root of any film project for me is this inner need to express something. What nurtures this root and makes it… — Akira Kurosawa Copy Share Image
Please, try to eat a bit less meat, a bit more veggies from today. Let it become a habit gradually until not… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
The last, best fruit which comes to late perfection, even in the kindliest soul, is tenderness toward the hard, forbearance toward the… — Jean Paul Copy Share Image
The mind sees, the will commands, the man acts. What is it then to act? To act is to produce something. If… — Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire Copy Share Image
The discernment of a vocation is above all the fruit of an intimate dialogue between the Lord and his disciples. Young people,… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
I don't want to sound like Catherine Cookson but I've worked since I was eight, with a paper round and in a… — Paul O'Grady Copy Share Image
Put simply, Clean Eating is avoiding all processed food, relying on fresh fruits, vegetables and whole grains rather than prepackaged or fast… — Tosca Reno Copy Share Image
I like pork chops and country ham, creamed potatoes, stuff like that. Redeye gravy. It comes from ham, bacon, stuff like that.… — Elvis Presley Copy Share Image
I'm just not into baking, really. Although I love brownies. That's the only bake I'd really do. And I'm good at doing… — Alison Hammond Copy Share Image
Sometimes our fate resembles a fruit tree in winter. Who would think that those branches would turn green again and blossom, but… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
It should be noted that the seeds of wisdom that are to bear fruit in the intellect are sown less by critical… — Carl von Clausewitz Copy Share Image
Act is the blossom of thought; and joy and suffering are its fruits; thus does a man garner in the sweet and… — James Allen Copy Share Image
Intelligence is the flower of discrimination. There are many examples of the flower blooming but not bearing fruit. Bushido is in being… — Nabeshima Naoshige Copy Share Image
The crooked little tomato branches, pulpy and pale as if made of cheap green paper, broke under the weight of so much… — John Updike Copy Share Image
A dead hydrangea is as intricate and lovely as one in bloom. Bleak sky is as seductive as sunshine, miniature orange trees… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
Love labour: for if thou dost not want it for food, thou mayest for physique. It is wholesome for the body, and… — William Penn Copy Share Image
I love New York on summer afternoons when everyone's away. There's something very sensuous about it - overripe, as if all sorts… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image