Fourteen Kids, Two Dads, One Mom, Two Nannies, Two…

The first day of Christmas, My true love sent to me A partridge in a pear tree.

— Anonymous

You should go to a pear tree for pears, not to an elm.

— Publilius Syrus

Oh to be a pear tree – any tree in bloom! With kissing bees singing of the beginning of the world!

— Zora Neale Hurston

She was stretched on her back beneath the pear tree soaking in the alto chant of the visiting bees, the gold of the sun…

— Zora Neale Hurston

There was a man who had four sons. He wanted his sons to learn not to judge things too quickly. So he sent them…

— Anonymous

“Standing now, apparently transfixed, by the pear tree, impressions poured in upon her of those two men, and to follow her thought was like…

— Virginia Woolf

“They drove up Third Avenue so that they might see the famous Stuyvesant pear tree on the corner of Thirteenth Street. Again for the…

— Anya Seton

A man watches his pear-tree day after day, impatient for the ripening of the fruit. Let him attempt to force the process, and he…

— Abraham Lincoln

The Poplar grows up straight and tall, The Pear-tree spreads along the wall,

— Sara Coleridge

old pear tree starlings announce harvest time

— Phil Noble

Phyllis Diller's Christmas Advice : Never stand under a partride in a pear tree.

— Phyllis Diller

A pear tree is blooming, by a collapsed house, on an old battlefield.

— Masaoka Shiki

A pear-tree planted nigh: 'Twas charg'd with fruit that made a goodly show, And hung with dangling pears was every bough.

— Alexander Pope

Laughing, laughing, laughing, laughing! It is the jester! A voice from the Void, to cheer poor Cicero! I accept your gift, dearest Night Mother.…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

My mother says I didn't open my eyes for eight days after I was born, but when I did, the first thing I saw…

— Elizabeth Taylor