Fruit Quotes · Page 21

Okay, is anyone else worried that some of the fruit didn't fall far enough away from the tree?

— Brian K. Vaughan

Here come the hum the golden bees Underneath full blossomed trees, At once with glowing fruit and flowers crowned.

— James Russell Lowell

The chief fruit of the First World War was the Russian Revolution and the rise of Communism as a national power.

— Whittaker Chambers

Who has told you that the fruit belies the flower? For the fruit you have not tasted, and the flower you know…

— Murasaki Shikibu

“Sleep came like a fruit which falls into the hand almost before you have touched it.”

— C.S. Lewis

…to abuse the intellect for reasons of pride, vanity, or escape from responsibility, is the fruit of that same tree.

— Walter M. Miller, Jr

When there is no desire for fruit, there is also no temptation for untruth or himsa.

— Mahatma Gandhi

There's no disillusionment like learning that forbidden fruit can be unpleasant.

— Rae Foley

I adopted the theory of reincarnation when I was 26. Genius is experience. Some think to seem that it is a gift…

— Henry Ford

The truth is that, though we were justified by faith alone, the faith that justifies is never alone (it always produces fruit,…

— J. I. Packer

When enough Americans realize how rotten are the fruits of our policy of 'benign neglect,' how costly our prejudice is both in…

— John Howard Griffin

The story of the cursing of the fig tree is important for us today, for as the Jews of Jesus' time were…

— Eric D. Huntsman

Odd, isn't it, that a thief and a vagabond should repent, when so many who are rich and secure remain hard and…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

How about this?' Simmon asked me. "Which is worse, stealing a pie or killing Ambrose?" I gave it a moment's hard thought.…

— Patrick Rothfuss

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

Love labour: for if thou dost not want it for food, thou mayest for physique. It is wholesome for the body, and…

— William Penn

English Bohemianism is a curiously unluscious fruit. ... Inside this hothouse, huge lascivious orchids slide sensuously up the sweating windows, passion-flowers cross-pollinate…

— Alan Coren

Every time a resolve or a fine glow of feeling evaporates without bearing practical fruit is worse than a chance lost; it…

— William James

Our ancestors were eating meat over 2.5 million years ago. We mainly ate meat, fish, fruits, vegetables and nuts. We have to…

— Lionel Tiger

Each succeeding generation of Gods follow the example of the preceding ones: each generation have their wives, who raise up from the…

— Orson Pratt

The utterance of God is a lamp, whose light is these words: Ye are the fruits of one tree, and the leaves…

— Bahá'u'lláh

I used to go to this store called Draeger's and you had a little bit of that same feeling because this was…

— Sheena Iyengar

Koolaid is goyish. All Drake's Cakes are goyish. Pumpernickel is Jewish, and, as you know, white bread is very goyish. Instant potatoes…

— Lenny Bruce

What censorship accomplishes, creating an unreal and hypocritical mythology, fomenting an attraction for forbidden fruit, inhibiting the creative minds among us and…

— Judith Crist

For we were little Christian children and early learned the value of forbidden fruit.

— Mark Twain

“You are not honored for the fruit you pick, but for the trees you plant.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

If you have a great passion it seems that the logical thing is to see the fruit of it, and the fruit…

— Roman Polanski

Like begets like. We gather perfect fruit from perfect trees... . Abused soil brings forth stunted growths.

— Margaret Sanger

The worthiest people are the most injured by slander, as is the best fruit which the birds have been pecking at.

— Jonathan Swift

I have known the fruits of strikes. The bitter and the sweet. Hunger and music.

— Merle Travis

I do not believe the efforts of the international community to stop Iran's nuclear program will bear fruit.

— Ehud Barak

Better be jocund with the fruitful Grape Than sadden after none, or bitter, Fruit.

— Omar Khayyam

When the population is filled with peace and harmony it ripens like fruit that turns to rot in a jiff if not…

— John Lindberg

All that shimmers on the surface of the world, all that we call interesting, is the fruit of ignorance and inebriation.

— Emile M. Cioran

Men who have created new fruits in the world cannot create a system whereby those fruits may be eaten.

— John Steinbeck

The fruit is what really matters, not how gnarly or beautiful the apple tree is.

— Aiden Wilson Tozer

I've got a friend who has a juice business and he brings boxes round and fills up my fridge with fruit and…

— Phil Taylor

God is more interested in what we are than in what we do. He looks for fruit; we try to produce works.

— Chuck Smith

You strike me as one of those people who hands out fruit on Halloween.

— Anonymous

Poverty, disease, sorrow, imprisonment and other evils are the fruits borne by the tree of one's own sins.

— Chanakya