Fruit Quotes · Page 34

Above anything, welcome silence, for it brings fruits that no tongue can speak of, neither can it be explained.

— Anonymous

“Any seed that is planted by God bears fruit even before it touches the ground.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

Good intentions are very mortal and perishable things. Like very mellow and choice fruit, they are difficult to keep.

— Charles Simmons

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

— C.S. Lewis

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

“Love is a banana. First you peel it, and then you roll on the condom.
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— Dark Jar Tin Zoo

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

— Brian K. Vaughan

Look upon yourself as a tree planted beside the water, which bears its fruit in due season; the more it is shaken…

— Margaret Mary Alacoque

Instead of trying to blend in and be like everyone else, be proud of and celebrate your unique differences and qualities. A…

— Sean Covey

“Plants are more courageous than almost all human beings: an orange tree would rather die than produce lemons, whereas instead of dying…

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

As a matter of fact, I was going to offer you something.” “What did you have in mind?” "A field trip. You…

— Rachel Vincent

Average tariffs between rich countries are only 3 per cent. But developing countries face tariffs of more than 300 per cent in…

— Hilary Benn

Ever since Eve gave Adam that forbidden fruit, demonizing and disbelieving women has been the planet-wide policy. You don't need to reach…

— Bari Weiss

Many individual growers now are growing organic fruit, and many are taking it upon themselves to market their own products to the…

— Greg Walden

I believe that pain can be a rite of passage into learning. I believe that the worse thing that can happen is…

— Guillermo del Toro

It is evident that the right of acquiring and possessing property, and having it protected, is one of the natural, inherent, and…

— William Paterson

Humans! They lived in a world where the grass continued to be green and the sun rose every day and flowers regularly…

— Terry Pratchett

Only about seventy years ago was chemistry, like a grain of seed from a ripe fruit, separated from the other physical sciences.…

— Anonymous

What brings the karmic result from the patterns of our actions is not our action alone. As we intend and then act,…

— Jack Kornfield

Now the autumn shudders In the rose's root. Far and wide the ladders Lean among the fruit. Now the autumn clambers Up…

— Edna St. Vincent Millay

In the relationship of friends: "Each gives to the other, and each receives, and the fruit of the intercourse is more than…

— Hugh Black

“A manager's most important work is helping the people doing the work. Give them a goal and let them work. Remove any…

— Ken Schwaber

But an opinion that it is possible for the present generation to seize and use the property of future generations has produced…

— John Taylor of Caroline

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

— James Russell Lowell

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

— Mark Twain

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

— Rae Foley

…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

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

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

— John Steinbeck

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

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

— Aiden Wilson Tozer

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

— Margaret Sanger

“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

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

— Merle Travis