there was not a tree on the place, only the horrible prickly pear bushes thrusting out their distorted arms as if exulting… — Ethel M. Dell Copy Share Image
“The prettiest bottle, made of glass molded in a pattern of leaves, was half-filled with a colorless liquor. Her attention was caught… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
In the same [hospitable] manner that a Calabrian would press you to eat his pears. — Horace Copy Share Image
We complain and complain, but we have lived and seen the blossom -apple, pear, cherry, plum, almond blossom - in the sun;… — J. B. Priestley Copy Share Image
I put it (a still life of a pear, made by Manet, ed.) there (on the wall, next to Ingres' Jupiter, ed.),… — Edgar Degas Copy Share Image
His pear-shaped head, I could now see, was situated on top of a pear-shaped body, which his black gown caused to resemble… — Clive James Copy Share Image
Feelings come and go, unless you don't feel them. Then they stay, and hurt, and grow pear-shaped and weird. — David Duchovny Copy Share Image
As the children were sitting there eating pears, a girl came walking along the road from town. When she saw the children… — Astrid Lindgren Copy Share Image
'Pears like I prayed all the time, 'bout my work, everywhere, I prayed an' groaned to the Lord. — Harriet Tubman Copy Share Image
If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it. — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
It is commonly said by farmers, that a good pear or apple costs no more time or pains to rear, than a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Take shots at em, I guess you could call it a parody. But compared to D, they one-fourth from watermelon to a… — Drake Copy Share Image
To someone like Zurbaran, who paints still lifes, lemons and pears are the objects of art. But to the electronics engineer who… — Paul Virilio Copy Share Image
In London I had pear trees in my back garden, so I'd make my own pear and green tomato chutney. — Stephen Moyer Copy Share Image
“Taking as deep a breath as the stays would allow, she became aware of a sweetly spicy scent in the air. "What… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
If social stability goes pear-shaped, you have a choice between anarchy and dictatorship. Most people will opt for more security, even if… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
February. Get ink, shed tears. Write of it, sob your heart out, sing, While torrential slush that roars Burns in the blackness… — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
Augustine said that we were all born into the world of "common grace" [i.e., available to all]. Before one is baptized, or… — Joseph Sittler Copy Share Image
I had to face the facts, I was pear-shaped. I was a bit depressed because I hate pears. 'Specially their shape. — Charlotte Bingham Copy Share Image
For her I changed pebbles into diamonds, shoes into mirrors, I changed glass into water, I gave her wings and pulled birds… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
'My Life' is soft, with notes of pear and gardenia, but still bold, with a woody base. — Mary J. Blige Copy Share Image
A pear should come to the table popped with juice, Ripened in warmth and served in warmth. On terms Like these, autumn… — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
She was stretched on her back beneath the pear tree soaking in the alto chant of the visiting bees, the gold of… — Zora Neale Hurston Copy Share Image