Chestnuts Quotes

45 quotes by 41 authors

April in Paris, chestnuts in blossom, holiday tables under the trees. — Yip Harburg
Chestnuts are my favorite ingredient to use in the fall, especially for the holidays. I always find that they are meaty, hearty and have a… — Geoffrey Zakarian
Here may I live what life I please, Married and buried out of sight, - Married to pleasure and buried to pain, - Hidden away… — Violet Fane
For each of us as women, there is a dark place within, where hidden and growing our true spirit rises, beautiful and tough as chestnut… — Audre Lorde
I once painted a concert singer and on the chestnut frame I carved the opening bars of Mendelssohn's Rest in the Lord. It was ornamental… — Thomas Eakins
Under the spreading chestnut tree The village smithy stands; The smith, a mighty man is he, With large and sinewy hands; And the muscles of… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The true husbandman will cease from anxiety, as the squirrels manifest no concern whether the woods will bear chestnuts this year or not, and finish… — Henry David Thoreau
Labor is blossoming or dancing where The body is not bruised to pleasure soul, Nor beauty born out of its own despair, Nor blear-eyed wisdom… — William Butler Yeats
The chestnut's proud, and the lilac's pretty, The poplar's gentle and tall, But the plane tree's kind to the poor dull city - I love… — E. Nesbit
I could not help reflecting that the bullet which had struck the chestnut [horse] had certainly passed within a foot of my head. So at… — Winston Churchill
And there is quite a different sort of conversation around a fire than there is in the shadow of a beech tree.... Four dry logs… — Pietro Aretino
This is what you do on your very first day in Paris. You get yourself, not a drizzle, but some honest-to-goodness rain, and you find… — Audrey Hepburn
It is splendid to be a great writer, to put men into the frying pan of your words and make them pop like chestnuts. — Gustave Flaubert
My eye is educated to discover anything on the ground, as chestnuts, etc. It is probably wholesomer to look at the ground much than at… — Henry David Thoreau
I was walking late one night along a tree-lined path; a chestnut fell at my feet. The noise it made as it burst, the resonance… — Emile M. Cioran
Chestnuts are delicacies for princes and a lusty and masculine food for rusticks, and able to make women well-complexioned. — John Evelyn
If you dry the chestnut, both the barks being taken away, beat them into powder and make the powder up into an electuary with honey,… — Nicholas Culpeper
Under a spreading chestnut-tree The village smithy stands; The smith, a mighty man is he, With large and sinewy hands; And the muscles of his… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Simpson, Homer Simpson/ He's the greatest guy in history/ From the/ Town of Springfield/ He's about to hit a chestnut tree. — Homer
Chestnut brown canary, ruby throated sparrow, sing a song, don't be long, thrill me to the marrow. — Sidney Crosby

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