Chestnuts Quotes
45 quotes by 41 authors
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April in Paris, chestnuts in blossom, holiday tables under the trees.
— Yip Harburg
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Chestnuts are delicacies for princes and a lusty and masculine food for rusticks, and able to make women well-complexioned.
— John Evelyn
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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
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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
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Simpson, Homer Simpson/ He's the greatest guy in history/ From the/ Town of Springfield/ He's about to hit a chestnut tree.
— Homer
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Chestnut brown canary, ruby throated sparrow, sing a song, don't be long, thrill me to the marrow.
— Sidney Crosby
Who Wrote These Chestnuts Quotes
41 authors contributed a total of 45 Chestnuts Quotes, led by these top contributors: