Figs Quotes

62 Figs quotes by 55 unique authors

All the seasons run their race In this quiet resting-place; Peach, and apricot, and fig Here will ripen, and grow big; Here is store and… — Henry Austin Dobson
On the train: staring hypnotized at the blackness outside the window, feeling the incomparable rhythmic language of the wheels, clacking out nursery rhymes, summing up… — Sylvia Plath
A bad dream.To the person in the bell jar, blank and stopped as a dead baby, the world itself is the bad dream.A bad dream.I… — Sylvia Plath
A field is the most just possession for men. For what nature requires it carefully bears: barley, oil, wine, figs, honey. Silver-plate and purple will… — Philemon
There was an Old Person of Bray, Who sang through the whole of the day To his ducks and his pigs, whom he fed upon… — Edward Lear
The Ripe FigNow that You live here in my chest,anywhere we sit is a mountaintop.And those other images,which have enchanted peoplelike porcelain dolls from China,which… — Unknown Author
I've never turned over a fig leaf yet that didn't have a price tag on the other side. — Saul Bellow
First, I emptied the closets of your clothes, threw out the bowl of fruit, bruised from your touch, left empty the jars you bought for… — Natasha Trethewey
Fig tree, how long it's been full meaning for me, the way you almost entirely omit to flower and into the seasonably-resolute fruit uncelebratedly thrust… — Rainer Maria Rilke
A fig for a care, a fig for a woe! — John Heywood
The fallen hazel-nuts, Stripped late of their green sheaths, The grapes, red-purple, Their berries Dripping with wine, Pomegranates already broken, And shrunken fig, And quinces… — Hilda Doolittle
For men in earnest have no time to waste In patching fig-leaves for the naked truth. — James Russell Lowell
The near end of the street was rather dark and had mostly vegetable shops. Abundance of vegetables - piles of white and green fennel, like… — D. H. Lawrence
Life, lift the full goblet--away with all sorrow-- The circle of friendship what freedom would sever? To-day is our own, and a fig for to-morrow--… — Franklin P. Adams
When the Jewish people, after nearly 2,000 years of exile, under relentless persecution, became a nation again on 14 May 1948 the 'fig tree' put… — Hal Lindsey
Our Lord never condemned the fig tree because it brought forth so much fruit that some fell to the ground and spoiled. He only cursed… — Edwin Louis Cole
No greater thing is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig,… — Epictetus
Nature also forges man, now a gold man, now a silver man, now a fig man, now a bean man. — Paracelsus
I ask you, is it the fig tree's fault that it's not the season for figs? What kind of thing is that to do to… — Yann Martel
For the simplicity on this side of complexity, I wouldn't give you a fig. But for the simplicity on the other side of complexity, for… — Oliver Wendell Holmes
God made a beauteous garden With lovely flowers strown, But one straight, narrow pathway That was not overgrown. And to this beauteous garden He brought… — Robert Frost
The soul grows into lovely habits as easily as into ugly ones, and the moment a life begins to blossom into beautiful words and deeds,… — Kate Douglas Wiggin
I saw myself sitting in the crotch of this fig tree, starving to death, just because I couldn't make up my mind which of the… — Sylvia Plath
An idea fell like a seed and over the next weeks it went on growing like a fig vine lush and conquering twining round her… — Laini Taylor
Juilin," she asked hesitantly, "what were you going to do with the salt and cooking oil? Not exactly," she added more quickly. "Just a general… — Robert Jordan

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