Fruit Quotes
1705 quotes by 1192 authors
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Kindness is a rotten fruit that poisons anyone who partakes of it. Throw it in the face of your enemies and let it ruin them…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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Frost in January minus 20 for a week. Dead birds frozen on the branch—they fall with the first thaw like ripe fruit—death-ripened. We shall all…
— Lawrence Durrell
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Be a helpful friend, and you will become a green tree with always new fruit, always deeper journeys into love.
— Unknown Author
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Your face encompasses the beauty of the whole earth. Your lips, as red as ripening fruit, gently part as if in pain. It is the…
— Edvard Munch
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Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise.... During almost fifteen centuries has the legal establishment of Christianity been…
— James Madison
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Rights mean you have a right to your life. You have a right to your liberty, and you should have a right to keep the…
— Ron Paul
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Because of our broken instincts we are in pain. We continue in pain because our instincts have been twisted by reason. So, what are we…
— Tatsuhiko Takimoto
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But even quashed rebellions leave us different. Because freedom may be a forbidden fruit in tyrannies, but once tasted, it is unforgettable.
— Justina Chen
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glancing back I got my first clear look at the monster. He was seven feet tall, easy, his arms and legs like something from the…
— Rick Riordan
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He Looked and smelt like Autumn's very brother, his face being sunburnt to wheat-colour, his eyes blue as corn-flowers, his sleeves and leggings dyed with…
— Thomas Hardy
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Those ancients who in poetry presented the golden age, who sang its happy state, perhaps, in their Parnassus, dreamt this place. Here, mankind's root was…
— Dante Alighieri
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Marylou was watching Dean as she had watched him clear across the country and back, out of the corner of her eye--with a sullen, sad…
— Jack Kerouac
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If you are the lantern, I am the flame; If you are the lake, then I am the rain; If you are the desert, I…
— Cecilia Dart-Thornton
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For mines are for men, not for money. And money is not something to go mad about, and throw your hat into the air for.…
— Alan Paton
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That’s when she’d learned that male egos and fruit had a lot in common: Both bruised easily.
— Jana Oliver
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Justice is not Healing. Healing cometh only by suffering and patience, and maketh no demand, not even for Justice. Justice worketh only within the bonds…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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My heart is like a singing bird Whose nest is in a water'd shoot; My heart is like an apple-tree Whose boughs are bent with…
— Christina Rossetti
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He had, they said, tasted in succession all the apples of the tree of knowledge, and, whether from hunger or disgust, had ended by tasting…
— Victor Hugo
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It is a mistake to talk about the artist looking for his subject. In fact, the subject grows within him like a fruit and begins…
— Andrei Tarkovsky
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For a long time I had not approached the forbidden fruit called happiness, but it was now tempting me with a melancholy persistence. I felt…
— Yukio Mishima
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