Fruit Quotes
1705 Fruit quotes by 1192 unique authors
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Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand.
— Mother Teresa
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The entire fruit is already present in the seed.
— Tertullian
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The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.
— Henry David Thoreau
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I'm just like you. I enjoy the forbidden fruits in life, too.
— Mike Tyson
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If we can get people to focus on fruits and vegetables and more healthy foods, we'll be better in terms of our healthcare situation.
— Tom Vilsack
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A good mother remembers to serve fruit at breakfast, is always cheerful and never yells, manages not to project her own neuroses and inadequacies onto…
— Ayelet Waldman
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As an educator, I have always striven to see that the fruits of the American Dream are available to all.
— James D. Watson
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I eat only vegetables and fruit, and to me it's the most aspirational diet because it's so easy. It's quite simple, the cooking I do.
— Vivienne Westwood
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The thorns which I have reap'd are of the tree I planted; they have torn me, and I bleed. I should have known what fruit…
— Lord Byron
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Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone.
— Oscar Wilde
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He couldn’t see why people made such a fuss about people eating their silly old fruit anyway, but life would be a lot less fun…
— Neil Gaiman
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Cookery means…English thoroughness, French art, and Arabian hospitality; it means the knowledge of all fruits and herbs and balms and spices; it means carefulness, inventiveness,…
— John Ruskin
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The true secret in being a hero lies in knowing the order of things. The swineherd cannot already be wed to the princess when he…
— Peter S. Beagle
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Fear is a healthy instinct, not a sign of weakness. It is a natural self-defense mechanism that is common to felines, wolves, hyenas, and most…
— Hunter S. Thompson
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The radio was on and that was the first time I heard that song, the one I hate. Whenever I hear it all I can…
— Lynda Barry
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A dead hydrangea is as intricate and lovely as one in bloom. Bleak sky is as seductive as sunshine, miniature orange trees without blossom or…
— Toni Morrison
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What is more cheerful, now, in the fall of the year, than an open-wood-fire? Do you hear those little chirps and twitters coming out of…
— Thomas Bailey Aldrich
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Time that withers you will wither me. We will fall like ripe fruit and roll down the grass together. Dear friend, let me lie beside…
— Jeanette Winterson
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Nothing is more natural than mutual misunderstanding; the contrary is always surprising. I believe that one never agrees on anything except by mistake, and that…
— Paul Valery
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In the increasingly convincing darkness The words become palpable, like a fruit That is too beautiful to eat.
— John Ashbery
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Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwhile careers in the street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have…
— Terry Pratchett
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It's the action, not the fruit of the action, that's important. You have to do the right thing. It may not be in your power,…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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Girl lithe and tawny, the sun that forms the fruits, that plumps the grains, that curls seaweeds filled your body with joy, and your luminous…
— Pablo Neruda
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It is no disparagement to the garden to say it will not fence and weed itself, nor prune its own fruit trees, nor roll and…
— C.S. Lewis
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What thoughts I have of you tonight, Walt Whit- man, for I walked down the sidestreets under the trees with a headache self-conscious looking at…
— Allen Ginsberg
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