Fruits Quotes

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The true Southern watermelon is a boon apart, and not to be mentioned with commoner things. It is chief of this world'd luxuries, king by… — Mark Twain
On the fields of friendly strife are sown the seeds that on other days, on other fields will bear the fruits of victory. — Douglas MacArthur
Here are fruits, flowers, leaves and branches, and here is my heart which beats only for you. — Paul Verlaine
The finest qualities of our nature, like the bloom on fruits, can be preserved only by the most delicate handling. Yet we do not treat… — Henry David Thoreau
To be happy you must have taken the measure of your powers, tasted the fruits of your passion, and learned your place in the world. — George Santayana
We must not look at goblin men, We must not buy their fruits: Who knows upon what soil they fed Their hungry thirsty roots? — Christina Rossetti
The truth was I knew, after all those flat January days, that I deserved better. I deserved I love yous and kiwi fruits and warriors… — Sarah Dessen
Most men, even in this comparatively free country, through mere ignorance and mistake, are so occupied with the factitious cares and superfluously coarse labors of… — Henry David Thoreau
Wherever you look thereâ€™s meanness and corruption. This room, this bottle of grape wine, these fruits in the basket, are all products of profit and… — Carson McCullers
To read is to fly: it is to soar to a point of vantage which gives a view over wide terrains of history, human variety,… — A.C. Grayling
But merely accepting authoritarian truth, even if that truth has some virtue, does not bring skepticism to an end. To blindly accept a truth one… — Albert Schweitzer
When you're cooking with food as alive as this -- these gorgeous and semigorgeous fruits and leaves and flesh -- you're in no danger of… — Michael Pollan
The best Armour of Old Age is a well spent life preceding it; a Life employed in the Pursuit of useful Knowledge, in honourable Actions… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Men who have created new fruits in the world cannot create a system whereby those fruits may be eaten. — John Steinbeck
One is seduced and battered in turn. The result is presumably wisdom. Wisdom! We are clinging to life like lizards. Why is it so difficult… — James Salter
I love New York on summer afternoons when everyone's away. There's something very sensuous about it - overripe, as if all sorts of funny fruits… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
A message came from my youth of vanished days, saying, 'I wait for you among the quivering of unborn May, where smiles ripen for tears… — Rabindranath Tagore
Your children make it impossible to regret your past. They're its finest fruits. Sometimes the only ones. — Anna Quindlen
She cried, "Laura," up the garden, "Did you miss me? Come and kiss me. Never mind my bruises, Hug me, kiss me, suck my juices… — Christina Rossetti
What is happening to me happens to all fruits that grow ripe. It is the honey in my veins that makes my blood thicker, and… — Friedrich Nietzsche

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