Orchard Quotes
103 Orchard quotes by 90 unique authors
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All these poses of classical torture ruined my mind like a snake in the orchard. I did go from wanting to be someone, now I'm…
— Rufus Wainwright
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Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousands of miles and all the years you have lived. The odors of fruits waft me…
— Helen Keller
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My earliest memory is dreamlike: in a small orchard or garden I am carried on the arm, I believe, of my father; there was a…
— Immanuel Velikovsky
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A seed hidden in the heart of an apple is an orchard invisible.
— Khalil Gibran
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In the corridors under tehre is nothing but sleep. And stiller than ever on orchard boughs they keep Tryst with the moon, and deep is…
— John Drinkwater
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Is there any sign of spring quite so welcome as the glint of the first bluebird unless it is his softly whistled song? No wonder…
— Neltje Blanchan
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Snowstorms may yet whiten fields and gardens, high winds may howl about the trees and chimneys, but the little blue heralds persistently proclaim from the…
— Neltje Blanchan
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Each generation of humanity takes the earth as trustees... We ought to bequeath to posterity as many forests and orchards as we have exhausted and…
— Julius Sterling Morton
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No one lives on the top of the mountain. It's fine to go there occasionally -for inspiration, for new perspectives. But you have to come…
— Arthur Gordon Webster
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The goldenrod is yellow, The corn is turning brown, The trees in apple orchards With fruit are bending down.
— Helen Hunt Jackson
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The mind I love must have wild places, a tangled orchard where dark damsons drop in the heavy grass, an overgrown little wood, the chance…
— Katherine Mansfield
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A real writer learns from earlier writers the way a boy learns from an apple orchard -- by stealing what he has a taste for,…
— Archibald MacLeish
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EVERYONE suddenly burst out singing; And I was filled with such delight As prisoned birds must find in freedom, Winging wildly across the white Orchards…
— Siegfried Sassoon
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Come clean with a child heart Laugh as peaches in the summer wind Let rain on a house roof be a song Let the writing…
— Carl Sandburg
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My troubles are all over, and I am at home; and often before I am quite awake, I fancy I am still in the orchard…
— Anna Sewell
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The snow lay thin and apologetic over the world. That wide grey sweep was the lawn, with the straggling trees of the orchard still dark…
— Susan Cooper
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I was ripe ten years ago. Now I’m merely preserved, and before long I’ll be buried back in the orchard with the other pits.” -Amanda…
— Lisa Kleypas
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A narrow pond would form in the orchard, water clear as air covering grass and black leaves and fallen branches, all around it black leaves…
— Marilynne Robinson
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...there was another, gorier parturition, when two nations incarnated out of one. A foreigner drew a magic line on a map and called it the…
— Rohinton Mistry
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She wondered: How could people respond to these images if images didn't secretly enjoy the same status as real things? Not that images were so…
— Jonathan Franzen
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The world that was not mine yesterday now lies spread out at my feet, a splendor. I seem, in the middle of the night, to…
— John Cheever
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Some keep the Sabbath going to church, I keep it staying at home, with a bobolink for a chorister, and an orchard for a dome.
— Emily Dickinson
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They heard somewhere in that tenantless night a bell that tolled and ceased where no bell was and they rode out on the round dais…
— Cormac McCarthy
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The nightingales are sobbing in The orchards of our mothers, And hearts that we broke long ago Have long been breaking others; Tears are round,…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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One June evening, when the orchards were pink-blossomed again, when the frogs were singing silverly sweet in the marshes about the head of the Lake…
— Lucy Maud Montgomery
Who Wrote These Orchard Quotes
90 authors contributed a total of 103 Orchard Quotes, led by these top contributors: