Pear Quotes

53 quotes by 46 authors

I'm not trying to be a different weight. I want to be a different body type so that I'm not an apple. I just want… — Octavia Spencer
Pear Drops were exciting because they had a dangerous taste. All of us were warned against eating them, and the result was that we ate… — Roald Dahl
Where Cezanne captured and intensified shards of the eternal (every pear far more sharply defined than it could be in life), Monet portrayed the changeability… — Jerry Saltz
If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it yourself. If you want to know the… — Mao Zedong
There are only ten minutes in the life of a pear when it is perfect to eat. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I sink down into my body as into a swamp, fenland, where only I know the footingâ€¦. Iâ€™m a cloud, congealed around a central object,… — Margaret Atwood
I could peel you like a pear and god himself would see the justice in it. — Katharine Hepburn
He ate a pear. It was a hard one. It fought back against his grinding teeth. It snapped in juicy protest. — Kurt Vonnegut
Oh to be a pear tree â€“ any tree in bloom! With kissing bees singing of the beginning of the world! — Zora Neale Hurston
The painting showed a hairless, oppressed creature with a head like an inverted pear, its hands clapped in horror to its ears, its mouth open… — Philip K. Dick
Of course you know him. Everyone knows a pear-shaped man. — George R. R. Martin
As was the custom in such cases, the pear tree was charged with murder and sentenced to be uprooted and burned. — Robert Graves
A pear should come to the table popped with juice, Ripened in warmth and served in warmth. On terms Like these, autumn beguiles the fatalist. — Wallace Stevens
The desert seems to be a brown wasteland of dry, prickly scrub whose only purpose is to serve as a setting for the majestic saguaros.… — Jerry Spinelli
She was stretched on her back beneath the pear tree soaking in the alto chant of the visiting bees, the gold of the sun and… — Zora Neale Hurston
Slice a pear and you will find that its flesh is incandescent white. It glows with inner light. Those who carry a knife and a… — Yann Martel
As for my next book, I won't write it till it has grown heavy in my mind like a ripe pear; pendant, gravid, asking to… — Virginia Woolf
For her I changed pebbles into diamonds, shoes into mirrors, I changed glass into water, I gave her wings and pulled birds from her ears… — Nicole Krauss
I feel my brains, like a pear, to see if it's ripe; it will be exquisite by September. — Virginia Woolf
I have an apple that thinks its a pear. And a bun that thinks itâ€™s a cat. And a lettuce that thinks its a lettuce."… — Patrick Rothfuss

Who Wrote These Pear Quotes

46 authors contributed a total of 53 Pear Quotes, led by these top contributors: