Pears Quotes

64 quotes by 58 authors

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
Here was a thing that would grow old; here was a thing that would turn beautiful and lose that beauty, that would inherit the grace… — Andrew Sean Greer
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
February. Get ink, shed tears. Write of it, sob your heart out, sing, While torrential slush that roars Burns in the blackness of the spring.… — Boris Pasternak
No. Now, shut up and eat your pears. — Suzanne Collins
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
As the children were sitting there eating pears, a girl came walking along the road from town. When she saw the children she stopped and… — Astrid Lindgren
Do not ask your children to strive for extraordinary lives. Such striving may seem admirable, but it is the way of foolishness. Help them instead… — William Martin
The rose is a rose, And was always a rose. But now the theory goes That the apple's a rose, And the pear is, and… — Robert Frost
If I could blame it on all the mothers and fathers of the world, they of the lessons, the pellets of power, they of the… — Anne Sexton
I put it (a still life of a pear, made by Manet, ed.) there (on the wall, next to Ingres' Jupiter, ed.), for a pear… — Edgar Degas
Make one day a mono-meal. This means, choose just one fruit and have it as much as you want. Apples, pears, or anything in season… — Valentina Zelyaeva
I was feeling well enough to eat the pears. — Lizzie Andrew Borden

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