Plum Quotes
53 quotes by 43 authors
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Just as cherry, plum, peach and damson blossoms all possess their own unique qualities, each person is unique. We cannot become someone else. The important…
— Daisaku Ikeda
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How much more beautiful is the moon, Slanting down the gauffered branches of a plum-tree; The moon Wavering across a bed of tulips; The moon,…
— Amy Lowell
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Rain scatters plum petals; Weeping stains the earth. One can only take shelter And wait for clearing.
— Ming-Dao Deng
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Promises that you make to yourself are often like the Japanese plum tree - they bear no fruit.
— Francis Marion
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Without the bitterest cold that penetrates to the very bone, how can plum blossoms send forth their fragrance to the whole world?
— Matsuo Basho
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Acting is a plum gig, and then animation is an even more plum gig.
— Aziz Ansari
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Cupid makes it his sport to pull the warrior's plum.
— Philip Sidney
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It's my red hair that interferes with my good sense. All that color so close to my brain, it plum disorients me most days.
— Kimberly Frost
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Although we have no actual written communications from the world of emptiness, we have some hints or suggestions about what is going on in that…
— Shunryu Suzuki
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Moon, plum blossoms, this, that, and the day goes
— Kobayashi Issa
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He must understand that if he is the world's finest plum and someone he loves does not like plums, he has the choice of becoming…
— Leo Buscaglia
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Study the teachings of the pine tree, the bamboo, and the plum blossom. The pine is evergreen, firmly rooted, and venerable. The bamboo is strong,…
— Morihei Ueshiba
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Sometimes, as is the case of peach and plum trees, which are often dwarfed, the plants are thrown into a flowering states, and then, as…
— Robert Fortune
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Fruits each in its season, are the cheapest, most elegant and wholesome dessert you can offer your family or friends, at luncheon or tea. Pastry…
— Mary Virginia Terhune
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We complain and complain, but we have lived and seen the blossom -apple, pear, cherry, plum, almond blossom - in the sun; and the best…
— J. B. Priestley
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I can't live without my dark plum eyeliner. I use liquid because it's easier on my eyes.
— Heather Morris
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The way the recession has affected Hollywood, a lot of actors that had robust opportunities before in film no longer have such plum options, so…
— Omari Hardwick
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In all the practice centers in the tradition of Plum Village whenever the phone rings or the clock chimes in the dining hall, people stop…
— Nhat Hanh
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The opinion I have of the generality of women--who appear to me as children to whom I would rather give a sugar plum than my…
— John Keats
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I'm really a scientist. I follow recipes exactly - until I decide not to. And then I'll follow something else exactly. I may decide I…
— Ina Garten
Who Wrote These Plum Quotes
43 authors contributed a total of 53 Plum Quotes, led by these top contributors: