Plums Quotes

73 quotes by 60 authors

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
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
Rain scatters plum petals; Weeping stains the earth. One can only take shelter And wait for clearing. — Ming-Dao Deng
Promises that you make to yourself are often like the Japanese plum tree - they bear no fruit. — Francis Marion
Without the bitterest cold that penetrates to the very bone, how can plum blossoms send forth their fragrance to the whole world? — Matsuo Basho
Acting is a plum gig, and then animation is an even more plum gig. — Aziz Ansari
Cupid makes it his sport to pull the warrior's plum. — Philip Sidney
I found everything so remote but, at the same time, familiar when I occasionally looked into the mountains, rocks, pine trees and plums depicted in… — Zhang Xiaogang
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
All Englishmen talk as if they've got a bushel of plums stuck in their throats, and then after swallowing them get constipated from the pips. — W.C. Fields
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
When you paint Spring, do not paint willows, plums, peaches, or apricots, but just paint Spring. To paint willows, plums, peaches, or apricots is to… — Dogen
An efficiency-regime cannot be run without a few heroes stuck about it to carry off the dullness -- much as plums have to be put… — E. M. Forster
It's really quite simple. Mr. Isinglass robbed my father, destroyed my mother, exiled my brothers, and ruined me. If I catch him asleep I'll kill… — Larry McMurtry
Indigo has a purifying, stabilizing, cleansing effect when fear, repression, and obsessions have disturbed your mental body. Indigo food vibrations are: blackberries, blue plums, blueberries,… — Tae Yun Kim
Blue is a tranquilizer, imparting coolness to your system. Blue slows down your system so it can heal and mend. Positive qualities of blue are… — Tae Yun Kim
What I really do is take real plums and put them in an imaginary cake. — Mary McCarthy
Moon, plum blossoms, this, that, and the day goes — Kobayashi Issa
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
You can't evoke great spirits and eat plums at the same time. — George William Russell

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