"Five tender apricots in a blue bowl, a……" — Frances Mayes
"Five tender apricots in a blue bowl, a brief and exact promise of things to come."
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38 Quotes by Frances Mayes
Frances Mayes has 38 quotes on this site.
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Italy's siren call lures us more and more.
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The words 'forse che si,' 'forse che no', 'perhaps yes,' 'perhaps no,' repeat along all paths.
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Whatever a guidebook says, wether or not you leave somewhere with a sense of the place is entirely a matter…
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Sometimes the valley below is like a bowl filled up with fog. I can see hard green figs on two…
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May summer last a hundred years.
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Never lose your childish enthusiasm and things will come your way.
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I’ll always marvel at the liveliness of southern speech-so full of metaphor and hyperbole, quirks and vividness.
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It’s daunting to find the language so foreign, so distant, but also so thrilling. One is absolved of responsibility when…
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Venice, the most touristy place in the world, is still just completely magic to me.
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Anytime the perfume of orange and lemon groves wafts in the window; the human body has to feel suffused with…
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Where is it written that houses must be beige? Any dun colored house would look better if painted pineapple, cream,…
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Although I am a person who expected to be rooted in one spot forever, as it has turned out I…
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More Apricots Quotes
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More varied than any landscape was the landscape in the sky, with islands of gold and silver, peninsulas of apricot…
— Cecil Beaton
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I love, love, love apricot baby food. My closet in the kitchen is filled with jars of it. I love…
— Alicia Silverstone
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When you paint Spring, do not paint willows, plums, peaches, or apricots, but just paint Spring. To paint willows, plums,…
— Dogen
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Orange strengthens your emotional body, encouraging a general feeling of joy, well-being, and cheerfulness. Orange vibration foods are: oranges, tangerines,…
— Tae Yun Kim
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A springlike autumn's balmy breeze reaches afar. The sun shines on the house of a recluse South of the river;…
— Sun Bu'er
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All the seasons run their race In this quiet resting-place; Peach, and apricot, and fig Here will ripen, and grow…
— Henry Austin Dobson
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All things are God's already; we can give him no right, by consecrating any, that he had not before, only…
— John Selden
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The flavors of the peach and the apricot are not lost from generation to generation. Neither are they transmitted by…
— Ezra Pound
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When you paint Spring, do not paint willows, plums, peaches, or apricots - just paint Spring.
— Dogen
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At the most difficult moments of my life, when it seemed that every door was closed to me, the taste…
— Isabel Allende
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Girls get screwed. Not that kind of screwed, what I mean is, they're always on the short end of things.…
— Ellen Hopkins
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Elsa's joke Where do baby apes sleep? In apricots!
— Jacqueline Wilson
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