Concealed Quote by Jody Shields

Fig tree, how long it's been full meaning for me, the way you almost entirely omit to flower and into the seasonably-resolute fruit uncelebratedly…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

“The fig tree had dropped its fruit all over the ground. Ripe figs lay in the dust, exploded, bloody, as if the sky had…

— Rupert Thomson

To eat figs off the tree in the very early morning, when they have been barely touched by the sun, is one of the…

— Elizabeth David

Shape is a good part of the fig's delight.

— Jane Grigson

I ask you, is it the fig tree's fault that it's not the season for figs? What kind of thing is that to do…

— Yann Martel

“I saw my life branching out before me like the green fig tree in the story. [...] I saw myself sitting in the crotch…

— Sylvia Plath

“The proper way to eat a fig, in society, Is to split it in four, holding it by the stump, And open it, so…

— dh lawrence

“I saw myself sitting in the crotch of this fig tree, starving to death, just because I couldn't make up my mind which of…

— Sylvia Plath

“Some plant wild fig trees near cultivated fig trees, and there are others who, to remedy the weakness of the productive fig tree of…

— Philip Schaff

“Though the fig tree should not blossom, nor fruit be on the vines, the produce of the olive fail and the fields yield no…

— Anonymous

The self-righteous have their fig leaves so tightly bound that they have forgotten the seeping wounds beneath the foliage.

— Mark Lowry

“Is then the fruit of a fig-tree not perfect suddenly and in one hour, and would you possess the fruit of a man's mind…

— Epictetus