Beats Quote by Karen Walker

When you get honest with God, you can exchange the fig leaves you used to cover your sin with the righteousness of Jesus Christ.

— Johnny Hunt

The fallen hazel-nuts, Stripped late of their green sheaths, The grapes, red-purple, Their berries Dripping with wine, Pomegranates already broken, And shrunken fig, And…

— Hilda Doolittle

Your constitution guarantees to every citizen, even the humblest, the enjoyment of life, liberty, and property. It promises to all, religious freedom, the right…

— Joseph Smith, Jr

First, I emptied the closets of your clothes, threw out the bowl of fruit, bruised from your touch, left empty the jars you bought…

— Natasha Trethewey

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

Democracy is the fig leaf of elitism.

— Florence King

The man who is ostentatious of his modesty is twin to the statue that wears a fig-leaf.

— Mark Twain

“This year, of course, being 1936, there would be no figs.”

— Alan Furst

Here is a rural fellow that will not be denied your Highness' presence: he brings you figs.

— William Shakespeare

I am once more seated under my own vine and fig tree ... and hope to spend the remainder of my days in peaceful…

— George Washington

Shebna scraped the tablet clean and began drawing circles in the soft clay. "Suppose you had six figs and you ate two. How many…

— Lynn Austin

I eat Fig Newtons by the sleeve!

— Brian Regan

And never since harvests were ripened, / Or laborers born, / Have men gathered figs of the thistle, / Or grapes of the thorn!

— Phoebe Cary

In all lands, sailors form a race apart. They profess a congenital contempt for landlubbers. As for the tradesman, he understands nothing of sailors…

— Honore de Balzac

Close to the Gates a spacious Garden lies, From the Storms defended and inclement Skies; Four Acres was the allotted Space of Ground, Fenc'd…

— Homer