Bears Quote by Kate Douglas Wiggin

Fig season is a joyous time of year for me. Back in my Paris days, the markets would be filled with piles of these…

— Rachel Khoo

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

O excellent! I love long life better than figs.

— William Shakespeare

I would sooner look for figs on thistles than for the higher attributes of art from one whose ruling motive... is money.

— Asher Brown Durand

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

— Phoebe Cary

Untilled soil, however fertile it may be, will bear thistles and thorns; so it is with man's mind.

— Teresa of Avila

What gardening teaches us is that if you plant things, they'll come up. But you have to be willing to wait for them to…

— Alice Walker

In the Garden of Eden, figuring out what to wear was easy and the fig leaves were environmentally friendly. Today, it's much harder to…

— Tatiana Schlossberg

Our Lord never condemned the fig tree because it brought forth so much fruit that some fell to the ground and spoiled. He only…

— Edwin Louis Cole

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

Now I realize that the trees blossom in Spring and bear fruit in Summer without seeking praise; and they drop their leaves in Autumn…

— Khalil Gibran

Puritans should wear fig leaves on their eyes.

— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec