Fruit Quote by Kathleen Norris

“A girl sitting with us in the boat compared traveling over the water to the imperceptible gliding and progress of growth, that of fruit…

— Robert Walser

Fruits ... like having their portrait painted. They seem to sit there and ask your forgiveness for fading. Their thought is given off with…

— Paul Cezanne

Yellow melon flowers Crawl beneath the withered peach-trees; A date-palm throws its heavy fronds of steel Against the scoured metallic sky.

— John Gould Fletcher

There is continual spring, and harvest there Continual, both meeting at one time: For both the boughs do laughing blossoms bear, And with fresh…

— Edmund Spenser

But see, in our open clearings, how golden the melons lie; Enrich them with sweets and spices, and give us the pumpkin-pie!

— Margaret Junkin Preston

“The poulterers' shops were still half open, and the fruiterers' were radiant in their glory. There were great, round, pot-bellied baskets of chestnuts, shaped…

— Charles Dickens

Jolly boating weather, And a hay harvest breeze, Blade on the feather, Shade off the trees.

— William Johnson Cory

Seafarers are used to being exploited. At sea, the captain moans at chandlers who supply ships with green bananas that will never ripen; at…

— Rose George

Even melon grown in shade will ripen in the end.

— Roland Winters

The flower's are gone when the Fruits appear to ripen.

— Alexander Pope

“Why harvest before the fruits gets ripe?”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

Across the land a faint blue veil of mist Seems hung; the woods wear yet arrayment sober Till frost shall make them flame; silent…

— Siegfried Sassoon