Quotes with fruit

  • Manners are not idle, but the fruit. Of loyal nature and of noble mind.
  • At one point, Sarah Palin sent her husband instructions to stock up on 'fresh fruit and veggies' for the kids, and 'as little processed foods as possible.'
  • Man, born of woman, has found it a hard thing to forgive her for giving him birth. The patriarchal protest against the ancient matriarch has borne strange fruit through the years.
  • As for America, it is the ideal fruit of all your youthful hopes and reforms. Everybody is fairly decent, respectable, domestic, bourgeois, middle-class, and tiresome. There is absolutely nothing to revile except that it's a bore.
  • I have never, in all my various travels, seen but two sorts of people I mean men and women, who always have been, and ever will be, the same. The same vices and the same follies have been the fruit of all ages, though sometimes under different names.
  • If you have a great passion it seems that the logical thing is to see the fruit of it, and the fruit are children.
  • The sight of a Black nun strikes their sentimentality; and, as I am unalterably rooted in native ground, they consider me a work of primitive art, housed in a magical color; the incarnation of civilized, anti-heathenism, and the fruit of a triumphing idea.
  • I have never been able to look upon America as young and vital but rather as prematurely old, as a fruit which rotted before it had a chance to ripen.
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  • Basil of Caesarea A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.
    Basil of Caesarea
    Greek bishop of Caesarea Mazaca in Cappadocia (330 - 379)
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  • Joseph Addison I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • Henry David Thoreau Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influences of each. Let them be your only diet drink and botanical medicines.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Molière Love is often the fruit of marriage.
    Molière
    French playwright (ps. by J. B. Poquelin) (1622 - 1673)
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  • Vauvenargues Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.
    Vauvenargues
    French philosopher (1715 - 1747)
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  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.
    Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    French writer and philosopher (1712 - 1778)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Albert Einstein A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what a man needs to be happy ?
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Herodotus All men's gains are the fruit of venturing.
    Herodotus
    Greek historian (484 - 425)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson All our progress is an unfolding, like a vegetable bud. You have first an instinct, then an opinion, then a knowledge as the plant has root, bud, and fruit. Trust the instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Edward Dahlberg Ambition is a Dead Sea fruit, and the greatest peril to the soul is that one is likely to get precisely what he is seeking.
    Edward Dahlberg
    American novelist, essayist and autobiographer (1900 - 1977)
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  • Henry Brooks Adams As for America, it is the ideal fruit of all your youthful hopes and reforms. Everybody is fairly decent, respectable, domestic, bourgeois, middle-class, and tiresome. There is absolutely nothing to revile except that it's a bore.
    Henry Brooks Adams
    American historian (1838 - 1918)
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  • Bill Dedman At one point, Sarah Palin sent her husband instructions to stock up on 'fresh fruit and veggies' for the kids, and 'as little processed foods as possible.'
    Bill Dedman
    American journalist (1960 - )
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Crime and punishment grow out of one stem. Punishment is a fruit that, unsuspected, ripens with the flower of the pleasure that concealed it.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Henry Ward Beecher Death is the dropping of the flower that the fruit may swell.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg Erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • Bruce Chatwin Even today, when an Aboriginal mother notices the first stirrings of speech in her child, she lets it handle the things of that particular country: leaves, fruit, insects and so forth. We give our children guns and computer games, Wendy said. They gave their children the land.
    The Songlines p. 270
    Bruce Chatwin
    English travel writer, novelist and journalist (1940 - 1989)
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  • Sir Thomas Malory For like as herbs and trees bringing forth fruit and flourish in May, in likewise every lusty heart that is in any manner a lover, springeth and flourisheth in lusty deeds.
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  • Carmen Electra For some reason I only crave fruit when I'm in a tropical place - if it's really hot in the summer or if I go to a tropical island for work. But otherwise I really don't crave it.
    Carmen Electra
    American actress, model and singer (1972 - )
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  • James Allen Good thoughts bear good fruit, bad thoughts bear bad fruit.
    James Allen
    British philosophical writer (1864 - 1912)
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