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Quotes About Grapes

Papa had loved to sit out here among his grapes and chicken coops and tomato and pepper plants—to sit in the sun and sip his homemade wine and remember Sicily. .
~ Wally Lamb
Beggar Woman" When I was four years old my mother led me to the park. The spring sunshine was not too warm. The street was almost empty. The witch in my fairy-book came walking along. She stooped to fish some mouldy grapes out of the gutter.
~ Charles Reznikoff
Conserve Water, Drink Wine
~ R. S. Jackson
A hangover is the wrath of grapes.
~ Author unknown, 1970s
It's true, some wine improves with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place.
~ Abigail Van Buren
(Wine is) the nurse of old age.
~ Galen
Behold the grapes and all the fruits that Autumn gives today, as robed in red and gold, she rules, the Empress of Decay!
~ Henry Abbey
I put the words into a flask and flung them out to sea. Flung them far out from me, made through myself, but not myself. Only a fool tries to reconstruct a bunch of grapes from a bottle of wine. The world is packed tight with fools.
~ Jeanette Winterson
But I also hoped that [she] had chosen California because she thought that was her true home, the place where she really belonged, where it was always warm and you could dance in the rain, pick grapes right off the vines, and sleep outside at night under the stars.
~ Jeannette Walls
...when you buy just two or three tons from a grower, they see the artisan work you do with their grapes, and then they want to give you their good fruit. By keeping small I can put my heart into it.
~ Unknown
I thought these grapes were ripe, but I see now they are quite sour.
~ Aesop, Aesop's Fables
beautiful December grapes, blue as plums, every grape a little skinful of sweet, tasteless water
~ Colette
I spot the Roach and the Bomb, sitting in the shadows of the re-formed thrones. He is tossing grapes into her mouth and never missing, not once.
~ Holly Black
The Helmand area used to be the breadbasket of Afghanistan. There was a time when a substantial number of the grapes we ate came from Afghanistan.
~ Des Browne
Grapes are juicy. Strawberries. Oranges. Good pork chops are succulent, said Dusty. But the word isn't accurately descriptive of a person. Smiling with delight, Ahriman said, Oh, really, not accurately descriptive? Be careful housepainter. Your genes are showing. What if I were a cannibal?
~ Dean Koontz
Before garden, vine or grape was in the world," writes one, "our soul was drunken with immortal wine.
~ Idries Shah
I've heard that men are like fine wine. They begin as grapes, and it's up to women to stomp the shit out of them until they turn into something acceptable to have dinner with. Me, I just want to do the stomping.
~ Jill Shalvis
I've heard that men are like fine wine. They begin as grapes, and it's up to women to stomp the shit out of them until they turn into something acceptable to have dinner with.
~ Jill Shalvis
Choking Hazards: What to avoid Every year, 10,000 kids under the age of 14 choke on something and end up in the emergency room. Seventy-five percent of those children are under three years of age. And sadly, some of those kids die. Want to know what the deadliest choking hazard is? Hot dogs. Other food choking hazards include grapes, peanuts, hard carrots, and hard candies.
~ Unknown
The fancies of wine are authentic events.
~ Italo Svevo
This is agony cried Mr Salteena clutching hold of a table my life will be sour grapes and ashes without you.
~ Daisy Ashford
I always did the cooking at home, and we always tried for balance. We've been vigilant about how and what our kids eat. For example, my son would just as soon go for the grapes as he would the chips... and the chips are baked.
~ Al Roker
You want hot days to get your fruit ripe but then you want it to cool off nicely at night so that the grapes stay on the vine longer and develop complexity.
~ Drew Bledsoe
The vine bears three kinds of grapes: the first of pleasure, the second of intoxication, the third of disgust.
~ Diogenes