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Quotes About Fruit

Jesus described a disciple as one who abides in Him, is obedient, bears fruit, glorifies God, has joy, and loves (see John 15:7–17).
~ Bill Hull
It's difficult to get the same fruit as the early Church when we value a book they didn't have more than the Holy Spirit they did have. To value the Scriptures above the Holy Spirit is idolatry. It's not "Father, Son, and Holy Bible." The Bible reveals God, but is itself not God.
~ Bill Johnson
The breadfruit is a superb tree, about 60 feet high, with deep green, shining leaves, a foot broad, sharply and symmetrically cut, worthy, from their exceeding beauty of form, to take the place of the acanthus in architectural ornament, and throwing their pale green fruit into delicate contrast.
~ Isabella Bird
As an inveterate lover of mystery, cracking the code of a writer's true identity has the same effect, for me, as tasting forbidden fruit.
~ Sarah Weinman
I do not deny that you overwhelm me with your beauty. You are the moon in the season of shadow light; you are the fruit of the candlewood tree; you are the phoenix in circles of flight --.
~ Gregory Maguire
There was always an uncertain promise dangling in the future like a golden fruit hanging from some fantastic bough.
~ Gustave Flaubert
An apple tree 'mong wild trees, My Love is in my sight, I sit down in his shadow, His fruit is my delight.
~ Hannah Hurnard
The apple in June is a perfect apple for June. It is the best apple that June can produce. But it is very different from the apple in October, which is a perfected apple.
~ Hannah Whitall Smith
The cocoa-nut palm grows best near salt water, no matter how loose and sandy the soil is, and in these congenial circumstances needs neither manure nor care of any kind. It bends lovingly toward the sea and drops its ripe fruit into it.
~ Isabella Bird
California: Sunny nutland.
~ Edwin Diamond
A life without love is like a tree without fruit.
~ Stephen King
Promises that you make to yourself are often like the Japanese plum tree - they bear no fruit.
~ Francis Marion
God is the Seed; The Universe is the Tree, Impulses and passions are the branches, Intelligence is the flower, Pure Consciousness is the fruit, Love is the sweetness in the fruit.
~ Sathya Sai Baba
Native ability without education is like a tree without fruit.
~ Aristippus
My heart is like a singing bird Whose nest is in a water'd shoot; My heart is like an apple-tree Whose boughs are bent with thick-set fruit.
~ Christina Rossetti
Once you plant seeds of success, your tree will bear fierce fruit.
~ Tyra Banks
old pear tree starlings announce harvest time
~ Phil Noble
Temperance is a tree which as for its root very little contentment, and for its fruit calm and peace.
~ Gautama Buddha
Judge of a tree by its fruit, not by its leaves.
~ Periander
Many critics are like woodpeckers, who, instead of enjoying the fruit and shadow of a tree, hop incessantly around the trunk, pecking holes in the bark to discover some little worm or other.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Words are leaves, the substance consists of deeds, which are the true fruits of a good tree.
~ Elizabeth I
It is said that in some countries trees will grow, but will bear no fruit because there is no winter there.
~ John Bunyan
Everyone thinks that the principal thing to the tree is the fruit, but in point of fact the principal thing to it is the seed.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
There does not exist a category of science to which one can give the name applied science. There are sciences and the applications of science, bound together as the fruit of the tree which bears it.
~ Louis Pasteur