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Quotes About Fruit

Education is only a ladder to gather fruit from the tree of knowledge, not the fruit itself
~ Albert Einstein
The urban man is an uprooted tree, he can put out leaves, flowers and grow fruit but what a nostalgia his leaf, flower, and fruit will always have for mother earth!
~ Juan Ramón Jiménez
I have fruit trees. Cows for fresh milk, yoghurt. My own wheat. I'm basically self-sufficient.
~ Imran Khan
The tree that is beside the running water is fresher and gives more fruit.
~ Saint Teresa of Avila
Grief, like a tree, has tears for its fruit.
~ Philemon
Nature makes trees put down deep roots before having them bear fruit, and even this is done gradually.
~ Vincent de Paul
The stars are golden fruit upon a tree all out of reach.
~ George Eliot
Only the believer obeys — obedience follows faith, the way good fruit comes from a good tree. Only the obedient believe.
~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Many kinds of fruit grow upon the tree of life, but none so sweet as friendship; as with the orange tree its blossoms and fruit appear at the same time, full of refreshment for sense and for soul.
~ Lucy Larcom
Sin, guilt, neurosis; they are one and the same, the fruit of the tree of knowledge.
~ Henry Miller
The grapevine should be named after a more bitter fruit. It should be called the grapefruit tree.
~ Chrystos
Give me the storm and tempest of thought and action, rather than the dead calm of ignorance and faith! Banish me from Eden when you will; but first let me eat of the fruit of the tree of knowledge!
~ Robert Green Ingersoll
....to abuse the intellect for reasons of pride, vanity, or escape from responsibility, is the fruit of that same tree.
~ Walter M. Miller, Jr.
Como se reparten el sol en el naranjo las naranjas? How do the oranges divide up sunlight in the orange tree?
~ Pablo Neruda
Each tree Laden with fairest fruit, that hung to th' eye Tempting, stirr'd in me sudden appetite To pluck and eat.
~ John Milton
Love likes not the falling fruit, Nor the withered tree.
~ Walter Raleigh
This bread I break was once the oat, This wine upon a foreign tree Plunged in its fruit; Man in the day or wind at night Laid the crops low, broke the grape's joy.
~ Dylan Thomas
A tree may always be known by its fruit, and a true Christian may always be discovered by their habits, tastes & affections.
~ J. C. Ryle
The fruit of the tree of knowledge always drives man from some paradise or other; and even the paradise of fools is not an unpleasant abode while it is habitable.
~ William Ralph Inge
I heard somebody say that you can't judge a tree by the bark it wears but by the fruit it bears.
~ Kwame Kilpatrick
Bible says the tree is known by his fruit. We can also say that the great man is known by his undreamed dreams!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Morality is the fruit of religion: to desire the former without the latter is to desire an orange without an orange-tree.
~ Philibert Joseph Roux
Hang there like fruit, my soul, Till the tree die!
~ William Shakespeare
He is a fool who looks at the fruit of lofty trees, but does not measure their height.
~ Quintus Curtius Rufus