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Quotes About Fruit

tamarind trees
~ Unknown
Five tender apricots in a blue bowl, a brief and exact promise of things to come.
~ Unknown
Beauty is a fruit which we look at without trying to seize it.
~ Simone Weil
I'm like a navigator and I try to encourage our collaboration and find the best way that will produce fruit. I like fruit. I like cherries, I like bananas.
~ Jim Jarmusch
The C in vitamin C indicates that it was the third vitamin ever identified.
~ Unknown
Shame is the fruit of my vanities, and remorse, and the clearest knowledge of how the world's delight is a brief dream.
~ Petrarch
I'll try a slice of peach, she said, and gingerly picked out a slippery pink-orange furry slice with her long fingers. And then, as she ate the slice of peach, she began to cry.
~ Philip K. Dick
Looking at him I felt as if I had just met a powerful gorilla while at the same time being in possession of the world's last banana.
~ Philip Kerr
Are we allowed to go armed? asked Pagan If you like, said Belder, though I cannot see even you fighting your way through a thousand Sathuli! I don't want to die without a weapon in my hand. Bravely spoken! said Scaler. I will take this apple. I don't want to die without a piece of fruit in my hand. Will you put a stop to this talk of dying? It's extremely unsettling!
~ David Gemmell
I love apples. I actually do eat an apple a day.
~ Lawrence Wright
anyone,then, who has tasted fairy fruit walks through life beside other people to a different tune from theirs
~ Unknown
wrongly taught that fruit can cause weight gain due to its sugar content and that starchy vegetables such as squash and potatoes are "bad" because they contain so many carbohydrates. Much to the contrary, fruits and vegetables contain a wealth of nutrients that support cellular health and facilitate the transportation of water into the cells for use.
~ Unknown
Despite all the positive psychological attributes of hatred we have outlined, hatred destroys finally the core of the life of the hater. While it lasts, burning in white heat, its effect seems positive and dynamic. But at last it turns to ash, for it guarantees a final isolation from one's fellows. It blinds the individual to all values of worth, even as they apply to himself and to his fellows. Hatred bears deadly and bitter fruit. It is blind and nondiscriminating.
~ Howard Thurman
Patience is bitter, but bears a sweet fruit.
~ Idries Shah
La paciencia es amarga, pero produce un dulce fruto.
~ Idries Shah
I have a huge breakfast every morning because I never know if I'll have time for lunch, especially during Fashion Week. It keeps my mood positive all day. And my parents taught me to have tons of fruit and vegetables, which I think helps my skin.
~ Constance Jablonski
The heart under your heart is not the one you share so readily so full of pleasantry & tenderness it is a single blackberry at the heart of a bramble or else some larger fruit heavy the size of a fist
~ Unknown
A gardener is like a prophet looking out on a barren land and saying, 'I see corn on that hill, and beans beneath the grove, and lavender in the field, and over there some roses by the brick wall.' Don't you think that's what a good friend should be like? A truly good friend is one who can look at our bare lives and see the fruit of what will one day come from deep inside us.
~ Unknown
To get rid of a spiritual problem, we need to pull it up by its spiritual root. To pull up roots, we're going to have to be willing to get our hands dirty, to make some sacrifices that provides long-term benefits instead of short-term, refinanced gains. God is willing to help us, to provide the tools we need to weed out those areas where our desire for money is spoiling our fruit of the Spirit.
~ Craig Groeschel
All around the walls were espaliered apricot, peach and fig trees, and in the centre were squared beds of strawberries, currants, and sweet little musk-melons.
~ Cynthia Harrod-Eagles
I always like to start my morning with a good amount of fruit. I really like pineapple, particularly because of the enzymes that it has. Sometimes I have oatmeal. But if I'm feeling like I really want to be watching my weight more, then I definitely do a protein, like an omelet, scrambled eggs or some smoked salmon.
~ Cynthia Nixon
We must go back - right back to my childhood at Hinkleton Parsonage - I must try to make you see those days because the seeds which were sown then have grown into trees and are now bearing fruit. The seeds were sown, and the trees grew up, there was blossom, and then fruit - bitter fruit some of it.
~ D.E. Stevenson
Hampshire was dressed in scarlet and brilliant orange, the hounds were out four mornings a week, and the last baskets of fruit had been harvested from heavy-laden trees. Now that the hay had been cut, the raucous corn-cakes had left the fields, their clamor replaced by the liquid notes of song-thrushes and the chatter of yellow buntings.
~ Lisa Kleypas
a bruise, blue in the muscle, you impinge upon me. As bone hugs the ache home, so I'm vexed to love you, your body the shape of returns, your hair a torso of light, your heat I must have, your opening I'd eat, each moment of that soft-finned fruit, inverted fountain in which I don't see me.
~ Li-Young Lee