Quotes About Fruit

I'm an apple expert. Apples are the only exam I could ever hope to pass.

Her skin is pale as watermelon sucked free of its juices.

Elsa's joke Where do baby apes sleep? In apricots!

A sweet and happy soul is the ripened fruit of experience and wisdom, and it sheds abroad the invisible yet powerful aroma of its influence, gladdening the hearts of others, and purifying the world.

Good thoughts bear good fruit, bad thoughts bear bad fruit.

The community is the dimension and condition necessary for the human seed to bear fruit. For this reason, we can say that the true, the most intelligent persecution, is not the one employed by Nero and his amphitheatre of wild beasts or the concentration camp. The most ferocious persecution is the modern state's attempt to block the expression of the communital dimension of the religious phenomenon.

The Holy Spirit doesn't give us more love or more faithfulness or more joy. He gives us Christ, and as he does, joy and all the rest are produced within us as the fruit of that union (p. 73).

I've seen spring come to the orchard every year as far back as I can remember and I've never grown tired of it. Oh, the wonder of it! The outrageous beauty! God didn't have to give us cherry blossoms you know. He didn't have to make apple trees and peach trees burst into flower and fragrance. But God just loves to splurge. He gives us all this magnificence and then, if that isn't enough, He provides fruit from such extravagance.

All things harmonize with me which are in harmony with thee, O Universe," he wrote; "all things are fruit to me which thy seasons bring, O Nature; from thee are all things, in thee are all things, unto thee are all things.

but repentance is faith's fruit, and there is no more reality in a profession of faith than there is reality of repentance accompanying it.

Into such miseries, your son came. Bright as a sunrise, sweet as ripe fruit.

Hope is a fruit of proven character.

Sow gold and silver, and it will bring unto thee most pleasant fruit by thy labour with the help of nature, because that only hath the thing which thou seek, and no other thing of the world

That perhaps all the stupidity, and the violence and the conformity are just the price of keeping a national energy alive… that day you took me round the Farmer's Market, just to show me how they've bred their fruit and vegetables to fit Madison Avenue notions of what they ought to look like… the heresy that size and looks are everything

I'll deliberately order a jasmine tea and a fruit plate just to make a point to the client that I'm a serious and disciplined professional. I usually accompany that with a quick line about how shitty the hotel gym is. "The treadmill shakes too much at high speeds" is a fan favorite. The client is almost always impressed.

Of man's first disobedience, and the fruit/Of that forbidden tree, whose mortal taste/Brought death into the world, and all our woe,/With loss of Eden, till one greater Man/Restore us, and regain the blissful seat,/Sing heavenly muse

The seed, swollen with moisture, burst asunder its covering of soil and out peers the blade of wheat, full of symbols. So faith, whose bosom is filled with goodly fruits, is a blade of praise.

Assurance is the fruit that grows out of the root of faith.

As the flower is before the fruit, so is faith before good works.

Faith without works is dead.

The sky softened, opening over us like the ripe flesh of a fruit.

which he ate, the dark flesh parting to pink seeds under his teeth. The fruit was perfectly ripe, the juice brimming.

My diet is mostly chicken and fish. I make sure I get a lot of vegetables, a lot of fruit. I am a big fruit man, I am a vegetable man anyway. And I also get a lot of rest. That's the key I may be up early, but I'm in bed early too.

As one who appreciated the tragic side of eating, it seemed to him that anything other than fruit for dessert implied a reprehensible frivolity, and cakes in particular ended up annihilating the flavour of quiet sadness that must be allowed to linger at the end of a great culinary performance.