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Quotes About Fruit

The strawberry grows underneath the nettle And wholesome berries thrive and ripen best Neighbour'd by fruit of baser quality.
~ William Shakespeare
There are only ten minutes in the life of a pear when it is perfect to eat.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
The cucumber and the tomato are both fruit; the avocado is a nut. To assist with the dietary requirements of vegetarians, on the first Tuesday of the month a chicken is officially a vegetable.
~ Jasper Fforde
Shape is a good part of the fig's delight.
~ Jane Grigson
And, of course, the funniest food of all, kumquats.
~ George Carlin
And every day when I've been good, I get an orange after food.
~ Robert Louis Stevenson
Cheese that is required by law to append the word food to its title does not go well with red wine or fruit.
~ Fran Lebowitz
And, of course, the funniest food: "kumquats". I don't even bring them home anymore. I sit there laughing and they go to waste.
~ George Carlin
Forgiveness costs us nothing. All our costly obedience is the fruit, not the root, of being forgiven. That's why we call it grace.
~ John Piper
Flattery is like friendship in show, but not in fruit.
~ Socrates
An overripe banana, yellow outside, squishy in
~ Margaret Halsey
How do you like them? like a pear, a lemon, a la Montgolfier, half an apple, or a cantaloupe? Go and choose, don't be embarrassed.
~ Unknown
50 lemons are a burden for 1 person, but they are treasures for 50 people
~ Emmet Fox
Men, like peaches and pears, grow sweet a little while before they begin to decay.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes
In the wintertime, in the snow country, citrus fruit was so rare, and if you got one, it was better than ambrosia.
~ James Earl Jones
En definitiva, ¿importa algo la memoria? "A veces me siento desdichada, nada más que de no saber qué es lo que estoy echando de menos", murmuró Blanca, mientras repartía los duraznos en almíbar. Nos tocaron tres y medio a cada uno.
~ Mario Benedetti
So where does the name Adam's apple come from? Most people say that it is from the notion that this bump was caused by the forbidden fruit getting stuck in the throat of Adam in the Garden of Eden. There is a problem with this theory because some Hebrew scholars believe that the forbidden fruit was the pomegranate. The Koran claims that the forbidden fruit was a banana. So take your pick---Adam's apple, Adam's pomegranate, Adam's banana. Eve clearly chewed before swallowing.
~ Mark Leyner
An apple a day keeps the doctor away.' But eating too many, is quite enough-plenty. And you'll have to go see the good doc anyway.
~ Solange nicole
The fruit of the Spirit wasn't intended to be a list of goals for us to produce - it is the Holy Spirit through us who produces fruit.
~ Dan Kimball
California is a fine place to live - if you happen to be an orange.
~ Fred Allen
Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within the reach of every hand.
~ Mother Teresa
This cheese and miracle fruit, Tracker, it is like sucking a goat's teat and sweet spices come out.
~ Marlon James
I know a beautiful garden, where there are a great many children in fine little coats, and they go under the trees and gather beautiful apples and pears, cherries and plums; they sing and run about and are as happy as they can be. Sometimes they ride on nice little ponies, with golden bridles and silver saddles. I asked the man whose garden it is, "What little children are these?" And he told me, "They are little children who love to pray and learn and are good.
~ Martin Luther
For whatever has no root has no fruit, and although thinking, "I have come into being," it will perish by itself. So whatever does not exist will never exist.
~ Unknown