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Quotes About Pears

If music is frozen architecture, then the potpourri is frozen coffee-table gossip... Potpourri is the art of adding apples to pears.
~ Arnold Schoenberg
You get so weak from eating pears that you fall down, and then they come and take you away on a stretcher.
~ Oliver Reed
The pears are pale with faint brown spotting. I reach out and press. The point at which ripeness crosses over into decay is unperceivable. Only the fact remains. The slightly overly sweet, acrid stench. The soft yielding flesh. The discoloration.
~ An Na
I was feeling well enough to eat the pears.
~ Lizzie Andrew Borden
Don't forget that fruit can be cooked - think of baked apples, poached pears and grilled pineapple. But if you like drinking fruit, blending will preserve more nutrition and fibre than juicing.
~ Michael Greger
squirrel is in a pine tree, when all of a sudden, it starts shaking. He looks down, and sees an elephant climbing the tree. 'What are you doing? Why are you climbing my tree?' the squirrel calls down to the elephant. 'I'm coming up there to eat some pears!' the elephant responds. 'You fool! This is a pine tree! There aren't any pears up here!' The elephant looks perplexed for a moment, and then says, 'Well, I brought my own pears.
~ Adrian McKinty
Even with her failing vision, Violet West could see the scars. They had turned purple, almost red, from the icy cold, the color of the pears on the tree in the yard, the color of blood that can't be washed away and of things that can never be undone.
~ Alice Hoffman
Sometimes the valley below is like a bowl filled up with fog. I can see hard green figs on two trees and pears on a tree just below me. A fine crop coming in. May summer last a hundred years.
~ Frances Mayes
Sometimes the valley below is like a bowl filled up with fog. I can see hard green figs on two trees and pears on a tree just below me. A fine crop coming in. May summer last a hundred years.
~ Frances Mayes
In reality it's Mama who is right: tanks are perishable, pears are eternal.
~ Milan Kundera
I went to the meeting with some trepidation for, although I might have met a wizard before, I had never encountered an Irishman.
~ Iain Pears
Trust me. Killing things is much easier than this," I said. "Although for all I know, I am killing you." "Can you speed it up a little?" he asks. "No. Shut up and eat your pears," I say.
~ Suzanne Collins
Your jam puts store-bought to shame. As I ate it on a fresh croissant from the French bakery at the Farmers Market down the street from my house, I savored the image you painted with your words. I would love to spend a summer morning in the Pacific Northwest sunshine picking wild blackberries. I also crave your backyard access to crisp apples, plums, and pears, although I am not sure I would trade them for the grapefruit and oranges I pluck from my own trees for breakfast whenever I like.
~ Kim Fay
I do love pears. All types of pears. Not too firm, not too soft; they have to be at the right time of their life.
~ Christina Milian
The stars are pears that no one can reach, even for a wedding. Perhaps for a death.
~ Anne Sexton
All men should have a drop of treason in their veins, if nations are not to go soft like so many sleepy pears.
~ Rebecca West
And Venus coupled their bodies in the forest; What brought them together was either that both wanted it, That the man was violent and his lust was threatening, Or some such gift as acorns, berries and pears.
~ Unknown
I mentioned earlier in which people lost weight after adding three apples or pears to their daily diets.2223 Certain other fruits were not as successful, though. Adding three grapefruit halves, around three kiwifruits, or half a mango a day didn't result in significant weight loss (although it didn't result in weight gain either).
~ Michael Greger
Home-grown pears are best eaten in the bath - they're so juicy, it's the easiest way to stay clean!
~ Unknown