Fruit Quotes

"The entire fruit is already present in the seed"

"Let us learn to appreciate there will be times when the trees will be bare, and look forward to the time when we may pick the fruit"

Anton Chekhov, Dramatist

"As for now, we must not forget who would have to exchange the land? those villages which live more than others on irrigation, on orange and fruit plantations, in houses built near water wells and pumping stations, on livestock and property and easy access to markets"

Moshe Sharett, Statesman

"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"

Magic Johnson, Athlete

"We can make a commitment to promote vegetables and fruits and whole grains on every part of every menu. We can make portion sizes smaller and emphasize quality over quantity. And we can help create a culture - imagine this - where our kids ask for healthy options instead of resisting them"

Michelle Obama, First Lady

"War should only be declared by the authority of the people, whose toils and treasures are to support its burdens, instead of the government which is to reap its fruits"

James Madison, President

"Love is often the fruit of marriage"

Moliere, Playwright

"Our Lord never condemned the fig tree because it brought forth so much fruit that some fell to the ground and spoiled. He only cursed it when it was barren"

Edwin Louis Cole, Author

"Whenever, at a party, I have been in the mood to study fools, I have always looked for a great beauty: they always gather round her like flies around a fruit stall"

Jean Paul, Author

"I consider criticism merely a preliminary excitement, a statement of things a writer has to clear up in his own head sometime or other, probably antecedent to writing; of no value unless it come to fruit in the created work later"

Ezra Pound, Poet

"Whores don't live in company of poor men, citizens never support a weak company and birds don't build nests on a tree that doesn't bear fruits"

Chanakya, Politician

"I have never been able to look upon America as young and vital but rather as prematurely old, as a fruit which rotted before it had a chance to ripen"

Henry Miller, Writer

"Good thoughts bear good fruit, bad thoughts bear bad fruit"

James Allen, Author

"Whatever I do is done out of sheer joy; I drop my fruits like a ripe tree. What the general reader or the critic makes of them is not my concern"

Henry Miller, Writer

"Like the philosopher, the author views his task as one of establishing a clear connection between life and history, and of making the past bear fruit for the present and future"

Lion Feuchtwanger, Novelist

"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, Actor

"In our short walks we passed the kitchen where food was prepared for the nurses and doctors. There we got glimpses of melons and grapes and all kinds of fruits, beautiful white bread and nice meats, and the hungry feeling would be increased tenfold"

Nellie Bly, Journalist

"Remorse is virtue's root; its fair increase are fruits of innocence and blessedness"

William C. Bryant, Poet

"My favorite designers are Levi Strauss and Fruit of the Loom"

Robin Wright Penn, Actress

"Everything vanishes around me, and works are born as if out of the void. Ripe, graphic fruits fall off. My hand has become the obedient instrument of a remote will"

Paul Klee, Artist

"Taste every fruit of every tree in the garden at least once. It is an insult to creation not to experience it fully. Temperance is wickedness"

Stephen Fry, Comedian

"You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a fruit fly and still have room enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart"

Fred Allen, Comedian

"In teaching you cannot see the fruit of a day's work. It is invisible and remains so, maybe for twenty years"

Jacques Barzun, Educator

"One thing is obvious: Our policy, which is directed at making the country ungovernable, has started to bear fruit. The process that has been initiated is irreversible"

Joe Slovo, Politician

"Loyal and efficient work in a great cause, even though it may not be immediately recognized, ultimately bears fruit"

Jawaharlal Nehru, Leader

"Your life is the fruit of your own doing. You have no one to blame but yourself"

Joseph Campbell, Author

"When an action is once done, it is right or wrong for ever; no accidental failure of its good or evil fruits can possibly alter that"

William Kingdon Clifford, Mathematician

"Erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit"

Georg C. Lichtenberg, Scientist

"Not the fruit of experience, but experience itself, is the end"

Walter Pater, Critic

"A boxer's diet should be low in fat and high in proteins and sugar. Therefore you should eat plenty of lean meat, milk, leafy vegetables, and fresh fruit and ice cream for sugar"

Gene Tunney, Athlete

"I had a great time investigating the pigments of different mutant fruit flies by following experimental protocols published in Scientific American, and I also remember making my own beetle collection when it was still acceptable to make such collections"

Paul Nurse, Scientist

"When obedience to the Divine precepts keeps pace with knowledge, in the mind of any man, that man is a Christian; and when the fruits of Christianity are produced, that man is a disciple of our blessed Lord, let his profession of religion be what it may"

Joseph Lancaster, Educator

"If you allow one single germ, one single seed of slavery to remain in the soil of America... that germ will spring up, that noxious weed will thrive, and again stifle the growth, wither the leaves, blast the flowers and poison the fair fruits of freedom"

Ernestine L. Rose

"Waters are distilled out of Herbs, Flowers, Fruits, and Roots"

Nicholas Culpeper, Scientist

"I believe in an America in which the fruits of productivity and prosperity are shared by all, by workers as well as owners, by those at the bottom as well as those at the top; an America in which the sacrifices required by national security are shared by all, by profiteers in the back offices as well as volunteers on the front lines"

Theodore C. Sorensen, Lawyer