Fruit Quotes

"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

"I often go on a liquid fast a couple of days a week. I never take just water. Instead, I'll have maybe six glasses of vegetable and fruit juices a day"

Paul Lynde, Comedian

"I miss Saturday morning, rolling out of bed, not shaving, getting into my car with my girls, driving to the supermarket, squeezing the fruit, getting my car washed, taking walks"

Barack Obama, President

"All good things which exist are the fruits of originality"

John Stuart Mill, Philosopher

"I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs"

Joseph Addison, Writer

"Someone once threw me a small, brown, hairy kiwi fruit, and I threw a wastebasket over it until it was dead"

Erma Bombeck, Journalist

"Man, born of woman, has found it a hard thing to forgive her for giving him birth. The patriarchal protest against the ancient matriarch has borne strange fruit through the years"

Lillian Smith, Novelist

"To endure the cross is not tragedy; it is the suffering which is the fruit of an exclusive allegiance to Jesus Christ"

Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Theologian

"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

"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

"Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit"

Baltasar Gracian, Philosopher

"World's use is cold, world's love is vain, world's cruelty is bitter bane; but is not the fruit of pain"

Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Poet

"All men's gains are the fruit of venturing"

Herodotus, Historian

"The goldenrod is yellow, The corn is turning brown, The trees in apple orchards With fruit are bending down"

Helen Hunt Jackson, Writer

"Love is often the fruit of marriage"

Moliere, Playwright

"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

"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

"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

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

Jawaharlal Nehru, Leader

"My favorite fruit is grapes. Because with grapes, you always get another chance. 'Cause, you know, if you have a crappy apple or a peach, you're stuck with that crappy piece of fruit. But if you have a crappy grape, no problem - just move on to the next. 'Grapes: The Fruit of Hope.'"

Demetri Martin, Comedian

"Morality will perform all this; and Morality is the fruit of Illumination"

Adam Weishaupt, Clergyman

"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

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

William C. Bryant, Poet

"Primates need good nutrition, to begin with. Not only fruits and plants, but insects as well"

Richard Leakey, Environmentalist

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

Joseph Campbell, Author

"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

"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

"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

"Money is the fruit of evil, as often as the root of it"

Henry Fielding, Novelist

"Hopefully, if not it's not working right. 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, Director

"When motherhood becomes the fruit of a deep yearning, not the result of ignorance or accident, its children will become the foundation of a new race"

Margaret Sanger, Activist

"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

"Our bloom is gone. We are the fruit thereof"

Wallace Stevens, Poet

"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

"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

"There does not exist a category of science to which one can give the name applied science. There are science and the applications of science, bound together as the fruit of the tree which bears it"

Louis Pasteur, Scientist

"Erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit"

Georg C. Lichtenberg, Scientist

"I was involved in school plays, but when I left school I did a couple of odd jobs as a baker's apprentice and then as a fruit market porter in Manchester"

John Thaw, Actor

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

James Allen, Author

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