Fruit Quotes

"As our bodies live upon the earth and find sustenance in the fruits which it produces, so our minds feed on the same truths as the intelligible and immutable substance of the divine Word contains"

Nicolas Malebranche, Philosopher

"My brother and I had saved $15,000 by working many years nailing fruit crates together"

Robert Mondavi, Businessman

"Where the roots of private virtue are diseased, the fruit of public probity cannot but be corrupt"

Felix Adler, Educator

"My experience as a school nurse taught me that we need to make a concerted effort, all of us, to increase physical fitness activity among our children and to encourage all Americans to adopt a healthier diet that includes fruits and vegetables, but there is more"

Lois Capps, Politician

"Balance, peace, and joy are the fruit of a successful life. It starts with recognizing your talents and finding ways to serve others by using them"

Thomas Kinkade, Artist

"I eat a variety of foods like vegetables, fruit and beef for protein and iron"

Sasha Cohen, Athlete

"Nothing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig. I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen"

Epictetus, Philosopher

"A man's worth has its season, like fruit"

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, Writer

"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

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

John Stuart Mill, Philosopher

"Everything existing in the universe is the fruit of chance and necessity"

Democritus, Philosopher

"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

"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

"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

"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

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

Erma Bombeck, Journalist

"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

"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

"Love is often the fruit of marriage"

Moliere, Playwright

"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

"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

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

Jawaharlal Nehru, Leader

"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

"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

"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

"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

"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

"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

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

Adam Weishaupt, Clergyman

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

Joseph Campbell, Author

"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

"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

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

Henry Fielding, Novelist

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

Wallace Stevens, Poet

"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

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