Fruit Quotes

"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

"But I think it's a little different in Europe, because 40 is really the best age for a woman. That's when we hit our peak and become this ripe fruit"

Juliette Binoche, Actress

"It is vital that we provide North Dakota's children with nutritionally sound diets. That means ensuring that they are getting plenty of fresh fruits and vegetables, and are developing good eating habits for their future"

Kent Conrad, Politician

"No fruit. No veggie"

Bea Arthur, Actress

"People notice it and they help you participate and see your work included in this project and when we ship our browser, you and millions of other people get to see the fruits of your efforts"

Mitchell Baker, Lawyer

"I think perhaps the most important problem is that we are trying to understand the fundamental workings of the universe via a language devised for telling one another when the best fruit is"

Terry Prachett, Author

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

Wallace Stevens, Poet

"Many individual growers now are growing organic fruit, and many are taking it upon themselves to market their own products to the public, as opposed to necessarily going through big processors, although, obviously, the bulk of the fruit still is dealt with that way"

Greg Walden, Politician

"America must be the moral leader. It is not enough to have power. Power must be used to protect freedom and give all people hope for the opportunity to see the fruit of their own labor"

Jesse Helms, Politician

"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

"Foods high in bad fats, sugar and chemicals are directly linked to many negative emotions, whereas whole, natural foods rich in nutrients - foods such as fruits, vegetables, grains and legumes - contribute to greater energy and positive emotions"

Marilu Henner, Actress

"If a man were living in isolation his income would be literally his product. Make him the monarch and owner of an island, and the fruits that he raises and the clothing that he makes constitute, in themselves, his income. This ceases to be true when trading begins"

John Bates Clark, Economist

"It is no secret that the fruits of language study are in no sort of relation to the labour spent on teaching and learning them"

Edward Sapir, Scientist

"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

"Ambition is a Dead Sea fruit, and the greatest peril to the soul is that one is likely to get precisely what he is seeking"

Edward Dahlberg, Novelist

"Two days after moving we recommended ourselves to God, Our Lord, and fled, hoping that, although it was late in the season and the fruits of the tunas were giving out, by remaining in the field we might still get over a good portion of the land"

Alvar N. C. de Vaca

"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

"Power? It's like a Dead Sea fruit. When you achieve it, there is nothing there"

Harold MacMillan, Politician

"Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues"

Abigail Adams, First Lady

"Whatever seeds each man cultivates will grow to maturity and bear in him their own fruit. If they be vegetative, he will be like a plant"

Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, Writer

"To be of the earth is to know the restlessness of being a seed the darkness of being planted the struggle toward the light the pain of growth into the light the joy of bursting and bearing fruit the love of being food for someone the scattering of your seeds the decay of the seasons the mystery of death and the miracle of birth"

Kenji Miyazawa, Poet

"The thing I don't understand is why so often one hears discussion of the fruits of human labor as if it's all the creation of some alien race"

Chris Ware, Artist

"Washington state's 2nd Congressional District is a major producer of small fruit crops such as raspberries and strawberries. This research center is doing important work to help farmers enhance the quality, yield and marketability of their small fruit crops"

Rick Larsen, Politician

"I have known the fruits of strikes. The bitter and the sweet. Hunger and music"

Merle Travis, Musician

"Singles needed to come back. And what I tried to do in my online experiment was to change the rules for myself and make available at a more regular pace the fruits of my labour, for people who decided they wanted to support my recordings"

Todd Rundgren, Musician

"After voluntary exertions on the part of our people to which the history of the world furnishes no parallel, is the old root of bitterness still to remain in the ground, to sprout and bear fruit in the future as it has borne fruit in the past?"

Robert Dale Owen, Politician

"God tipped the country and all the fruits and nuts rolled west"

Mike Royko, Writer

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

Felix Adler, Educator

"That free will was demonstrated in the placing of temptation before man with the command not to eat of the fruit of the tree which would give him a knowledge of good and evil, with the disturbing moral conflict to which that awareness would give rise"

Kenneth Scott Latourette, Historian

"All beautiful and noble qualities have been united in me... I shall be the fruit which will leave eternal vitality behind even after its decay. How great must be your joy, therefore, to have given birth to me"

Egon Schiele, Artist

"I think that if you shake the tree, you ought to be around when the fruit falls to pick it up"

Mary Cassatt, Artist

"I am not disposed to complain that I have planted and others have gathered the fruits"

Charles Goodyear, Inventor

"I believe that the responsibility of the winemaker is to take that fruit and get it into the bottle as the most natural and purest expression of that vineyard, of the grape varietal or blend, and of the vintage"

Robert M. Parker, Jr., Critic

"I always figure I have this tree and there's always some green fruit that's not ready to pick or blossoms that are ready to flower; there are always some ready to drop off too"

Graeme Murphy, Dancer

"Behind the man is the Tree of Life, bearing twelve fruits, and the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil is behind the woman; the serpent is twining round it"

Arthur E. Waite

"If you have a great passion it seems that the logical thing is to see the fruit of it, and the fruit are children"

Roman Polanski, Director

"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

"The irrepressible conflict propounded by abolitionism has produced now its legitimate fruits - disunion"

John H. Reagan, Politician

"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

"Adopting a new healthier lifestyle can involve changing diet to include more fresh fruit and vegetables as well as increasing levels of exercise"

Linford Christie, Athlete

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