Fruit Quotes

"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

"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

"Botanically speaking, tomatoes are the fruit of a vine, just as are cucumbers, squashes, beans and peas"

Horace Gray, Judge

"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

"Pleasure only starts once the worm has got into the fruit, to become delightful happiness must be tainted with poison"

Georges Bataille, Writer

"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

"The chief fruit of the First World War was the Russian Revolution and the rise of Communism as a national power"

Whittaker Chambers, Writer

"Acting in 'Star Wars' I felt like a raisin in a giant fruit salad, and I didn't even know who the cantaloupes were"

Mark Hamill, Actor

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

Robert Mondavi, Businessman

"I still need practice in enjoying the fruits of success"

Neil Diamond, Musician

"The month of May was come, when every lusty heart beginneth to blossom, and to bring forth fruit"

Thomas Malory, Author

"People get caught up in asking whether Americans should be going here or there. What it boils down to is the call of the Lord. If the Lord has called you to a specific area, that's where you are going to see the fruit"

Michael Scott

"The '80s were about trying to establish myself as an actor with a career. And being a teenager enjoying the fruits of being successful with lots of what I think is appropriate for that age"

Rob Lowe, Actor

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

Sasha Cohen, Athlete

"In the last camp they all ate grass, until the authorities forbade them to pull it up. They were accustomed to having the fruits of their little communal gardens stolen by the guards, after they had done all the work; but at the last camp everything was stolen"

Martha Gellhorn, Journalist

"Since we have placed justification in the revelation of Jesus Christ formed and brought forth in the heart, there working his works of righteousness and bringing forth the fruits of the Spirit"

Robert Barclay, Writer

"Too late for fruit, too soon for flowers"

Walter de La Mare, Poet

"Chocolate's okay, but I prefer a really intense fruit taste. You know when a peach is absolutely perfect... it's sublime. I'd like to capture that and then use it in a dessert"

Kathy Mattea, Musician

"Avoid fruits and nuts. You are what you eat"

Jim Davis, Cartoonist

"Only with the tools of production in their own hands could the workers ever hope to control their own lives and receive the fruits of their labor"

Ella R. Bloor

"Using lots of fresh foods, fruits and vegetables, helps to keep the menu buoyant - I don't know if that's the right word, but it keeps a balance of freshness and health"

Sally Schneider, Writer

"I'm forbidden fruit. Once you go to certain households, mommy doesn't want you to see that dirty man who sticks his tongue out and spits out blood and all that stuff"

Gene Simmons, Musician

"Art is a fruit that grows in man, like a fruit on a plant, or a child in its mother's womb"

Jean Arp, Sculptor

"I do the cooking at home. Where we eat no more than 100 grams of meat a day and have 'tons' of fresh vegetables. I prepare the vegetables with a wide range of herbs, spices and such. We also keep on hand lots of fruit, yogurt and great breads"

Graham Kerr, Celebrity

"They took their meals together; and it was remarked on such occasions, when the friendship of animals is put to a hard test, that they never quarrelled or disputed the possession of a favourite fruit with each other"

Henry Walter Bates, Environmentalist

"As the war on terrorism spreads and prolongs, the fruits of ending the threat of terrorism around the world will be tempered with a whole new series of problems to be addressed and resolved"

Charles Foster Bass, Politician

"The return from cows and sheep in cheese is worth much money every day in the season, without calves and lambs, and without the manure, which all return corn and fruit"

Robert Grosseteste, Statesman

"Indeed science alone may perhaps be sterile when pursued without an understanding of the world in which scientific knowledge is created and in which the fruits of science are used"

Polykarp Kusch, Scientist

"I don't want to sound like Catherine Cookson but I've worked since I was eight, with a paper round and in a fruit and veg shop. Taking a pay cut won't demotivate me, not at all. It's not about money in the first place. It's about the job"

Paul O'Grady, Comedian

"Yet, so far from laboring to know the forbidden tree of worldly pleasures and its various fruits, man gives himself up to a careless and thoughtless state of life, and yields to the lust of the flesh, not considering that this lust is really the forbidden tree"

Johann Arndt, Theologian

"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

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