Best 621 quotes in «fruit quotes» category

I see no women out here, and you're chanting about a male organ, now tell me who's the fruit bootie?

I stalk certain words... I catch them in mid-flight, as they buzz past, I trap them, clean them, peel them, I set myself in front of the dish, they have a crystalline texture to me, vibrant, ivory, vegetable, oily, like fruit, like algae, like agates, like olives... I stir them, I shake them, I drink them, I gulp them down, I mash them, I garnish them... I leave them in my poem like stalactites, like slivers of polished wood, like coals, like pickings from a shipwreck, gifts from the waves... Everything exists in the word.

I take vitamins daily, but just the bare essentials not what you'd call supplements. I try to stick to a vegan diet heavy on fruit, vegetables, tofu, and other soy products.

I submit that scientists have not yet explored the hidden possibilities of the innumerable seeds, leaves and fruits for giving the fullest possible nutrition to mankind.

It hasn't been easy to find American citizens who are willing to pick fruit in 110 degree weather.

I think the business community knows that half the world's oil reserves are gone. All the low-hanging fruit has been picked, and now there's the scramble for what remains.

I think speeches and fruit should always be fresh.

It is better to live poorly upon the fruits of God's goodness than live plentifully upon the products of our own sin.

It is a good discipline to be forced to work for work's sake, even to the length of not being allowed to enjoy the fruits of one's labour.

It is belief in the Bible, the fruits of deep meditation, which has served me as the guide of my moral and literary life. I have found capital safely invested and richly productive of interest, although I have sometimes made but a bad use of it.

It is probable that the lemon is the most valuable of all fruit for preserving health.

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.

It is said that in some countries trees will grow, but will bear no fruit because there is no winter there.

It is much more exquisite to be blown from the tree as a flower than to be shaken down as a shriveled and bitter fruit.

It is the great work of nature to transmute sunlight into life. So it is the great end of Christian living to transmute the light of truth into the fruits of holy living.

It's looks like someone slapped you in the face with a fruit roll-up or something!

It’s absolutely absurd to say you are a disciple of Jesus Christ yet not bear the fruit of Jesus Christ.

It's a shame that jazz is now being turned into dried fruit. It's becoming quantized, diced and defined. It's becoming an idiom. To me if it's anything, jazz is a verb ? it's more like a process than it is a thing.

It's going to be an emotional time for me to see where my great grandfather ministered. It's going to be great to see the fruit of his labor.

It should be fun introducing kids to fruits and vegetables. If you start young, it will be something that they'll attach to really quickly.

I try to eat fruit and be healthy.

It's a completely reasonable diet -- heavy on fruits and vegetables and fresh, seasonal foods. I'm totally for it. It's common sense in a nice package.

It should be noted that the seeds of wisdom that are to bear fruit in the intellect are sown less by critical studies and learned monographs than by insights, broad impressions, and flashes of intuition.

Knowledge and devotion, to be true, have to stand the test of renunciation of the fruits of action.

I’ve never really talked about this, but I would go days without eating. Or maybe I’d have some fruit and then go to the gym for three hours. I knew I had a problem…It was a gradual process but I changed myself.

Judge a tree from its fruit, not from its leaves.

Just as sure as the days go by, Jesus will come to us, looking for fruit; and He will come in personal hunger, needing and longing for the fruit which we might have ready for Him.

Keep as near as ever you can to the first sources of supply—fruits and vegetables.

It was truly very good reason that we should be beholden to God only, and to the favour of his grace, for the truth of so noble a belief, since from his sole bounty we receive the fruit of immortality, which consists in the enjoyment of eternal beatitude.... The more we give and confess to owe and render to God, we do it with the greater Christianity.

Jealousy of other people's success is a sure sign that you feel unfulfilled in your own life. Seeing them enjoy the fruits of their labors is a painful reminder that you do not have what you want nor have you been actively seeking it.

Just as some plants bear fruit only if they don't shoot up too high, so in practical arts the leaves and flowers of theory must be pruned and the plant kept close to its proper soil- experience.

Just as you would not neglect seeds that you planted with hope that they will bear vegetables and fruits and flowers, so must you attend to nourish the garden of your becoming.

Knowledge is a thing that one cannot have enough of. It is the fruit of wisdom, to be eaten carefully and digested fully, unlike that lunch you are bolting down, little friend.

Labor is the fruit of civilization, not the basis of it.

Let God fling you out (as seed), and do not go until He does. If you select your own spot, you will prove an empty pod. If God sows you, you will bring forth fruit.

Learning is its own exceeding great reward; and at the period of which we speak, it bore other fruits, not unworthy of it.

Let it please thee to keep in order a moderate-sized farm, that so thy garners may be full of fruits in their season.

Men talk about Bible miracles because there is no miracle in their lives. Cease to gnaw that crust. There is ripe fruit over your head.

Love is the root; obedience is the fruit.

Love - the feeling - is a fruit of love, the verb.

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.

Let us draw a lesson from nature, which always works by short ways. When the fruit is ripe, it falls.

Life should not be estimated exclusively by the standard of dollars and cents. I am not disposed to complain that I have planted and other have gathered the fruits. A man has cause for regret only when he sows and no one reaps.

Lincoln sees slavery in some ways as a theft of labor. A slave is a laborer who is being denied the fruits of his labor.

Literature is, in fact, the fruit of leisure.

Love for God is the farthest reach of all stations, the sun of the highest degrees, and there is no station after that of love, except its fruit and its consequences.

Love likes not the falling fruit, Nor the withered tree.

Morality is the fruit of religion: to desire the former without the latter is to desire an orange without an orange-tree.

Modern capitalist nations are the fruit of a history of slavery, genocide, violence and exploitation every bit as abhorrent as Mao's China or Stalin's Soviet Union.

Most fruits, if left alone on a tree, eventually do ripen, especially if they're not being yelled at.