Best 621 quotes in «fruit quotes» category

Yet, as creators we tend to be more mindful of the fruit than the tree. If the fruit is rotten, we tend to criticize the apple rather than looking at the branches from which the apple fell, the roots of the tree or the soil from which the tree draws nourishment. An orange is an orange because it comes from an orange tree. Our art is the product of who we are. If we think the fruit needs to be sweeter, bigger, more nourished, we must pick up our watering can and pruning sheers and turn our eyes not just to the fruit, but to the very tree and its roots-to the soil that we are planted in and the nutrients that we draw our inspiration from.

You are who you are because others say that's who you are. You can try to change who you are but it will only change the views of others who think you are what you really aren't.

You can eat alkaline foods until the cows come home, but if you're a miserable SOB, you're acidic.

You can never, never, ever go wrong eating more fruit.

You can’t keep your feet on the ground, hoping to enjoy the fruits of your labour. The fruits are on the top; keep climbing till you pluck them with your hands!

Above anything, welcome silence, for it brings fruits that no tongue can speak of, neither can it be explained.

You may not know this but it's impossible to open a box of 'Fruit Loops' and just eat the Fruit, let someone else have the Loops

Your kisses are like miracle fruit that sweetens my life without ruining my diet.

You want to test our apples?" Carter asked. "I want to find out what makes them taste so special so that we can share that with other people, maybe lots of them." Grace saw Carter's perplexed expression. "You ever had a fruit-flavored soft drink?" "Like an orange soda?" "Exactly. Well, somebody found the perfect orange somewhere, studied it carefully, and then made a formula based on its special flavor so that anyone anywhere in the world could taste it." "In a can of soda." "Right." "Very cool." "Do you like peach ice cream?" "Yes!" "Well, a lot of the 'all-natural peach flavoring' that you taste in that ice cream is really Gamma-Aldehyde C-14, a molecule created by Nanjing Yuance Trade Company, which I'm sure is based on a perfect peach they found somewhere." "So you're like a scientist-cook," Carter said excitedly. "Something like that." Grace smiled.

About humility we speak with an analogy: When the branches are full of fruit, they just bow down.

According to the letter of the Gita, it is possible to say that warfare is consistent with renunciation of fruit.

Active valour may often be the present of nature; but such patient diligence can be the fruit only of habit and discipline.

Adversity is the touchstone of character: it is not in success but in misfortune that hidden powers bear fruit.

A gluten-free diet still allows you access to almost every fruit and vegetable, a variety of grains and legumes, your pick of dairy products, fresh meats and fish and a whole slew of special gluten-free delights to satisfy your pretzel-bagel-muffin-doughnut craving.

A fig for a care, a fig for a woe!

A good book is like a seed: it produces fruit that has in it seed for more fruit. It is not a picture on the wall; it is a window that invies us to wider horizons.

All the conscious decisions that I have taken in my life have never borne fruit. Not even come close! So, I am just very happy not planning.

A great many people in Los Angeles are on special diets that restrict their intake of synthetic foods. The reason for this appears to be a widely held belief that organically grown fruits and vegetables make the cocaine work faster.

All good things which exist are the fruits of originality.

All fruit grows through abiding, not striving.

A ministry of power must be the fruit of a holy, peaceful, loving intimacy with the Lord.

A lot of people think, particularly the people who have benefited, that they're entitled to the fruits of their abilities, their labor.

And let these altars, wreathed with flowers And piled with fruits, awake again Thanksgivings for the golden hours, The early and the latter rain!

Anytime the perfume of orange and lemon groves wafts in the window; the human body has to feel suffused with a languorous well-being.

A neglect of one's sentimental education early in life could bear the most unfortunate fruit.

Anger is the fruit of rotten roots.

A pear-tree planted nigh: 'Twas charg'd with fruit that made a goodly show, And hung with dangling pears was every bough.

And that's when I realised that a mans' ego was like fruit; easily bruised.

And when April like an over-lustful lover leaped upon the lush flanks of the Downs there would be yet another child in the wretched hut down on Nettle Flitch Field, where Meriam housed the fruits of her shame.

Anyone who imagines that all fruits ripen at the same time as the strawberries knows nothing about grapes.

Anyway, like I was saying, shrimp is the fruit of the sea. You can barbecue it, boil it, broil it, bake it, sautes it. There's, um, shrimp ka-bobs, shrimp creole, shrimp gumbo, pan-fried, deep-fried, stir-fried. There's pineapple shrimp, lemon shrimp, coconut shrimp, pepper shrimp, shrimp soup, shrimp stew, shrimp salad, shrimp and potatoes, shrimp burger, shrimp sandwich... That's, that's about it.

A Poem should be palpable and mute As a globed fruit.

Apparent failure may hold in its rough shell the germs of a success that will blossom in time, and bear fruit throughout eternity.

A person with a positive attitude is like a fruit of all seasons.

Are you entitled to the fruits of your own labor or does government have some presumptive right to spend and spend and spend?

A relation is formed betwixt every man and the fruits of his own labour, the very thing we call property, which he himself is sensible of, and of which every other is equally sensible. Yours and mine are terms in all languages, familiar among savages, and understood even by children. This is a fact, which every human creature can testify.

As a dispensation, grace begins with the death and resurrection of Christ (Rom. 3:24-26; 4:24,25). The point of testing is no longer legal obedience as the condition of salvation, but acceptance or rejection of Christ, with good works as a fruit of salvation. . . .

As a tree my sin stands To darken all lands; Death is the fruit it bore.

A statesman who shakes the fruit trees of his neighbors - to dislodge the worms.

Assurance is the fruit that grows out of the root of faith.

As the flower is before the fruit, so is faith before good works.

As to the garden, it seems to me its chief fruit is-blackbirds.

As the shell, the pith and the kernel of the fruit are all produced form one parent seed of the tree, so from the one Lord is produced the whole of creation, animate and inanimate, spiritual and material.

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.

As they say in Discworld, we are trying to unravel the Mighty Infinite using a language which was designed to tell one another where the fresh fruit was.

A thought falls like a ripe fruit from the tree of idleness.

At home, off-duty, I wear T-shirts from Fruit of the Loom - but I have them tailored.

Before the development of tourism, travel was conceived to be like study, and it's fruits were considered to be the adornment of the mind and the formation of the judgment.

A traitor is good fruit to hang from the boughs of the tree of liberty.

Before thee stands this fair Hesperides, With golden fruit, but dangerous to be touched; For death-like dragons here affright thee hard.