Best 27 quotes in «vines quotes» category

The benevolence of wrapping the partridge in a vine leaf brings out its quality, just as the barrel of Diogenes brought forth the qualities of the great thinker.

The peoples of the Mediterranean began to emerge from barbarism when they learned to cultivate the olive and the vine.

The vine-stock bears fruit as long as it is attached to its stem; apart from that, no.

To happy convents, bosomed deep in vines, Where slumber abbots, purple as their wines.

Twas Noah who first planted the vine And mended his morals by drinking its wine.

Wine makes daily living easier, less hurried with fewer tensions and more tolerance.

You want hot days to get your fruit ripe but then you want it to cool off nicely at night so that the grapes stay on the vine longer and develop complexity.

I guess it's the same way trees grow around the very vines that are killing them, so they're strangled and sustained all at once. After a long time, even pain can be a comfort.

While the path to wealth is clearly marked, few are willing to adapt themselves to the modest discipline that the journey requires. Instead, most choose the shinier track of debt-driven consumption, which they find further along is covered in vines and thorns.

Thou art an elm, my husband, I a vine.

As he lifted the leather-bound cover, the musty smell of paper rose up. He turned the first mottled leaf and looked down at an elaborately drawn image. A brimming goblet was decorated with curling vines and bunches of grapes. But instead of wine or water, the cup was filled with words. John stared at the alien symbols. He could not read. Around the goblet a strange garden grew. Honeycombs dripped and flowers like crocuses sprouted among thick-trunked trees. Vines draped themselves about their branches which bristled with leaves and bent under heavy bunches of fruit. In the far background John spied a roof with a tall chimney. His mother settled beside him. 'Palm trees...' she said. 'These are dates. Honey came from the hives and saffron came from these flowers. Grapes swelled on the vine...

A little saint best fits a little shrine, A little prop best fits a little vine, As my small cruse best fits my little wine.

Naked you are blue like the night in Cuba, you have vines and stars in your hair,

You are but a tiny cluster upon the vines of heaven, where the grapes are worlds; yet you hold the power to ripen your bitter berries and add to the eternal vintage of cosmic sweetness if so you will.

Seek more strength for weaker spine No grape grows on sinner’s vine

Adrian Rogers told us as often as he could he took the Bible literally. He illustrated by saying he believed the world was created in six 24-hour days. And he repeated this to make an impression upon us. In private (Jerry Vines was with us), I asked Rogers what he did with the slavery passages of the New Testament. Did he take them literally? He paused and said, 'Well, I believe slavery is a much-maligned institution. If we had slavery today, we would not have this welfare mess.'

And the lesson was this; sit in the sun, head down, within a prickly vine, in a flickery light, or open light, and the world will come to you. The sky will come in its time, bringing rain, and the earth will rise through you, from beneath, and make you rich and make you full.

Christ, in the parable of the vine dressers, has taught us a sublime lesson of justice, by showing that to the things which are not our own, we can have no just claim.

Flat fields produce mediocre grapes, but rolling hills produce the greatest grapes. Why? Because the vines must struggle for survival.

Drooping along the ground the vine misses its widowed elm.

George of the Jungle is a cartoon. He's a guy who swings around on a vine all day. Are you not buying that?

I'm like a backward berry, Unripened on the vine, For all my friends are fifty, And I'm only forty-nine.

I love tearing things out of the ground. I love digging and discarding. I love pruning. In fact, I love pruning so much that I once gave myself carpal-tunnel syndrome because I attacked a trumpet vine with so much dedication.

It takes a fierce devotion to defend your artistic space, and eternal vigilance over it, because the needs of others will grow like vines in your little plot and claim it back for the jungle.

I went to the doctor. I said to him "I'm frightened of lapels." He said, "You've got cholera.

I went to the dentist. He said "Say Aaah." I said "Why?" He said "My dog's died.

Sorrows are gardeners: they plant flowers along waste places, and teach vines to cover barren heaps.