Grapes Quotes - Page 3

• We hear of the conversion of water into wine at the marriage in Cana as of a miracle. But this conversion is, through the goodness of God, made every day before our eyes. Behold the rain which descends from heaven upon our vineyards, and which incorporates itself with the grapes, to be changed into wine; a constant proof that God loves us, and loves to see us happy.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Rain, Eye, Wine

  Benjamin Franklin, Jared Sparks (1856). “The Works of Benjamin Franklin: Containing Several Political and Historical Tracts Not Included in Any Former Edition, and Many Letters, Official and Private Not Hitherto Published; with Notes and a Life of the Author”, p.226

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• The fight is never about grapes or lettuce. It is always about people.

  Cesar Chavez

  Peace, Struggle, Fighting

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• The grape gains its purple tinge by looking at another grape.
  [Lat., Uvaque conspecta livorem ducit ab uva.]

  Juvenal

  Purple, Gains

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• 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.

  Drew Bledsoe

  Night, Hot, Vines

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• Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord: / He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored.

  Julia Ward Howe

  God, War, Eye

  "Battle Hymn of the Republic" l. 1 (1862)

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• I can no more think of my own life without thinking of wine and wines and where they grew for me and why I drank them when I did and why I picked the grapes and where I opened the oldest procurable bottles, and all that, than I can remember living before I breathed.

  M. F. K. Fisher

  Wine, Thinking, Bottles

  M.F.K. Fisher (2012). “Love in a Dish . . . and Other Culinary Delights by M.F.K. Fisher”, p.76, Counterpoint Press

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• Wine ... offers a greater range for enjoyment and appreciation than possibly any other purely sensory thing which may be purchased.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Appreciation, Wine, Vineyards

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “Death in the Afternoon”, p.13, Simon and Schuster

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• You could think of extraordinary examples to the contrary: The Grapes of Wrath... and even into the 70s.

  Charlton Heston

  Thinking, Wrath, Example

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• The television critic, whatever his pretensions, does not labour in the same vineyard as those he criticizes; his grapes are all sour.

  Frederic Raphael

  Doe, Vineyards, Television

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• One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.

  Samuel Johnson

  Mistake, Drinking, Food

  "Life of Samuel Johnson". Book by James Boswell. Volume II, p. 659, 1791.

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• Wine rejoices the heart of man and joy is the mother of all virtues.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Mother, Heart, Wine

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1837). “Goetz Von Berlichingen with the Iron Hand: A Drama in Five Acts”, p.20

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• Good wine is a good familiar creature if it be well used.

  William Shakespeare

  Wine, Vineyards, Drink

  'Othello' (1602-4) act 2, sc. 3, l. [315]

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• What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine

  Thomas More

  Friendship, Flower, Wine

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• Maybe it's like Casey says. A fellow ain't got a soul of his own. Just a little piece of a big soul. The one big soul that belongs to everybody.

  Nunnally Johnson

  Wrath, Soul, Pieces

  "Fictional character: Tom Joad". "The Grapes of Wrath", 1940.

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• I say 20 words in English. I say money, money, money, and I say hot dog! I say yes, no and I say money, money, money and I say turkey sandwich and I say grape juice.

  Carmen Miranda

  Dog, Turkeys, Hot

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• beautiful December grapes, blue as plums, every grape a little skinful of sweet, tasteless water

  Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

  Beautiful, Sweet, Blue

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• If there are occasions when my grape turned into a raisin and my joy bell lost its resonance, please forgive me. Charge it to my head and not to my heart.

  Jesse Jackson

  Heart, Joy, Forgive Me

  1984 Democratic National Convention Address, delivered 18 July 1984, San Francisco

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• There is too much sour grapes for my taste in the present American attitude. The time to denounce the bankers was when we were all feeding off their gold plate; not now! At present they have not only my sympathy but my preference. They are the last representatives of our native industries.

  Edith Wharton

  Sympathy, Attitude, Gold

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• Says he foun' he jus' got a little piece of a great big soul. Says a wilderness ain't no good, 'cause his little piece of a soul wasn't no good 'less it was with the rest, an' was whole.

  John Steinbeck

  Wrath, Soul, Pieces

  John Steinbeck (2016). “The Grapes of Wrath”, p.338, Hamilton Books

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• Remember, the Arctic didn't have any ice. And the Northwest Passage was wide open. They were raising grapes in Scotland for God sakes, had a huge winery. Iceland was a farming community. As some of the glaciers retreated they found villages that were covered with ice.

  Don Young

  Ice, Scotland, Agriculture

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• If the grape is made of wine, then perhaps we are the words that tell who we are

  Eduardo Galeano

  Wine, Who We Are, Made

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• To the eyes of a miser a guinea is more beautiful than the sun, and a bag worn with the use of money has more beautiful proportions than a vine filled with grapes.

  William Blake

  Beautiful, Money, Eye

  William Blake (2008). “The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake”, p.702, Univ of California Press

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• My family makes these vinegars - out of everything from grapes to peaches and cherries. We go through the whole process with the giant vat and drainer, label them, and give them as Christmas presents.

  Mario Batali

  Christmas, Giving, Giants

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• Oh, my fellow men, do not defile your bodies with sinful foods. We have corn, we have apples bending down the branches with their weight, and grapes swelling on the vines. There are sweet-flavored herbs, and vegetables which can be cooked and softened over the fire, nor are you denied milk or thyme-scented honey. The earth affords a lavish supply of riches, of innocent foods, and offers you banquets that involve no bloodshed or slaughter; only beasts satisfy their hunger with flesh, and not even all of those, because horses, cattle, and sheep live on grass.

  Pythagoras

  Sweet, Horse, Men

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• Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy. For if you bake bread with indifference, you bake a bitter bread that feeds but half man's hunger. And if you grudge the crushing of the grapes, your grudge distils a poison in the wine. And if you sing though as angels, and love not the singing, you muffle man's ears to the voices of the day and the voices of the night.

  Khalil Gibran

  Change, Crush, Angel

  'The Prophet' (1923) 'On Work'

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