Berries Quotes

• I love berries. Strawberries, blueberries, raspberries, black berries, anything with an 'errie' in it!

  Jordin Sparks

  Black, Raspberries, Black Women

  272 Copy quote

• On the motionless branches of some trees, autumn berries hung like clusters of coral beads, as in those fabled orchards where the fruits were jewels . . .

  Charles Dickens

  Nature, Autumn, Jewels

  Charles Dickens (1867). “The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit”, p.5

  95 Copy quote

  Show source

• Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup.

  Wendell Berry

  Food, Cooking, Red Lipstick

  Wendell Berry (2011). “Farming: A Hand Book”, p.49, Counterpoint Press

  80 Copy quote

  Show source

• Two lovely berries moulded on one stem;
  So, with two seeming bodies, but one heart.

  William Shakespeare

  Heart, Two, Lovely

  William Shakespeare (1796). “The Plays of William Shakspeare...”, p.30

  27 Copy quote

  Show source

• If you tried to give rock and roll another name, you might call it 'Chuck Berry'.

  John Lennon

  Inspirational, Life, Rocks

  Mike Douglas Show in 1972. "John Lennon: In His Own Words", Book by Ken Lawrence, p. 107, 2005.

  96 Copy quote

  Show source

• The darker the berry, the sweeter the juice.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Juice

  15 Copy quote

• The morns are meeker than they were,
  The nuts are getting brown;
  The berry's cheek is plumper,
  The rose is out of town.
  The maple wears a gayer scarf,
  The field a scarlet gown.
  Lest I should be old-fashioned,
  I'll put a trinket on.

  Emily Dickinson

  Fall, Autumn, Nuts

  Emily Dickinson (2004). “Poems”, p.57, 1st World Publishing

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

• Blueberries, strawberries and blackberries are true super foods. Naturally sweet and juicy, berries are low in sugar and high in nutrients - they are among the best foods you can eat.

  Joel Fuhrman

  Sweet, Juicy, Sugar

  106 Copy quote

• The winter is kind and leaves red berries on the boughs for hungry sparrows.

  John J. Geddes

  Winter, Sparrows, Red

  17 Copy quote

• She sits down and puts her hand to her chest and rocks. Thinks of all she has lost and will lose. All she has had and will have. It seems to her that life is like gathering berries into an apron with a hole. Why do we keep on? Because the berries are beautiful, and we must eat to survive. We catch what we can. We walk past what we lose for the promise of more, just ahead.

  Elizabeth Berg

  Beautiful, Past, Thinking

  Elizabeth Berg (2009). “Home Safe: A Novel”, p.237, Random House

  33 Copy quote

  Show source

• The merry year is born Like the bright berry from the naked thorn.

  Hartley Coleridge

  New Year, Years, Old Year

  Hartley Coleridge (1833). “Poems”, p.54

  26 Copy quote

  Show source

• The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do.

  Galileo Galilei

  Inspirational, Funny, Summer

  "Sun of gOd: Discover the Self-Organizing Consciousness That Underlies Everything". Book by Gregory Sams (p. 78), May 1, 2009.

  390 Copy quote

  Show source

• It must be very fragile, if a handful of berries can bring it down.

  Suzanne Collins

  Catching On, Catching Fire, Handful

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)”, p.22, Scholastic Inc.

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• Now the autumn shudders
  In the rose's root.
  Far and wide the ladders
  Lean among the fruit.
  Now the autumn clambers
  Up the trellised frame,
  And the rose remembers
  The dust from which it came.
  Brighter than the blossom
  On the rose's bough
  Sits the wizened orange,
  Bitter berry now;
  Beauty never slumbers;
  All is in her name;
  But the rose remembers
  The dust from which it came.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Autumn, Dust, Names

  Edna St. Vincent Millay (2003). “Edna St. Vincent Millay: Selected Poems”, p.68, Library of America

  31 Copy quote

  Show source

• And it’s all my fault, Gale. Because of what I did in the arena. If I had just killed myself with those berries, none of this would’ve happened. Peeta could have come home and lived, and everyone else would have been safe, too.” “Safe to do what?” he says in a gentler tone. “Starve? Work like slaves? Send their kids to the reaping? You haven’t hurt people – you’ve given them an opportunity. They just have to be brave enough to take it.

  Suzanne Collins

  Hurt, Home, Kids

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)”, p.99, Scholastic Inc.

  32 Copy quote

  Show source

• Blackberry winter, the time when the hoarforst lies on the blackberry blossoms; without this frost the berries will not set. It is the forerunner of a rich harvest.

  Margaret Mead

  Spring, Lying, Winter

  Margaret Mead (1972). “Blkberry Winter”

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• In August, the large masses of berries, which, when in flower, had attracted many wild bees, gradually assumed their bright velvety crimson hue, and by their weight again bent down and broke their tender limbs.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Summer, Flower, August

  Henry David Thoreau (1882). “Walden”, p.179

  23 Copy quote

  Show source

• So we grew together like to a double cherry, seeming parted, but yet an union in partition, two lovely berries molded on one stem.

  William Shakespeare

  Best Friend, Cute Friendship, Sisterhood

  'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (1595-6) act 3, sc. 2, l. 208

  64 Copy quote

  Show source

• If my holding out those berries was an act of temporary insanity, then those people will embrace insanity too.

  Suzanne Collins

  Temporary Insanity, People, Embrace

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)”, p.72, Scholastic Inc.

  17 Copy quote

  Show source

• Some say the blacker the berry, the sweeter the juice I say the darker the flesh then the deeper the roots

  Tupac Shakur

  Roots, Juice, Flesh

  Song: Keep Ya Head Up, 1993

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• The strawberry grows underneath the nettle And wholesome berries thrive and ripen best Neighbour'd by fruit of baser quality.

  William Shakespeare

  Food, Cooking, Quality

  William Shakespeare (2013). “Histories of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)”, p.983, BookCaps Study Guides

  150 Copy quote

  Show source

• Doubtless God Could Have Made A Better Berry, But Doubtless God Never Did

  Izaak Walton

  Food, Made, Angling

  The Compleat Angler, 2nd ed., pt. 1, ch. 5 (1655)

  65 Copy quote

  Show source

• To crave and to have are as like as a thing and its shadow. For when does a berry break upon the tongue as sweetly as when one longs to taste it, and when is the taste refracted into so many hues and savors of ripeness and earth, and when do our senses know any thing so utterly as when we lack it? And here again is a foreshadowing - the world will be made whole. For to wish for a hand on one's hair is all but to feel it. So whatever we may lose, very craving gives it back to us again.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Hair, Hands, Giving

  "Housekeeping". Book by Marilynne Robinson, 1980.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• No one had ever called her wild before. She wanted to be wild now, for him. Wild seemed more enticing then a bowl of berries.

  Shannon Hale

  Wanted, Enticing, Bowls

  5 Copy quote

• Strawberries that in gardens grow
  Are plump and juicy fine,
  But sweeter far as wise men know
  Spring from the woodland vine.
  No need for bowl or silver spoon,
  Sugar or spice or cream,
  Has the wild berry plucked in June
  Beside the trickling stream.
  One such to melt at the tongue's root,
  Confounding taste with scent,
  Beats a full peck of garden fruit:
  Which points my argument.

  Robert Graves

  Summer, Wise, Spring

  Robert Graves (1920). “Country Sentiment”

  163 Copy quote

  Show source