Blackberries Quotes

• We would load up the yellow Cutlass Supreme station wagon and pick blackberries during blackberry season or spring onions during spring onion season. For us, food was part of the fabric of our day.

  Mario Batali

  Spring, Food, Yellow

  "The Traditions of the Table". Interview with Bruce Cole, www.neh.gov. January/February 2004.

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• The way we measure productivity is flawed. People checking their BlackBerry over dinner is not the measure of productivity.

  Tim Ferriss

  People, Dinner, Way

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• Such tenderness, those afternoons and evenings, saying blackberry, blackberry, blackberry.

  Robert Hass

  Afternoon, Evening, Numinous

  "Meditation at Lagunitas" l. 28 (1979)

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• If reasons were as plentiful as blackberries,
  I would give no man a reason upon compulsion.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Giving, Reason

  'Henry IV, Part 1' (1597) act 2, sc. 4, l. [267]

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• When the blackberries hang swollen in the woods, in the brambles nobody owns, I spend all day among the high branches, reaching my ripped arms, thinking of nothing, cramming the black honey of summer into my mouth; all day my body accepts what it is. In the dark creeks that run by there is this thick paw of my life darting among the black bells, the leaves; there is this happy tongue.

  Mary Oliver

  Summer, Running, Dark

  Mary Oliver (1992). “New and Selected Poems”, Beacon Press (MA)

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• I love to go out in late September among the fat, overripe, icy, black blackberries to eat blackberries for breakfast, the stalks very prickly, a penalty they earn for knowing the black art of blackberry-making; and as I stand among them lifting the stalks to my mouth, the ripest berries fall almost unbidden to my tongue, as words sometimes do, certain peculiar words like strengths or squinched, many-lettered, one-syllabled lumps, which I squeeze, squinch open, and splurge well in the silent, startled, icy, black language of blackberry - eating in late September.

  Galway Kinnell

  Art, Fall, Knowing

  Galway Kinnell (2001). “A New Selected Poems”, p.97, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I would give you my soul in a blackberry pie; and a knife to cut it with.

  Dorothy Dunnett

  Cutting, Knives, Pie

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• O, blackberry tart, with berries as big as your thumb, purple and black, and thick with juice, and a crust to endear them that will go to cream in your mouth, and both passing down with such a taste that will make you close your eyes and wish you might live forever in the wideness of that rich moment.

  Richard Llewellyn

  Eye, Purple, Forever

  Richard Llewellyn (2009). “How Green Was My Valley”, p.88, Simon and Schuster

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• I used to make fun of my friends who had BlackBerries. And I know that the expression CrackBerry has been going around, but now I fully understand it. I'm actually addicted to a piece of machinery, and that's really embarrassing

  John Krasinski

  Fun, Expression, Pieces

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• Earth's crammed with heaven, And every common bush afire with God: But only he who sees takes off his shoes.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Faith, Autumn, Shoes

  'Aurora Leigh' (1857) bk. 7, l. 821

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• To me, 'Blackberry Way' stands up as a song that could be sung in any era, really. We do it with the new doing all sort of fanfare things in it and it works really well. It goes down great with audiences.

  Roy Wood

  Song, Way, Eras

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• The Blackberry is really essential for keeping up on my emails when I'm out of the office, which is a lot.

  David Neeleman

  Office, Email, Essentials

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• I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journeywork of the stars, And the pismire is equally perfect, and a grain of sand, and the egg of the wren, And the tree toad is a chef-d'oeurve for the highest, And the running blackberry would adorn the parlors of heaven, And the narrowest hinge in my hand puts to scorn all machinery, And the cow crunching with depress'd head surpasses any statue, And a mouse is miracle enough to stagger sextillions of infidels!

  Walt Whitman

  Running, Depressing, Stars

  Walt Whitman, “Song Of Myself, XXXI”

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• Once off the bush The fruit fermented, the sweet flesh would turn sour. I always felt like crying. It wasn't fair That all the lovely canfuls smelt of rot. Each year I hoped they'd keep, knew they would not. -Blackberry picking

  Seamus Heaney

  Sweet, Years, Lovely

  Seamus Heaney (2014). “Death of a Naturalist: Poems”, p.14, Macmillan

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• 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, Berries, Juicy

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• One of the misconceptions about BlackBerry is that it's your parents' smartphone.

  Thorsten Heins

  Smartphones, Parent, Misconception

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• I have a Blackberry which I use, but I am one of those people who can only type on it with one hand.

  Dev Patel

  Hands, People, Use

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I write everything down. I e-mail the second I think of something, or I write notes in my BlackBerry calendar. I set up reminder alerts on my phone. And I have a notebook by my bedside so I can write down any last-minute ideas.

  Giada De Laurentiis

  Notebook, Writing, Thinking

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• I think there's something to be said for being physical in acting.

  Crystal Reed

  Thinking, Acting, Needing Someone

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I have a little bit of an addiction to work. So I'm always hiding in the bathroom with my Blackberry to work when I'm on holiday.

  Penelope Cruz

  Holiday, Addiction, Littles

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• Life was just a tire swing. 'Jambalaya' was the only song I could sing. Blackberry pickin', eatin' fried chicken, And I never knew a thing about pain. Life was just a tire swing.

  Jimmy Buffett

  Song, Pain, Swings

  Song: Life Is Just A Tire Swing, Album: A1A, 1974

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• Purple as tulips in May, mauve into lush velvet, purple as the stain blackberries leave on the lips, on the hands, the purple of ripe grapes sunlit and warm as flesh.

  Marge Piercy

  Hands, Purple, Erotic

  Marge Piercy (2013). “Colors Passing Through Us”, p.132, Knopf

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• Beyond all our Blackberries and iPhones, we're dangerously separated from our food and water supplies.

  Eric Kripke

  Iphone, Water, Supplies

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Come, my child," I said, trying to lead her away. "Wish good-bye to the poor hare, and come and look for blackberries." "Good-bye, poor hare!" Sylvie obediently repeated, looking over her shoulder at it as we turned away. And then, all in a moment, her self-command gave way. Pulling her hand out of mine, she ran back to where the dead hare was lying, and flung herself down at its side in such an agony of grief as I could hardly have believed possible in so young a child. "Oh, my darling, my darling!" she moaned, over and over again. "And God meant your life to be so beautiful!

  Lewis Carroll

  Beautiful, Children, Lying

  Lewis Carroll (2016). “Sylvie and Bruno”, p.181, Lewis Carroll

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• I think the discipline comes with turning that cellphone and Blackberry off and unplugging completely. You do that and you go through some withdrawals in the beginning. You start thinking, 'Oh, do I need to do this? Do I need to do that?' You forget that we were doing just fine with the payphone.

  Matthew McConaughey

  Thinking, Discipline, Needs

  "Matthew McConaughey Unplugged". Parade Interview, parade.com. September 12, 2008.

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