Fruit Quotes - Page 17

• You got to set your mind right and the rest will come to you naturally. No restrictions, no hang-ups, no stupid rules, no formalities, no forbidden fruit - just everyone getting and giving as much as he and she can.

  Ray Charles

  Stupid, Generosity, Giving

  Ray Charles, David Ritz (2004). “Brother Ray: Ray Charles' Own Story”, p.169, Da Capo Press

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• I still come closest to success with drawing. When I use color the results are dubious, for these painfully gained experiences bear less fruit.

  Paul Klee

  Color, Drawing, Dubious

  Paul Klee, Felix Klee (1968). “The Diaries of Paul Klee, 1898-1918”, p.141, Univ of California Press

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• Just as some plants bear fruit only if they don't shoot up too high, so in practical arts the leaves and flowers of theory must be pruned and the plant kept close to its proper soil- experience.

  Carl von Clausewitz

  Art, Flower, Soil

  Carl von Clausewitz, Michael Howard, Peter Paret (1989). “On War”, p.61, Princeton University Press

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• Rentals sank, living rose. I could not afford help. I must be owner, agent, landlady and janitor. I loathed landladying... I tried in every way to augment my income. Small fruit, hens, rabbits, dogs - pottery... I never painted now - had neither time nor wanting. For about fifteen years I did not paint.

  Emily Carr

  Dog, Years, Rose

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• Labor is the fruit of civilization, not the basis of it.

  Alexander Crummell

  Civilization, Bases, Labor

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• I am disappointed to find myself accused in some papers of supplying the offending sweets, particularly as I am a fruit pastille man.

  Alastair Cook

  Sweet, Men, Offending

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• Blessed, blessed is their Guru, whose mouth tastes the Ambrosial Fruit of the Lord.

  Guru Gobind Singh

  Blessed, Mouths, Taste

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• Look, I am a Palestinian elected representative from Jericho. If a Palestinian wants to sell his fruit anywhere in the West Bank, he goes to the Israeli civil administration. If a Palestinian sick person wants to leave a hospital, he goes through the Israeli civil administration. Nobody can leave or enter my constituency without Israeli permission. Israel is, in effect, resuming the occupation.

  Saeb Erekat

  Civilization, Israel, Sick

  "Israel putting services in place in West Bank, Gaza" by Jerrold Kessel, www.cnn.com. December 27, 2002.

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• It is memory that provides the heart with impetus, fuels the brain, and propels the corn plant from seed to fruit.

  Joy Harjo

  Memories, Heart, Brain

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• Our minds work like a garden. It is fertile ground that accepts any and everything we plant. Good or evil, constructive or destructive, our lives will bear the fruit of the seeds we plant in our minds.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Garden, Thinking, Evil

  Iyanla Vanzant (2012). “Acts Of Faith: Daily Meditations for People of Colour”, Simon and Schuster

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• What is sublime? / the artist said. / I haven't time / to be well read. / To be sub lime / I'll place, instead, / green citrus fruit / upon my head.

  Walter Darby Bannard

  Artist, Sublime, Green

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• Can someone eat the fruit that comes from the tree of action that grows from the seeds of your mind?

  Eugene J. Martin

  Art, Tree, Mind

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• A tree full of ripened fruits bows down naturally, because of the weight of the fruits and its willingness to make its fruits accessible to others.

  A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

  Humility, Tree, Weight

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• When a Krishna Conscious person is elevated to a responsible position, he never becomes puffed up. Just like a tree when over-laden with fruits becomes humble and lower down. Similarly, a great soul in Krishna Consciousness becomes humbler than the grass and bowed down like the fruitful trees because a Krishna Conscious person acts as the agent of Krishna, therefore he discharges his duty with great responsibility.

  A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

  Humble, Humility, Responsibility

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• This bread I break was once the oat,
  This wine upon a foreign tree
  Plunged in its fruit;
  Man in the day or wind at night
  Laid the crops low, broke the grape's joy.

  Dylan Thomas

  Wine, Night, Men

  Dylan Thomas, Daniel Jones (2003). “The Poems of Dylan Thomas”, p.101, New Directions Publishing

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• The heaviest burden that one has to bear in this life is the burden of delaying too long before putting the fruit in the Jell-O so it's too firm and the chunks just sit on top.

  Harold B. Lee

  Thanksgiving, Long, Bears

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• I mean you think about the guy, the Nigerian guy, who was going to blow up the plane. He was wearing a pair of Fruit of the Lunatic. ... Guy was not too bright. He said that the reason he became a suicide bomber was to work his way up in the al Qaeda organization.

  David Letterman

  Suicide, Mean, Blow

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• A soft, easy life is not worth living, if it impairs the fibre of brain and heart and muscle. We must dare to be great; and we must realize that greatness is the fruit of toil and sacrifice and high courage... For us is the life of action, of strenuous performance of duty; let us live in the harness, striving mightily; let us rather run the risk of wearing out than rusting out.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Running, Heart, Sacrifice

  Theodore Roosevelt (1926). “The Works of Theodore Roosevelt”

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• I hope you're very careful working, eating and drinking when the heat is so great--there are temptations there which at home you are free from--beware the juicy fruits, and the cooling ades, and cordials, and do not eat ice-cream, it is so very dangerous.

  Emily Dickinson

  Drinking, Home, Ice Cream

  Emily Dickinson, Thomas Herbert Johnson, Theodora Ward (1986). “The Letters of Emily Dickinson”, p.118, Harvard University Press

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• Outward beauty is a true sign of inner goodness. This loveliness, indeed, is impressed upon the body in varying degrees as a token by which the soul can be recognized for what it is, just as with trees the beauty of the blossom testifies to the goodness of the fruit.

  Baldassare Castiglione

  Tree, Soul, Body

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• When man desires to live as long as a tree, his diet will be fruit.

  Brigham Young

  Men, Long, Tree

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• I see no women out here, and you're chanting about a male organ, now tell me who's the fruit bootie?

  John Layfield

  Funny, Wwe, Males

  "ECW One Night Stand", www.imdb.com. 2006.

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

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Rain, Flower, Golden

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1873). “The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.260

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• The easiest way to make a fruitcake is to buy a darkish cake, then pound some old, hard fruit into it with a mallet. Be sure to wear safety glasses.

  Dave Barry

  Humorous, Glasses, Cake

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• Often times we feel like either we can't make a world of difference, or we feel that it's not going to change anything anyway. The truth is you can change someone's day, you can change someone's life, but you have to show up and do what you got to do to actually see any fruit coming from it.

  Nick Vujicic

  Differences, World, Truth Is

  "Nick Vujicic, Limbless Evangelist, Tells Teens to 'Stand Strong' in Face of Bullying in New Book". Interview with Nicola Menzie, www.christianpost.com. April 20, 2014.

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