Fruit Quotes - Page 9

• I eat a variety of foods like vegetables, fruit and beef for protein and iron.

  Sasha Cohen

  Food, Vegetables, Iron

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• I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Abraham Lincoln, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (1950). “The Lincoln treasury”

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• Pleasure only starts once the worm has got into the fruit; to become delightful, happiness must be tainted with poison.

  Georges Bataille

  Happiness, Poison, Literature

  Georges Bataille (1972). “My mother”, Jonathan Cape

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• Whenever, at a party, I have been in the mood to study fools, I have always looked for a great beauty: they always gather round her like flies around a fruit stall.

  Jean Paul

  Beauty, Party, Literature

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• I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.

  Joseph Addison

  Song, Animal, Garden

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steel (1810). “The Spectator”, p.20

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• But I think it's a little different in Europe, because 40 is really the best age for a woman. That's when we hit our peak and become this ripe fruit.

  Juliette Binoche

  Thinking, Europe, Age

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• To endure the cross is not tragedy; it is the suffering which is the fruit of an exclusive allegiance to Jesus Christ.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Jesus, Suffering, Tragedy

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1998). “Dietrich Bonhoeffer: Writings”

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• Waters are distilled out of Herbs, Flowers, Fruits, and Roots.

  Nicholas Culpeper

  Flower, Roots, Water

  Nicholas Culpeper (1666). “The English Physitian Enlarged: With Three Hundred, Sixty and Nine Medicines, Made of English Herbs that Were Not in Any Impression Untill This, Being an Astrologo-physical Discourse of the Vulgar Herbs of this Nation ...”, p.275

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• My experience as a school nurse taught me that we need to make a concerted effort, all of us, to increase physical fitness activity among our children and to encourage all Americans to adopt a healthier diet that includes fruits and vegetables, but there is more.

  Lois Capps

  Encouragement, Children, School

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• I am not disposed to complain that I have planted and others have gathered the fruits.

  Charles Goodyear

  Complaining

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• If we spend the time we waste in sighing for the perfect golden fruit in fulfilling the conditions of its growth, happiness will come, must come. It is guaranteed in the very laws of the universe. If it involves some chastening and renunciation, well, the fruit will be all the sweeter for this touch of holiness.

  Helen Keller

  Law, Perfect, Growth

  Helen Keller (2011). “To Live, to Think, to Hope: Inspirational Quotes by Helen Keller”, p.153, Matthew Gordon

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• Balance, peace, and joy are the fruit of a successful life. It starts with recognizing your talents and finding ways to serve others by using them.

  Thomas Kinkade

  Life, Success, Peace

  "A Physician's Guide to Coping with Death and Dying". Book by Jan Swanson and Alan Cooper, December 9, 2004.

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• When an action is once done, it is right or wrong for ever; no accidental failure of its good or evil fruits can possibly alter that.

  William Kingdon Clifford

  Evil, Done, Action

  William Kingdon Clifford (1879). “Lectures and Essays by William Kingdon Clifford”

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• Everything vanishes around me, and works are born as if out of the void. Ripe, graphic fruits fall off. My hand has become the obedient instrument of a remote will.

  Paul Klee

  Fall, Writing, Hands

  Diary entry for January/February 1918, No. 1104. "The Diaries of Paul Klee, 1898-1918", p. 387, 1968.

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• Primates need good nutrition, to begin with. Not only fruits and plants, but insects as well.

  Richard Leakey

  Needs, Nutrition, Plant

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• War should only be declared by the authority of the people, whose toils and treasures are to support its burdens, instead of the government which is to reap its fruits.

  James Madison

  Peace, War, Government

  James Madison, Ralph Ketcham “Selected Writings of James Madison”, Hackett Publishing

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• I believe in an America in which the fruits of productivity and prosperity are shared by all, by workers as well as owners, by those at the bottom as well as those at the top; an America in which the sacrifices required by national security are shared by all, by profiteers in the back offices as well as volunteers on the front lines.

  Theodore C. Sorensen

  Believe, Sacrifice, America

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• Remorse is virtue's root; its fair increase is fruits of innocence and blessedness.

  William C. Bryant

  Roots, Innocence, Virtue

  William Cullen Bryant, “Mutation”

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• Behind the man is the Tree of Life, bearing twelve fruits, and the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil is behind the woman; the serpent is twining round it.

  A. E. Waite

  Men, Evil, Tree

  A. E. Waite (2012). “The Pictorial Key to the Tarot”, p.46, Courier Corporation

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• One good thing about California is we have quite a broad-based economy. We provide more fruits and vegetables and produce to the United States than any other state. So we have actually the single largest agricultural sector in the country.

  Meg Whitman

  Country, California, Vegetables

  "Former eBay CEO Shares Her Values In A New Book". Interview with Ari Shapiro, www.npr.org. January 25, 2010.

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• Indeed science alone may perhaps be sterile when pursued without an understanding of the world in which scientific knowledge is created and in which the fruits of science are used.

  Polykarp Kusch

  Understanding, World, May

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• Whores don’t live in company of poor men, citizens never support a weak company and birds don’t build nests on a tree that doesn’t bear fruits.

  Chanakya

  Inspirational, Wise, Men

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• In our short walks we passed the kitchen where food was prepared for the nurses and doctors. There we got glimpses of melons and grapes and all kinds of fruits, beautiful white bread and nice meats, and the hungry feeling would be increased tenfold.

  Nellie Bly

  Beautiful, Nice, Doctors

  Nellie Bly (2015). “The Collected Works of Nellie Bly (Annotated)”, p.69, Golgotha Press

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• Only with the tools of production in their own hands could the workers ever hope to control their own lives and receive the fruits of their labor.

  Ella Reeve Bloor

  Hands, Tools, Workers

  Ella Reeve Bloor (1940). “We are Many: An Autobiography by Ella Reeve Bloor”, New York : International Publishers

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• It is no secret that the fruits of language study are in no sort of relation to the labour spent on teaching and learning them.

  Edward Sapir

  Teaching, Secret, Study

  Edward Sapir, David Goodman Mandelbaum (1970). “Culture, Language and Personality”, p.62, Univ of California Press

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