Grapes Quotes - Page 6

• although I have no fish, / I do not want any frog; / Or any elderberries either, / Instead of a bunch of grapes: / Although I have no love, / I do not want anything else, / Whether Love is gracious to me or hostile.

  Hadewijch

  Love Is, Desire, Want

  Hadewijch, Columba Hart (1980). “Hadewijch (CWS)”, p.335, Paulist Press

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• In the luxuriance of a bowl of grapes set out in ritual display, in a bottle of wine, the soil and sunshine of California reached millions for whom that distant place would henceforth be envisioned as a sun-graced land resplendent with the goodness of the fruitful earth.

  Kevin Starr

  Wine, Sunshine, Land

  Kevin Starr (1986). “Inventing the Dream: California through the Progressive Era”, p.134, Oxford University Press

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• Patience, piety, and salutary knowledge spring up and ripen under the harrow of affliction; before there is wine or oil, the grape must be trodden and the oil pressed.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Spring, Wine, Oil

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• Here's to the man
  Who owns the land
  That bears the grapes
  That makes the wine
  That tastes as good
  As this does.

  Omar Khayyam

  Wine, Men, Land

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• God in his goodness sent the grapes
  To cheer both great and small;
  Little fools will drink too much
  And great fools none at all!

  Walter Scott

  Cheer, Wine, Littles

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• John Steinbeck's 'The Grapes of Wrath' also speaks urgently to today's concerns: the cratered trail of dreams for Mexican immigrants seeking a promised land in the Western [United States]; the perfidy of banks in foreclosing on poor people's homes; and the insurgent urge of the book's protagonist, Tom Joad, to speak truth to police power. 'Wherever there's a cop beatin' up a guy,' Tom promises, 'I'll be there.' In Salinas, Calif., Ferguson, Mo., or Staten Island, N.Y., Tom's truth goes marching on.

  Richard Corliss

  Dream, Book, Home

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• Anyone who imagines that all fruits ripen at the same time as the strawberries knows nothing about grapes.

  Paracelsus

  Writing, Fruit, Imagine

  Paracelsus, Jolande Jacobi (1951). “Selected Writings”, p.117, Princeton University Press

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• Have you ever taken a serious political stand on anything? Yeah. Sure. For twenty-four hours once I refused to eat grapes.

  Woody Allen

  Taken, Political, Serious

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• Flat fields produce mediocre grapes, but rolling hills produce the greatest grapes. Why? Because the vines must struggle for survival.

  Billy Cannon

  Struggle, Survival, Rolling

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• Affliction brings out graces that cannot be seen in a time of health. It is the treading of the grapes that brings out the sweet juices of the vine; so it is affliction that draws forth submission, weanedness from the world, and complete rest in God. Use afflictions while you have them.

  Robert E. Murray

  Christian, Sweet, Grace

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• Food for thought, eat my words with your mind:
  Emcees are grapes, and grapes are crushed to wine.

  MF Grimm

  Rap, Wine, Hip Hop

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• Hail, high Excess especially in wine,
  To thee in worship do I bend the knee
  Who preach abstemiousness unto me
  My skull thy pulpit, as my paunch thy shrine.
  Precept on precept, aye, and line on line,
  Could ne'er persuade so sweetly to agree
  With reason as thy touch, exact and free,
  Upon my forehead and along my spine.
  At thy command eschewing pleasure's cup,
  With the hot grape I warm no more my wit;
  When on thy stool of penitence I sit
  I'm quite converted, for I can't get up.
  Ungrateful he who afterward would falter
  To make new sacrifices at thine altar!

  Ambrose Bierce

  Wine, Sacrifice, Skulls

  Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.2393, Delphi Classics

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• When I closed THE GRAPES OF WRATH, I was a different man. It enriched my powers of thinking and discipline, and my relationships. I left prison more informed than when I went in. And the more informed you are, the less arrogant and aggressive you are.

  Nelson Mandela

  Men, Thinking, Wrath

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• When I was younger we had a grape arbor, and my mom would go out and pick grapes and make grape jam in the sink - boil it, put it in jars, and give it away as gifts.

  Taylor Swift

  Mom, Giving, Jam

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• If ever we are going to be made into wine, we will have to be crushed; you cannot drink grapes. Grapes become wine only when they have been squeezed. I wonder what kind of finger and thumb God has been using to squeeze you, and you have been like a marble and escaped?

  Oswald Chambers

  Faith, Inspiration, Wine

  Oswald Chambers (2015). “Called of God: Extracts from My Utmost for His Highest on the Missionary Call”, p.23, Discovery House

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• The world is now multicultural the same way the world is round. It's not a selling point, it's not a 'quirky' feature, it's not a cynical marketing ploy, it's not an artistic statement, it's not even a plot device. It's a fact, like seedless grapes.

  Zadie Smith

  Cynical, Marketing, Quirky

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• Put a good bunch of grapes under the winepress, and a delicious juice will come out. Under the winepress of the cross, our soul produces a juice that feeds and strengthens us. When we haven't got any crosses, we are dry. If we carry them with resignation, what happiness, what sweetness we feel!

  John Vianney

  Soul, Juice, Dry

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• I am so fond of tea that I could write a whole dissertation on its virtues. It comforts and enlivens without the risks attendant on spirituous liquors. Gentle herb! Let the florid grape yield to thee. Thy soft influence is a more safe inspirer of social joy.

  James Boswell

  Writing, Yield, Joy

  James Boswell (1956). “London Journal, 1762-1763, as First Published in 1950 from the Original Manuscript”

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• Without good company all dainties
  Lose their true relish, and like painted grapes,
  Are only seen, not tasted.

  Philip Massinger

  Good Company, Relish, Loses

  Philip Massinger (1813). “The Plays”, p.268

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• It's for balance, if you want to do that. But the truth is that we all know how we're supposed to eat. And so if you have fried chicken and mashed potatoes and white gravy, then the next day you have, like a grape and you're totally evened out and you're good.

  Trisha Yearwood

  Next Day, White, Balance

  "Not My Job: Singer Trisha Yearwood Gets Quizzed On Unhappy Couples". "Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!" with Peter Sagal, www.npr.org. February 27, 2016.

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• Cold air rises from the ground as the sun goes down.  The eye-burning clarity of the light intensifies. The southern rim of the sky glows to a deeper blue, to pale violet, to purple, then thins to grey.  Slowly the wind falls, and the still air begins to freeze.  The solid eastern ridge is black; it has a bloom on it like the dust on the skin of a grape.  The west flares briefly.  The long, cold amber of the afterglow casts clear black lunar shadows.  There is an animal mystery in the light that sets upon the fields like a frozen muscle that will flex and wake at sunrise.

  J. A. Baker

  Fall, Eye, Animal

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• My only grudge against nature was that I could not turn my Lolita inside out and apply voracious lips to her young matrix, her unknown heart, her nacreous liver, the sea-grapes of her lungs, her comely twin kidneys.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Heart, Sea, Kidneys

  Vladimir Nabokov (2016). “Lolita”, p.90, Hamilton Books

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• September is a sweep of dusky, purple asters, a sumac branch swinging a fringe of scarlet leaves, and the bittersweet scene of wild grapes when I walk down the lane to the mailbox. September is a golden month of mellow sunlight and still clear days. ... Small creatures in the grass, as if realizing their days are numbered, cram the night air with sound. Everywhere goldenrod is full out.

  Jean Hersey

  Night, Air, Purple

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• I've been so blessed because I've had such longevity. I'm not a big red carpet girl. But I love the work. In this business, you can be at the top of the world and at the bottom of the barrel, and you're grape juice. I've been at both ends. It can make you become what you really are.

  Kim Basinger

  Girl, Blessed, Bottom Of The Barrel

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• A man makes no noise over a good deed, but passes on to another as a vine to bear grapes again in season.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Men, Vines, Deeds

  "Meditations" by Marcus Aurelius, Book V, (6), (c. 161 - 180 AD).

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