Johnny Appleseed Quotes

• Johnny Appleseed was revered . . he was . . . an evangelist (of a doctrine veering perilously close to pantheism).

  Michael Pollan

  Doctrine, Pantheism, Evangelists

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• I was a veritable Johnny Appleseed of grand expectations, and all I reaped for my trouble was a harvest of bitter fruit.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Expectations, Fruit, Bitter

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “Committed: A Sceptic Makes Peace With Marriage”, p.29, A&C Black

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• I was always just into my music and maybe into trying to save the world a little bit. I never really thought I'd have a hit record or anything like that. I was prepared to travel around all over the country, kind of like a Johnny Appleseed, and sing.

  Don McLean

  Country, Trying, World

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• It's very lonely being a prominent black intellectual at an institution where you're the only prominent black intellectual. That was the model that was followed in the late 60s when black studies started. You'd get one here and one there and one here, like Johnny Appleseed.

  Henry Louis Gates

  Lonely, Black, Intellectual

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• Throughout the day, Stargirl had been dropping money. She was the Johnny Appleseed of loose change: a penny here, a nickel there. Tossed to the sidewalk, laid on a shelf or bench. Even quarters. "I hate change," she said. "It's so . . . jangly." "Do you realize how much you must throw away in a year?" I said. "Did you ever see a little kid's face when he spots a penny on a sidewalk?"

  Jerry Spinelli

  Hate, Kids, Years

  "Stargirl". Book by Jerry Spinelli, August 8, 2000.

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• Artists are always the Johnny Appleseeds of gentrification.

  Scott Hutchins

  Artist, Gentrification

  Scott Hutchins (2012). “A Working Theory of Love: A Novel”, p.258, Penguin

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• When I was 8 years old, I made my own encyclopedia of American biography - Johnny Appleseed, Jim Bowie, Davy Crockett, Daniel Boone, Charles Lindbergh, my pantheon of favorite heroes. Then I would write my own things and sew them together and try to make my own book.

  Douglas Brinkley

  Book, Hero, Writing

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