Melons Quotes

• Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each slice.

  Barbra Streisand

  Success, Congratulations, Ice Cream

  Quoted in Life, 20 Sept. 1963

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• Life is a thump ripe melon, so sweet and such a mess.

  Greg Brown

  Sweet, Life Is, Mess

  "Rexroth's Daughter". Song by Greg Brown, 2000.

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• Men and Melons are hard to know.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Men, Poor Richard, Knows

  Benjamin Franklin (1998). “Benjamin Franklin Wit and Wisdom”, p.47, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

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• Even melon grown in shade will ripen in the end.

  Roland Winters

  Shade, Aging, Ends

  "Fictional character: Charlie Chan". "Docks of New Orleans", www.imdb.com. 1948.

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• Watermelon - it's a good fruit. You eat, you drink, you wash your face.

  Enrico Caruso

  Drinking, Food, Faces

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• Do not resemble me-Never be like a musk melon Cut in two identical halves.

  Matsuo Basho

  Cutting, Two, Individuality

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• When I shop for fruit & melons I like to hold a grape next to a cantaloupe & think of Earth next to Jupiter. Then I eat Earth.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Thinking, Jupiter, Earth

  Twitter post from Feb 21, 2014

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• What wondrous life is this I lead!
  Ripe apples drop about my head;
  The luscious clusters of the vine
  Upon my mouth do crush their wine;
  The nectarine and curious peach
  Into my hands themselves do reach;
  Stumbling on melons, as I pass,
  Ensnared with flowers, I fall on grass.

  Andrew Marvell

  Life, Crush, Summer

  'The Garden' (1681) st. 5

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• Sometimes you just have to chop a zombie like a melon. What can I say?

  Lauren Cohan

  Zombie, Sometimes

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• As a boy, I once saw a cart of melons that sorely tempted me. I sneaked up to the cart and stole a melon. I went into the alley to devour it, but no sooner had I set my teeth into it, than I paused, a strange feeling coming over me. I came to a quick conclusion. Firmly, I walked up to that cart, replaced the melon - and took a ripe one.

  Mark Twain

  Boys, Feelings, Teeth

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• Tapping melons with your knuckles is a good way of making your selection in the store, but apparently it's frowned upon at the strip club.

  Brad Wilkerson

  Sex, Clubs, Knuckles

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• I have no hostility to nature, but a child's love to it. I expand and live in the warm day like corn and melons.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Love, Children, Corn

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert Ernest Spiller, Alfred Riggs Ferguson, Joseph Slater, Jean Ferguson Carr (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Nature, addresses, and lectures”, p.35, Harvard University Press

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• But see, in our open clearings, how golden the melons lie; Enrich them with sweets and spices, and give us the pumpkin-pie!

  Margaret Junkin Preston

  Thanksgiving, Sweet, Lying

  Margaret Junkin Preston (1887). “Colonial Ballads, Sonnets, and Other Verse”

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• in my garden I pick a musk melon feeling like a thief

  Yosa Buson

  Garden, Vegetables, Feelings

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• When you slick back your hair, you get a really good idea of just how melon-like your head actually is.

  Nathan Fillion

  Hair, Ideas, Like You

  "Michelle Monaghan Interviews Nathan Fillion About Tyler Shields 'Historical Fiction' Photo Exhibit (Exclusive)". Interview with Michelle Monaghan, www.justjared.com. May 18, 2016.

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• The sun goes down long and red. All the magic names of the valley unrolled - Manteca, Madera, all the rest. Soon it got dusk, a grapy dusk, a purple dusk over tangerine groves and long melon field; the sun the color of pressed grapes, slashed with burgundy red, the fields the color of love and Spanish mysteries. I stuck my head out the window and took deep breaths of the fragant air. It was the most beautiful of all moments.

  Jack Kerouac

  Beautiful, Air, Color

  Jack Kerouac (2007). “On the Road”, Viking Press

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• He called her a melon, a pineapple, an olive tree, an emerald, and a fox in the snow all in the space of three seconds; he did not know whether he had heard her, tasted her, seen her, or all three together.

  Virginia Woolf

  Space, Snow, Tree

  Virginia Woolf (2012). “Orlando: A Biography”, p.96, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Arab children, Corn ears of the future, You will break our chains, Kill the opium in our heads, Kill the illusions. Arab children, Don't read about our suffocated generation, We are a hopeless case. We are as worthless as a water-melon rind. Dont read about us, Dont ape us, Dont accept us, Dont accept our ideas, We are a nation of crooks and jugglers. Arab children, Spring rain, Corn ears of the future, You are the generation That will overcome defeat.

  Nizar Qabbani

  Children, Spring, Rain

  Nizar Qabbani, “Verse”

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• The charm, one might say the genius, of memory is that it is choosy, chancy and temperamental; it rejects the edifying cathedral and indelibly photographs the small boy outside, chewing a hunk of melon in the dust.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Memories, Boys, Dust

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• They are fruit and transport: ripening melons, prairie schooners journeying under full sail.

  Kathleen Norris

  Pregnancy, Fruit, Prairie

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• The charm, one might say the genius, of memory is that it is choosy, chancy and temperamental.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Memories, Genius, Might

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• It's better to wear seaweed socks than stick a melon in your brother's ear.

  Robert Hunter

  Brother, Ears, Sticks

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• The concept that really gets the goat of the gay-hater, the idea that really spins their melon and sickens their stomachs is that most terrible and terrifying of all human notions, love. That one can love another of the same gender, that is what the homophobe really cannot stand. Love in all eight tones and all five semitones of the world's full octave. Love as Agape, Eros and Philos; love as infatuation, obsession and lust; love as torture, euphoria, ecstasy and oblivion (this is beginning to read like a Calvin Klein perfume catalogue); love as need, passion and desire.

  Stephen Fry

  Passion, Gay, Eight

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• My melon soul Crushed by your Gallagher of apathy

  David Wong

  Soul, Apathy, Gallagher

  David Wong (2011). “John Dies at the End”, p.197, Titan Books

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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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