Peaches Quotes

• An apple is an excellent thing -- until you have tried a peach.

  George du Maurier

  Food, Apples, Cooking

  George du Maurier (2015). “Trilby”, p.157, Booklassic

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• Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it.

  Alice Walker

  Death, Inspirational Life, Believe

  Alice Walker (2013). “The Alice Walker Collection: Non-Fiction”, p.156, Hachette UK

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• The ripest peach is highest on the tree

  James Whitcomb Riley

  Tree, Fruit, Highest

  James Whitcomb Riley (1993). “The Complete Poetical Works of James Whitcomb Riley”, p.224, Indiana University Press

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• Sometimes I'm an ass, sometimes I'm sweet as peaches.

  Milo Ventimiglia

  Sweet, Sometimes, Ass

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• You're the cutest thing that I ever did see
  I really love your peaches, wanna shake your tree

  Steve Miller

  Song, Love You, Tree

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• The peach-bud glows, the wild bee hums, and wind-flowers wave in graceful gladness.

  Lucy Larcom

  Spring, Flower, Wind

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• In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Apples, Long, Hollywood

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Inside the peach, there is a stone.

  Margaret Atwood

  Stones

  Margaret Atwood (2011). “Alias Grace: A Novel”, p.69, Anchor

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• I couldn't unpeach the peaches.

  Annie Dillard

  Annie Dillard (2011). “Pilgrim at Tinker Creek”, p.32, Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd

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• One does a whole painting for one peach and people think just the opposite - that particular peach is but a detail.

  Pablo Picasso

  Pain, Thinking, Opposites

  Pablo Picasso (1972). “Picasso on art: a selection of views”, Viking Adult

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• I love bald men. Just because you've lost your fuzz don't mean you ain't a peach.

  Dolly Parton

  Funny, Humorous, Mean

  Twitter post from Jul 21, 2011

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• What a business is this of a portrait painter! You bring him a potato and expect he will paint you a peach.

  Gilbert Stuart

  Potatoes, Portraits, Paint

  Carrie Rebora Barratt, Gilbert Stuart, Ellen Gross Miles (2004). “Gilbert Stuart”, p.6, Metropolitan Museum of Art

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• In the valley of the giants where the stars and stripes explode, the peaches they were sweet and the milk and honey flowed.

  Bob Dylan

  Sweet, Stars, Milk And Honey

  Song: Angelina

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• Sunrise paints the sky with pinks and the sunset with peaches. Cool to warm. So is the progression from childhood to old age.

  Vera Nazarian

  Sunset, Sky, Childhood

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• Memories, even hard memories, grew soft like peaches as they grow older.

  Sarah Addison Allen

  Memories, Grew, Grows

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• Love is such a simple thing when we have only one-and-twenty summers and a sweet girl of seventeen trembles under our glance, as if she were a bud first opening her heart with wondering rapture to the morning. Such young unfurrowed souls roll to meet each other like two velvet peaches that touch softly and are at rest; they mingle as easily as two brooklets that ask for nothing but to entwine themselves and ripple with ever-interlacing curves in the leafiest hiding-places.

  George Eliot

  Love, Summer, Girl

  George Eliot (2016). “Adam Bede: Top Novelist Focus”, p.113, 谷月社

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• There was her face, like a summer peach, beautiful and warm, and the light of the candles reflected in her dark eyes. [He] held his breath. The entire world waited and held its breath.

  Ray Bradbury

  Beautiful, Summer, Eye

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• You ask why I make my home n the mountain forest,
  and I smile, and am silent,
  and even my soul remains quiet:
  it lives in the other world which no one owns.
  The peach trees blossom,
  The water flows.

  Li Bai

  Home, Other Worlds, Water

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• You could be the tastiest, most juiciest, most delicious peach out there in the world; there's still going to be people out there who don't like peaches .

  Benson Henderson

  Mma, People, World

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• I been through some junk. It ain't all been peaches and cream.

  Timbaland

  Junk, Cream

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• I worked in your orchards of peaches and prunes. I slept on the ground in the light of the moon. On the edge of the city you'll see us and then, we come with the dust and we go with the wind.

  Woody Guthrie

  Moon, Light, Dust

  Song: Pastures Of Plenty

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• A strong relationship is an honest relationship, and no honest relationship is all peaches and cream. Love is the key. Where love abides, anger is but a passing visitor.

  Jerry Spinelli

  Strong, Love Is, Keys

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• A Georgia peach, a real Georgia peach, a backyard great-grandmother's orchard peach, is as thickly furred as a sweater, and so fluent and sweet that once you bite through the flannel, it brings tears to your eyes.

  Melissa Fay Greene

  Sweet, Real, Food

  Melissa Fay Greene (2015). “Praying for Sheetrock: A Work of Nonfiction”, p.22, Da Capo Press

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• Fresh peach pie can lift a bullying reprobate into apologetic courtesy; I have watched it happen.

  Leif Enger

  Bullying, Pie, Apologetic

  Leif Enger (2001). “Peace Like a River”, p.291, Atlantic Monthly Press

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• The walls were wet and sticky, and peach juice was dripping from the ceiling. James opened his mouth and caught some of it on his tongue. It tasted delicious.

  Roald Dahl

  Wall, Ceilings, Juice

  Roald Dahl (2007). “James and the Giant Peach”, p.37, Penguin

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