Pears Quotes

• There are only ten minutes in the life of a pear when it is perfect to eat.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Food, Perfect, Cooking

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• A man watches his pear-tree day after day, impatient for the ripening of the fruit. Let him attempt to force the process, and he may spoil both fruit and tree. But let him patiently wait, and the ripe pear at length falls into his lap.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspiring, Moving, Fall

  Abraham Lincoln (2002). “Conversations With Lincoln”, p.309, Transaction Publishers

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• Pears cannot ripen alone. So we ripened together.

  Meridel Le Sueur

  Work, Together

  Meridel Le Sueur, Elaine Hedges (1990). “Ripening: Selected Work”, p.290, Feminist Press at CUNY

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• Slice a pear and you will find that its flesh is incandescent white. It glows with inner light. Those who carry a knife and a pear are never afraid of the dark.

  Yann Martel

  Dark, Light, Knives

  Yann Martel (2010). “Beatrice & Virgil”, p.50, Knopf Canada

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• Whatever you do, do it gently and unhurriedly, because virtue is not a pear to be eaten in one bite.

  Seraphim of Sarov

  Virtue, Bites

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• If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it.

  Mao Zedong

  Food, Teaching, Learning

  Mao Tse-Tung, Zedong Mao (1977). “Selected Works of Mao Tse-Tung”, Pergamon

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  Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand.

  Mother Teresa

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Mother Teresa (1997). “No Greater Love”

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• I feel my brains, like a pear, to see if it's ripe; it will be exquisite by September.

  Virginia Woolf

  Brain, September, Feels

  Virginia Woolf (1975). “The Letters of Virginia Woolf: 1888-1912 (Virginia Stephen)”, Harcourt on Demand

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• When bounteous autumn rears her head, he joys to pull the ripened pear.

  John Dryden

  Autumn, Joy

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• Oh to be a pear tree – any tree in bloom! With kissing bees singing of the beginning of the world!

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Kissing, Tree, Singing

  Zora Neale Hurston (1937). “Their Eyes Were Watching God”, p.16, University of Illinois Press

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• You should go to a pear tree for pears, not to an elm.

  Publilius Syrus

  Tree, Advice, Should

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• A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Happiness, Happy

  "Albert Einstein". Book by Dana Meachen Rau (p. 19), 2003.

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• If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it yourself. If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution. All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience.

  Mao Zedong

  Change, Military, Learning

  Mao Zedong (2017). “Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (The Little Red Book) & Other Works”, p.108, Lulu.com

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• Do not ask your children to strive for extraordinary lives. Such striving may seem admirable, but it is the way of foolishness. Help them instead to find the wonder and the marvel of an ordinary life. Show them the joy of tasting tomatoes, apples and pears. Show them how to cry when pets and people die. Show them the infinite pleasure in the touch of a hand. And make the ordinary come alive for them. The extraordinary will take care of itself.

  William Martin

  Inspirational, Life, Sympathy

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• A pear is a failed apple.

  George Carlin

  Humorous, Apples

  George Carlin (2002). “Napalm & Silly Putty”, Hyperion

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• When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong; they taught me different was wrong.

  Ani DiFranco

  Years, Orange, Individuality

  Ani DiFranco (2011). “Ani DiFranco: Verses”, p.10, Seven Stories Press

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• She was stretched on her back beneath the pear tree soaking in the alto chant of the visiting bees, the gold of the sun and the panting breath of the breeze when the inaudible voice of it all came to her. She saw a dust-bearing bee sink into the sanctum of a bloom; the thousand sister-calyxes arch to meet the love embrace and the ecstatic shiver of the tree from root to tiniest branch creaming in every blossom and frothing with delight.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Voice, Roots, Dust

  Zora Neale Hurston (1937). “Their Eyes Were Watching God”, p.15, University of Illinois Press

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• As for my next book, I won't write it till it has grown heavy in my mind like a ripe pear; pendant, gravid, asking to be cut or it will fall.

  Virginia Woolf

  Book, Fall, Writing

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• Pears are my favorite fruit! Reminds me of childhood.

  Michelle Forbes

  Childhood, Fruit, My Favorite

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• All men should have a drop of treason in their veins, if nations are not to go soft like so many sleepy pears.

  Rebecca West

  Sleep, Men, Should Have

  Rebecca West (2010). “The New Meaning of Treason”, p.182, Open Road Media

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• A pear-tree planted nigh:
  'Twas charg'd with fruit that made a goodly show,
  And hung with dangling pears was every bough.

  Alexander Pope

  Tree, Fruit, Made

  Alexander Pope, Alexander Dyce (1831). “Poetical Works”, p.273

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• The stars are pears
  that no one can reach,
  even for a wedding.
  Perhaps for a death.

  Anne Sexton

  Stars

  Anne Sexton (1975). “The Awful Rowing Toward God”, Boston : Houghton Mifflin

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• Pear Drops were exciting because they had a dangerous taste. All of us were warned against eating them, and the result was that we ate them more than ever.

  Roald Dahl

  Taste, Eating, Results

  Roald Dahl (2009). “Going Solo”, p.195, Penguin

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• The first idea, the first art piece I ever did, was when I was four. I cut the seed of a pear in half and the seed of an apple in half in put those two halves together and planted the seed, hoping a very strange tree might grow. And I never stopped.

  Yoko Ono

  Art, Cutting, Ideas

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• Sometimes the valley below is like a bowl filled up with fog. I can see hard green figs on two trees and pears on a tree just below me. A fine crop coming in. May summer last a hundred years.

  Frances Mayes

  Summer, Fog, Years

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