Fruit Quotes

No fruit has a more precise marked period of maturity, than love; if neglected to be gathered at that time, it will certainly fall to the ground and die away.

I always make my favorite pancakes with milk, and I also add some fruit - like a banana or apple with some cinnamon sprinkled on top. I also sometimes put peanut butter on my pancakes!

How do we thank an angel? Somehow I don’t think a fruit basket will do the trick." ~ Amun

Often the soul is ripened into fuller goodness while age has spread an ugly film, so that mere glances can never divine the preciousness of the fruit.

We reap what we sow, but nature has love over and above that justice, and gives us shadow and blossom and fruit, that spring from no planting of ours.

I read, and sigh, and wish I were a tree; For sure then I should grow To fruit or shade: at least some bird would trust Her household to me, and I should be just.

Why should be fruit be held inferior to the flower?

Schemes are like fruit, they require a certain ripening.

Anger is the mother of a whole brood of evil actions. Divorce too often is the bitter fruit of anger.

The world was in her heart already, like the small spot of decay in a fruit.

Prayer is the beginning and the end, the source and the fruit, the core and the content, the basis and the goal of all peacemaking.

Just as sure as the days go by, Jesus will come to us, looking for fruit; and He will come in personal hunger, needing and longing for the fruit which we might have ready for Him.

He who eats the fruit should at least plant the seed; ay, if possible, a better seed than that whose fruit he has enjoyed.

There should always be some flowering and maturing of the fruits of nature in the cooking process.

Of a life of luxury the fruit is luxury, whether in agriculture, or commerce, or literature, or art.

Seeds, there are seeds enough which need only be stirred in with the soil where they lie, by an inspired voice or pen, to bear fruit of a divine flavor.

I want the flower and fruit of a man; that some fragrance be wafted over from him to me, and some ripeness flavor our intercourse.

He is the rich man, and enjoys the fruit of his riches, who summer and winter forever can find delight in his own thoughts.

It enhances our sense of the grand security and serenity of nature to observe the still undisturbed economy and content of the fishes of this century, their happiness a regular fruit of the summer.

The smiles of infants are said to be the first fruits of human reason.

The worlds in which we live at heart are one, The world "I am," the fruit of "I have done"; And underneath these worlds of flower and fruit, The world "I love,"--the only living root.

The kinds of claims I make about knowledge are thus meant to be illustrative of a general argumentative strategy which might well bear fruit in areas of philosophy which I have not thus far explored.

What is a child, monsieur, but the image of two beings, the fruit of two sentiments spontaneously blended?

Industry has annexed thereto the fairest fruits and the richest rewards.

Flowers, leaves, fruit, are the air-woven children of light.

As an educator, I have always striven to see that the fruits of the American Dream are available to all.

The Walls enriched with Fruit-trees and faced with a covering of their leafy extensions; I should rather have said hung with different Pieces of Nature's noblest Tapestry.

That’s when she’d learned that male egos and fruit had a lot in common: Both bruised easily.

I am proud of my cake-making image but life is not that perfect. There are socks in my fruit bowl.

I cannot help thinking that it is more natural to have flowers grow out of the head than fruit.

The apple was the first fruit of the world according to Genesis, but it was no Cox's Orange Pippin. God gave the crab apple and left the rest to man.

I would rather do three or four small parts every year as opposed to some of the lower-hanging fruit that might get my name above the title.

Fine and delicate taste is the fruit of education and experience.

The vine that has been made to bear fruit in the spring, withers and dies before autumn.

I don't return fruit. Fruit's a gamble. I know that going in.

Nobody knows when you make an effort or when you plant a seed if it will bear fruit or not.

The apple . . . came before Adam and Eve in the story of creation. It had to have been there at least three years because that's how long it takes for a new tree to bear fruit.

Why should I stay? Nor seed nor fruit have I, But, sprung at once to beauty's perfect round, Nor loss nor gain nor change in me is found, - A life-complete in death-complete to die.

Faith and patience are exceptional virtues in those that suffer. Patience is the fruit and evidence of faith.

When the population is filled with peace and harmony it ripens like fruit that turns to rot in a jiff if not preserved by change.

So may'st thou live, till like ripe fruit thou drop Into thy mother's lap.

The fruits of your labor will bare the fruits of your success.

Patience is a fruit that only grows under trials.

It is sad that today many times people give up in the hard times and never get to enjoy the fruit of all their labor.

The fruit of your life will be what you believe you are.

Fools, their wisdom weak, are their own enemies as they go through life, doing evil that bears bitter fruit.

One of the greatest fruits of obedience is bold confidence in prayer.

Portraiture is something that we're all drawn to. I think primarily other forms - we prefer, by and large, to look at human beings than a bowl of fruit.

I heard somebody say that you can't judge a tree by the bark it wears but by the fruit it bears.

If he does he's a fool," said Hazael. "The message is clear. Please enjoy this lovely fruit while contemplating all the ways we might kill you in your sleep.