Cherries Quotes - Page 6

• Up to the days of Indiana's early statehood, probably as late as 1825, there stood, in what is now the beautiful little city of Vincennes on the Wabash, the decaying remnant of an old and curiously gnarled cherry tree, known as the Roussillion tree, le cerisier de Monsieur Roussillion, as the French inhabitants called it, which as long as it lived bore fruit remarkable for richness of flavor and peculiar dark ruby depth of color.

  Maurice Thompson

  Beautiful, Book, Dark

  Maurice Thompson (2008). “Alice of Old Vincennes (Volume 1 of 2 ) (EasyRead Super Large 24pt Edition)”, p.1, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The system knows how to cherry pick black people. It's like affirmative action - once a year, one is recognized. But what has to occur is self-emergence so if they ignore you, you don't have to disappear.

  Haile Gerima

  Self, Years, People

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• When I was a kid, I loved having a book in my hand. I still do. I wasn't a fast reader, but I was a steady reader. I read all of The Bobbsey Twins, Nancy Drew, and Cherry Ames books.

  Rhea Perlman

  Book, Kids, Hands

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

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• Marc Cherry is so good at writing himself into a corner, then writing himself out of that corner. Its really fun to watch that.

  Grant Show

  Fun, Writing, Watches

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• The jelly - the jam and the marmalade, And the cherry-and quince-'preserves' she made! And the sweet-sour pickles of peach and pear, With cinnamon in 'em, and all things rare! And the more we ate was the more to spare, Out to old Aunt Mary's! Ah!

  James Whitcomb Riley

  Sweet, Food, Aunt

  James Whitcomb Riley (1993). “The Complete Poetical Works of James Whitcomb Riley”, p.315, Indiana University Press

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• Americans are used to being pandered to and spoon-fed everything. In a culture that needs caffeine-free cherry chocolate diet Coke, you'd best deliver information with entertainment.

  Bill Maher

  Chocolate, Entertainment, Needs

  Interview with Elizabeth Gettelman, www.motherjones.com. September 2008.

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• If you pay attention to good critics, you have to listen to the bad. So you have to ignore them all really. You can't just cherry pick the glowing ones.

  Ricky Gervais

  Glowing, Attention, Pay

  "Ricky Gervais, Stephen Merchant ('The Ricky Gervais Show')". Interview with Alex Fletcher, www.digitalspy.com. April 15, 2010.

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• Looking about I see no cherry blossoms And no crimson leaves A straw-thatched hut by a bay In the autumn dusk.

  Fujiwara no Teika

  Autumn, Cherry Blossom, Dusk

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• O cricket from your cherry cry
  No one would ever guess
  How quickly you must die.

  Matsuo Basho

  Garden, Cry, Insects

  Bash? Matsuo, Basho, Asataro Miyamori (2002). “Classic Haiku: An Anthology of Poems by Basho and His Followers”, p.89, Courier Corporation

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• The oak tree:
  not interested
  in cherry blossoms.

  Matsuo Basho

  Spring, Tree, Cherry Blossom

  Matsuo Basho, “The Oak Tree”

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• Cherry trees will blossom every year; But I'll disappear for good, One of these days.

  Philip Whalen

  Death, Years, Tree

  Philip Whalen, Michael Rothenberg (2007). “The Collected Poems of Philip Whalen”, p.415, Wesleyan University Press

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• Loveliest of trees, the cherry now
  Is hung with bloom along the bough,
  And stands about the woodland ride
  Wearing white for Eastertide.
  
  Now, of my threescore years and ten,
  Twenty will not come again,
  And take from seventy springs a score,
  It only leaves me fifty more.
  
  And since to look at things in bloom
  Fifty springs are little room,
  About the woodlands I will go
  To see the cherry hung with snow.

  A. E. Housman

  Spring, White, Years

  A Shropshire Lad no. 2, l. 1 (1896)

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• No proper princess would come out looking for dragons," Woraug objected. "Well I'm not a proper princess then!" Cimorene snapped. "I make cherries jubillee and I volunteer for dragons, and I conjugate Latin verbs-- or at least I would if anyone would let me. So there!

  Patricia C. Wrede

  Latin, Princess, Dragons

  Patricia C. Wrede (2015). “The Enchanted Forest Chronicles: [Boxed Set]”, p.23, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• We celebrate the cherry tree not for its efficiency but for its effectiveness - and for its beauty. Its materials are in constant flow, and all those thousands of useless cherry blossoms look gorgeous. Then they fall to the ground and become soil again, so there's no problem

  William McDonough

  Nature, Fall, Effectiveness

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• I'm particularly fond of boned chicken breasts with a little garlic under the flesh and cooked in a casserole for 40 minutes with a jar of olives, some cherry tomatoes and a spoonful of olive oil.

  Maeve Binchy

  Oil, Tomatoes, Flesh

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• A small speckled visitor Wearing a crimson cape Brighter than a cherry Smaller than a grape A polka-dotted someone Walking on my wall A black-hooded lady In a scarlet shawl.

  Joan Walsh Anglund

  Wall, Black, Capes

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• However far I gaze Neither cherry blossoms nor Crimson leaves are in sight. Only a fisherman's hut on the shore In the autumnal evening.

  Fujiwara no Teika

  Sight, Evening, Cherry Blossom

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• I don't really deal with the attention I receive to be honest. I build up a fantasy world around me that I inhabit. I cherry pick elements of literature, music, film, history and art, then weave them together to construct a fantasy reality to live in. It doesn't always work out though, I got evicted from my own fantasy once, which was quite embarrassing.

  Pete Doherty

  Art, Reality, Film History

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• We complain and complain, but we have lived and seen the blossom -apple, pear, cherry, plum, almond blossom - in the sun; and the best among us cannot pretend they deserve - or could contrive - anything better.

  J. B. Priestley

  Apples, Tree, Complaining

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• In the very first debate I was asked am I a moderate or a progressive and I said I'm a progressive who likes to get things done. Cherry picking a quote here or there doesn't change my record of having fought for racial justice, having fought for kids rights, having fought the kind of inequities that fueled my interest in service in the first place going back to my days in the Children's Defense Fund.

  Hillary Clinton

  Children, Kids, Rights

  Hillary Clinton's speech at the Clinton-Sanders Democratic presidential debate in Durham, New Hampshire, hosted by MSNBC, www.nytimes.com. February 4, 2016.

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• The saying "the cherry on top" is only a good metaphor if the person listening or reading actually likes cherries on top of their ice cream.

  Christopher Jones

  Reading, Ice Cream, Listening

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• Eighteen luscuios scrumpitous flavors, Chocolate,Lime and Cherry Coffee,Pumpkin, Fudge-Banana, Caramel Cream and boysenberry. Rocky Road and Toasted Almond, Butterscotch,Vanilla Dip, Butter Brinkle, Apple Ripple,Coconut,and Mocha Chip, Brandy Peach and Lemon Custard. Each scoop lovely.smooth and round. Tallest cream cone in town lying there on the ground.

  Shel Silverstein

  Lying, Coffee, Apples

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• Koolaid is goyish. All Drake's Cakes are goyish. Pumpernickel is Jewish, and, as you know, white bread is very goyish. Instant potatoes - goyish. Black cherry soda's very Jewish. Macaroons are very Jewish - very Jewish cake. Fruit salad is Jewish. Lime Jell-O is goyish. Lime soda is very goyish. Trailer parks are so goyish that Jews won't go near them.

  Lenny Bruce

  Cake, Fruit Salad, White

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• I'd sacrificed true love and a popped cherry to the god of deception and hormones." - Zoey Redbird (Ch 24)

  P. C. Cast

  Deception, Hormones, Zoey Redbird

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• If I had the knack I'd sing like Cherry flakes falling

  Matsuo Basho

  Fall, Knack, Flakes

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