Pears Quotes - Page 2

• It is commonly said by farmers, that a good pear or apple costs no more time or pains to rear, than a poor one; so I would have no work of art, no speech, or action, or thought, or friend, but the best.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Art, Pain, Apples

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “The Selected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.173, Graphic Arts Books

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• Near our vineyard there was a pear tree laden with fruit that was not attractive in either flavor or form. One night, when I [at the age of sixteen] had played until dark on the sandlot with some other juvenile delinquents, we went to shake that tree and carry off its fruit. From it we carried off huge loads, not to feast on, but to throw to the pigs, although we did eat a few ourselves. We did it just because it was forbidden.

  Saint Augustine

  Dark, Night, Pigs

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• The painting showed a hairless, oppressed creature with a head like an inverted pear, its hands clapped in horror to its ears, its mouth open in a vast, soundless scream. Twisted ripples of the creature's torment, echoes of its cry, flooded out into the air surrounding it; the man or woman, whichever it was, had become contained by its own howl. It had covered its ears against its own sound. The creature stood on a bridge and no one else was present; the creature screamed in isolation. Cut off by - or despite - its outcry.

  Philip K. Dick

  Cutting, Men, Echoes

  Philip K. Dick (2008). “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?”, p.130, Ballantine Books

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• I could peel you like a pear and god himself would see the justice in it.

  Katharine Hepburn

  Justice

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• If music is frozen architecture, then the potpourri is frozen coffee-table gossip... Potpourri is the art of adding apples to pears.

  Arnold Schoenberg

  Art, Coffee, Apples

  Arnold Schoenberg, Leonard Stein (1975). “Style and Idea: Selected Writings of Arnold Schoenberg”, p.313, Univ of California Press

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• As was the custom in such cases, the pear tree was charged with murder and sentenced to be uprooted and burned.

  Robert Graves

  Tree, Murder, Cases

  Robert Graves, Richard Francis (2000). “I, Claudius ; and, Claudius the god”, Carcanet Press Ltd.

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• You get so weak from eating pears that you fall down, and then they come and take you away on a stretcher.

  Oliver Reed

  Fall, Down And, Eating

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• He ate a pear. It was a hard one. It fought back against his grinding teeth. It snapped in juicy protest.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Teeth, Juicy, Protest

  KURT VONNEGUT JR (1969). “SLAUGHTERHOUSE FIVE”

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• A scent that disturbs me and delights me. It smells like ripe pears, vetiver, a bit of violet and something else- something spicy almost biting and exotic.

  Rebecca Wells

  Smell, Exotic, Delight

  Rebecca Wells (2004). “Divine secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood: a novel”

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• The rose is a rose,
  And was always a rose.
  But the theory now goes
  That the apple's a rose,
  And the pear is, and so's
  The plum, I suppose.
  The dear only knows
  What will next prove a rose.
  You, of course, are a rose -
  But were always a rose.

  Robert Frost

  Apples, Rose, Plums

  Robert Frost (1975). “The poetry of Robert Frost”

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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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• O, Winter! Put away thy snowy pride;
  O, Spring! Neglect the cowslip and the bell;
  O, Summer! Throw thy pears and plums aside;
  O, Autumn! Bid the grape with poison swell.

  Thomas Chatterton

  Summer, Spring, Autumn

  Thomas Chatterton, George Gregory (1803). “The Works of Thomas Chatterton ...: Life of Chatterton, by G. Gregory. Miscellaneous poems”, p.31

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  All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience.

  Mao Zedong

  Knowledge Experience, Genuine, Knowledge And Experience

  1937 Address to the Anti- Japanese Military and Political College, Jul.

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• Heaped on the floor were turkeys, geese, game, poultry, brawn, great joints of meat, sucking pigs, long wreaths of sausages, mince-pies, plum-puddings, bartrels of oysters, re-hot chestnuts, cherry-cheeked apples, juicy oranges, luscious pears, immense twelfth-cakes, and seething bowls of punch that made the chamber dim with their delicious steam.

  Charles Dickens

  Oysters, Turkeys, Games

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• February. Get ink, shed tears. Write of it, sob your heart out, sing, While torrential slush that roars Burns in the blackness of the spring. Go hire a buggy. For six grivnas, Race through the noice of bells and wheels To where the ink and all you grieving Are muffled when the rainshower falls. To where, like pears burnt black as charcoal, A myriad rooks, plucked from the trees, Fall down into the puddles, hurl Dry sadness deep into the eyes. Below, the wet black earth shows through, With sudden cries the wind is pitted, The more haphazard, the more true The poetry that sobs its heart out.

  Boris Pasternak

  Spring, Fall, Sadness

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• If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution.

  Mao Zedong

  Chinese Revolution, Want, Method

  1937 Address to the Anti- Japanese Military and Political College, Jul.

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• Of course you know him. Everyone knows a pear-shaped man.

  George R. R. Martin

  Men, Courses, Knows

  George R. R. Martin (2012). “Dreamsongs 2-Book Bundle: Dreamsongs Volumes I and II”, p.774, Bantam

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• A pear should come to the table popped with juice, Ripened in warmth and served in warmth. On terms Like these, autumn beguiles the fatalist.

  Wallace Stevens

  Autumn, Juice, Tables

  Wallace Stevens (2011). “The Palm at the End of the Mind: Selected Poems and a Play”, p.155, Vintage

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• 'My Life' is soft, with notes of pear and gardenia, but still bold, with a woody base.

  Mary J. Blige

  Life Is, Woody, Notes

  "High Note: Mary J. Blige on Her Best-Selling Perfume". Interview with Janna Johnson, www.elle.com. December 30, 2010.

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• Men, like peaches and pears, grow sweet a little while before they begin to decay.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Sweet, Men, Age

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• The raw fruits of the earth were made for human sustenance. Even the white tails of rabbits, according to some theologians, have a purpose, namely to make it easier for sportsmen to shoot them. There are, it is true, some inconveniences: lions and tigers are too fierce, the summer is too hot, and the winter too cold. But these things only began after Adam ate the apple; I before that, all animals were vegetarians, and the season was always spring. If only Adam had been content with peaches and nectarines, grapes and pears and pineapples, these blessings would still be ours.

  Bertrand Russell

  Summer, Spring, Winter

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• Close to the Gates a spacious Garden lies, From the Storms defended and inclement Skies; Four Acres was the allotted Space of Ground, Fenc'd with a green Enclosure all around. Tall thriving Trees confessed the fruitful Mold: The reddening Apple ripens here to Gold, Here the blue Fig with luscious Juice overflows, With deeper Red the full Pomegranate glows, The Branch here bends beneath the weighty Pear, And verdant Olives flourish round the Year.

  Homer

  Lying, Garden, Blue

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• If I could blame it on all the mothers and fathers of the world, they of the lessons, the pellets of power, they of the love surrounding you like batter ... Blame it on God perhaps? He of the first opening that pushed us all into our first mistakes? No, I'll blame it on Man For Man is God and man is eating the earth up like a candy bar and not one of them can be left alone with the ocean for it is known he will gulp it all down. The stars (possibly) are safe. At least for the moment. The stars are pears that no one can reach, even for a wedding. Perhaps for a death.

  Anne Sexton

  Mother, Stars, Father

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

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• The Poplar grows up straight and tall,
  The Pear-tree spreads along the wall

  Sara Coleridge

  Wall, Growing Up, Differences

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• No. Now, shut up and eat your pears.

  Suzanne Collins

  Humorous, Shut Up

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