Cherries Quotes - Page 7

• Along the wide curving moat surrounding the palace, rows of cherry trees announced the end of their seasonal beauty. Some of the trees were weeping: blossoms in white and palest pink, ponderous with decreptitude, eddying on the brown water, stirred by the paddling of ducks.

  John Burnham Schwartz

  Ducks, White, Water

  John Burnham Schwartz (2009). “The Commoner”, p.148, Vintage

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• His heavy-lidded gaze reflected a languor that had nothing to do with having just awakened, and there was no doubt what was on his mind. But this is no safe cherry picker, Gwen thought, growing more concerned by the moment. This man looks like a cherry tree chopper-downer.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Men, Tree, Doubt

  FaceBook post by Karen Marie Moning from Aug 19, 2014

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• So what are you in the mood for? (Sunshine) How about naked Sunshine al dente covered in whipped cream and chocolate? We could even put a cherry on top. (Talon)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Sunshine, Chocolate, Naked

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• I don't like hope very much. In fact, I hate it. It's the crystal meth of emotions. It hooks you fast and kills you hard. It's bad news. The worst. It's sharp sticks and cherry bombs. When hope shows up, it's only a matter of time until someone gets hurt.

  Jennifer Donnelly

  Hurt, Hate, News

  Jennifer Donnelly (2015). “Revolution”, p.144, Bloomsbury Publishing

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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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• No guy in his right mind would ever choose me when there are people like Hana in the world: It would be like settling for a stale cookie when what you really want is a big bowl of ice cream, whipped cream and cherries and chocolate sprinkles included.

  Lauren Oliver

  Ice Cream, People, Guy

  Lauren Oliver (2014). “Delirium: The Complete Collection: Delirium, Hana, Pandemonium, Annabel, Raven, Requiem”, p.21, Harper Collins

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• The psychologist, Paul Rozin, an expert on disgust, observed that a single cockroach will completely wreck the appeal of a bowl of cherries, but a cherry will do nothing at all for a bowl of cockroaches.

  Daniel Kahneman

  Cockroaches, Experts, Wrecks

  Daniel Kahneman (2011). “Thinking, Fast and Slow”, p.342, Macmillan

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• I think she suspects something, though. We’ve had cherry pie for dessert five nights in a row.” His voice drawled, and my smile deepened.

  Kim Harrison

  Night, Thinking, Voice

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• Jack shook his head. "Not one of my many talents, sadly. But if you have a cherry stem I can show you a really cool one.

  Kiersten White

  Talent, Really Cool, Stem

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• I have told you of the Spaniard who always put on his spectacles when about to eat cherries, that they might look bigger and more attempting. In like manner I made the most of my enjoyment s: and through I do not cast my cares away, I pack them in as little compass as I can, and carry them as conveniently as I can for myself, and never let them annoy others.

  Robert Southey

  Looks, Care, Littles

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• The real enemy is not fat but us. We are the misusers; we are the greedy ones. If we have no better sense than to purposefully destroy ourselves, it is no wonder that nature punishes us with vile diseases and calls in our maker long before their time. Nature remembers every extra bite of cherry pie, T-bone steak, fried chicken, pizza.

  Dorian "Doc" Paskowitz

  Real, Pie, Long

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• I say violence is necessary. Violence is a part of America's culture. It is as American as cherry pie. Americans taught the black people to be violent. We will use that violence to rid ourselves of oppression if necessary. We will be free, by any means necessary.

  H. Rap Brown

  Mean, Pie, America

  "Flames of Cambridge Stoked by Decades of Division". "All Things Considered" with Jacki Lyden, www.npr.org. July 29, 2007.

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• The turn from this end [despair] to a new beginning came from three things. A blooming cherry tree, the unexpected kindness of Scottish workers and their families, and the Bible.

  Jürgen Moltmann

  Kindness, New Beginnings, Tree

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• The eco-effective future of industry is a world of abundance that celebrates the use and consumption of products and materials that are, in effect, nutritious - as safe, effective, and delightful as a cherry tree.

  William McDonough

  Tree, Climate, Use

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• I think my favorite place to eat dinner is the movie theater. Dirty dogs, a big thing of nachos and a Cherry Coke - and I'm good.

  Chris Kirkpatrick

  Dog, Dirty, Thinking

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• Well, he had two stabs at the cherry

  Alan Green

  Soccer, Two, Wells

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• Those who use the Bible as a reference for moral behavior are simply cherry-picking those teachings, such as the Golden Rule, that they have independently decided are moral for other reasons, while ignoring those teachings with which they disagree.

  Victor J. Stenger

  Teaching, Moral Behavior, Golden

  Victor J. Stenger (2012). “God and the Folly of Faith: The Incompatibility of Science and Religion”, p.120, Prometheus Books

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• I have a pretty good memory, but memories are time beings, too, like cherry blossoms or ginkgo leaves; for a while they are beautiful, and then they fade and die.

  Ruth Ozeki

  Beautiful, Memories, Cherry Blossom

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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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• Break open the cherry tree: where are the blossoms? Just wait for spring time to see how they bloom.

  Ikkyu

  Spring, Tree, Waiting

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• It may just be because I get homesick, but I have concluded Washington's cherry blossoms are just plain overrated.

  Newt Gingrich

  Justice, May, Homesick

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• Although to be fair, cherry picking isn't quite what we do. Cherries are sweet and delicious. What we do is more turd mining. And I'll thank you to give our work the respect it deserves!

  Jon Stewart

  Respect, Sweet, Giving

  "Basic Cable Personality Skirmish '09". "The Daily Show" official website, March 10, 2009.

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• I once had a friend who did the hair for sci-fi movies, and after a particularly bad break-up I stupidly went to her salon and told her she could do anything she liked. She dyed the bottom cherry red and the top peroxide blonde.

  Sally Phillips

  Hair, Blonde, Red

  "A funny five minutes with Sally Phillips". Interview with Mirror.co.uk, www.mirror.co.uk. May 30, 2010.

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• [Operation] Rockingham was spinning reports and emphasizing reports that showed non-compliance (by Iraq with UN inspections) and quashing those which showed compliance. It was cherry-picking intelligence.

  Scott Ritter

  Iraq, Spinning, Operations

  Sunday Herald, June 8, 2003.

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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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