Fruit Trees Quotes

• Sometimes our fate resembles a fruit tree in winter. Who would think that those branches would turn green again and blossom, but we hope it, we know it.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Leadership, Hope, Motivation

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• The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.

  Moliere

  Inspirational, Success, Patience

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• Beneath these fruit-tree boughs that shed
  Their snow-white blossoms on my head,
  With brightest sunshine round me spread
  Of spring's unclouded weather,
  In this sequestered nook how sweet
  To sit upon my orchard-seat!
  And birds and flowers once more to greet,
  My last year's friends together.

  William Wordsworth

  Sweet, Spring, Flower

  William Wordsworth (2008). “The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth, In: 1801-1805”, p.124, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.

  Khalil Gibran

  Love, Life, Wedding

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• Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspirational, Success, Honesty

  Abraham Lincoln (1982). “Abraham Lincoln, wisdom & wit”, Peter Pauper Pr

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• The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit.

  Nelson Henderson

  Inspirational, Life, Graduation

  "Under Whose Shade". Book by Wesley Henderson, 1982.

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• He who plants a tree, plants a hope.

  Lucy Larcom

  Nature, Garden, Tree

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• A statesman who shakes the fruit trees of his neighbors - to dislodge the worms.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Tree, Fruit, Culture

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.13, University of Georgia Press

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• A life without love is like a tree without fruit.

  Stephen King

  Love, Famous Love, Inspirational Love

  Stephen King (2014). “Doctor Sleep”, p.452, Simon and Schuster

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• It is very rare to find ground which produces nothing; if it is not covered with flowers, with fruit trees and grains, it produces briers and pines. It is the same with man; if he is not virtuous, he becomes vicious.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Flower, Men, Tree

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• Go out on a limb. That's where the fruit is.

  Jimmy Carter

  Inspirational, Life, Leadership

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  Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.

  Martin Luther

  Inspirational, Faith, Hope

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• I'd love to see a new form of social security ... everyone taught how to grow their own; fruit and nut trees planted along every street, parks planted out to edibles, every high rise with a roof garden, every school with at least one fruit tree for every kid enrolled.

  Jackie French

  School, Kids, Garden

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• The superfluous blossoms on a fruit tree are meant to symbolize the large way God loves to do pleasant things.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Tree, Way, Fruit

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.19

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• I think that if you shake the tree, you ought to be around when the fruit falls to pick it up.

  Mary Cassatt

  Positive, Peace, Fall

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• Even chimps understand the concept - if a troop of chimps enters a fruit tree, they will only pick the fruits that are ripe and leave the others growing. That is sustainability.

  Jane Goodall

  Tree, Growing, Fruit

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• I have fruit trees. Cows for fresh milk, yoghurt. My own wheat. I'm basically self-sufficient.

  Imran Khan

  Self, Tree, Cows

  "The path of Khan" by Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. July 1, 2006.

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• I like making pies. I have a bunch of fruit trees in my backyard. My loquat tree sprouted, and I like making loquat pie. They're really hard to peel and everything, and it took me forever, but they make the best pies. They're amazing.

  Kristen Stewart

  Pie, Tree, Forever

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• Water the fruit trees and don’t water the thorns.

  Rumi

  Water, Tree, Thorns

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• Stars and blossoming fruit-trees: utter permanence and extreme fragility give an equal sense of eternity.

  Simone Weil

  Stars, Giving, Tree

  Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.108, Psychology Press

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• We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Faith, Believe, Men

  1860 The Conduct of Life,'Worship'.

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• Fame is but a fruit tree- so very unsound. It can never flourish 'till its stock is in the ground.

  Nick Drake

  Tree, Fruit, Fame

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• Our destiny often looks like a fruit-tree in winter. Who would think from its pitiable aspect that those rigid boughs, those rough twigs could next spring again be green, bloom, and even bear fruit? Yet we hope it, we know it.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Spring, Winter, Thinking

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2013). “Delphi Works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Illustrated)”, p.980, Delphi Classics

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• Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They hang upon the most slender twigs that are easily snapped off.

  Carl Jung

  Niece, Thoughtful, Tree

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• In an orchard there should be enough to eat, enough to lay up, enough to be stolen, and enough to rot on the ground.

  James Boswell

  Tree, Fruit, Enough

  James Boswell (1807). “The life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: comprehending an account of his studies and numerous works, in chronological order; a series of his epistolatory correspondence and conversations with many eminent persons; and various original pieces of his composition, never before published: the whole exhibiting a view of literature and literary men in Great-Britain, for near half a century during which he flourished”, p.309

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