Fruit Quotes - Page 17

• Now anxiety is the mark of spiritual insecurity. It is the fruit of unanswered questions. But questions cannot go unanswered unless they first be asked.

  Thomas Merton

  Spiritual, Anxiety, Insecurity

  Thomas Merton (2005). “No Man is an Island”, p.13, Shambhala Publications

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• While we're talking, time will have meanly run on... pick today's fruits, not relying on the future in the slightest.

  Horace

  Running, Attitude, Talking

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• Saints are like trees. They do not call to anyone, neither do they send anyone away. They give shelter to whoever cares to come, be it a man, woman, child, or an animal. If you sit under a tree it will protect you from the weather, from the scorching sun as well as from the pouring rain, and it will give you flowers and fruit. Whether a human being enjoys them or a bird tastes of them matters little to the tree; its produce is there for anyone who comes and takes it.

  Anandamayi Ma

  Children, Flower, Rain

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• There is, fortunately, a minority composed of those who recognize early in their lives that the most beautiful and satisfying experiences open to humankind are not derived from the outside, but are bound up with the development of the individual's own feeling, thinking and acting. The genuine artists, investigators and thinkers have always been persons of this kind. However inconspicuously the life of these individuals runs its course, none the less the fruits of their endeavors are the most valuable contributions which one generation can make to its successors.

  Albert Einstein

  Life, Beautiful, Running

  "Obituary for Emmy Noether". Letter to the Editor of The New York Times, www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk. May 5, 1935.

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• If the October days were a cordial like the sub-acids of fruit, these are a tonic like the wine of iron. Drink deep or be careful how you taste this December vintage. The first sip may chill, but a full draught warms and invigorates.

  John Burroughs

  Wine, Winter, Vintage

  John Burroughs, Farida Anna Wiley (1997). “John Burroughs' America: Selections from the Writings of the Naturalist”, p.122, Courier Corporation

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• Better be jocund with the fruitful Grape Than sadden after none, or bitter, Fruit.

  Omar Khayyam

  Bitter, Pleasure, Grapes

  Omar Khayyam, Edward FitzGerald, Christopher Decker (1997). “Edward FitzGerald, Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám: A Critical Edition”, p.174, University of Virginia Press

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• Tonight I think again of many days that are sacrificed for one night of love. Of the waste and the fruit of the waste, of plenty and of fire. And how painlessly-time.

  Yehuda Amichai

  Time, Night, Thinking

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• One of the joys our technological civilization has lost is the excitement with which seasonal flowers and fruits were welcomed; the first daffodil, strawberry or cherry are now things of the past, along with their precious moment of arrival. Even the tangerine -- now a satsuma or clementine -- appears de-pipped months before Christmas.

  Derek Jarman

  Flower, Past, Civilization

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• I always wanted to be a Californian. In my wildest dreams, I always liked California - it's the place where oranges grows on trees! Fruit just falls off the trees.

  Eric Burdon

  Dream, Fall, California

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• I was miserable in West Side Story. They really miscast me. I came from the Midwest; what they really needed was a guy that was street smart. The first time I saw the movie, I had to walk out. I looked like the biggest fruit that ever walked on to film. My character was so weak.

  Richard Beymer

  Smart, Character, Guy

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• You are literally filled with the fruit of your own devices, with rats and mice and such small deer, paramecia, and entomostraceæ, and kicking things with horrid names, which you see in microscopes at the Polytechnic, and rush home and call for brandy-without the water-stone, and gravel, and dyspepsia, and fragments of your own muscular tissue tinged with your own bile.

  Charles Kingsley

  Home, Science, Names

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• A lot of people think, particularly the people who have benefited, that they're entitled to the fruits of their abilities, their labor.

  Paul Solman

  Thinking, People, Ability

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The worthiest people are the most injured by slander, as is the best fruit which the birds have been pecking at.

  Jonathan Swift

  People, Bird, Slander

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• The canker which the trunk conceals is revealed by the leaves, the fruit, or the flower.

  Pietro Metastasio

  Flower, Disease, Trunks

  "Giuseppe Riconosciuto". Part I, 1733.

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• Graft good Fruit all, or graft not at all.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Deeds

  Benjamin Franklin (1987). “Poor Richard's Almanack: Being the Choicest Morsels of Wisdom, Written During the Years of the Almanack's Publication”, p.30, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

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• Sweet April! many a thought Is wedded unto thee, as hearts are wed; Nor shall they fail, till, to its autumn brought, Life's golden fruit is shed.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Sweet, Heart, Autumn

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1848). “Poems”, p.13

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• Tis no sin love's fruits to steal; But the sweet thefts to reveal; To be taken, to be seen, These have crimes accounted been.

  Ben Jonson

  Sweet, Taken, Sin

  Ben Jonson, William Gifford (1857). “The Works of Ben Jonson”, p.803

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• We can not expect to breed respect for law and order among people who do not share the fruits of our freedom.

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  Order, Law, People

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• Shake the tree of life itself and bring down fruits unheard of.

  Edwin Arlington Robinson

  Tree, Shakes, Unheard

  Edwin Arlington Robinson (2007). “Robinson: Poems”, Everyman's Library

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• Disagreeable suspicions are usually the fruits of a second marriage.

  Jean Racine

  Second Marriage, Suspicion, Disagreeable

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 771-72, Phèdre, II. 5, 1922.

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• A man who has no love in him is as barren as a cloud with no moisture, a tree with no fruits or a cow yielding no milk; he is ever far from God and can never earn His Grace.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Men, Clouds, Tree

  FaceBook post by Sri Sathya Sai Baba from Jan 24, 2017

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• I still come closest to success with drawing. When I use color the results are dubious, for these painfully gained experiences bear less fruit.

  Paul Klee

  Color, Drawing, Dubious

  Paul Klee, Felix Klee (1968). “The Diaries of Paul Klee, 1898-1918”, p.141, Univ of California Press

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• Labor is the fruit of civilization, not the basis of it.

  Alexander Crummell

  Civilization, Bases, Labor

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• Blessed, blessed is their Guru, whose mouth tastes the Ambrosial Fruit of the Lord.

  Guru Gobind Singh

  Blessed, Mouths, Taste

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• Look, I am a Palestinian elected representative from Jericho. If a Palestinian wants to sell his fruit anywhere in the West Bank, he goes to the Israeli civil administration. If a Palestinian sick person wants to leave a hospital, he goes through the Israeli civil administration. Nobody can leave or enter my constituency without Israeli permission. Israel is, in effect, resuming the occupation.

  Saeb Erekat

  Civilization, Israel, Sick

  "Israel putting services in place in West Bank, Gaza" by Jerrold Kessel, www.cnn.com. December 27, 2002.

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