Grapes Quotes - Page 11

I hate to cry and I hate to sound like sour grapes, but no one ever listens to me. No one ever hears what I have to say.

Mike Tyson

Hate, Sound, Cry

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The bodies of the damned shall be crowded together in hell, like grapes in a wine-press, which press one another till they burst; every distinct sense and organ shall be assailed with its own appropriate and most exquisite sufferings.

Jeremy Taylor

Wine, Suffering, Together

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Victory won't come

to me unless I go
to it; a grape tendril
ties a knot in knots till

knotted thirty times

Marianne Moore

Ties, Victory, Thirty

Marianne Moore (1994). “Complete Poems”, p.125, Penguin

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The dreary flies, lazy and casual,
Stick to the ceiling, buzz along the wall.
O heart, the spider shuffles from the mould
Weaving, between the pinks and grapes, his pall.

Allen Tate

Wall, Heart, Lazy

Allen Tate (2014). “Collected Poems, 1919-1976”, p.35, Macmillan

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To higher or lower ends, they [the majority of mankind] move too often with something of a sad countenance, with hurried and ignoble gait, becoming, unconsciously, something like thorns, in their anxiety to bear grapes; it being possible for people, in the pursuit of even great ends, to become themselves thin and impoverished in spirit and temper, thus diminishing the sum of perfection in the world, at its very sources.

Walter Pater

Moving, Ambition, People

Walter Pater (2011). “The Works of Walter Pater”, p.60, Cambridge University Press

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But I also hoped that [she] had chosen California because she thought that was her true home, the place where she really belonged, where it was always warm and you could dance in the rain, pick grapes right off the vines, and sleep outside at night under the stars.

Jeannette Walls

Stars, Rain, Sleep

Jeannette Walls (2009). “The Glass Castle: A Memoir”, p.276, Simon and Schuster

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It was the look you get when facing a sudden and insurmountable danger: the errant truck, the shaky ladder, the crazy person who pins you to the linoleum and insists, with increasing urgency, that everything you know and love can be undone by a grape.

David Sedaris

Crazy, And Love, Looks

David Sedaris (2010). “When You Are Engulfed In Flames”, p.72, Hachette UK

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What, then, is the effect of pesticides? Pesticides have created a legacy of pain, and misery, and death for farm workers and consumers alike. The crop which poses the greatest danger, and the focus of our struggle, is the table grape crop. These pesticides soak the fields. Drift with the wind, pollute the water, and are eaten by unwitting consumers. These poisons are designed to kill, and pose a very real threat to consumers and farm workers alike.

Cesar Chavez

Pain, Real, Struggle

Cesar Chavez (2008). “An Organizer's Tale: Speeches”, p.264, Penguin

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guilt to motherhood is like grapes to wine

Fay Weldon

Wine, Motherhood, Guilt

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What win I, if I gain the thing I seek? A dream, a breath, a froth of fleeting joy. Who buys a minute's mirth to wail a week? Or sells eternity to get a toy? For one sweet grape who will the vine destroy? Or what fond beggar, but to touch the crown, Would with the sceptre straight be strucken down?

William Shakespeare

Dream, Sweet, Winning

'The Rape Of Lucrece' (1594) l. 213

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He is life's liberating force. He is release of limbs and communion through dance. He is laughter, and music in flutes. He is repose from all cares -- he is sleep! When his blood bursts from the grape and flows across tables laid in his honor to fuse with our blood, he gently, gradually, wraps us in shadows of ivy-cool sleep.

Euripides

Laughter, Sleep, Blood

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Young man, two are the forces most precious to mankind. The first is Demeter, the Goddess. She is the Earth -- or any name you wish to call her -- and she sustains humanity with solid food. Next came Dionysus, the son of the virgin, bringing the counterpart to bread: wine and the blessings of life's flowing juices. His blood, the blood of the grape, lightens the burden of our mortal misery. Though himself a God, it is his blood we pour out to offer thanks to the Gods. And through him, we are blessed.

Euripides

Blessed, Wine, Son

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What grape to keep its place in the sun, taught our ancestors to make wine?

Cyril Connolly

Wine, Sun, Taught

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Who buys a minute's mirth to wail a week? Or sell eternity to get a toy? For one grape who will the vine destroy?

William Shakespeare

Vines, Mirth, Toys

'The Rape Of Lucrece' (1594) l. 213

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[We believe that unions have always been about much more than the industries in which they operate.] The fight is never about grapes or lettuce, ... It is always about people.

Cesar Chavez

Believe, Fighting, People

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A real fox calls sour not only those grapes that he cannot reach but also those that he has reached and taken away from others.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Real, Taken, Foxes

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Shall I let in the stranger,
Shall I welcome the sailor,
Or stay till the day I die?
Hands of the stranger and holds of the ships,
Hold you poison or grapes?

Dylan Thomas

Loneliness, Hands, Ships

Dylan Thomas (2010). “The Collected Poems of Dylan Thomas: The Original Edition”, p.61, New Directions Publishing

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Almost everything in 'A Day With Wilbur Robinson' has some basis in truth. And yes, my sister did pay me to feed her grapes while she talked to her boyfriend on the phone.

William Joyce

Sister, Phones, Pay

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We were both [ with Russel Crowe] hand-plucked to do [The Quick and the Death]. He had done Romper Stomper and I had done Gilbert Grape and so we were hand- plucked to do this big budget film. So we were both very bright-eyed and bushy-tailed.

Leonardo DiCaprio

Hands, Done, Film

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Dinner alone is one of life's pleasures. Certainly cooking for oneself reveals man at his weirdest. People lie when you ask them what they eat when they are alone. A salad, they tell you. But when you persist, they confess to peanut butter and bacon sandwiches deep fried and eaten with hot sauce, or spaghetti with butter and grape jam.

Laurie Colwin

Lying, Men, People

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I went to the juice isle, I learned something. Cranberries are taking over everything. What do you got, apples? Put some cranberrise in there, make it 50/50. Cran-apple. Grapes? Cran-grape. Mangos? Cran-mango. Pork chops? Cran-chop!

Brian Regan

Apples, Pork, Juice

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...when you buy just two or three tons from a grower, they see the artisan work you do with their grapes, and then they want to give you their good fruit. By keeping small I can put my heart into it.

John Bennett Ramsey

Heart, Wine, Two

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The road to social justice for the farm worker is the road of unionization. Our cause, our strike against table grapes and our international boycott are all founded upon our deep conviction that the form of collective self-help, which is unionization, holds far more hope for the farm worker than any other single approach, whether public or private. This conviction is what brings spirit, high hope and optimism to everything we do.

Cesar Chavez

Self, Justice, Optimism

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You can't really appreciate anonymity until you've lost it. People say that's sour grapes, but it really isn't To be able to walk down the street without people paying attention to you is a real blessing and you lose it when you become an actor.

Paul Newman

Real, Blessing, Appreciate

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WINE, n.Fermented grape-juice known to the Women's Christian Union as "liquor," sometimes as "rum." Wine, madam, is God's next best gift to man.

Ambrose Bierce

Christian, Food, Wine

Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.238, University of Georgia Press

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