Grapes Quotes - Page 12

• The Fox, when hee cannot reach the grapes, saies they are not ripe.

  George Herbert

  Foxes, Ripe

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.321

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• As slippery as smooth grapes, words exploding in the light like dormant seeds waiting in the vaults of vocabulary, alive again, and giving life: once again the heart distills them.

  Pablo Neruda

  Heart, Vocabulary, Light

  Pablo Neruda, Margaret Sayers Peden (2000). “Selected Odes of Pablo Neruda”, p.199, Univ of California Press

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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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• 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

  Source: articles.latimes.com

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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 word snob belongs to the sour-grape vocabulary.

  Logan Pearsall Smith

  Vocabulary, Sour, Snob

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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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• Art compares to nature like wine to the grape.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Art, Nature, Wine

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

  Cyril Connolly

  Wine, Sun, Taught

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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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• 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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• 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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• There is more simplicity in the man who eats caviar on impulse than in the man who eats Grape-Nuts on principle.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Peace, Men, Nuts

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.176, Simon and Schuster

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• One who can find lemons sweet and grapes sour is ready for Dame Fortune.

  Mason Cooley

  Sweet, Dames, Fortune

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• Dry leaves upon the wall, Which flap like rustling wings and seek escape, A single frosted cluster on the grape Still hangs--and that is all.

  Sarah Chauncey Woolsey

  Wall, Wings, Dry

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• What Anacharsis said of the vine may aptly enough be said of prosperity. She bears the three grapes of drunkenness, pleasure, and sorrow; and happy is it if the last can cure the mischief which the former work. When afflictions fail to have their due effect, the case is desperate.

  Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke

  Sorrow, Three, Vines

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• I once owned a collection of 77 novels that won the Pulitzer. The only good novel of the bunch was The Grapes of Wrath.

  Larry McMurtry

  Wrath, Bunch, Novel

  "Novelist Larry McMurtry’s Last Kind Words". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. May/June 2014.

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• [Akiro] Kurosawa, no doubt, was a big influence. Movies sometimes more than directors have influenced me: The Grapes of Wrath, by John Ford, was an extraordinary discovery. Sergei Eisenstein, of course. Later on, [Ingmar] Bergman.

  Costa-Gavras

  Wrath, Discovery, Doubt

  Source: progressive.org

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• When the water of a place is bad it is safest to drink none that has not been filtered through either the berry of a grape, or else a tub of malt. These are the most reliable filters yet invented.

  Samuel Butler

  Water, Filters, Berries

  Samuel Butler (2014). “The Notebooks of Samuel Butler”, p.351, The Floating Press

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• The culture of the hop ... so analagous to the culture and uses of the grape, may afford a theme for future poets.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Beer, Culture, Use

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.209, Simon and Schuster

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• I wrote The Grapes of Wrath in one hundred days, but many years of preparation preceded it.

  John Steinbeck

  Wrath, Years, Preparation

  John Steinbeck (2006). “The Grapes of Wrath”, p.38, Penguin

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