Grapes Quotes - Page 13

• I can put two and two together, you know. Do not think you are dealing with a man who has lost his grapes.

  Tom Stoppard

  Work, Men, Thinking

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• The Californians are an idle, thriftless people, and can make nothing for themselves. The country abounds in grapes, yet they buy, at a great price, bad wine made in Boston.

  Richard Henry Dana, Jr.

  Country, Wine, Boston

  Richard Henry Dana, Jr. (2001). “Two Years Before the Mast”, p.85, Digital Scanning Inc

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• Therell always be some weird thing about eating four grapes before you go to bed, or drinking a special tea, or buying this little bean from El Salvador.

  Richard Simmons

  Drinking, Tea, Special

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• A winemaker never, never changes the character of a wine. The character comes from the grapes.

  Michel Rolland

  Wine, Character, Never Change

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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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• The grape Hyacinth is the favorite spring flower of my garden - but no! I though a minute ago the Scilla was! and what place has the Violet? the Flower de Luce? I cannot decide, but this I know - it is some blue flower.

  Alice Morse Earle

  Spring, Flower, Garden

  Alice Morse Earle (2014). “Old Time Gardens, Newly Set Forth”, p.257, Cambridge University Press

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• When I shop for fruit & melons I like to hold a grape next to a cantaloupe & think of Earth next to Jupiter. Then I eat Earth.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Thinking, Jupiter, Earth

  Twitter post from Feb 21, 2014

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• From cane reeds, sugar. From a worm's cocoon, silk. Be patient if you can, and from sour grapes will come something sweet.

  Rumi

  Sweet, Cocoons, Sugar

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• The miraculous is not extraordinary but the common mode of existence. It is our daily bread. Whoever really has considered the lilies of the field or the birds of the air and pondered the improbability of their existence in this warm world within the cold and empty stellar distances will hardly balk at the turning of water into wine which was, after all, a very small miracle. We forget the greater and still continuing miracle by which water (with soil and sunlight) is turned into grapes.

  Wendell Berry

  Distance, Wine, Air

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• We must meditate, brothers. These grapes will yield no wine we tread upon it.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Brother, Wine, Yield

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• The Hebrew Bible contains multiple provisions to ensure that no one would go hungry. The corners of the field, forgotten sheaves of grain, gleanings that drop from the hands of the gleaner, and small clusters of grapes left on the vine were to be given to the poor.

  Jonathan Sacks

  Hands, Fields, Gleaning

  "Why Fighting Poverty and Hunger Is a Religious Duty" by Chief Rabbi Lord Sacks, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 26, 2013.

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• The most savory grape, the one that produces the wines with best texture and aroma, the sweetest and most generous, doesn't grow in rich soil but in stony land; the plant, with a mother's obstinacy, overcomes obstacles to thrust its roots deep into the ground and take advantage of every drop of water. That, my grandmother explained to me, is how flavors are concentrated in the grape.

  Isabel Allende

  Mother, Wine, Roots

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• there was something about that city, though it didn't let me feel guilty that I had no feeling for the things so many others needed. it let me alone. sitting up in my bed the lights out, hearing the outside sounds, lifting my cheap bottle of wine, letting the warmth of the grape enter me as I heard the rats moving about the room, I preferred them to humans. being lost, being crazy maybe is not so bad if you can be that way undisturbed. New Orleans gave me that. nobody ever called my name.

  Charles Bukowski

  Crazy, Moving, Wine

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• The god entered some women so completely that they became immortal, or very close to it. Bacchus was the god of the grape, of course, so bars are very interesting to maenads. In fact, so interesting that they don't like other creatures of darkness becoming involved. Maenads consider that the violence sparked by the consumption of alcohol belongs to them; that's what they feed off, now that no one formally worships their god. And they are attracted to pride.

  Charlaine Harris

  Pride, Interesting, Alcohol

  Charlaine Harris (2011). “True Blood Omnibus: Dead Until Dark, Living Dead in Dallas, Club Dead”, p.248, Hachette UK

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• Do you seriously envision St. Paul or Calvin or Luther opening bottles of Welch's Grape Juice in the sacristy before the service? Luther at least would turn over in his grave.

  Robert Farrar Capon

  Bottles, Juice, Luther

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• Nico leaned over and plucked a grape. Probably that was the guy’s entire diet for the day.

  Rick Riordan

  Guy, Diets

  Rick Riordan (2013). “The House of Hades (Heroes of Olympus Book 4)”, p.201, Penguin UK

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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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• You know the type: loud as a motorbike but wouldn't bust a grape in a fruit fight.

  Jay-Z

  Fighting, Fruit, Loud

  Song: 99 Problems

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• Enlightenment is part of everything and so our minds have to be very big to encompass all things, to understand all things - To see the tao in a grape, the act of sexuality, meditation, work, play, taking a shower, brushing your teeth, being sick and hurting.

  Frederick Lenz

  Hurt, Play, Sick

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• Only a fool tries to reconstruct a bunch of grapes from a bottle of wine.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Wine, Trying, Bottles

  Jeanette Winterson (1995). “Art & Lies: A Piece for Three Voices and a Bawd”, Knopf

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• Good oil, like good wine, is a gift from the gods. The grape and the olive are among the priceless benefactions of the soil, and were destined, each in its way, to promote the welfare of man.

  George Ellwanger

  Wine, Men, Oil

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• Dennis has not behaved well and the fact he has taken it with bad grace shows we made the right decision. It smacks of sour grapes. He said he would be happy to continue playing as long as the new manager wanted him so in no way was he misled. He said he was assured the job was his, but that is simply not true.

  Rupert Lowe

  Jobs, Lying, Taken

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• Grapes are juicy. Strawberries. Oranges. Good pork chops are succulent," said Dusty. "But the word isn't accurately descriptive of a person." Smiling with delight, Ahriman said, "Oh, really, not accurately descriptive? Be careful housepainter. Your genes are showing. What if I were a cannibal?

  Dean Koontz

  Orange, What If, Pork

  Dean Koontz (2007). “False Memory”, p.382, Bantam

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• Grape juice at the communion table symbolizes the historical impotence of Christ’s blood, Christ’s gospel, Christ’s church, and Christ’s expanding kingdom. Grape juice stays ‘bottled up’, confined to the historical skins of Palestine.

  Gary North

  Blood, Historical, Skins

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• Cheese and jam are really nice. Cheese and apple as well. Cheese and grapes are good.

  Georgie Henley

  Nice, Apples, Jam

  "Interview: James Mcavoy & Georgie Henley (Narnia)". Interview with Devin Faraci, www.chud.com. December 8, 2005.

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