Grapes Quotes - Page 9

• And never since harvests were ripened, / Or laborers born, / Have men gathered figs of the thistle, / Or grapes of the thorn!

  Phoebe Cary

  Men, Harvest, Figs

  Phoebe Cary (1868). “Poems of Faith, Hope, and Love”, p.202

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• There was a little plate of hothouse nectarines on the table, and there was another of grapes, and another of sponge-cakes, and there was a bottle of light wine ... 'This is my frugal breakfast ... Give me my peach, my cup of coffee, and my claret.'

  Charles Dickens

  Coffee, Food, Wine

  Charles Dickens (1870). “Novels”, p.349

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• How do I stop eleven million people from buying the grape?

  Dolores Huerta

  People, Buying, Eleven

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• I've been so blessed because I've had such longevity. I'm not a big red carpet girl. But I love the work. In this business, you can be at the top of the world and at the bottom of the barrel, and you're grape juice. I've been at both ends. It can make you become what you really are.

  Kim Basinger

  Girl, Blessed, Bottom Of The Barrel

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• The fallen hazel-nuts, Stripped late of their green sheaths, The grapes, red-purple, Their berries Dripping with wine, Pomegranates already broken, And shrunken fig, And quinces untouched, I bring thee as offering.

  Hilda Doolittle

  Wine, Purple, Offering

  Hilda Doolittle, “Orchard”

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• Essentially, wines are fermented grape juice, so I'm trying to make the point that the wine world is about scores and marketing and kind of creating a scarce resource where they don't really exist.

  Joe Bastianich

  Wine, Creating, Marketing

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• A man makes no noise over a good deed, but passes on to another as a vine to bear grapes again in season.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Men, Vines, Deeds

  "Meditations" by Marcus Aurelius, Book V, (6), (c. 161 - 180 AD).

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• A small speckled visitor Wearing a crimson cape Brighter than a cherry Smaller than a grape A polka-dotted someone Walking on my wall A black-hooded lady In a scarlet shawl.

  Joan Walsh Anglund

  Wall, Black, Capes

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• It was with good reason that God commanded through Moses that the vineyard and harvest were not to be gleaned to the last grape or grain; but something to be left for the poor. For covetousness is never to be satisfied; the more it has, the more it wants. Such insatiable ones injure themselves, and transform God's blessings into evil.

  Martin Luther

  Blessing, Evil, Vineyards

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• The unforgivable political sin is vanity, the killer diet is sour grapes.

  Neil Kinnock

  Vanity, Political, Killers

  "Neil Kinnock: 'This election is about now and the future'". Interview with David Hare, www.theguardian.com. April 12, 2010.

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• My mother, who hates thunderstorms,
  Holds up each summer day and shakes
  It out suspiciously, lest swarms
  Of grape-dark clouds are lurking there.

  Philip Larkin

  Summer, Mother, Hate

  Philip Larkin, “Mother, Summer, I”

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

  Omar Khayyam

  Fruit, Bitter, Pleasure

  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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• It's so funny, because when I was growing up in a small town in New Hampshire, I was obsessed with Leonardo DiCaprio - from the 'Growing Pains'/'What's Eating Gilbert Grape' era, because he was superhot - and I carried a laminated photo of him in my wallet and said he was my boyfriend. But no one believed me.

  Eliza Coupe

  Growing Up, Pain, My Boyfriend

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• In prison, inmates sometimes use Cheetos and grape juice as makeup. I wouldn't use that beauty regimen around Britney Spears - she might lick your face off!

  Joel McHale

  Makeup, Juice, Use

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite.
  For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thru chinks of his cavern.

  William Blake

  Beautiful, Eye, Men

  "A Memorable Fancy". "The Marriage of Heaven and Hell". Book by William Blake, www.bartleby.com. 1793.

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• It's sour grapes, I admit, I want to be more famous so people are examining my work couplet by couplet, you know what I mean? That's the level where I want to go.

  Black Francis

  Mean, People, Levels

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• To defend Western Europe we have to let the Pentagon buy all these tanks and guns and things, and the Pentagon is unable to buy any object that that costs less than a condominium in Vail. If the Pentagon needs, say, fruit, it will argue that it must have fruit that can withstand the rigors of combat conditions, and it will wind up purchasing the FX-700 Seedless Tactical Grape, which will cost $160,000 per bunch, and will have an 83 percent failure rate.

  Dave Barry

  Gun, Europe, Wind

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• Good days are to be gathered like grapes, to be trodden and bottled into wine and kept for age to sip at ease beside the fire. If the traveler has vintaged well, he need trouble to wander no longer; the ruby moments glow in his glass at will.

  Freya Stark

  Good Day, Wine, Fire

  Freya Stark (2013). “Perseus In The Wind: A Life of Travel”, p.147, Tauris Parke Paperbacks

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• The Grape that can with Logic absolute The Two-and-Seventy jarring Sects confute: The sovereign Alchemist that in a trice Life's leaden metal into Gold transmute.

  Omar Khayyam

  Two, Alchemist, Gold

  Omar Khayyam, Edward FitzGerald, Christopher Decker (1997). “Edward FitzGerald, Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám: A Critical Edition”, p.179, University of Virginia Press

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• I remember one day when Juan Gris told me about a bunch of grapes he had seen in a painting by Picasso. The next day these grapes appeared in a painting by Gris, this time in a bowl; and the day after, the bowl appeared in a painting by Picasso.

  Jacques Lipchitz

  Next Day, One Day, Juan

  Jacques Lipchitz, H. Harvard Arnason (1972). “My life in sculpture”, Viking Adult

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• This bread I break was once the oat,
  This wine upon a foreign tree
  Plunged in its fruit;
  Man in the day or wind at night
  Laid the crops low, broke the grape's joy.

  Dylan Thomas

  Wine, Night, Men

  Dylan Thomas, Daniel Jones (2003). “The Poems of Dylan Thomas”, p.101, New Directions Publishing

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• There is this school of thought that says the usage of all mystical and occult powers is bad. I find that thought is usually propounded by people who don't have any powers. It's kind of a sour grapes attitude.

  Frederick Lenz

  Attitude, School, Power

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• I don't want awards. I am not saying this like it's a case of sour grapes. It isn't. I have been to a couple of award functions, and I soon realised that it doesn't give me the kick that it does to others.

  Emraan Hashmi

  Couple, Awards, Giving

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• A few months ago, I had the pleasure of actually visiting the Playboy Mansion. I saw the peacocks, fed grapes to the monkeys, and even braved the fabled Grotto. After seeing the estate, I understood why anyone would be reluctant to leave.

  Diablo Cody

  Would Be, Monkeys, Months

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• I was born January 6, 1937, eight years after Wall Street crashed and two years before John Steinbeck published The Grapes of Wrath, his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about the plight of a family during the Great Depression.

  Lou Holtz

  Wall, Winning, Eight

  Lou Holtz (2009). “Wins, Losses, and Lessons: An Autobiography”, p.21, Harper Collins

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