Lemons Quotes - Page 5

• War and tooth enameled salted lemon childhoods All colors run, none of us solid Don't look for shadow behind me I carry it within I live cycles of light and darkness

  Suheir Hammad

  Running, War, Light

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• Not crazy in a 'let's paint the kitchen bright red!' sort of way. But crazy in a 'gas oven, toothpaste sandwich, I am God' sort of way. Gone were the days when she would stand on the deck lighting lemon-scented candles without then having to eat the wax.p28

  Augusten Burroughs

  Crazy, Kitchen, Gone

  Augusten Burroughs (2010). “Running with Scissors: A Memoir”, p.30, Macmillan

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• Tyrion Lannister could not have been more astonished if Aegon the Conqueror himself had burst into the room, riding on a dragon and juggling lemon pies.

  George R. R. Martin

  Dragons, Pie, Riding

  George R. R. Martin (2012). “George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons”, p.946, Bantam

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• 'When you have a lemon, make a lemonade.' That is what a great educator does. But the fool does the exact opposite. If he finds that life has handed him a lemon, he gives up and says, 'I 'm beaten. It is fate. I haven't got a chance.' Then he proceeds to rail against the world and indulge in an orgy of self-pity .

  Dale Carnegie

  Wise, Giving Up, Fate

  "The Essential Dale Carnegie".

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• Meadowlark Lemon's book Trust Your Next Shot is written by a remarkable person. I have had the pleasure of knowing Meadowlark for quite some time. He has given back to his community quite generously in addition to serving as an outstanding role model for young people. Meadowlark's career has allowed him to touch people's lives everywhere and I am so proud to be his friend. God has certainly touched his life.

  Lenny Wilkens

  Book, Careers, Knowing

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• Mr. Lemon-Man has inspired millions across the world through his gift. I don't refer only to basketball, but also to his magnificent gift of caring, sharing, and loving all people. I only hope my kids would possess an ounce of the Lemon-Man's heart, which easily radiates through that smile.

  A. C. Green

  Basketball, Heart, Kids

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• I spent 30 minutes each morning rubbing my body with half a lemon to lighten my skin.

  Josephine Baker

  Morning, Skins, Half

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• Beetroot, garlic, lemon ... and buy a bottle of olive oil. All these things are very critical.

  Manto Tshabalala-Msimang

  Oil, Bottles, Garlic

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• Raw garlic and a skin of the lemon - not only do they give you a beautiful face and skin but they also protect you from disease.

  Manto Tshabalala-Msimang

  Beautiful, Giving, Skins

  "Aids groups condemn South Africa's 'Dr Garlic'" by Sarah Boseley, www.theguardian.com. May 6, 2005.

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• Wear scarlet! Tear the green lemons off the tree! I don't want to forget who I am, what has burned in me, and hang limp and clean, an empty dress -

  Denise Levertov

  Who I Am, Tree, Tears

  Denise Levertov (1979). “Collected Earlier Poems, 1940-1960”, p.88, New Directions Publishing

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• Faced with the almost inescapable conclusion that it had been selling lemons, Nike shifted into make-lemonade mode. Jeff Pisciotta became head of a top-secret and seemingly impossible project: finding a way to make a buck off a naked foot.

  Christopher McDougall

  Running, Nike, Feet

  Christopher McDougall (2009). “Born to Run”, p.183, Vintage

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• Workers are like lemons: When the rich have sucked out all the juice, they throw them in the garbage.

  Ricardo Flores Magon

  Juice, Garbage, Rich

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• Remember this, for it is as true as true gets: Your body is not a lemon. You are not a machine. The Creator is not a careless mechanic. Human female bodies have the same potential to give birth as well as aardvarks, lions, rhinoceri, elephants, moose, and water buffalo. Even if it has not been your habit throughout your life so far, I recommend that you learn to think positively about your body.

  Ina May Gaskin

  Pregnancy, Thinking, Elephants

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• Diet Coke with lemon - didn't that used to be called Pledge?

  Jay Leno

  Dieting, Coke, Used

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• I have scars on my hands from touching certain people...Certain heads, certain colours and textures of human hair leave permanent marks on me. Other things, too. Charlotte once ran away from me, outside the studio, and I grabbed her dress to stop her, to keep her near me. A yellow cotton dress I loved because it was too long for her. I still have a lemon-yellow mark on the palm of my right hand. Oh God, if I'm anything by a clinical name, I'm a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.

  J. D. Salinger

  Life, Hair, Hands

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• I never was much of an oyster eater, nor can I relish them 'in naturalibus' as some do, but require a quantity of sauces, lemons, cayenne peppers, bread and butter, and so forth, to render them palatable.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Oysters, Sauce, Bread

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1852). “The Confessions of Fitz-Booddle; and Some Passages in the Life of Major Gahagan”, p.171

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• My fellow Wilmington, North Carolina native Meadowlark Lemon is a true national treasure. I watched him play for the Harlem Globetrotters when I was growing up and his skill with the basketball and dedication to the game were an inspiration not only to me, but to kids all around the world.

  Michael Jordan

  Basketball, Growing Up, Inspiration

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• The summer has seized you, as when, last month in Amalfi, I saw lemons as large as your desk-side globe-that miniature map of the world-and I could mention, too, the market stalls of mushrooms and garlic bugs all engorged. Or I even think of the orchard next door, where the berries are done and the apples are beginning to swell. And once, with our first backyard,I remember I planted an acre of yellow beans we couldn't eat.

  Anne Sexton

  Summer, Thinking, Doors

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• Meadowlark Lemon is one very clever man, unique and truly one of a kind.

  Mickey Rooney

  Clever, Unique, Men

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• Melting pot Harlem-Harlem of honey and chocolate and caramel and rum and vinegar and lemon and lime and gall. Dusky dream Harlem rumbling into a nightmare tunnel where the subway from the Bronx keeps right on downtown.

  Langston Hughes

  Dream, New York, Tunnels

  Langston Hughes (2002). “Essays on art, race, politics, and world affairs”

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• When I got up this morning the sea was full of sun pennies - and now it all seems to be covered in lemon scrim. Writers ought to live far inland or next to the city dump, if they are ever to get any work one. Or perhaps they need to be stronger-minded than I am.

  Mary Ann Shaffer

  Morning, Writing, Sea

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• I love being at home now, improving my cooking. I've got a really bad memory, so my first attempts were a disaster - I'd forget what ingredients to put in. But I do a lasagna that's a crowd-pleaser, and a good lemon drizzle cake, which I take to my mom's for the Sunday roast to fatten the family up.

  Katy B

  Mom, Memories, Home

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• I get up between 6:30 and 8 am. I used to make a cup of coffee first thing, but now I have warm water with a bit of lemon juice in it. I've cut down on things as I was getting fat.

  Melvin Burgess

  Coffee, Cutting, Water

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• You really can't take a cat and turn it into a dog, or try and get lemons off an apple tree, or what have you.

  Diane Lane

  Dog, Cat, Apples

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. October 7, 2010.

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• I think one of the funniest things about '30 Rock' is that Liz Lemon is sort of like Buster Keaton - she's always the fool, the joke is always on her.

  Cristin Milioti

  Thinking, Rocks, Liz

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