Peaches Quotes

• An apple is an excellent thing -- until you have tried a peach.

  George du Maurier

  Food, Apples, Cooking

  George du Maurier (2015). “Trilby”, p.157, Booklassic

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• Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it.

  Alice Walker

  Death, Inspirational Life, Believe

  Alice Walker (2013). “The Alice Walker Collection: Non-Fiction”, p.156, Hachette UK

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• Sometimes I'm an ass, sometimes I'm sweet as peaches.

  Milo Ventimiglia

  Sweet, Sometimes, Ass

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• The ripest peach is highest on the tree

  James Whitcomb Riley

  Tree, Fruit, Highest

  James Whitcomb Riley (1993). “The Complete Poetical Works of James Whitcomb Riley”, p.224, Indiana University Press

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• You're the cutest thing that I ever did see
  I really love your peaches, wanna shake your tree

  Steve Miller

  Song, Love You, Tree

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• The peach-bud glows, the wild bee hums, and wind-flowers wave in graceful gladness.

  Lucy Larcom

  Spring, Flower, Wind

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• In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Apples, Long, Hollywood

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

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• Inside the peach, there is a stone.

  Margaret Atwood

  Stones

  Margaret Atwood (2011). “Alias Grace: A Novel”, p.69, Anchor

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• I couldn't unpeach the peaches.

  Annie Dillard

  Annie Dillard (2011). “Pilgrim at Tinker Creek”, p.32, Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd

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• One does a whole painting for one peach and people think just the opposite - that particular peach is but a detail.

  Pablo Picasso

  Pain, Thinking, Opposites

  Pablo Picasso (1972). “Picasso on art: a selection of views”, Viking Adult

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• In the valley of the giants where the stars and stripes explode, the peaches they were sweet and the milk and honey flowed.

  Bob Dylan

  Sweet, Stars, Milk And Honey

  Song: Angelina

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• I love bald men. Just because you've lost your fuzz don't mean you ain't a peach.

  Dolly Parton

  Funny, Humorous, Mean

  Twitter post from Jul 21, 2011

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• Memories, even hard memories, grew soft like peaches as they grow older.

  Sarah Addison Allen

  Memories, Grew, Grows

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• There was her face, like a summer peach, beautiful and warm, and the light of the candles reflected in her dark eyes. [He] held his breath. The entire world waited and held its breath.

  Ray Bradbury

  Beautiful, Summer, Eye

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• Sunrise paints the sky with pinks and the sunset with peaches. Cool to warm. So is the progression from childhood to old age.

  Vera Nazarian

  Sunset, Sky, Childhood

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• You could be the tastiest, most juiciest, most delicious peach out there in the world; there's still going to be people out there who don't like peaches .

  Benson Henderson

  Mma, People, World

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• I been through some junk. It ain't all been peaches and cream.

  Timbaland

  Junk, Cream

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• Family life is a bit like a runny peach pie - not perfect but who's complaining?

  Robert Breault

  Family, Pie, Perfect

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• A strong relationship is an honest relationship, and no honest relationship is all peaches and cream. Love is the key. Where love abides, anger is but a passing visitor.

  Jerry Spinelli

  Strong, Love Is, Keys

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• Nothing will supply the want of sunshine to peaches, and, to make knowledge valuable, you must have the cheerfulness of wisdom. Whenever you are sincerely pleased you are nourished. The joy of the spirit indicates its strength. All healthy, things are sweet-tempered. Genius works in sport, and goodness smiles to the last.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Sports, Sweet, Sunshine

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.456

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• The walls were wet and sticky, and peach juice was dripping from the ceiling. James opened his mouth and caught some of it on his tongue. It tasted delicious.

  Roald Dahl

  Wall, Ceilings, Juice

  Roald Dahl (2007). “James and the Giant Peach”, p.37, Penguin

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• Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousands of miles and all the years you have lived. The odors of fruits waft me to my southern home, to my childhood frolics in the peach orchard. Other odors, instantaneous and fleeting, cause my heart to dilate joyously or contract with remembered grief. Even as I think of smells, my nose is full of scents that start awake sweet memories of summers gone and ripening fields far away.

  Helen Keller

  Summer, Sweet, Memories

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• Every morning, I eat one fat-free yogurt with a sliced peach when peaches are in season, and one thin slice of whole-wheat bread. The same thing. I don't want to get fat. And I want to keep my fitness.

  Leonard Lauder

  Morning, Yogurt, Want

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• The jelly - the jam and the marmalade, And the cherry-and quince-'preserves' she made! And the sweet-sour pickles of peach and pear, With cinnamon in 'em, and all things rare! And the more we ate was the more to spare, Out to old Aunt Mary's! Ah!

  James Whitcomb Riley

  Sweet, Food, Aunt

  James Whitcomb Riley (1993). “The Complete Poetical Works of James Whitcomb Riley”, p.315, Indiana University Press

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• I’m amorous but out of reach / A still life drawing of a peach.

  Fiona Apple

  Drawing, Still Life, Stills

  Song: Valentine, Album: The Idler Wheel..., 2012

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