Walnuts Quotes

• They say that there are moments that open up your life like a walnut cracked, that change your point of view so that you never look at things the same way again.

  Jodi Picoult

  Views, Way, Looks

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• We do not ask the mountain's aid to crack a walnut.

  Wole Soyinka

  Mountain, Cracks, Aids

  Wole Soyinka (1989). “Selected poems”

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• Some of us are sixty feet long with a brain the size of a walnut.

  William S. Burroughs

  Feet, Long, Brain

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• After-dinner talk
  Across the walnuts and the wine.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Wine, Dinner

  Alfred Tennyson Tennyson, Baron, Alfred Lord Tennyson (2014). “Fifty Poems”, p.46, Cambridge University Press

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• The nutcracker sits under the holiday tree, a guardian of childhood stories. Feed him walnuts and he will crack open a tale.

  Vera Nazarian

  Christmas, Holiday, Childhood

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• A thing which I regret, and which I will try to remedy some time, is that I have never in my life planted a walnut. Nobody does plant them nowadays-when you see a walnut it is almost invariably an old tree. If you plant a walnut you are planting it for your grandchildren, and who cares a damn for his grandchildren?

  George Orwell

  Regret, Grandchildren, Tree

  George Orwell (2009). “Facing Unpleasant Facts: Narrative Essays”, p.223, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• God didn't give me the ability to play the piano, or paint a picture or have compassion. But... he did give me the ability to crack a walnut with my hoo-ha.

  Karen Walker

  Compassion, Play, Piano

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• Walnuts have a shell, and they have a kernel. Religions are the same. They have an essence, but then they have a protective coating. This is not the only way to put it. But it's my way. So the kernels are the same. However, the shells are different.

  Huston Smith

  Essence, Different, Shells

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• Abraham Lincoln once walked down the street with his two sons, both of whom were crying. "What's the matter with you boys?" asked a passerby. "Exactly what is wrong with the whole world," said Lincoln. "I have three walnuts, and each boy wants two."

  George Sweeting

  Son, Boys, Two

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• We are not special. We are not crap or trash, either. We just are. We just are, and what happens just happens.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Special, Snowflake, Fight Club Book

  "Fight Club". Book by Chuck Palahniuk, August 17, 1996.

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• It's better to get the nutrients for healthy skin from food, not supplements. Salmon, walnuts, blueberries, spinach... lots of my favorite foods happen to be amazing for skin too.

  Gail Simmons

  Healthy, Skins, Salmon

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• Winter is for women The woman still at her knitting, At the cradle of Spanish walnut, Her body a bulb in the cold and too dumb to think.

  Sylvia Plath

  Winter, Thinking, Knitting

  1962 'Wintering', published posthumously byTed Hughes (Ariel, 1965).

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• All families had their special Christmas food. Ours was called Dutch Bread, made from a dough halfway between bread and cake, stuffed with citron and every sort of nut from the farm - hazel, black walnut, hickory, butternut.

  Paul Engle

  Nuts, Cake, Black

  Paul Engle (1960). “Prairie Christmas”

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• Arnold Schwarzenegger looks like a brown condom full of walnuts.

  Clive James

  Looks, Schwarzenegger, Condom

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• Yeah. Well. Whatever. You can't teach God anything.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Snowflake, Fight Club Book, Yeah

  Chuck Palahniuk (2005). “Fight Club: A Novel”, p.207, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I've met God across his long walnut desk with his diplomas hanging on the wall behind him, and God asks me, 'Why?' Why did I cause so much pain? Didn't I realize that each of us is a sacred, unique snowflake of special unique specialness? Can't I see how we're all manifestations of love? I look at God behind his desk, taking notes on a pad, but God's got this all wrong. We are not special. We are not crap or trash, either. We just are. We just are, and what happens just happens. And God says, 'No, that's not right.' Yeah. Well. Whatever. You can't teach God anything.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Death, Pain, Wall

  "Fight Club". Book by Chuck Palahniuk, 1996.

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• On my cornice linger the ripe black grapes ungathered;
  Children fill the groves with the echoes of their glee,
  Gathering tawny chestnuts, and shouting when beside them
  Drops the heavy fruit of the tall black-walnut tree.

  William C. Bryant

  Children, Echoes, Tree

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• I loved Christmas. We had a really great time. But there wasn't - it was all - you had to be happy with, you know, an orange and a couple of walnuts, you know, in your stocking.

  Nick Lowe

  Couple, Orange, Really Great

  "Nick Lowe Brings His 'Quality Holiday Revue' To America". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. December 22, 2014.

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• I did as much as I could: raising chickens, pushing an ice-cream cart, bagging walnuts, driving a tractor on a beet farm, working on the railroad. I think this eclectic career helped me a lot in life.

  Charles R. Schwab

  Life Lesson, Thinking, Ice Cream

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• The picture's pretty bleak, gentlemen... The world's climates are changing, the mammals are taking over, and we all have a brain about the size of a walnut.

  Gary Larson

  Gentleman, Brain, Mammals

  Gary Larson (1989). “The PreHistory of the Far side: a 10th anniversary exhibit”, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• A spaniel, a woman, and a walnut tree, the more they're beaten the better they be.

  John Ray

  Tree, Spaniels, Beaten

  John Ray, John Belfour (1813). “A complete collection of English proverbs: also, the most celebrated proverbs of the Scotch, Italian, French, Spanish, and other languages”, p.50

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• What's wrong with men?" Tenar inquired cautiously. As cautiously, lowering her voice, Moss replied, "I don't know, my dearie. I've thought on it. Often I've thought on it. The best I can say it is like this. A man's in his skin, see, like a nut in its shell." She held up her long, bent, wet fingers as if holding a walnut. "It's hard and strong, that shell, and it's all full of him. Full of grand man-meat, man-self. And that's all. That's all there is. It's all him and nothing else, inside.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Strong, Men, Self

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• The most overrated ingredients are garlic and extra-virgin olive oil. With garlic, it's personal; I have never been that big of a fan of its flavor. As for extra-virgin olive oil, I do use it quite often but its ubiquity serves to overshadow many wonderful oils like pistachio, walnut, argan and even grapeseed.

  Lela Rose

  Ubiquity, Oil, Fans

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• Shrinking someone's stomach to the size of a walnut with surgery is one way to battle obesity and diabetes and may be lifesaving for a few, but it doesn't address the underlying causes.

  Mark Hyman, M.D.

  Battle, Shrinking, Addresses

  "Why the New Surgical Cure for Diabetes Will Fail!" by Mark Hyman, M.D., www.huffingtonpost.com. March 27, 2012.

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• we do not explain my husband's insane abuse
  and we do not say why your wild-haired wife has fled
  or that my father opened like a walnut and then was dead.
  Your palms fold over me like knees. Love is the only use.

  Anne Sexton

  Family, Husband, Father

  Anne Sexton (1964). “Selected poems”

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