Top 100 A Fruit Quotes
#1. Thought must be hidden in the verse like nutritional virtue in a fruit.
Paul Valery
#2. Be a Fruit loop in a world full of cheerios.
Unknown
#3. I was involved in school plays, but when I left school I did a couple of odd jobs as a baker's apprentice and then as a fruit market porter in Manchester.
John Thaw
#4. Yeah, and don't think it's easy finding Ray-Bans in a fruit-bat medium.
Christopher Moore
#5. I never saw a fruit-bearing Christian who was not a student of the Bible.
D.L. Moody
#6. Patience is a fruit that only grows under trials.
Joyce Meyer
#7. Wartime CEO is too busy fighting the enemy to read management books written by consultants who have never managed a fruit stand. Peacetime
Ben Horowitz
#8. I pop a beautiful sentence into my mouth and suck it like a fruit drop.
Bohumil Hrabal
#9. The ultimate goal of the architect ... is to create a paradise. Every house, every product of architecture ... should be a fruit of our endeavour to build an earthly paradise for people.
Alvar Aalto
#10. How do we thank an angel? Somehow I don't think a fruit basket will do the trick." ~ Amun
Gena Showalter
#11. In the increasingly convincing darkness
The words become palpable, like a fruit
That is too beautiful to eat.
John Ashbery
#12. The world was in her heart already, like the small spot of decay in a fruit.
Graham Greene
#13. Whenever I get down about life going by too quickly, what helps me is a little mantra that I repeat to myself: at least I'm not a fruit fly.
Ray Romano
#14. I have never been able to look upon America as young and vital but rather as prematurely old, as a fruit which rotted before it had a chance to ripen.
Henry Miller
#15. I don't want to sound like Catherine Cookson but I've worked since I was eight, with a paper round and in a fruit and veg shop. Taking a pay cut won't demotivate me, not at all. It's not about money in the first place. It's about the job.
Paul O'Grady
#16. One of the fastest things a fruit fly does is take information from its eyes and react accordingly.
Michael Dickinson
#17. If there is a fruit that can be eaten raw, it is beauty.
Alphonse Karr
#18. Your initiatives should be purposeful. Never climb a tree with the purpose of plucking a fruit, only to come down with a leaf.
Israelmore Ayivor
#19. Gratitude is a fruit of great cultivation; you do not find it among gross people.
Samuel Johnson
#20. Only a craven would steal a fruit when he could take the orchard.
George R R Martin
#21. As a dispensation, grace begins with the death and resurrection of Christ (Rom. 3:24-26; 4:24,25). The point of testing is no longer legal obedience as the condition of salvation, but acceptance or rejection of Christ, with good works as a fruit of salvation ...
C.I. Scofield
#22. In the beginning there was a fruit stand. The fruit of life on one side, and the fruit of intelligence on the other. While most chose life, humanity chose intelligence, and became the dominate species on this planet.
J. M. Norris
#23. You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a fruit fly and still have room enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.
Fred Allen
#24. Love is a verb. Love is something you do: the sacrifices you make, the giving of self. If you want to study love, study those who sacrifice for others. Love - the feeling - is a fruit of love the verb ...
Stephen Covey
#25. Huh, another queen," Puck mused, an evil grin crossing his face. "Maybe we should drop in and introduce ourselves, ice-boy. Do the whole, hey, we were just in the neighborhood, and we were just wondering if you had any plans to take over the Nevernever. Have a fruit basket.
Julie Kagawa
#26. You seriously believe that someone who married a fruit bat could have been the architect of a global conspiracy that has stood unchallenged for over one hundred years?' 'Absolutely,' Drakeforth nodded.
Paul Mannering
#27. Being dead filled her beyond fulfillment. Like a fruit
suffused with its own mystery and sweetness,
she was filled with her vast death, which was so new,
she could not understand that it had happened.
Rainer Maria Rilke
#28. But all the vitamins, amino acids, protein etc. needed to get stronger can be found in abundance in plant foods. Anything that is a fruit, nut, grain or seed is vegan and there are thousands of those.
Robert Cheeke
#29. I felt laid bare, a fruit split open to reveal a moldering inside.
Tosca Lee
#30. Truth is a fruit which should not be plucked until it is ripe ...
Voltaire
#31. The slightest nudge can send a fruit pyramid collapsing into ruin. Perhaps this is why there is so little ancient architecture and art left in the world. Perhaps ancient fat people bumped into buildings and statues and made them fall. Perhaps this is the real reason Rome fell
Becky Siame
#32. Dahlia shook her head. While I don't want to experience that again, I learned a lot about myself today and about you. And Nick, even. I didn't know it was possible for me to feel closer to you. I should send that fucking bitch a fruit basket.
Arden Aoide
#33. The great threat we pose to each other is a fruit of our sublime ability to generalize.
Jos. A. Smith
#34. You know the type: loud as a motorbike but wouldn't bust a grape in a fruit fight.
Jay-Z
#35. The murderous, self-elected, megalomaniacal head of state with the morals of a fruit fly is an obscene feature of African life that is not likely to disappear.
Paul Theroux
#36. A tomato may be a fruit, but it is a singular fruit. A savory fruit. A fruit that has ambitions far beyond the ambitions of other fruits.
E. Lockhart
#38. Sometimes when the year grinds to its end and the new term begins I feel I'm living the life of a fruit fly - the endless ephemeral cycle, each new semester a "fresh start" that leads to the same moribund conclusions.
Julie Schumacher
#40. You just become, like a flower becomes a fruit. It's all built in, within you. Allow it to work out.
Nirmala Srivastava
#41. Beauty is a fruit which we look at without trying to seize it.
Simone Weil
#42. An individual man is a fruit which it cost all the foregoing ages to form and ripen. He is strong, not to do, but to live; not in his arms, but in his heart; not as an agent, but as a fact.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#43. My grandmother worked on a fruit and vegetable market stall.
Petra Stunt
#44. She was in herself, like a woman near term,
and did not think of the man, going on ahead,
or the path, climbing upwards towards life.
She was in herself. And her being-dead
filled her with abundance.
As a fruit with sweetness and darkness,
so she was full with her vast death.
Rainer Maria Rilke
#45. You wait for nothing if not for the word that will burst from the deep like a fruit among branches.
Cesare Pavese
#47. Things of the world are not in a 'seed' form; they are in a form of a 'fruit'. One has come with a ready farm; all he has to do is harvest the fruits now.
Dada Bhagwan
#48. Her name was Maude and she drank whisky all day from a fruit jar under the counter.
Flannery O'Connor
#49. Though not a true cereal but a fruit, buckwheat seeds resemble cereal grains and are often used in a similar way to rice, barley, bulgar or quinoa, usually as a side dish.
Yotam Ottolenghi
#50. Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit - wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
Gena Showalter
#52. If the family were a fruit, it would be an orange, a circle of sections, held together but separable - each segment distinct.
Letty Cottin Pogrebin
#53. Srad was a fruit with mildly narcotic properties- tonight the villagers ingested large quantities of it in order to feel the narcotic effects.
Christie Sims
#54. A person with a positive attitude is like a fruit of all seasons.
Shiv Khera
#55. It was a fruit we had never seen before, larger than an apple, about the size of a grapefruit. It was round and yellow like the leaves of a neglected book.
Mai Al-Nakib
#56. Fashion is like a fruit, you couldn't eat it a day before and you can't eat it a day after; it's just about today
Alber Elbaz
#57. You have to build up to green smoothies. Everyone loves fruit smoothies: you can add a handful of baby spinach to a fruit smoothie and may hardly even taste it. Next, try two. Slowly, your taste buds can adapt to more greens.
Michael Greger
#58. Even chimps understand the concept - if a troop of chimps enters a fruit tree, they will only pick the fruits that are ripe and leave the others growing. That is sustainability.
Jane Goodall
#59. Spirituality automatically leads to humility. When a flower develops into a fruit, the petals drop off on its own. When one becomes spiritual, the ego vanishes gradually on its own. A tree laden with fruits always bends low. Humility is a sign of greatness.
Ramakrishna
#60. Sleep came like a fruit which falls into the hand almost before you have touched it.
C.S. Lewis
#61. Every civilization is a fruit from the sturdy tree of barbarism, and falls at the greatest distance from its trunk.
Will Durant
#62. Life is like a fruit basket. You can eat some of it or wast it and throw some of it out. Only you can chose on wat to do with that fruit basket.
Natsuki Takaya
#63. My friend, love is a verb. Love - the feeling - is a fruit of love, the verb. So love her.
Stephen R. Covey
#64. Because peace is a fruit of the Spirit, we are dependent upon the Spirit's work in our lives to produce the desire and the means to pursue peace. But we are also responsible to use the means He has given us and to take all practical steps to attain both peace within and peace with others.
Jerry Bridges
#65. Art is a fruit that grows in man, like a fruit on a plant, or a child in its mother's womb.
Jean Arp
#66. Joy is a fruit of the Holy Spirit, which is most greatly experienced in the heart of those willing to surrender all self-sufficiency: self-promotion, self-reliance, self-protection, and self-absorption: it is a gift given.
Robin M. Bertram
#67. A Christian should resemble a fruit tree with real fruit, not a Christmas tree with decorations tied on
John Stott
#68. I had never thought of a tomato as a fruit - the ones I had known were mostly white in the center and rock hard. But this was so luscious, so tart I thought it victorious. So - some tomatoes tasted like water, and some tasted like summer lightning.
Stephanie Danler
#69. Not all Muslims are violent, not all Catholics are violent. It is like a fruit salad; there's everything. There are violent persons of this religion.
Pope Francis
#70. There are blessings in being close to the soil, in raising your own food even if it is only a garden in your yard and a fruit tree or two. Those families will be fortunate who, in the last days, have an adequate supply of food because of their foresight and ability to produce their own.
Ezra Taft Benson
#71. She should be on a hill somewhere, under a fruit tree, with the sun and clouds above her and the rain to wash her clean.
George R R Martin
#72. Cynthia sighs, contemplating a fruit and nut bar. 'Chocolate,' she says despairingly. 'Safer than cocaine, easier to get hold of than Prozac. The government's most effective way to prevent revolution.
Jennifer Gilby Roberts
#73. Like a fruit hidden among its leaves, which has grown and ripened unobserved by man, until it falls of its own accord, there came upon us one night the kitchen-maid's confinement.
Marcel Proust
#74. You have to wait for a fruit to ripe before you harvest.
You must also learn to wait for the fulfillment of your visions.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#75. What you do and what you are gradually become the same thing, and are identical when you die. And what you have done to another person becomes a part of your substance as surely as a fruit you have eaten.
Patricia Storace
#76. When I stepped out of my car the night shot up like a tree and branched wide into blossoming masses of stars. Under their far cold lights I felt weak and little. If a fruit fly lived for one day instead of two, it hardly seemed to matter. Except to another fruit fly.
Ross Macdonald
#77. I believe that music should be grown on trees, to be plucked like a fruit without the extravagance of harvest.
Eyvind Kang
#78. When your eyes meet my solitude
Silence ripens, a fruit,
And sleep turns into storm.
Forbidden doors fling open
And water learns to suffer.
Joumana Haddad
#79. A fruit is not afraid of its own weight. It grows into its skin fully. It is whole, each part of its body equally alive.
Gayle Brandeis
#80. I'm a fruit of misfortune.
Nely Cab
#81. Truths are immortal, my dear friend; they are immortal like God! What we call a falsity is like a fruit; it has a certain number of days; it is bound to decay. Whereas, what we call truth is like gold; days, months, even centuries can hide gold, can overlook it but they can never make it decay.
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#82. I mean, who wants to date a guy who thinks a girl who can't operate a fruit cup is attractive?
Adam Selzer
#83. The joy of the presence of Jesus, you must be able to give wherever you go. But you cannot give what you don't have. That's why you need a pure heart, a pure heart that you will receive as a fruit of your prayer, as a fruit of your oneness with Christ.
Mother Teresa
#84. Cucumbers are technically a fruit and in the same family as pumpkins, melons and squash, so it may benefit those markets, although, to be honest, giant melons don't strike me as potentially that commercial.
Jasper Fforde
#85. My first summer in college I worked in a fruit fly lab where I had two jobs: dissect the fruit fly larvae brains and incinerate the old tubes of flies.
Emily Oster
#86. Behind every successful woman(author) is a non-demanding husband content with a fruit-bowl.
Andy Paula
#87. Sometimes our fate resembles a fruit tree in winter. Who would think that those branches would turn green again and blossom, but we hope it, we know it.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#88. We know what the birth of a revolution looks like: A student stands before a tank. A fruit seller sets himself on fire. A line of monks link arms in a human chain. Crowds surge, soldiers fire, gusts of rage pull down the monuments of tyrants, and maybe, sometimes, justice rises from the flames.
Nancy Gibbs
#89. I have to admit I've never had a Fruit Loop.
Ruth Reichl
#91. I have a pet lizard named Puff, five goldfish - named Pinky, Brain, Jowels, Pearl and Sandy, an oscar fish named Chef, two pacus, an albino African frog named Whitey, a bonsai tree, four Venus flytraps, a fruit fly farm and sea monkeys.
Chris Pratt
#92. My first job, which I had to take when not more than fifteen, was assistant to a fruit peddler. It seemed all right to me until a little girl told me snootily, 'We never deal with peddler!' Thereupon I resigned, ashamed of what I was doing.
Vash Young
#93. Peace is a fruit of the Spirit, not the byproduct of accumulated wealth.
Andy Stanley
#94. If Radiohead were a fruit we would be apples, because apples are festive
Thom Yorke
#95. Because when I read, I don't really read; I pop a beautiful sentence into my mouth and suck it like a fruit drop, or I sip it like a liqueur until the thought dissolves in me like alcohol, infusing brain and heart and coursing on through the veins to the root of each blood vessel.
Bohumil Hrabal
#96. A fruit is a vegetable with looks and money. Plus, if you let fruit rot, it turns into wine, something brussel sprouts never do.
P. J. O'Rourke
#97. Then it shall be a fruit that will ripen with time and patience.
Elise Kova
#98. Oh good, apparently when you have sex with Brooklyn Heart, you leave with a fruit basket. What a lovely experience.
R.S. Grey
#99. A flower may die after giving beauty, love, and joy, but it will not vanish. It will transform into a fruit of eternal joy.
Debasish Mridha
#100. -Back there our sun doesn't speak.
-Where's "there," Miss Marta?
-Back there, in Europe. Here, it's different. Here, the sun moans, whispers, shouts.
-Surely-I commented delicately-the sun is always the same.
- You're wrong. There, the sun is a stone. Here it's a fruit.
Mia Couto
