Top 21 Appleseed Quotes

#1. When you think about it, Johnny Appleseed was a fucking ecological terrorist.

Chuck Palahniuk

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#2. When I was 8 years old, I made my own encyclopedia of American biography - Johnny Appleseed, Jim Bowie, Davy Crockett, Daniel Boone, Charles Lindbergh, my pantheon of favorite heroes. Then I would write my own things and sew them together and try to make my own book.

Douglas Brinkley

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#3. Johnny Appleseed was revered . he was ... an evangelist (of a doctrine veering perilously close to pantheism).

Michael Pollan

Appleseed Quotes #1355780
#4. I was a veritable Johnny Appleseed of grand expectations, and all I reaped for my trouble was a harvest of bitter fruit.

Elizabeth Gilbert

Appleseed Quotes #1552383
#5. I was always just into my music and maybe into trying to save the world a little bit. I never really thought I'd have a hit record or anything like that. I was prepared to travel around all over the country, kind of like a Johnny Appleseed, and sing.

Don McLean

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#6. It's very lonely being a prominent black intellectual at an institution where you're the only prominent black intellectual. That was the model that was followed in the late 60s when black studies started. You'd get one here and one there and one here, like Johnny Appleseed.

Henry Louis Gates

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#7. In theology, the state of a luckless mortal prenatally damned. The doctrine of reprobation was taught by Calvin, whose joy in it was somewhat marred by the sad sincerity of his conviction that although some are foredoomed to perdition, others are predestined to salvation.

Ambrose Bierce

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#8. The New Testament, and to a very large extent the Old, is the soul of man. You cannot criticize it. It criticizes you.

Johnny Appleseed

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#9. Civilisation is very fragile. All it takes is a few decades of chaos for us to forget humanity and turn into animals.

Amish Tripathi

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#10. But John Chapman told us he didnt eat meat cause he couldnt stand for somethin livin to be killed jest to keep him alive.

Tracy Chevalier

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#11. If you kill me, you kill yourself.
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He only wanted to convey to Janegg the truth of ahimsa, which is that all beings were connected to each other in the deepest way and thus it was impossible to harm another without harming oneself.

David Zindell

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#12. We need not stride resolutely towards catastrophe, merely because those are the marching orders.

Noam Chomsky

Appleseed Quotes #1021612
#13. It is remarkable how closely the history of the apple tree is connected with that of man.

Henry David Thoreau

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#14. Abs? What are you, a workout video?" he sneered.
"Pigeon?" I said with the same amount of disdain. "An annoying bird that craps all over the sidewalk?"
"You like Pigeon," he said defensively. "It's a dove, an attractive girl, a winning card in poker, take your pick. You're my Pigeon.

Jamie McGuire

Appleseed Quotes #762383
#15. Pray as you can, not as you can't.

Johnny Appleseed

Appleseed Quotes #611681
#16. Do not worry at being worried; but accept worry peacefully. Difficult but not impossible.

Johnny Appleseed

Appleseed Quotes #514345
#17. Take from thy neighbour that which is not yours and thou shalt reap the consequences for all eternity

Kevin Marsh

Appleseed Quotes #430826
#18. There are all kinds of love. We place too much emphasis on romantic love as the be-all and end-all. But there is brotherly love. Sisterly love. Love for mom. Love for dad. And naturally, vice-versa. Even with our enemies, we should try to turn them into friends through love.

Mark Andrew Poe

Appleseed Quotes #264424
#19. Acting must be scaled down for the screen. A drawing room is a lot smaller than a theatre auditorium.

Arthur Lowe

Appleseed Quotes #221007
#20. Black trauma is never given space to heal because we have to make sure the white people who hurt us don't feel too bad about it. Even as victims, we're told to care about the feelings of those who harm us.

Luvvie Ajayi

Appleseed Quotes #46648
#21. The best advice on writing I've ever received was from William Zinsser: 'Be grateful for every word you can cut.'

Christopher Buckley

Appleseed Quotes #3678

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