Orange Tree Quotes

#1. Morality is the fruit of religion: to desire the former without the latter is to desire an orange without an orange-tree.

Philibert Joseph Roux

#2. Maternal love, like an orange tree, buds and blossoms and bears at once. When a woman puts her finger for the first time into the tiny hand of her baby and feels that helpless clutch which tightens her very heartstrings, she is born again with her newborn child.

Kate Douglas Wiggin

#3. A man ought to carry himself in the world as an orange tree would if it could walk up and down in the garden, swinging perfume from every little censer it holds up in the air.

Henry Ward Beecher

#4. Do not adjust your sandals while passing through a melon-field, nor yet arrange your hat beneath an orange-tree.

Ernest Bramah

#5. Many kinds of fruit grow upon the tree of life, but none so sweet as friendship; as with the orange tree its blossoms and fruit appear at the same time, full of refreshment for sense and for soul.

Lucy Larcom

#6. Drink, drink! Bacchus is the enemy of Venus.

"From The Diary Of An Orange Tree

Hanns Heinz Ewers

#7. But the healing of the mind is something totally different. That healing gradually takes place if you are with nature, with that orange on the tree, and the blade of grass that pushes through the cement, and the hills covered, hidden, by the clouds.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#8. How come everyone's making like everthing that isn't important is very important, all the while they're so busy pretending what's really important isn't important at all?

Janne Teller

#9. Diderot took the ground that, if orthodox religion be true Christ was guilty of suicide. Having the power to defend himself he should have used it.

Robert Green Ingersoll

#10. Be a doer and not a critic.

Tony Blair

#11. There is only a policeman in front of something you have need for and don't have access to, so you put a guard there ... But if orange trees and apple trees grew all over the place, you couldn't sell them.

Jacque Fresco

#12. What never happened will never change."
(from "Oh, Leonardo")

Adele Kenny

#13. I was not the kind of a principal player that was so in demand that eight or 10 or 12 scripts came per month.

Sidney Poitier

#14. It wasn't till they were on the bridge that Delly asked RB, "So, Ferris Boyd's your favorite?" She didn't mind, mostly.
RB answered so fast, though, she knew he wasn't fibbing. "She's my favorite friend," he told her. "You're my favorite everything.

Katherine Hannigan

#15. Sometimes God has to destroy in order to save. He has to wound in order to heal.

Francine Rivers

#16. Have you come to terms with what's going to happen between us?

N.D. Jones

#17. It would be a great reform in politics if perception could be made to spread as easily and as rapidly as foolishness.

Winston Churchill

#18. I've been reading Ed Brubaker comics since the first appearance of Ed Brubaker comics and every single time he announces a new title I mutter to myself: ugh! I wish I would've thought of that!

Brian Michael Bendis

#19. I wear myself out trying to render the orange trees so that they're not stiff but like those I saw by Botticelli in Florence. It's a dream that won't come true.

Berthe Morisot

#20. I have literally played the most interesting parts since I turned 40.

Kate Burton

#21. A man's admiration for absolute government is proportionate to the contempt he feels for those around him.

Alexis De Tocqueville

#22. Is the human creature as perfect in function as it might be?' 'Meaningless,' replied Cabal, 'with no definition as to what that function might conceivably be. We are good communicators, passable runners, middling swimmers, and poor at flying.

Jonathan L. Howard

#23. Luck is the residue of design.

John Milton

#24. We were doing performance art as far back as 1965, just not calling it that.

Joseph Jarman