Pear Tree Quotes

#1. 25. Flowering trees
The blossom of the pear tree is the most prosaic, vulgar thing in the world. The less one sees this particular blossom the better ...

Sei Shonagon

#2. A man watches his pear tree day after day, impatient for the ripening of the fruit. Let him attempt to force the process, and he may spoil both fruit and tree. But let him patiently wait, and the ripe pear at length falls into his lap.

Abraham Lincoln

#3. The woman leans the sadness of her body against the window, tries to look beyond the pear tree. Inside the story, she sees nothing but darkness. She is ungrateful for the luxury of despair.

Conchitina Cruz

#4. Fourteen Kids, Two Dads, One Mom, Two Nannies, Two Tutors - and a Partridge in a Pear Tree.

Heather Demetrios

#5. The Poplar grows up straight and tall,
The Pear-tree spreads along the wall

Sara Coleridge

#6. Ah wants things sweet wid mah marriage lak when you sit under a pear tree and think.

Zora Neale Hurston

#7. Like an inspired and prolific poet, who never refuses to spread beauty to the humblest places, which until now did not seem to share the domain of art, the sun still warmed the bountiful energy of the dung heap, of the unevenly paved yard, and of the pear tree worn down like an old serving maid.

Marcel Proust

#8. After 19 years of experimenting, a thousand mistakes, over 400 books, at least 200 bad diets ... and a partridge in a pear tree, I have found what I believe are the best answers this planet has to offer about living a healthy, happy, and balanced life.

Marilu Henner

#9. As was the custom in such cases, the pear tree was charged with murder and sentenced to be uprooted and burned.

Robert Graves

#10. A pear tree is blooming, by a collapsed house, on an old battlefield.

Masaoka Shiki

#11. Old pear tree starlings announce harvest time

Phil Noble

#12. Ha!: He laughed. "Almost all of them as a kid, but most recently it was my nose...for the seventh time. And I've had two concussions, three broken fingers, and a partridge in a pear tree.

A.E. Neal

#13. Because you've managed to hide the existence of a significant other from the blogs. I don't care if you're involved with a man, a woman, or a sapient pear tree. You ought to go into international espionage. I never even heard a rumor.

Mira Grant

#14. Rain-diamonds, this winter morning, embellish the tangle of unpruned pear-tree twigs; each solitaire, placed, it appears, with considered judgement, bears the light beneath the rifted clouds - the invisible shared out in endless abundance.

Denise Levertov

#15. A pear-tree planted nigh:
'Twas charg'd with fruit that made a goodly show,
And hung with dangling pears was every bough.

Alexander Pope

#16. You should go to a pear tree for pears, not to an elm.

Publilius Syrus

#17. More than anything in life, she wishes she'd let him. That she'd smiled for the camera. That she'd said yes. Life was gone before you knew it;how foolish she'd been to refuse any of it.

Jennifer Haigh

#18. We complain and complain, but we have lived and seen the blossom -apple, pear, cherry, plum, almond blossom - in the sun; and the best among us cannot pretend they deserve - or could contrive - anything better.

J.B. Priestley

#19. The executives who run the fast food industry are not bad men. They are businessmen. They will sell free-range, organic, grass-fed hamburgers if you demand it. They will sell whatever sells at a profit.

Eric Schlosser

#20. I'm struck by the sense of desolation in places like this when they're out of season. It's quite shabby and feels like something once happened here that has never quite been re-created.

Steve Hanley

#21. There was not a tree on the place, only the horrible prickly pear bushes thrusting out their distorted arms as if exulting in their own nakedness.

Ethel M. Dell

#22. What you hear is southern Michigan, not a drawl, but a halting kind of speech where you leave spaces when there shouldn't be any. We take a breath anywhere.

Tom Bodett

#23. Man is not like other animals in the ways that are really significant: Animals have instincts, we have taxes.

Erving Goffman

#24. Without inspiration, innovation is dead.

Liam Levi

#25. The first idea, the first art piece I ever did, was when I was four. I cut the seed of a pear in half and the seed of an apple in half in put those two halves together and planted the seed, hoping a very strange tree might grow. And I never stopped.

Yoko Ono

#26. God is gone up on high with a triumphant noise.

Charles Wesley

#27. If his life depended on it, he
had to find out later why that indomitable soldier, accustomed to fighting to the last drop
of blood, had left the final battle of his life unfinished.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#28. Clinton's an unusually good liar. Unusually Good. Do you realize that?

Bob Kerrey