Quotes About Fig Trees

#1. You, O Books, are the golden vessels of the temple, the arms of the clerical militia with which the missiles of the most wicked are destroyed; fruitful olives, vines of Engaddi, fig-trees knowing no sterility; burning lamps to be ever held in the hand.

Richard De Bury

#2. Poor Fred - he's actually working on a typo, and somebody ought to tell him. Twice in the New Testament Jesus withered fig trees, Isaiah withered a fig tree, and there's another place in the Old Testament - I think it-s in Psalms - where a fig tree was withered. God hates figs, not fags!

Thom Hartmann

#3. Summertime in the french countryside is the smell of ripening fig trees and the taste of wild blackberries.

Vicki Archer

#4. Most illness begins with a negative mind.

Napoleon Hill

#5. Any idiot can be brave, but courage is about knowing what's at stake, and moving forward anyway.

Meg Ryan

#6. I was not developmentally disabled, but didn't mature at the same rate other kids did.

Tucker Max

#7. Somewhere along the way, Capitalism reduced the idea of justice to mean just "human rights," and the idea of dreaming of equality became blasphemous. We are not fighting to tinker with reforming a system that needs to be replaced.

Arundhati Roy

#8. (connected, I may say, with such activity of the affections as even the preoccupations of a work too special to be abdicated could not uninterruptedly dissimulate);

George Eliot

#9. Ask any good teacher or any business executive who's been in the trenches. They will tell you that attitude trumps ability every time.

James P. Owen

#10. My mother and father were supportive. But in an Italian family, you kind of work with your hands, or you are an engineer or a doctor. But an actor was something they couldn't get hold of. They were afraid I wouldn't be able to make a living, and for many years, they were right.

Michael Rispoli

#11. I don't have a problem with fame. I got into this business intending to be very successful, but I wanted it to be at my price.

Jason Patric