Top 100 Quotes About Fruit
#1. Gifts are given, but fruit must be grown
Rick Joyner
#2. 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
#3. How then shall a Christian bear fruit? By efforts and struggles to obtain that which is freely given? ... No: there must be a full concentration of the thoughts and affections on Christ; a complete surrender of the whole being to Him; a constant looking to Him for grace.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
#4. If the fruit (of your effort) is to your expectations, it is the effect (prarabdha, result) of your merit karma [punya karma], if it is not to your expectation, then it is the effect of your demerit karma [paap karma].
Dada Bhagwan
#5. He who lives upon the fruit of his own labor, escapes the contempt of haughty benefactors.
Saadi
#6. He who gives up action falls. He who gives up the reward rises. But renunciation of fruit in no way means indifference to the result.
Mahatma Gandhi
#7. He who improves an opportunity sows a seed which will yield fruit in opportunity for himself and others.
Orison Swett Marden
#8. During the week it isn't always easy to sit down together and I am usually in a rush to get everyone off to school. A bowl of cereal and milk with fruit is perfect because it's quick and easy. I like to mix it up on the weekends when we can all relax in our pajamas.
Monica Potter
#9. I do yoga every day, some sport, have a meal once a day, eat some fruit, and drink one glass of wine. And once a month I gather together my close friends. But my wife and I do not like conspicuous luxury.
Bidzina Ivanishvili
#10. The true fruit of travel is perhaps the feeling of being nearly everywhere at home.
Freya Stark
#11. But in the morning everything can, and must, be seen. Daylight takes us; it peels us like fruit.
Amy Bloom
#12. Truth out of season bears no fruit To me, that means two things. One: There's a time and place for every kind of knowledge to flourish. Two: The personal characteristics of great messengers are usually irrelevant.
The RZA
#14. That swimming, sloping, elusive something about the dark-bluish tint of the iris which seemed still to retain the shadows it had absorbed of ancient, fabulous forests where there were more birds than tigers and more fruit than thorns, and where, in some dappled depth, man's mind had been born ...
Vladimir Nabokov
#15. Succes doesn't not come from having one's work recognised by others. It is the fruit of a seed that you lovingly planted.
Paulo Coelho
#16. Perhaps the woman was waiting beneath the lamps for cats to drop from the trees, like fruit.
Ramsey Campbell
#17. Dragon fruit is very subtle, very delicate. So you want to be careful not to kill it with things that have very strong flavor.
Jose Andres
#18. Knowledge is the seed,
intelligence is the stem,
understanding is the branch,
and wisdom is the fruit.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#19. Speaking of fruit, I'm down
I mean, he's down
to his underwear.
Rick Yancey
#20. The spirits of the air live on the smells Of fruit; and joy, with pinions light, roves round The gardens, or sits singing in the trees ...
William Blake
#21. Only a craven would steal a fruit when he could take the orchard.
George R R Martin
#22. I believe that rewards in life are deserved. Every reward is the fruit of discipline, of dedication and of sacrifices. And of stubbornness.
Sophia Loren
#23. I am like a tree in a forest. Birds come to the tree, they sit on its branches and eat its fruits. To the birds, the fruit may be sweet or sour or whatever. The birds say sweet or they say sour, but from the tree's point of view, this is just the chattering of birds.
Ajahn Chah
#24. Power? It's like a Dead Sea fruit. When you achieve it, there is nothing there.
Harold Macmillan
#26. I have a lot of fruit trees and my own little vegetable garden and chickens. And every time I eat, I bless my food; I say I'm grateful for for it and let it nourish every part of my body.
Gisele Bundchen
#27. Plan to build up your food supply just as you would a savings account. Save a little for storage each paycheck. Can or bottle fruit and vegetables from your gardens and orchards. Learn how to preserve food through drying and possibly freezing. Make your storage a part of your budget.
Ezra Taft Benson
#28. Youth is a flower of which love is the fruit; happy is he who, after facing watched its silent growth, is permitted to gather and call it his own
Alexandre Dumas
#29. I don't forgive people.Just ask Shauna Bradley. We were best friends in kindergarten until I discovered she was the one stealing the fruit snacks from my desk. She lost my trust that day, and
even now when I see her, I have to refrain myself from shouting, Why? Why did you do it?!
Nicole Christie
#30. We could eliminate sugar across the board for all confectionary products and sodas, and we can replace it with all-natural fresh fruit.
Homaro Cantu
#31. I just try to stick to clean foods, anything grilled like salmon, chicken, fish, brown rice, and veggies. I do have a really big sweet tooth, so I try to curb my cravings with fruit instead.
Katherine Webb
#32. Had God pulled me from Adam's rib and placed me naked in the garden, the story would be no different. Let's not blame Eve anymore. If she hadn't eaten the fruit, it would most certainly have been me. I would have eaten it again and again, and then I would have given you a bite.
Amber C. Haines
#34. The root of any film project for me is this inner need to express something. What nurtures this root and makes it grow into a tree is the script. What makes the tree bear flowers and fruit is the directing.
Akira Kurosawa
#35. Is this idea of the non-fruit-bearing Christian something that we have concocted in order to make Christianity "easier"?
Francis Chan
#36. Time is a blooming field: nature is ever teeming with life: and all is seed, and all is fruit.
Friedrich Schiller
#37. Seafarers are used to being exploited. At sea, the captain moans at chandlers who supply ships with green bananas that will never ripen; at fruit that goes moldy obscenely fast; at sub-standard meat.
Rose George
#38. When the savages of Louisiana wish to have fruit, they cut the tree at the bottom and gather the fruit. That is exactly a despotic government.
Baron De Montesquieu
#39. The fruit of the Spirit, in contrast, gives a sure sign of transformed character. When our deepest attitudes and dispositions are those of Jesus, it is because we have learned to let the Spirit foster his life in us.
Dallas Willard
#40. We want to leave a legacy with who we are and what we do. We want to grow a life that matters. We can. When we eat a diet of fruit and serve up that diet to those around us, we can grow a life that matters.
Elisa Morgan
#41. Cobnuts have a fresher flavour than any other nut I know of and go very well with autumnal fruit and light cheeses.
Yotam Ottolenghi
#42. When the fruit of your service is out of all proportion to the gifts you possess, THAT is Blessing!
Watchman Nee
#43. Jon had often told me that if you focus on the fruit and ignore the root, the tree will die, but if you continue to care for the root and focus on your culture, process, people, and purpose, then you'll always have a great supply of fruit.
Jon Gordon
#44. Barberries, or zereshk, are tiny dried red fruit with a tremendously sharp flavour. They come from Iran, where they're used to add freshness to rice and chicken dishes.
Yotam Ottolenghi
#45. Even today, when an Aboriginal mother notices the first stirrings of speech in her child, she lets it handle the things of that particular country: leaves, fruit, insects and so forth. We give our children guns and computer games, Wendy said. They gave their children the land.
Bruce Chatwin
#46. But I think it's a little different in Europe, because 40 is really the best age for a woman. That's when we hit our peak and become this ripe fruit.
Juliette Binoche
#47. He also believed that the richest fruit of God's work in our hearts would be evidenced by increasing humility and dependence on Christ for everything, rather than in a victorious Christian life.
Barbara R. Duguid
#48. Gratitude is a fruit of great cultivation; you do not find it among gross people.
Samuel Johnson
#49. In a word, what characterizes the spiritist revelation is that while divine in its origin and of the initiative of the Spirits, its elaboration is fruit of man's work.
Allan Kardec
#50. Contentment is both the fruit and the tree.
Dave Ramsey
#51. Nature imitates herself. A grain thrown into good ground brings forth fruit; a principle thrown into a good mind brings forth fruit. Everything is created and conducted by the same Master-the root, the branch, the fruits-the principles, the consequences.
Blaise Pascal
#52. The well-ordered mind knows the value, no less than the charm, of reticence. The fruit of the tree of knowledge ... falls ripe from its stem; but those who have eaten with sobriety find no need to discuss the processes of digestion.
Agnes Repplier
#53. I'm the girl who's desperate to get out of her small town because if she doesn't she knows she'll die. She knows her soul will start to rot, like fruit gone bad.
Heather Demetrios
#55. For the rest of the day all I could think about was that precious fruit. The mango, that is.
Tiffanie DeBartolo
#56. If I won the lottery I'd start a charity that helped little family hardware stores, cobblers and fruit shops open in city centres.
Alexei Sayle
#57. To speak of sin without grace is to minimize the resurrection of Jesus Christ, the fruit of the Spirit, and the hope of shalom.
Cornelius Plantinga
#58. My resolve to die was not the whim of an hour. It was the ripe, sound fruit that had slowly grown to full size, lightly rocked by the winds of fate whose next breath would bring it to the ground.
Hermann Hesse
#59. The right of commanding is no longer an advantage transmitted by nature; like an inheritance, it is the fruit of labors, the price of courage.
Voltaire
#60. Taste of sin is terrible in that it is the sweetest tasting fruit. Did not even Eve succumb to it? The more you taste it, the more greedy you become for it.
Jeyamohan
#61. The fruit of my tree of knowledge is plucked, and it is this: "Adventures are to the adventurous."
Benjamin Disraeli
#62. Chastity is a difficult long term matter, one must wait patiently for it to bear fruit for the happiness of loving kindness which it must bring. But at the same time chastity is the sure way to happiness.
Pope John Paul II
#63. Whatever seeds each man cultivates will grow to maturity and bear in him their own fruit. If they be vegetative, he will be like a plant.
Giovanni Pico Della Mirandola
#64. Each moment is the fruit of forty thousand years. The minute-winning days, like flies, buzz home to death, and every moment is a window on all time.
Thomas Wolfe
#65. I like egg white omelets with veggies, or oatmeal with almonds and fruit.
Vanessa Hudgens
#66. My most famous commercial was for Fruit Of the Loom underwear. I took a lot of razzing from my classmates.
Ian Ziering
#67. I often go on a liquid fast a couple of days a week. I never take just water. Instead, I'll have maybe six glasses of vegetable and fruit juices a day.
Paul Lynde
#69. A tree may always be known by its fruit, and a true Christian may always be discovered by their habits, tastes & affections.
J.C. Ryle
#70. Fruit is definitely on the maintenance diet. It's on the lifestyle diet.
Robert Atkins
#71. As a father of four, I want our children to enjoy the freedoms and opportunities that are the fruit of progressive values.
Stephen Pagliuca
#72. Fruit-bearing involves cross-bearing. There are not two Christs
an easygoing one for easygoing Christians, and a suffering, toiling one for exceptional believers. There is only one Christ. Are you willing to abide in Him, and thus to bear much fruit?
Hudson Taylor
#73. The most generous choices, especially the persevering, are the fruit of profound and prolonged union with God in prayerful silence.
Pope John Paul II
#74. My first time in Madagascar was awesome because lemurs are kind of funny; they throw fruit at the back of your head when you're not looking and then point at one another when you turn around.
Kevin Hearne
#75. Be pleased, gentlemen, to dispose of what belongs to yourselves as you think proper, but leave us the disposal of the fruit of our own toil, to use it or exchange it as we see best. Declaim on self-sacrifice as much as you choose, it is all very fine and very beautiful, but be at least consistent.
Frederic Bastiat
#76. Peaches are my idea of a nice, generic fruit. Maybe they're not the nutritional superstar of the fruit community, but they sure meet all the requirements of a healthy food. Low calorie, 1½ grams of fiber, small but measurable
Jonny Bowden
#77. I use color as my chief guide. But I always squeeze an avocado - you want the fruit to feel close to the skin. If you can feel a separation, the avocado is past its prime. The avocado should have a little give, but not much.
Dorie Greenspan
#80. God is the Seed; The Universe is the Tree, Impulses and passions are the branches, Intelligence is the flower, Pure Consciousness is the fruit, Love is the sweetness in the fruit.
Sathya Sai Baba
#81. It is sad that today many times people give up in the hard times and never get to enjoy the fruit of all their labor.
Joyce Meyer
#83. In town and in country there must be landscapes where we can walk in safety, pick fruit, cycle, work, sleep, swim, listen to the birds, bask in the sun, run through the trees and laze beside cool waters.
Tom Turner
#84. A ministry of power must be the fruit of a holy, peaceful, loving intimacy with the Lord.
Horatius Bonar
#85. This is the method of genius, to ripen fruit for the crowd by those rays of whose heat they complain.
Margaret Fuller
#87. Christians must share their faith in obedience to the Great Commission, because we are only seeing the fruit of sin this side of death.
Ray Comfort
#88. Industriousness and conscientiousness are often at odds, because industriousness wants to pick the still sour fruit from the tree,while conscientiousness lets it hang there too long, until it falls and bruises.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#89. We smile at the ignorance of the savage who cuts down the tree in order to reach its fruit; but the same blunder is made by every person who is over eager and impatient in the pursuit of pleasure.
William Ellery Channing
#90. The irony of informing nearly naked people in a wilderness setting about the story of naked Adam and Eve eating the fruit of knowledge and inventing the fashion industry due to a sudden need for clothing to hide their shame is not lost on Williams.
Sarah Vowell
#91. Some of the families starve themselves so they can fatten up their sons before their tests. This is like the market vendors who display their fruit shiny side up.
Holly Bodger
#92. Temperance is a tree which as for its root very little contentment, and for its fruit calm and peace.
Gautama Buddha
#93. The great crowds themselves are meaningless. The thing that counts is what happens in the hearts of the people. The evangelist sows the seed, and much inevitably falls upon stony ground and bears no fruit. But if only a few seeds flourish, the results are manifold.
Billy Graham
#94. If there is a fruit that can be eaten raw, it is beauty.
Alphonse Karr
#95. 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
#96. This one day her mother gave her
a basket of wine and cake
to take to her grandmother
because she was ill.
Wine and cake?
Where's the aspirin? The penicillin?
Where's the fruit juice?
Peter Rabbit got camomile tea.
But wine and cake it was.
Anne Sexton
#97. The latest report says the results of an investigation will be released in three or four weeks. That's a long time for fruit flies and the press.
Denis Boyles
#98. Forasmuch as many people study more to have knowledge than to live well therefore ofttimes they err and bring forth little fruit or none.
Thomas A Kempis
#99. It's a shame that jazz is now being turned into dried fruit. It's becoming quantized, diced and defined. It's becoming an idiom. To me if it's anything, jazz is a verb ? it's more like a process than it is a thing.
Pat Metheny
#100. When you start a business, go for the lowest hanging fruit.
Ice-T
