Quotes About Good Apples

#1. If you put good apples into a bad situation, you'll get bad apples.

Philip G. Zimbardo

#2. Good character isn't produced overnight; it's grown over many seasons. In the same way you sort the good apples from the bad, the marks of poor characters are just as easy to detect.

Nicole Deese

#3. It was from out the rind of one apple tasted, that the knowledge of good and evil, as two twins cleaving together, leaped forth into the world.

John Milton

#4. Sometimes he feels as though God is nothing more than a set of jaws that bites down on his heart.

Benjamin Alire Saenz

#5. Wilder watched Armstrong head back to video village under the lights of the set, attacking another apple as she went, and thought, Apples and women. Not a good history there.

Jennifer Crusie

#6. If art depended on content, then one painting of an apple would be as good as the next one.

Walter Darby Bannard

#7. The only limitations man has are the ones he sets for himself.

Ralph Waldo Trine

#8. A lifetime in the business had taught her that, apart from the few good people that work along-side you,nobody is to be trusted,ever,because sooner or later they'll let you down,sure as God made little green apples. And, when you came to think of it,hadn't that been the dirtiest trick of them all?

Tom Holt

#9. The tree is rotten, all it needs is a good shake and the bad apples will fall. Communism is evil. It prevents people from being free.

Steve Berry

#10. It's a depressing habit you have of loving to sneeze and of eating apples as if they were juicier for you and being the first one to exclaim how good the movie is. You depress people. We like apples too.

Leonard Cohen

#11. Good teachers deserve apples; great teachers deserve chocolate. A favorite quotation, written in calligraphy on his office door.

Richard Hamming

#12. Neither blows from pitchfork, nor from the lash, can make him change his ways.
[Fr., Coups de fourches ni d'etriveres,
Ne lui font changer de manieres.]

Jean De La Fontaine

#13. Well, I could do it for a day, but I wouldn't want to be a teenager again. I really wouldn't.

Jamie Lee Curtis

#14. Just a sec. Just two months. Just a lifetime. Just a sec.

Miranda July

#15. The thing about a theory in science is it allows you make predictions. Evolutionary theory allows us to predict what apples will taste good next harvest.

Bill Nye

#16. The air was fresh and crisp and had a distinct smell which was a mixture of the dried leaves on the ground and the smoke from the chimneys and the sweet ripe apples that were still clinging onto the branches in the orchard behind the house.

Arlene Stafford-Wilson

#17. Will you have a touch of ng-ka-py?"
"You mean the drink that tastes of good rotten apples?"
"Yes. I can talk better with it."
"Maybe I can listen better," said Samuel.

John Steinbeck

#18. The worst moments of your life you never see coming,

Blake Crouch

#19. The littlest thing can have the strongest connection when you're grieving. Your Proustian, poetic nerve is turned up to ten.

Mike Mills

#20. In economic panics throughout history, the wiping out of the savings accounts of lower earners and the middle class has often led to social revolution, sometimes violent upheavals.

Nick Clooney

#21. The true history of Vietnamese civilian suffering does not fit comfortably into America's preferred postwar narrative - the tale of a conflict nobly fought by responsible commanders and good American boys, who should not be tainted by the occasional mistakes of a few 'bad apples' in their midst.

Nick Turse

#22. All badness is spoiled goodness. A bad apple is a good apple that became rotten. Because evil has no capital of its own, it is a parasite that feeds on goodness.

Fulton J. Sheen

#23. I've made money, and I've been ripped off. I've had creative freedom, and I've been pressured to make hits. I have dealt with diva behavior from crazy musicians, and I have seen genius records by wonderful artists get completely ignored. I love music. I always will.

David Byrne

#24. Eating apples is good on so many levels. There's fiber in the skin that's really good for you. It helps with digestion and helps you absorb all the nutrients of everything you've eaten that day. Apples are a really good thing.

Rebecca Romijn

#25. A plate of apples, an open fire, and a jolly good book are a fair substitute for heaven.

L.M. Montgomery

#26. When people are perfectly polite, it usually means they don't really care. A little awkwardness is more sincere.

Ken Follett

#27. But journalists thrive on not knowing exactly what the future holds. That's part of the excitement. Something interesting, something important, will happen somewhere, as sure as God made sour apples, and a good aggressive newspaper will become part of that something.

Ben Bradlee

#28. She fitted into my biggest arm-chair as if it had been built round her by someone who knew they were wearing arm-chairs tight about the hips that season

P.G. Wodehouse

#29. That's the world out there, little green apples and infectious disease.

Don DeLillo

#30. It's strange to be here, the mystery never leaves you alone.

John O'Donohue

#31. It is commonly said by farmers, that a good pear or apple costs no more time or pains to rear, than a poor one; so I would have no work of art, no speech, or action, or thought, or friend, but the best.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#32. Nobody is going to invest a fortune into good orchard land, all the farming equipment necessary, the fertilizer, the seedlings, the nonstop Herculean work effort needed to grow apples, then bring them to the fruit stand for people to take home for free.

Ted Nugent

#33. The booing and the drama help make the Olympics interesting, but at what cost? When will people finally get tired of it and start watching the X-Games or competitive tire rolling instead?

Johnny Weir

#34. Martin Luther was asked, what would you do if tomorrow the world would come to an end, and he said, 'I would plant an apple tree today.' This is a real good answer. I would start shooting a movie.

Werner Herzog

#35. Coleridge declares that a man cannot have a good conscience who refuses apple dumplings, and I confess that I am of the same opinion.

Charles Lamb