Top 88 Quotes About Pears
#1. If music is frozen architecture, then the potpourri is frozen coffee-table gossip ... Potpourri is the art of adding apples to pears ...
Arnold Schoenberg
#3. Art and science are made when people are terrified that they are going to die. (about "Arcadia" by Iain Pears)
Jen Campbell
#4. All of us together were of a generation born of old country people who spoke English with an accent and prayed in another language, who drank red wine and cooked their food in the old country way, and peeled apples and pears after dinner.
Robert Laxalt
#5. Dostoyevsky was her brother, Victorian children's books her passion and though she lived, when in funds, mainly on avocado pears, she took her bath each night with a different cookery book.
Eva Ibbotson
#6. As I lay so sick on my bed, from Christmas till March, I was always praying for poor ole master. 'Pears like I didn't do nothing but pray for ole master. 'Oh, Lord, convert ole master;' 'Oh, dear Lord, change dat man's heart, and make him a Christian.'
Harriet Tubman
#7. The place was a funeral pyre for the young
who died before knowing the thirst of man
or woman. Furies with snakes in their hair
wept. Tantalus ate pears & sipped wine
in a dream, as the eyes of a vulture
poised over Tityus' liver.
Yusef Komunyakaa
#8. Home-grown pears are best eaten in the bath - they're so juicy, it's the easiest way to stay clean!
Mitchell Beazley
#9. Avacados, prickly pears and papayas used to be gulped down whole, seeds and all, by fridge-sized armadillos called glyptodonts.
Adam Leith Gollner
#10. A scent that disturbs me and delights me. It smells like ripe pears, vetiver, a bit of violet and something else- something spicy almost biting and exotic.
Rebecca Wells
#12. 'Pears like I prayed all the time, 'bout my work, everywhere, I prayed an' groaned to the Lord.
Harriet Tubman
#13. 'Pears like my heart go flutter, flutter, and then they may say, 'Peace, Peace,' as much as they likes - I know it's goin' to be war!
Harriet Tubman
#14. Be sure to buy organic versions of the 'dirty dozen:' the fruits and vegetables that, when grown conventionally, are loaded with pesticides and chemicals: Grapes, apples, lettuce, bell peppers, carrots, nectarines, peaches, strawberries, pears, kale, and celery.
Suzanne Somers
#15. I had to face the facts, I was pear-shaped. I was a bit depressed because I hate pears. 'Specially their shape.
Charlotte Bingham
#16. I'm going down the apples and pears, into the jam jar, down the frog and toad into the rub-da-dub-dub, and I'm going to have pig's ear.
Gianfranco Zola
#17. I had always been fascinated by the whole idea that Australia was this different ecology and that when rabbits and prickly pears and other things from Europe were introduced into Australia, they ran amok.
David Gerrold
#18. prickly pears from behind a barbed-wire fence. Faded lettering on the sign, designed as a lasso that had at one
John J. Asher
#19. All men should have a drop of treason in their veins, if nations are not to go soft like so many sleepy pears.
Rebecca West
#20. Even with her failing vision, Violet West could see the scars. They had turned purple, almost red, from the icy cold, the color of the pears on the tree in the yard, the color of blood that can't be washed away and of things that can never be undone.
Alice Hoffman
#21. 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
#22. Because he smells fantastic - like warm pears and crisp air.
Kristen Callihan
#25. Don't forget that fruit can be cooked - think of baked apples, poached pears and grilled pineapple. But if you like drinking fruit, blending will preserve more nutrition and fibre than juicing.
Michael Greger
#26. I was in my mid-teens when someone gave me a copy of 'Pears Encyclopaedia of Myth and Legends' as a birthday present. It sat on my shelves for many months before I looked at it. When I did, I couldn't stop reading it.
Tariq Ali
#27. He who owns a wood of proper land in this country, and, in the face of all the personal riches of the day, only raises crabs and choke pears, deserves to lose the respect of all sensible men.
Andrew Jackson Downing
#28. The trees are Indian Princes, But soon they'll turn to Ghosts; The scanty pears and apples Hang russet on the bough; Its Autumn, Autumn, Autumn late, 'Twill soon be Winter now. Robin, Robin Redbreast, O Robin dear! And what will this poor Robin do? For pinching days are near.
William Allingham
#29. O, Winter! Put away thy snowy pride;
O, Spring! Neglect the cowslip and the bell;
O, Summer! Throw thy pears and plums aside;
O, Autumn! Bid the grape with poison swell.
Thomas Chatterton
#30. Peter Pears and Ian Bostridge.
Anonymous
#31. Make a list of all the varieties of aliens you can come up with. (And if it's less than 3,000, then THE PEARS ARE LAUGHING AT YOU, MY FRIEND.) -Scott Westerfeld from NaNoWriMo Pep Talk.
Scott Westerfeld
#33. Everyone wants to feel special - attain a special status among their pears- but not too special. Most kids want to be special the same way their friends are
Chuck Palahniuk
#34. Sometimes the valley below is like a bowl filled up with fog. I can see hard green figs on two trees and pears on a tree just below me. A fine crop coming in. May summer last a hundred years.
Frances Mayes
#35. You get so weak from eating pears that you fall down, and then they come and take you away on a stretcher.
Oliver Reed
#36. Fun fact: there are also 3,000 varieties of pears. That's right. Even PEARS are more complicated than you thought!
Scott Westerfeld
#37. In the same [hospitable] manner that a Calabrian would press you to eat his pears.
Horace
#39. Make one day a mono-meal. This means, choose just one fruit and have it as much as you want. Apples, pears, or anything in season are great for mono-meals.
Valentina Zelyaeva
#40. Here is a greedy man who keeps to himself
The beautiful pears ripe in his garden.
Matsuo Basho
#41. I have a theory that too much learning unbalances the mind.
Iain Pears
#42. For men are held above their fellows by the gossamer of reputation, which is so soft and fragile a breath can blow it away.
Iain Pears
#43. For, in his opinion, to study nature was a form of worship.
Iain Pears
#44. His idleness was his refuge, and in this he was like many others in [occupied] France in that period; laziness became political.
Iain Pears
#45. Rosie digested the information, but not the cake. Her mother was strict about eating between meals. 'A fat girl will never find a good man, Rosie,' was her view, handed down to her by Great-aunt Jessie, a woman of many cliches.
Iain Pears
#46. She was looking for something I could never give her." Again his dark eyes bored into Julia's mind. "You have something of the same about you, young woman. Take my advice: Don't think you will find it in another person. You won't. It's not there. You must find it in yourself.
Iain Pears
#47. I knew salesmen, they made good murderers.
Iain Pears
#48. I learned that I' have to be detached if I was ever to achieve anything at all.
Iain Pears
#49. 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
#50. In a world of chemically induced sanity, a little lunacy confers immense advantages.
Iain Pears
#51. When bounteous autumn rears her head, he joys to pull the ripened pear.
John Dryden
#52. Philosophy cannot be extinguished, though men will try ... The spirit seeks the light, that is its nature. It wishes to return to its origin, and must forever try to reach enlightenment.
Iain Pears
#53. An in experienced traveler would imagine that their land contains the finest buildings, the biggest towns, the richest, best-fed, happiest people in the world.
Iain Pears
#54. The point of civilization is to be civilized; the purpose of action is to perpetuate society, for only in society can philosophy truly take place.
Iain Pears
#55. Diplomacy and virtue do not make easy companions.
Iain Pears
#56. Caius was one of those who gloried in his ignorance, called his lack of letters purity, scorned any subtlety of thought or expression. A man for his time, indeed.
Iain Pears
#57. For the first time, she did want more. She did not know what she wanted, knew that it was dangerous and that she should rest content with what she had, but she knew an emptiness deep inside her, which began to ache.
Iain Pears
#58. I went to the meeting with some trepidation for, although I might have met a wizard before, I had never encountered an Irishman.
Iain Pears
#59. Whatever you do, do it gently and unhurriedly, because virtue is not a pear to be eaten in one bite.
Seraphim Of Sarov
#60. Every cataclysm is welcomed by somebody; there is always someone to rejoice at disaster and see in it the prospect of a new beginning and a better world.
Iain Pears
#61. When an experiment was to begin, all women were excluded for fear their irrational natures would influence the result, and an air of fervent concentration descended.
Iain Pears
#62. Civilization depends on continually making the effort, of never giving in. It needs to be cared for by men of goodwill, protected from the dark.
Iain Pears
#63. The devil himself can become beauty, so we are told, to corrupt mankind.
(Marco)
Iain Pears
#64. He (William Cort) had some desire to be successful, but it did not burn so strongly in him that he was prepared to overcome his character to achieve it.
Iain Pears
#65. And a more foolish notion can scarcely be imagined, it being obvious that the reader is only informed of what the writer wishes him to know, and is thus seduced into believing almost anything.
Iain Pears
#66. The simple fact that something has not been done, is no proof that it cannot be.
Iain Pears
#67. Who you are is less important than what you seem.
Iain Pears
#68. And here was the moment. The end of it all, for civilization was merely another name for friendship, and friendship was coming to an end.
Iain Pears
#70. Felix had gone to live in a lotus land of his imagination. Where what is desired is dreamed of as already happened, where obstacles dissolve under the weight of desire, and where reality has vanished entirely.
Iain Pears
#71. The world was full of such madmen in those days. Imprisonment is not the way to deal with such people; half measures merely feed their pride. Leave 'em alone or hang 'em, in my opinion. Or better still, pack them off to the Americas, and let them starve.
Iain Pears
#72. He who profits by villainy, has perpetrated it.
Iain Pears
#73. Like the aristocracy, you can tell a reporter's status by his clothes and manners. The worse they are, the higher up they are,
Iain Pears
#74. Virtue comes through contemplation of the divine, and the exercise of philosophy. But it also comes through public service. The one is incomplete without the other. Power without wisdom is tyranny; wisdom without power is pointless.
Iain Pears
#75. The pear trees were bare, their limbs spread open like the viscera of a parasol. Stretching into the darkness beyond, the single houses, double houses, and villas were lined up in cramped, neat rows which ran toward the tip of the peninsula. p94
Sue Monk Kidd
#76. God forbid that I should ever suffer the shame of publishing a book for money, or of having one of my family so demean themselves. How can one tell who might read it? No worthy book has ever been written for gain, I think;
Iain Pears
#77. Shame, I do believe, is the most powerful emotion known to man; most discoveries and journeys of importance have been accomplished because of the ignominy that would be the result if the attempt was abandoned.
Iain Pears
#78. I did not like Ravenscliff by instinct, but I was beginning to find him fascinating. A book-reading, socialist-sympathising, child-begetting capitalist fraud.
Iain Pears
#79. We are the civilized world, you and I. A few dozen people, with our learning. As long as we continue to stroll through my garden arm in arm, civilization will continue.
Iain Pears
#80. I could peel you like a pear and god himself would see the justice in it.
Katharine Hepburn
#81. For what are we but our past? If that is lost, we become nothing.
Iain Pears
#82. This darkness is for sleeping, for escape; it's where I go when the other places ache with light; this is where I curl up and close my eyes and darkness flows like lava, and I dissapear into what, into nothing, into pure dark, into what there is before there is anything else.
Leslie Pietrzyk
#83. Feelings come and go, unless you don't feel them. Then they stay, and hurt, and grow pear-shaped and weird.
David Duchovny
#84. Stick to journalism, Mr Cort, where you never have to understand anything.
Iain Pears
#85. It was, for the time being, an empty threat, and he must have sensed it also, for he laughed easily and with contempt. You will do what your masters tell you to do, doctor. As do we all.
Iain Pears
#86. Besides, it was all very well to criticise the works of others, but in fact it was quite hard, he discovered, to tell a story.
Iain Pears
#87. although individuals and small events did affect the course of historical development, the influence of even major figures was strictly limited. In
Iain Pears
#88. The evil done by men of goodwill is the worst of all ... We have done terrible things, for the best of reasons, and that makes it worse.
Iain Pears
