Quotes About Prunes

#1. Tell me why the gardener trims and prunes his rosebushes, sometimes cutting away productive branches, and I will tell you why God's people are afflicted. God's hand never slips.

Billy Graham

#2. Well, at least you have led us to the small mailman and the one who smells of prunes." - "UP

Walt Disney Company

#3. A human being sheds its leaves like a tree. Sickness prunes it down; and it no longer offers the same silhouette to the eyes which loved it, to the people to whom it afforded shade and comfort.

Jules De Goncourt

#4. I had a dream about you. Your skin was sandpaper and your armpits were hollow, filled with dark chocolate and prunes. You offered me coffee and when I said no you handed me black coffee with a note that read "12 reasons not to drink coffee". I knew we would get along.

Melody Sohayegh

#5. A quiet room with cockroaches peeping out like prunes from every corner ...

Nikolai Gogol

#6. Well, art is art, isn't it? Still, on the other hand, water is water! And east is east and west is west and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does. Now, uh ... now you tell me what you know.

Groucho Marx

#7. And then the petty jealousy of these small prunes-and-prisms places - if you do anything the people you went to school with can't do some of them will never forgive you.

L.M. Montgomery

#8. There's no more faith in thee than in a stewed prune.

William Shakespeare

#9. Astronomers have built telescopes which can show myriads of stars unseen before; but when a man looks through a tear in his own eye, that is a lens which opens reaches into the unknown, and reveals orbs which no telescope, however skilfully constructed, could do.

Henry Ward Beecher

#10. That's the hard part of overdosing on cherries-you have all the pits to tell you exactly how many you ate. Not more or less. Exactly. One-seed fruits really bother me for that reason. That's why I'd always rather eat raisins than prunes. Prune pits are even more imposing than cherry pits.

Andy Warhol

#11. If life deals you prunes, make pastries! They are surprisingly delicious, but most won't even take the time to learn this.

Miriam L. Jacobs

#12. I feel like I am too old to eat jelly. But I am too young to eat prunes. I am between grapes.

Greg Fitzsimmons

#13. While it is undeniably true that people love a surprise, it is equally true that they are seldom pleased to suddenly and without warning happen upon a series of prunes in what they took to be a normal loin of pork.

Fran Lebowitz

#14. If you take cranberries and stew them like apple sauce, it tastes much more like prunes than rhubarb does.

Groucho Marx

#15. I worked in your orchards of peaches and prunes. I slept on the ground in the light of the moon. On the edge of the city you'll see us and then, we come with the dust and we go with the wind.

Woody Guthrie

#16. You think I'm gross?" Grayson asked.
"Yes, I do. You are so horny it's unhealthy. You burb in my face every time you eat onions, and you don't bother to leave the room before you fart. This afternoon you dripped your sweat on me. On purpose!

Kelly Oram

#17. American Danish can be doughy, heavy, sticky, tasting of prunes and is usually wrapped in cellophane. Danish Danish is light, crisp, buttery and often tastes of marzipan or raisins; it is seldom wrapped in anything but loving care.

R. W. Apple

#18. Instinct must be thwarted just as one prunes the branches of a tree so that it will grow better.

Henri Matisse

#19. Papa, potatoes, poultry, prunes and prism, are all very good words for the lips.

Charles Dickens

#20. The true spirit of gastronomic joylessness. Porridge fills the Englishman up, and prunes clear him out.

E. M. Forster

#21. I write abundantly. And then my next step is to struggle to reduce the ornament, to reduce the abundance-to prune the book, in other words, the way one prunes a tree-so it can grow. This is my idea of a book.

James Wright

#22. God prunes us when He is about to take us into a new season of growth and expansion.

Christine Caine

#23. I like Pirate's Booty. Prunes and olives, too. I love hummus. I can eat that until I die. I tend to eat mostly organic food.

Queen Latifah

#24. She prunes the idea away like a faded rose blossom, and quickly discards it as if the thorns might puncture her resolve.

Beth Neff

#25. The waitress scuttles away, and I make a shooing motion at the old couple who're still glaring.
"Don't you have something to better to work on?" I hiss. "Like golfing or eating prunes or dying?"
The old lady looks shocked.
"Okay, sorry, not dying. But seriously, prunes are good for you.

Sara Wolf

#26. At times of extreme intensity, the kundalini can become active. Suddenly a 70-year old lady, who can't lift a bag of prunes, will lift an automobile a few inches because her grandchild got stuck under it.

Frederick Lenz

#27. Man Cannot Always Find Out Which Route is the Most Successful for Him to Take Because His Wisdom is Limited (7:1 - 8:17)

Anonymous

#28. Hopelessness has surprised me with patience.

Margaret J. Wheatley

#29. The apples stewed with prunes are excellent, except for the prunes, I won't eat prunes myself. Well, there was one time when Hobb chopped them up with chesnuts and carrots and hid them in a hen. Never trust a cook, my lord. They'll prune you when you least expect it.

George R R Martin

#30. I have laid sorrow to sleep;Love sleeps.She who oft made me weepNow weeps.

Arthur Symons

#31. Harvard takes perfectly good plums as students, and turns them into prunes.

Frank Lloyd Wright

#32. Man who eat many prunes get good run for money.

Confucius