Quotes About Raspberry

#1. He loved three things alone:
White peacocks, evensong,
old maps of America.
He hated children crying,
and raspberry jam with his tea,
and womanish hysteria.
...And then he married me.


1911

Anna Akhmatova

#2. Clothes have special power. I'll always remember the raspberry colored v-necked silk sweater I was wearing on my husband and my first date. If I hadn't been wearing that sweater that night, would any of it have happened?

Delia Ephron

#3. The air is like a draught of wine.
The undertaker cleans his sign,
The Hull express goes off the line,
When it's raspberry time in Runcorn.

Noel Coward

#4. His ears and nose were raspberry red, and when he spoke, a cloud of vapor billowed from his mouth. I wanted to tell him to cover his ears, immediately felt like my mother, and didn't. He's a big boy. If his lobes crack off, he'll deal with it.

Kathy Reichs

#5. Modern music is three farts and a raspberry, orchestrated.

John Barbirolli

#6. We walked back the way we came, and even though it was dark there were no lights burning inside the houses. They were like people without hearts; raspberry tarts without the jam.

Glenda Millard

#7. Two grande lattes, double espresso, Italian blend," he said to the clerk. "Light on the froth, extra cinnamon. Use whole milk. Not two percent or half-and-half. Put a shot of raspberry in one for my itchy witch here.

Kim Harrison

#8. She was beautiful all right, beautiful in a way that was at once seductive, demonic, and raspberry.

Stanislaw Lem

#9. They had been discovered and shot from behind. Now they were dying in the snow, feeling nothing, turning the snow into the color of raspberry sherbet. So it goes

Kurt Vonnegut

#10. Yes, ma'am, I like raspberry cake, only I like it better with no poison or scorpions in it.

Frances Hardinge

#11. Raspberry Sorbet with Capers

Ellen DeGeneres

#12. There is something in the red of a raspberry pie that looks as good to a man as the red in a sheep looks to a wolf.

E.W. Howe

#13. Maybe I fell in love with the idea of love, but I'm a teenage girl. This morning I fell in love with raspberry jam and a puppy in a tiny raincoat. I'm not exactly Earth's top authority on the subject.

Leah Raeder

#14. grande latte, double espresso, Italian blend, light on the froth, heavy on the cinnamon, with a shot of raspberry?

Kim Harrison

#15. Anyone who, for 25 years, has built a career on such tenuous foundations as a high-pitched giggle, a raspberry and a sprinkling of top 'Cs' needs all the friends he can get.

Harry Secombe

#16. The world was her oyster, except she didn't care for oysters. Better yet, the world was her raspberry. She liked raspberries.

Kevin J. Anderson

#17. Three things in this world he loved:

Evensong, white peacocks
And worn maps of America.

He didn't like crying children,
Tea with raspberry jam
Or hysterical women.

And I was his wife.

Anna Akhmatova

#18. And Miss Oleander Coy had herself a blue mouth. Little stains at the edges of her raspberry lips where she put her pen when she was thinking, which was always.

Catherynne M Valente

#19. The merriment of everything from foot-high weeds to hundred-foot oaks, rustling in the wind - grave chuckling of maples and alders, titters from groves of sapling sassafras, silly giggling in the raspberry bushes, a huge belly laugh from the oldest hollow ash tree before the freeway interchange.

Diane Duane

#20. Imagine a world, in which your entire possession is one raspberry, and you give it to your friend.

Gerda Weissmann Klein

#21. So, to start with, you might be wondering how this chick with a monkey on her back about the size
of King Kong is running about staking nasties and whatnot. Well, truth be told, I've been stretching the
truth like it was a big handful of raspberry-flavored saltwater taffy.

Kathleen Tierney

#22. Put cream and sugar on a fly and it tastes very much like a raspberry.

E.W. Howe

#23. It looked like pieces of bread pudding that had been soaked in raspberry syrup.

Diana Rowland

#24. Touched by her fingers, the two surviving chocolate people copulate desperately, losing themselves in a melting frenzy of lust, spending the last of their brief borrowed lives in a spasm of raspberry cream and fear.

Neil Gaiman

#25. As a young man, I used to sport a rather ragged beard [ ... ]; it doesn't suit and in its untended state I can often come to look like a set of sensory organs lost in a raspberry bush.

Claire North

#26. Now ... get Thoth a raspberry chocolate latte with the cream and chocolate sprinkles! Thoth commands, librarian! Obey! Sprinkles! THOTH HAS SPOKEN!

James Turner

#27. Have you ever noticed that once you have had a tasted of certain sweets- raspberry trifle is my own despair- it is quite impossible not to think, not to want, not to crave until you have taken another bite?

Elizabeth Hoyt

#28. You have a perfect right to consign us all to hell, rector, but you must allow us the choice of how we get there.
Raspberry Jam

Angus Wilson

#29. You know what a fan letter is - it's just an inky raspberry.

Bob Hope

#30. Briar thrust a crystal cup with a silver spoon into Apple's hands. "Whipped air. Try it. Totally invisible and totally good." Apple dipped the spoon into the empty cup and touched it to her tongue. The nothingness tasted like chocolate-raspberry swirl. "Mm, this is amazing.

Shannon Hale

#31. And I love the beret. Just glad that it wasn't raspberry." "Or from a secondhand store," he deadpanned. "Although I would love to see you in it. And if it was warm ...

Emily Giffin

#32. I open my eyes and blow a straggle of hair out of my face. Not my hair, smitty's. his head is buried in the crook of my neck and he's out cold. he uses raspberry shampoo? what a big girl.

Kirsty McKay

#33. Everyone has the talent to some degree: even making a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, you know whether it tastes better to you with raspberry jam or grape jelly; on chewy pumpernickel or white toast.

Anna D. Shapiro

#34. Tangwystl, I think we're in a little bit of trouble." Cheerfully, she said: Stab-stabby. "Yeah, not that kind." She blew a raspberry. Apparently all trouble was the stabby kind in Tangwystl's world.

Cate Lawley

#35. Theo shook out the half square of heavy silk. "It will make all the difference to this insipid gown." With one sharp wrench she pulled out the lace fichu tucked into her bodice and replaced it with the scarf. It flashed raspberry red against the almond-colored muslin of her gown.

Eloisa James

#36. Reunited with strawberry, raspberry and blueberry, I am berry, berry happy to be back working with JELL-O.

Bill Cosby

#37. For future reference, Harry, it is raspberry ... although of course, if I were a Death Eater, I would have been sure to research my own jam preferences before impersonating myself.

J.K. Rowling

#38. Naomi shook her head, blowing an exasperated raspberry at him. Her dark hair fell across her face

James S.A. Corey

#39. If I could have a quart of Haagan Dazs White Chocolate Raspberry Truffle administered to my veins via IV, I swear I would do it.

Leah Marie Brown

#40. Let's stop by the shades of a tavern--
Selling raspberry handshakes,
Let's recline by the shimmer of a lantern-
Trampling the silence of snowflakes;

Ashfaq Saraf

#41. Those running tights the young women wear now, so they look like spacewomen, raspberry red and electric green so tight they show every muscle right into the crack between the buttocks, what is the point of them? Display. Young animals need to display.

John Updike

#42. Raspberry, strawberry, lemon and lime
What do I care
Blueberry, apple, cherry, pumpkin and plum
Call me for dinner
Honey, I'll be there

Bob Dylan

#43. Peppermint swirled into my nostrils, sharp as glass, then raspberry almost to sweet, like too-ripe fruit. Apple, crisp and pure. Nuts, buttery, warm, earthy

Maggie Stiefvater

#44. Pass the raspberry jam, please." "It's called jelly in the States." Zander handed over the tiny jar of compote.

Karina Bliss

#45. The Law of Raspberry Jam: the wider any culture is spread, the thinner it gets.

Alvin Toffler

#46. I like a much more Japanese style of blood, where it's red and it almost has a paint kind of quality to it. You can put it on metal, and it has this vividness. Because, normally, what they use in Hollywood is this stuff that looks like strawberry pancake syrup or raspberry pancake syrup.

Quentin Tarantino

#47. Here is the most valuable thing in the whole of Moomin Valley, Groke! Do you know what has grown out of this hat? Raspberry juice and fruit trees, and the most beautiful little self-propelling clouds: the only Hobgoblin's Hat in the world!

Tove Jansson

#48. You're missing the point! ... We could make it rain cupcakes from the sky! Raspberry-jam pies would grow on trees, and chocolate rabbits would poop chocolate buttons!

Lisa Mantchev

#49. I'm an afternoon tea type of girl. I come from a Russian background where we love our teas. So between lunch and dinner after training I come home and I love a nice cup of tea with jam in it, as we drink it there. Black English Breakfast with raspberry jam is my favorite.

Maria Sharapova

#50. They were in every colour sweets can be, such as Not-Really-Raspberry Red, Fake-Lemon Yellow, Curiously-Chemical Orange, Some-Kind-of-Acidy Green and Who-Knows-What Blue.

Terry Pratchett

#51. Your best shot at happiness, self-worth and personal satisfaction - the things that constitute real success - is not in earning as much as you can but in performing as well as you can something that you consider worthwhile.

William Raspberry

#52. Good English, well spoken and well written will open more doors than a college degree ... Bad English will slam doors you don't even know exist.

William Raspberry

#53. It is a mistake to suppose that requiring the nonmathematical to take more advanced math courses will enhance their understanding and not merely exacerbate their sense of inadequacy.

William Raspberry

#54. It's always illegitimate for white men to organize as white men.

William Raspberry

#55. Scandal has a thousand stringers; good news doesn't know the editor's phone number.

William Raspberry

#56. If I could offer a single prescription for the survival of America, and particularly black America, it would be to restore the family. And if you asked me how to do it, my answer - doubtlessly oversimplified - would be; save the boys.

William Raspberry

#57. And, yes, words matter. They may reflect reality, but they also have the power to change reality - the power to uplift and to abase.

William Raspberry

#58. People who believe a problem can be solved tend to get busy solving it.

William Raspberry