Top 44 Quotes About Vineyards
#1. She turns to look down at the tiered vineyards and, beyond, the vignette of Florence in the valley as if scooped up on a spoon. Its domes and spires and rooftops appearing to float on a tide of unearthly mist as inviolate and inaccessible as a private longing.
Glenn Haybittle
#2. Emilie gazed across the terrace and the formal gardens to the undulating vineyards that surrounded
Lucinda Riley
#3. Unless man is commited to the belief that all mankind are his brothers, then he labours in vain and hypocritically in the vineyards of equality
Adam Clayton Powell III
#4. I lived up on Kanan and Mulholland. It's a bit of a drive, but once you get there, the horses, vineyards, it's just so peaceful.
Tommy Lee
#5. The very best of vineyards is the cellar
Lord Byron
#6. Wine makes us proud of our past," said one official. "It gives us courage and hope." How else to explain why vignerons in Champagne rushed into their vineyards to harvest the 1915 vintage even as artillery shells were falling all around?
Don Kladstrup
#7. Chicken fizz! O Lord, protect all of us who toil in the vineyards of experimental chemistry!
Alan Bradley
#8. You may plant your acres again and raise up your fallen orchard and vineyards, but they will never flourish as they used to, never
until you learn to take joy in them, for no reason.
Peter S. Beagle
#9. In the bottle the acids were long ago resolved; the imperial dye had softened with time, as the colour grows richer in stained windows; and the glow of hot autumn afternoons on hillside vineyards, was ready to be set free and to disperse the fogs of London.
Robert Louis Stevenson
#10. How does a poor country defeat rich ones?" "Indeed, the answer is not by acquiring wealth in the sense that France has it." "Meaning vineyards, farms, peasants, cows?" "But rather to play a sort of trick and redefine wealth to mean something novel." "Currency!" "Indeed.
Neal Stephenson
#11. Mankind does not drink alcohol because there are breweries, distilleries, and vineyards; men brew beer, distill spirits, and grow grapes because of the demand for alcoholic drinks.
Ludwig Von Mises
#12. Poor France, thy fine climate, rich vineyards, and the wishes of the learned avail nothing; thou art a destitute beggar, and not the powerful friend thou wert represented to me.
John James Audubon
#13. After World War II, a lot of people moved to the cities for work and abandoned the old vineyards. Then in the 1950s and 1960s, wineries were paid to produce volume at a cheap price. That's when the Lambruscos and bad Chianti were popular.
Joe Bastianich
#14. The Italians always made good wine, but you had the impression they were friendly guys in straw hats running family vineyards with slaves or something so that the vino was never more than ten bucks a bottle.
Joe Bob Briggs
#15. Americans who visit Tuscany or Umbria love the landscape: the silvery olive groves, the fields of sunflowers, the vineyards, the stone houses and barns.
Anthony Lewis
#16. When a man's pride is subdued it's like the sides of Mount Aetna. It was terrible during the eruption, but when that is over and the lava is turned into soil, there are vineyards and olive trees which grow up to the top.
Henry Ward Beecher
#17. Would the valleys were your streets, and the green paths your alleys, that you might seek one another through vineyards, and come with the fragrance of the earth in your garments.
Kahlil Gibran
#18. As in 1914, the government mounted an extraordinary campaign to help. Winegrowers were granted delays in being called to active duty, military labor detachments were sent to the vineyards and farm horses of small growers were not to be requisitioned until the harvest was completed.
Don Kladstrup
#19. My Lebanon is a flock of birds fluttering in the early morning as shepherds lead their sheep into the meadow & rising in the evening as farmers return from their fields and vineyards.You have your Lebanon and its people. I have my Lebanon and its people.
Khalil Gibran
#20. Can eating heal you? With every bite of food steeped in the herbs and oils of Provence he seemed to absorb a little more of the land that lay ahead; it was as if he were eating the surrounding countryside. Already he could taste the wild banks of the Loire, covered in forests and vineyards.
Nina George
#21. Women enjoyed rights in Egypt they would not again enjoy for more than 2,000 years. They owned ships, ran vineyards, filed lawsuits, practiced medicine. Their husbands supported them after divorce. Their power was unprecedented.
Stacy Schiff
#22. But then I will win her back once again. I will lead her into the desert and speak tenderly to her there. I will return her vineyards to her and transform the Valley of Trouble into a gateway of hope. (Hosea 2:14-15 NLT)
Cherie Hill
#23. I want to get more involved with the vineyards I have all over the world and to spend more time with the people who work in them.
Gerard Depardieu
#25. Life's too short to drink bad wine or smoke poor cigars.
Don Johnson
#26. No nation is drunken where wine is cheap, and none sober where the dearness of wine substitutes ardent spirits as the common beverage
Thomas Jefferson
#27. In Vineyard Haven, on Martha's Vineyard, mostly I love the soft collision here of harbor and shore, the subtly haunting briny quality that all small towns have when they are situated on the sea
William Styron
#30. The best way to learn about wine is in the drinking
Alexis Lichine
#33. Is not old wine wholesomest, old pippins toothsomest, old wood burn brightest, old linen wash whitest? Old soldiers, sweethearts, are surest, and old lovers are soundest.
John Webster
#34. Drinking good wine with good food in good company is one of life's most civilized pleasures.
Michael Broadbent
#36. Fear keepes and looks to the vineyard, and not the owner.
George Herbert
#37. Arise, O Lord, and judge your own cause. Remember your reproaches to those who are filled with foolishness all through the day. Listen to our prayers, for foxes have arisen seeking to destroy the vineyard whose winepress you alone have trod.
Pope Leo X
#38. You need not hang up the ivy branch over the wine that will sell.
Publilius Syrus
#39. Today I begin a new life. Today I shed my old skin which hath, too long, suffered the bruises of failure and the wounds of mediocrity. Today I am born anew and my birthplace is a vineyard where there is fruit for all.
Og Mandino
#41. I can certainly see that you know your wine. Most of the guests who stay here wouldn't know the difference between Bordeaux and Claret.
John Cleese
#42. We thought of wine as something as healthy and normal as food and also as a great giver of happiness and well being and delight.
Ernest Hemingway,
#43. Wine ... offers a greater range for enjoyment and appreciation than possibly any other purely sensory thing which may be purchased.
Ernest Hemingway,
#44. With the farming of a verse
Make a vineyard of the curse
W. H. Auden
