Top 1200 Ripe Fruit Quotes & Sayings - Page 12

The nourishing fruit of the historically understood contains time as a precious but tasteless seed.

The fruit of the Spirit is not what we can make ourselves do for a moment, But what God makes us to be for a lifetime.

They are fruit and transport: ripening melons, prairie schooners journeying under full sail.

Nobody knows when you make an effort or when you plant a seed if it will bear fruit or not.

It's looks like someone slapped you in the face with a fruit roll-up or something!

All through autumn we hear a double voice: one says everything is ripe; the other says everything is dying. The paradox is exquisite. We feel what the Japanese call "aware"--an almost untranslatable word meaning something like "beauty tinged with sadness.

I heard somebody say that you can't judge a tree by the bark it wears but by the fruit it bears.

Time is a blooming field: nature is ever teeming with life: and all is seed, and all is fruit.

creative thought seems prone to flower in symbols before it ripens to fruit.

I put fruit on top of my waffles, because I want something to brush off.

God is more interested in what we are than in what we do. He looks for fruit; we try to produce works.

The true fruit of travel is perhaps the feeling of being nearly everywhere at home.

For we were little Christian children and early learned the value of forbidden fruit.

Once we're willing to confront our emotional suffering, we begin making choices based on attraction instead of aversion, love instead of fear. Where we used to think about what was 'safe,' we now become interested in doing what seems right or fun or meaningful or ripe with possibilities.

Read as you taste fruit or savor wine, or enjoy friendship, love, or life.

Be willing to wait longer for you goals to bear fruit than you had anticipated.

The fruit of keeping covenants is the companionship of the Holy Ghost and an increase in the power to love.

A ministry of power must be the fruit of a holy, peaceful, loving intimacy with the Lord.

Silent rushes the swift Lord Through ruined systems still restored, Broadsowing, bleak and void to bless, Plants with worlds the wilderness; Waters with tears of ancient sorrow Apples of Eden ripe to-morrow. House and tenant go to ground, Lost in God, in Godhead found.

Adversity is the touchstone of character: it is not in success but in misfortune that hidden powers bear fruit.

He who lives upon the fruit of his own labor, escapes the contempt of haughty benefactors.

The rich flavors of duck meat have always attracted sweet, fruit-based sauces.

I eat a lot of salad, a little meat, and some fruit. That's all. But I like sweets.

At home, off-duty, I wear T-shirts from Fruit of the Loom - but I have them tailored.

Read as you taste fruit or savor wine, or enjoy friendship, love or life.

I had a mind inquiring enough to question world events, as well as the passion fostered by my background to care, but I lacked the emotional maturity to process these things. That made me ripe for Islamist recruitment. Into this ferment came my recruiter, himself straight out of a London medical college.

My roses are my jewels; the sun, moon, and stars my clocks; fruit and water my fare.

I eat a lot of salad, a little meat, and some fruit—that’s all. But I like sweets.

Never throw fruit at someone who understands the theatrics of the situation better than you do.

Every week, I heave open a supermarket skip and find therein a more exotic shopping list of items than I could possibly have invented - Belgian chocolates, ripe bananas, almond croissants, stone-ground raisin bread - often so much it would have fed a hundred people.

...the avocado is a food without rival among the fruits, the veritable fruit of paradise

When man desires to live as long as a tree, his diet will be fruit.

I had to restrain myself from buying a book on 19th-century fruit knives.

Graciousness is the fruit of someone who knows how badly they themselves need grace.

Welcome to Israel, where the beaches are great, the fruit is succulent, the landscape is mesmerizing, and all of it is stolen.

If allowed to continue, this process will turn the United States into a declining, unfair society with an impoverished, angry, uneducated population under the control of a small, ultrawealthy elite. Such a society would be not only immoral but also eventually unstable, dangerously ripe for religious and political extremism.

Can someone eat the fruit that comes from the tree of action that grows from the seeds of your mind?

My books are, in a way, a record of my life - that part of it that came to flower and fruit in my mind.

There's a way to express femininity and independence and strength without going for hanging fruit.

My concern has always been to paint nudes as if they were some splendid fruit.

Baseball grew rapidly in favor; the field was ripe. America needed a live outdoor sport, and this game exactly suited the national temperament. It required all the manly qualities of activity, endurance, pluck, and skill peculiar to cricket, and was immeasurably superior to that game in exciting features.

Politicians learned hundreds of years ago that people who had little material wealth were incredibly jealous of those who had more than they did. This deep-seated envy was ripe for exploitation - and the exploitation has been running rampant for generations.

A person of mature years and ripe development, who is expecting nothing from literature but the corroboration and renewal of past ideas, may find satisfaction in a lucidity so complete as to occasion no imaginative excitement, but young and ambitious students are not content with it. They seek the excitement because they are capable of the growth that it accompanies.

The most deadly fruit is borne by the hatred which one grafts on an extinguished friendship.

The rich fruit of spontaneity grows in the garden that is well tended by the discipline of schedule.

I love roasted beets with goat cheese. I am also a fruit addict.

The fruit of liberal education is not learning, but the capacity and desire to learn, not knowledge, but power.

The most deadly fruit is borne by the hatred which one grafts on an extinguished friendship

I believe that peace with the Palestinians is most urgent - urgent than ever before. It is necessary. It is crucial. It is possible. A delay may worsen its chances. Israel and the Palestinians are, in my judgment, ripe today to restart the peace process.

According to the letter of the Gita, it is possible to say that warfare is consistent with renunciation of fruit.

India has known the innocence and insouciance of childhood, the passion and abandon of youth, and the ripe wisdom of maturity that comes from long experience of pain and pleasure; and over and over a gain she has renewed her childhood and youth and age

The lowest-hanging fruit in preventative medicine is just to really focus on nutrition.

For human beings, love is the most important fruit of experience in the sense world.

Where the roots of private virtue are diseased, the fruit of public probity cannot but be corrupt.

I am fit at 88 years of age. I do yoga and also go jogging 2-3 times which has kept me fit and healthy even at this ripe age in which many people keep seeing doctors.

Don't be polite. Bite in. Pick it up with your fingers and lick the juice that may run down your chin. It is ready and ripe now, whenever you are. You do not need a knife or fork or spoon. For there is no core or stem or rind or pit or seed or skin to throw away.

I eat a variety of foods like vegetables, fruit and beef for protein and iron.

Between food and fashion, there's always a direct correlations - designers have forever done prints with food on them. Vegetables, fruit, apples. There are some beautiful prints that have been made with fruit over time. I think food and restaurants have become more and more fashionable over time. That's become more of a fashion thing than fashion becoming a food thing. I don't think fashion has gotten so food oriented in the reverse aspect, but I think the whole food industry has gotten very design oriented. I think it's a nice way of putting things together.

I eat lots of fruit for breakfast because it's cleansing and quickly digested by the body.

I think that if you shake the tree, you ought to be around when the fruit falls to pick it up.