I was wondering, do we get the best of Swedish music or just the best of Swedish music that speaks English? Sweden has a population of nine million. And with all these acts coming out it just seems like very ripe for musical success. I don't know how they do it.
If we should be blessed by some great reward, such as fame or fortune, it's the fruit of a seed planted by us in the past.
What's not to aspire to about how to grow your own fruit and vegetables and plants, and then being creative?
With American Morons, Glen Hirshberg confidently shoulders his way through the generational pack to claim his rightful place on the summit. These stories are smart, challenging, ripe with feeling, expansive in every way: Horror as it should be writ, and as only the best and most expressive can write it.
I drove my mother crazy because I'd juggle the apples in the fruit bowl and take a bite out of one or two.
Novelty is to love like bloom to fruit; it gives a luster which is easily effaced, but never returns.
When people are oppressed, and human rights are denied - particularly along sectarian lines or ethnic lines - when dissent is silenced, it feeds violent extremism, it creates an environment that is ripe for terrorists to exploit. When peaceful, democratic change is impossible, it feeds into the terrorist propaganda that violence is the only answer available.
The greatest service which can be rendered any country is to add a useful plant to its culture. --The Fruit Hunters
My soul, be satisfied with flowers, with fruit, with weeds even; but gather them in the one garden you may call your own.
Pleasure only starts once the worm has got into the fruit; to become delightful, happiness must be tainted with poison.
When young, we trust ourselves too much, and we trust others too little when old. Rashness is the error of youth, timid caution of age. Manhood is the isthmus between the two extremes; the ripe and fertile season of action, when alone we can hope to find the head to contrive, united with the hand to execute.
The first narcotics bust in history is Jehovah busting Adam and Eve for eating of the fruit of the tree of knowledge.
I go for crunchy things - I like green beans, broccoli, asparagus, celery and carrots. I'm not a fruit eater, though.
When you're someone who's lived a life where certain resources were scarce, you always feel like abundance is forbidden fruit.
Fools, their wisdom weak,
are their own enemies
as they go through life,
doing evil
that bears
bitter fruit.
I like a protein shake after the gym; I think that's important. I also eat lots of fruit and vegetables.
If the family were a fruit, it would be an orange, a circle of sections, held together but separable - each segment distinct.
I was in Las Vegas, playing on the fruit machines. I was only 20 at the time and I won the jackpot of $72,000, of which I couldn't claim.
I start my day with granola, fresh fruit, and skim milk and end it with something healthy that also comes from my own kitchen.
I like to eat a lot of fruit and starchy things to give myself more energy before games.
I grew up watching the films of 'Carousel' and 'Oklahoma' and 'The Music Man' and 'My Fair Lady' - all the classic musicals of that golden era, The sort of more modern musical theater, or what was modern when I was at a ripe teenage age, I wasn't really listening to that stuff. I was really more raised on the classics.
Here come the hum the golden bees
Underneath full blossomed trees,
At once with glowing fruit and flowers crowned.
Discipline is the highest of all virtues. Only so may strength and desire be counterbalanced and the endeavors of man bear fruit.
I don't go for the nouvelle approach - serving a rabbit rump with coffee extract sauce and a slice of kiwi fruit.
[L]et me point out that libertarians defend a tradition of liberty that is the fruit of thousands of years of human history.
Liberty is slow fruit. It is never cheap; it is made difficult because freedom is the accomplishment and perfectness of man.
The harvest moon has no innocence, like the slim quarter moon of a spring twilight, nor has it the silver penny brilliance of the moon that looks down upon the resorts of summer time. Wise, ripe, and portly, like an old Bacchus, it waxes night after night.
We have lots of fruit trees and vegetables - we live endlessly on courgettes. I certainly wouldn't approve of a diet of McDonald's for my children.
Good news for orange lovers: citrus fruit intake has been associated with reduced stroke risk.
I've got a friend who has a juice business and he brings boxes round and fills up my fridge with fruit and vegetable juices.
Honestly, there always has to be a jar of Marmite in the cupboard. And a bag of Fruit Gums. That's living with a British man for me.
I eat foods such as fish, chicken, fruit and vegetables while avoiding red meat, dairy and wheat.
The shape and texture of fruit is sensuous and fascinating, but the true delight blossoms when you experience the flavor of these colorful gifts of nature.
[s]he was a compulsive pessimist, always looking for the soft brown spot in the fruit, pressing so hard she created it.
Certainly, shows like 'Black Mirror' helped me. I should send them a fruit basket.
Pharmaceutical projects are like fresh fruit - they depreciate if they are not tended to, and they do poorly if sitting on the shelf with long periods of inactivity.
The day of fortune is like a harvest day,
We must be busy when the corn is ripe.
[Ger., Ein tag der Gunst ist wie ein Tag der Ernte,
Man muss geschaftig sein sobald sie reift.]
Oh, yesterday, that one, we all cry out. Oh, that one! How rich and possible everything was! How ripe, ready, lavish, and filled with excitement--how hopeful we were on those summer days, under the clean, white racing clouds. Oh, yesterday!
Natural ability is by far the best, but many men have succeeded in winning high renown by skill that is the fruit of teaching.
Loyal and efficient work in a great cause, even though it may not be immediately recognized, ultimately bears fruit.
I am finding deep joy in depending on Christ for the guidance only He can provide as He produces the fruit of gospel in my life.
The strawberry grows underneath the nettle And wholesome berries thrive and ripen best Neighbour'd by fruit of baser quality.
A fruit is not afraid of its own weight. It grows into its skin fully. It is whole, each part of its body equally alive.
The right of commanding is no longer an advantage transmitted by nature; like an inheritance, it is the fruit of labors, the price of courage.
To speak of sin without grace is to minimize the resurrection of Jesus Christ, the fruit of the Spirit, and the hope of shalom.
When a society is organized around that which is fitting in each realm, then peace, the fruit of justice, can flourish.
I walk around talking to myself in accents. Usually people look at me like I'm a complete fruit loop.
What is sublime? / the artist said. / I haven't time / to be well read. / To be sub lime / I'll place, instead, / green citrus fruit / upon my head.
When I want to feel especially grateful, I think about the early days dressing up as an orange for Fruit Awareness Week.
My brother and I had saved $15,000 by working many years nailing fruit crates together.
Because of them I can now live the dream. I am the seed of the free, and I know it. I intend to bear great fruit.
I'm a farmer's market girl, so if you go and get beautiful, fresh fruit, that's local, and it hasn't been frozen yet, it's pretty fantastic.
Human beings have the capacity to learn to want almost any conceivable material object. Given, then, the emergence of a modern industrial culture capable of producing almost anything, the time is ripe for opening the storehouse of infinite need!... It is the modern Pandora's box, and its plagues are loose upon the world.
He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit, He that leaps the wide gulf should prevail in his suit.
One is not allowed a grief for a life never lived. Yet one has buried the fruit of love, and a great deal of hope and many dreams.
Whenever we accept an idea as authority instead of as instrument, an idol is set up. We worship the plough, and not the fruit.
We could eliminate sugar across the board for all confectionary products and sodas, and we can replace it with all-natural fresh fruit.
Poached quince are so tender, aromatic, and rosy that you'd hardly believe the raw fruit is white, fibrous, and hard as a rock.
I am sure that in the story of Adam and Eve, the forbidden fruit was a fig and not an apple, pear or anything else.
I eat a lot of fresh fruit and vegetables not so much meat and fish. Baguettes and croissants are not an everyday food for me.
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