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A statesman who shakes the fruit trees of his neighbors - to dislodge the worms. -- Ambrose Bierce
Stars and blossoming fruit-trees: utter permanence and extreme fragility give an equal sense of eternity. -- Simone Weil
A Christian should resemble a fruit tree with real fruit, not a Christmas tree with decorations tied on -- John Stott
The superfluous blossoms on a fruit tree are meant to symbolize the large way God loves to do pleasant things. -- Henry Ward Beecher
Fame is but a fruit tree- so very unsound. It can never flourish 'till its stock is in the ground. -- Nick Drake
She should be on a hill somewhere, under a fruit tree, with the sun and clouds above her and the rain to wash her clean. -- George R. R. Martin
Sometimes our fate resembles a fruit tree in winter. Who would think that those branches would turn green again and blossom, but we hope it, we know it. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Even chimps understand the concept - if a troop of chimps enters a fruit tree, they will only pick the fruits that are ripe and leave the others growing. That is sustainability. -- Jane Goodall
I have a lot of fruit trees and my own little vegetable garden and chickens. And every time I eat, I bless my food; I say I'm grateful for for it and let it nourish every part of my body. -- Gisele Bundchen
It is very rare to find ground which produces nothing; if it is not covered with flowers, with fruit trees and grains, it produces briers and pines. It is the same with man; if he is not virtuous, he becomes vicious. -- Jean de la Bruyere
Our destiny often looks like a fruit-tree in winter. Who would think from its pitiable aspect that those rigid boughs, those rough twigs could next spring again be green, bloom, and even bear fruit? Yet we hope it, we know it. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The vulnerability of precious things is beautiful because vulnerability is a mark of existence. The destruction of Troy. The fall of the petals from fruit trees in blossom. To know that what is most precious is not rooted in existence - that is beautiful. -- Simone Weil
Beneath these fruit-tree boughs that shed Their snow-white blossoms on my head, With brightest sunshine round me spread Of spring's unclouded weather, In this sequestered nook how sweet To sit upon my orchard-seat! And birds and flowers once more to greet, My last year's friends together. -- William Wordsworth
I'd love to see a new form of social security ... everyone taught how to grow their own; fruit and nut trees planted along every street, parks planted out to edibles, every high rise with a roof garden, every school with at least one fruit tree for every kid enrolled. -- Jackie French
There are blessings in being close to the soil, in raising your own food even if it is only a garden in your yard and a fruit tree or two. Those families will be fortunate who, in the last days, have an adequate supply of food because of their foresight and ability to produce their own. -- Ezra Taft Benson
We gather perfect fruit from perfect trees. -- Margaret Sanger
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Water the fruit trees and don't water the thorns. -- Rumi
The fruit of your work grows on other people's trees -- Peter Drucker
In God's garden of Grace, even broken trees bear fruit. -- Rick Warren
The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit. -- Moliere
The diligent farmer plants trees, of which he himself will never see the fruit. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
I have fruit trees. Cows for fresh milk, yoghurt. My own wheat. I'm basically self-sufficient. -- Imran Khan
Like begets like. We gather perfect fruit from perfect trees... . Abused soil brings forth stunted growths. -- Margaret Sanger
Hence it is that old men do plant young trees, the fruit whereof another age shall take. -- Sir John Davies
Virtuous persons and fruit-laden trees bow, but fools and dry sticks break because they do not bend. -- Chanakya
He is a fool who looks at the fruit of lofty trees, but does not measure their height. -- Quintus Curtius Rufus
The goldenrod is yellow,The corn is turning brown...The trees in apple orchardsWith fruit are bending down. -- Helen Hunt Jackson
Nature makes trees put down deep roots before having them bear fruit, and even this is done gradually. -- Vincent de Paul
The goldenrod is yellow, The corn is turning brown, The trees in apple orchards With fruit are bending down. -- Helen Hunt Jackson
Here come the hum the golden bees Underneath full blossomed trees, At once with glowing fruit and flowers crowned. -- James Russell Lowell
Phocion compared the speeches of Leosthenes to cypress-trees. "They are tall," said he, "and comely, but bear no fruit. -- Plutarch
I believe that music should be grown on trees, to be plucked like a fruit without the extravagance of harvest. -- Eyvind Kang
It is said that in some countries trees will grow, but will bear no fruit because there is no winter there. -- John Bunyan
Trees bend low with ripened fruit; clouds hang down with gentle rain; noble people bow graciously. This is the way of generous things. -- Bhartrhari
From the explicit prohibition against the destruction of fruit trees, our sages deduced that it is all the more forbidden to destroy the fruits themselves. -- Yehuda Levi
I used to run around barefoot and climb trees and pick fruit and sell it on the side of the road like a real island girl. -- Grace Gealey
The spirits of the air live on the smells Of fruit; and joy, with pinions light, roves round The gardens, or sits singing in the trees... -- William Blake
The desired Islamic state might be likened to an orchard planted with olive and palm trees that will take a relatively long time to produce fruit. -- Yusuf al-Qaradawi
The Walls enriched with Fruit-trees and faced with a covering of their leafy extensions; I should rather have said hung with different Pieces of Nature's noblest Tapestry. -- James Hervey
Let us learn to appreciate there will be times when the trees will be bare, and look forward to the time when we may pick the fruit. -- Anton Chekhov
I have four chickens. I have four laying hens. And I have 50 fruit trees. I make apricot and plum jam every summer. I brought Memphis to Malibu. -- Linda Thompson
I am one whose faith is, that love and friendship, with ardent natures, are like those trees of the torrid zone which yield fruit but once, and then die. -- Edward John Trelawny
I'm focusing on cultivating my land. I have vegetables and fruit trees; I want to get some chickens and solar and really get off the grid and focus on just, really, being a mother. -- Angela Lindvall

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