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  • In our short walks we passed the kitchen where food was prepared for the nurses and doctors. There we got glimpses of melons and grapes and all kinds of fruits, beautiful white bread and nice meats, and the hungry feeling would be increased tenfold. -- Nellie Bly
  • Men and Melons are hard to know. -- Benjamin Franklin
  • Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each slice. -- Barbra Streisand
  • I have no hostility to nature, but a child's love to it. I expand and live in the warm day like corn and melons. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • My melon soul Crushed by your Gallagher of apathy -- David Wong
  • Even melon grown in shade will ripen in the end. -- Roland Winters
  • Do not resemble me-Never be like a musk melon Cut in two identical halves. -- Matsuo Basho
  • When you slick back your hair, you get a really good idea of just how melon-like your head actually is. -- Nathan Fillion
  • But see, in our open clearings, how golden the melons lie; Enrich them with sweets and spices, and give us the pumpkin-pie! -- Margaret Junkin Preston
  • Tapping melons with your knuckles is a good way of making your selection in the store, but apparently it's frowned upon at the strip club. -- Brad Wilkerson
  • When I shop for fruit & melons I like to hold a grape next to a cantaloupe & think of Earth next to Jupiter. Then I eat Earth. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
  • A herd of prairie-wolves will enter a field of melons and quarrel about the division of the spoils as fiercely and noisily as so many politicians. -- William Cullen Bryant
  • Unless you're Shannon Hoon (of Blind Melon), dying is the only thing that guarantees a rock star will have a legacy that stretches beyond temporary relevance. -- Chuck Klosterman
  • I realized that I've had a really rocky relationship with food - it has not been a gauzy, beautiful summer of ripe melons and perfectly buttered toast. -- Kate Christensen
  • I don't know what first got me to attack melons. It's not like I ate a bad one and got an upset stomach. It just eventually seemed like the appropriate fruit. -- Ricky Jay
  • I think all kids need snacks. Mine are fruit machines. I give them things like apple slices, berries and melon. Do I let them eat ice cream? Absolutely. But not every day. -- Emeril Lagasse
  • I have a theory that kitchens, once they reach a certain level of complexity, attract new gadgets into their orbit, like planets. Only this can account for the fact that I own two melon ballers. -- Kerry Greenwood
  • How well a posse policy will fare in a world with 3 billion people below the poverty line and nuclear warheads scattered around a dozen or more regions like melons in a field, is not easy to imagine. -- Herbert Schiller
  • Soon it got dusk, a grapy dusk, a purple dusk over tangerine groves and long melon fields; the sun the color of pressed grapes, slashed with burgandy red, the fields the color of love and Spanish mysteries. -- Jack Kerouac
  • The charm, one might say the genius, of memory is that it is choosy, chancy and temperamental; it rejects the edifying cathedral and indelibly photographs the small boy outside, chewing a hunk of melon in the dust. -- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
  • I mean, I come from a hippie mentality where I just think to know someone, you need to look into their eyes. Eyes are so important. Until they start melon-balling eyes out, I won't be able to get to know someone another way. -- Drew Barrymore
  • What wondrous life is this I lead! Ripe apples drop about my head; The luscious clusters of the vine Upon my mouth do crush their wine; The nectarine and curious peach Into my hands themselves do reach; Stumbling on melons, as I pass, Ensnared with flowers, I fall on grass. -- Andrew Marvell
  • From the great trees the locusts cry In quavering ecstatic duo-a boy Shouts a wild call-a mourning dove In the blue distance sobs-the wind Wanders by, heavy with odors Of corn and wheat and melon vines; The trees tremble with delirious joy as the breeze Greets them, one by one-now the oak Now the great sycamore, now the elm. -- Hamlin Garland
  • The basic scam in the Internet age is pretty easy even for the financially illiterate to grasp. It was as if banks like Goldman were wrapping ribbons around watermelons, tossing them out fiftieth-story windows, and opening the phones for bids. In this game you were a winner only if you took your money out before the melon hit the pavement. -- Matt Taibbi
  • I was a knight," Andrea said. "I'm not just going to start shooting every dickhead who mouths off to me." "Just making sure." "Besides, if I shot him, I'd do it so nobody could trace it back to me. I'd shoot him somewhere remote, his head would explode like a melon, and they would never find his body. He would just vanish. -- Ilona Andrews
  • They are fruit and transport: ripening melons, prairie schooners journeying under full sail. -- Kathleen Norris
  • A herd of prairie-wolves will enter a field of melons and quarrel about the division of the spoils as fiercely and noisily as so many politicians. -- William Cullen Bryant
  • HI. Iâ??m from Arkansas, the cantaloupe state. And tonight, I hope you will hold my melons close to your heart and vote me your Miss Teen Dream. -- Libba Bray
  • I say, look at the melons on that lass," Ian exclaimed, his gaze now on the TV. "And hung like a stallion, he is." "Focus, mate," Spade muttered. -- Jeaniene Frost
  • Beware of solipsism Funny word. Sounds like it means "love of melons" or something. I looked it up. It means believing that "the self is the only reality." Am I solipsist? -- Jerry Spinelli
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