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  • Pears cannot ripen alone. So we ripened together. -- Meridel Le Sueur
  • Pears are my favorite fruit! Reminds me of childhood. -- Michelle Forbes
  • Pears like I prayed all the time, 'bout my work, everywhere, I prayed an' groaned to the Lord. -- Harriet Tubman
  • You get so weak from eating pears that you fall down, and then they come and take you away on a stretcher. -- Oliver Reed
  • All men should have a drop of treason in their veins, if nations are not to go soft like so many sleepy pears. -- Rebecca West
  • Pears like my heart go flutter, flutter, and then they may say, 'Peace, Peace,' as much as they likes - I know it's goin' to be war! -- Harriet Tubman
  • As I lay so sick on my bed, from Christmas till March, I was always praying for poor ole master. 'Pears like I didn't do nothing but pray for ole master. 'Oh, Lord, convert ole master;' 'Oh, dear Lord, change dat man's heart, and make him a Christian.' -- Harriet Tubman
  • old pear tree starlings announce harvest time -- Phil Noble
  • You should go to a pear tree for pears, not to an elm. -- Publilius Syrus
  • Men, like peaches and pears, grow sweet a little while before they begin to decay. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • But square-cut or pear-shaped, These rocks don't lose their shape. Diamonds are a girl's best friend. -- Marilyn Monroe
  • There are only ten minutes in the life of a pear when it is perfect to eat. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • The stars are pears that no one can reach, even for a wedding. Perhaps for a death. -- Anne Sexton
  • If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it. -- Mao Zedong
  • Whatever you do, do it gently and unhurriedly, because virtue is not a pear to be eaten in one bite. -- Seraphim of Sarov
  • A pear-tree planted nigh: 'Twas charg'd with fruit that made a goodly show, And hung with dangling pears was every bough. -- Alexander Pope
  • As for my next book, I won't write it till it has grown heavy in my mind like a ripe pear; pendant, gravid, asking to be cut or it will fall. -- Virginia Woolf
  • He who owns a wood of proper land in this country, and, in the face of all the personal riches of the day, only raises crabs and choke pears, deserves to lose the respect of all sensible men. -- Andrew Jackson Downing
  • When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong; they taught me different was wrong. -- Ani DiFranco
  • It is commonly said by farmers, that a good pear or apple costs no more time or pains to rear, than a poor one; so I would have no work of art, no speech, or action, or thought, or friend, but the best. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it yourself. If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution. All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience. -- Mao Zedong
  • The seed of God is in us. Given an intelligent and hard-working farmer, it will thrive and grow up to God, whose seed it is; and accordingly its fruits will be God-nature. Pear seeds grow into pear trees, nut seeds into nut trees, and God-seed into God. -- Meister Eckhart
  • For her I changed pebbles into diamonds, shoes into mirrors, I changed glass into water, I gave her wings and pulled birds from her ears and in her pockets she found the feathers, I asked a pear to become a pineapple, a pineapple to become a lightbulb, a lightbulb to become the moon, and the moon to become a coin I flipped for her love... -- Nicole Krauss
  • The seed of God is in us. If the seed had a good, wise and industrious cultivator, it would thrive all the more and grow up to God whose seed it is, and the fruit would be equal to the nature of God. Now the seed of a pear tree grows into a pear tree, a hazel seed into a hazel tree, and the seed of God into God. -- Meister Eckhart
  • I was feeling well enough to eat the pears. -- Lizzie Andrew Borden
  • Make one day a mono-meal. This means, choose just one fruit and have it as much as you want. Apples, pears, or anything in season are great for mono-meals. -- Valentina Zelyaeva
  • I had always been fascinated by the whole idea that Australia was this different ecology and that when rabbits and prickly pears and other things from Europe were introduced into Australia, they ran amok. -- David Gerrold
  • Be sure to buy organic versions of the 'dirty dozen:' the fruits and vegetables that, when grown conventionally, are loaded with pesticides and chemicals: Grapes, apples, lettuce, bell peppers, carrots, nectarines, peaches, strawberries, pears, kale, and celery. -- Suzanne Somers
  • No. Now, shut up and eat your pears. -- Suzanne Collins
  • In the same [hospitable] manner that a Calabrian would press you to eat his pears. -- Horace
  • Home-grown pears are best eaten in the bath - they're so juicy, it's the easiest way to stay clean! -- Mitchell Beazley
  • avacados, prickly pears and papayas used to be gulped down whole, seeds and all, by fridge-sized armadillos called glyptodonts. -- Adam Leith Gollner
  • ...avacados, prickly pears and papayas used to be gulped down whole, seeds and all, by fridge-sized armadillos called glyptodonts. -- Adam Leith Gollner
  • I had to face the facts, I was pear-shaped. I was a bit depressed because I hate pears. 'Specially their shape. -- Charlotte Bingham
  • If music is frozen architecture, then the potpourri is frozen coffee-table gossip... Potpourri is the art of adding apples to pearsâ?¦ -- Arnold Schoenberg
  • I'm going down the apples and pears, into the jam jar, down the frog and toad into the rub-da-dub-dub, and I'm going to have pig's ear. -- Gianfranco Zola
  • A scent that disturbs me and delights me. It smells like ripe pears, vetiver, a bit of violet and something else- something spicy almost biting and exotic. -- Rebecca Wells
  • Everyone wants to feel special - attain a special status among their pears- but not too special. Most kids want to be special the same way their friends are -- Chuck Palahniuk
  • O, Winter! Put away thy snowy pride; O, Spring! Neglect the cowslip and the bell; O, Summer! Throw thy pears and plums aside; O, Autumn! Bid the grape with poison swell. -- Thomas Chatterton
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