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  • Hot dogs and Red Vines and potato chips and French fries are my favorite foods. -- Betty White
  • A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines. -- Frank Lloyd Wright
  • The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his client to plant vines - so they should go as far as possible from home to build their first buildings. -- Frank Lloyd Wright
  • I am not bound for any public place, but for ground of my own where I have planted vines and orchard trees, and in the heat of the day climbed up into the healing shadow of the woods. -- Wendell Berry
  • The duty of the branch is to cling to the vine. -- Max Lucado
  • Many of my early Vines and collaborations were with gay people. -- Nash Grier
  • Happiness is a vine that takes root and grows within the heart, never outside it. -- Khalil Gibran
  • People pretend not to like grapes when the vines are too high for them to reach -- Marguerite de Navarre
  • Without the frown of clouds and lightning, the vines would be burned by the smiling sun. -- Rumi
  • Everything - a horse, a vine - is created for some duty... For what task, then, were you yourself created? -- Marcus Aurelius
  • The peoples of the Mediterranean began to emerge from barbarism when they learned to cultivate the olive and the vine. -- Thucydides
  • As naturally as the oak bears an acorn and the vine a gourd, man bears a poem, either spoken or done. -- Henry David Thoreau
  • I love Vines. You make this 6.4-second drama, and you can reach 6 million viewer, and make people laugh. I find it so fabulous. -- Joan Rivers
  • Compromise means to go just a little bit below what you know is right. It's just a little bit, but it's the little foxes that spoil the vine. -- Joyce Meyer
  • I feel like there's a lot of noise in the social space. The Vines and Instagrams of the world are gaining traction, and their solutions are perfect for their communities. -- Chad Hurley
  • To the eyes of a miser a guinea is more beautiful than the sun, and a bag worn with the use of money has more beautiful proportions than a vine filled with grapes. -- William Blake
  • We ought to do good to others as simply as a horse runs, or a bee makes honey, or a vine bears grapes season after season without thinking of the grapes it has borne. -- Marcus Aurelius
  • Country to me is living life at its simplest: Learning to appreciate a sliced vine-ripe tomato with a dash of salt, served between two slices of good bread and eaten over the kitchen sink. -- Art Smith
  • Behold the rain which descends from heaven upon our vineyards; there it enters the roots of the vines, to be changed into wine; a constant proof that God loves us, and loves to see us happy. -- Benjamin Franklin
  • I have to have lemon and honey. I have to have apple cider vinegar, Braggs. And I have to have either Red Vines or Twizzlers. These things, you know, are the things that help my vocal performance. -- Mary J. Blige
  • I don't think the Barbara Vines are mysteries in any sense. The Barbara Vine is much more slowly paced. It is a much more in-depth, searching sort of book; it doesn't necessarily have a murder in it. -- Ruth Rendell
  • Now, most dentist's chairs go up and down, don't they? The one I was in went back and forwards. I thought 'This is unusual'. And the dentist said to me 'Mr Vine, get out of the filing cabinet. -- Tim Vine
  • He died right after he retired, and seeing that made me feel more conscious of a man needing a motive to live. If I ever got out of coaching, I would have to get a job somewhere, or I'm afraid I'd wilt on the vine, too. -- Bobby Bowden
  • Affliction brings out graces that cannot be seen in a time of health. It is the treading of the grapes that brings out the sweet juices of the vine; so it is affliction that draws forth submission, weanedness from the world, and complete rest in God. Use afflictions while you have them. -- Robert E. Murray
  • Then Carol slipped her arm under her neck, and all the length of their bodies touched fitting as if something had prearranged it. Happiness was like a green vine spreading through her, stretching fine tendrils, bearing flowers through her flesh. She had a vision of a pale white flower, shimmering as if seen in darkness, or through water. Why did people talk of heaven, she wondered -- Patricia Highsmith
  • Vines and trees will teach you that which you will never learn from masters. -- Bernard of Clairvaux
  • We found vines of a large size, and in some cases quite loaded with grapes; we also found an abundance of roses, which appeared to be like those of Castile. -- Junipero Serra
  • One killer exercise that's really great is pull-ups with your legs out level. That's my favourite. It's such functional core strength, and that's why I can climb up trees and down vines. -- Bear Grylls
  • I'm definitely looking forward to the day when I stop working - if I ever stop working. I like the idea of keeling over in my tomato vines in Sardinia or northern Italy. -- Anthony Bourdain
  • There are some men who are frightened by strong women and some men who are nurtured by them and feel nervous, with weak clinging vines. And I am very much of the latter category. -- Julian Fellowes
  • Religions in general have to rediscover their roots. In Hinduism and the Koran, animals are described as equals. If you walk into a cathedral and look at the decorations of early Christianity, there are vines, animals, creatures and birds thriving all over the stonework. -- Margaret Atwood
  • There is nothing in the world like the extraordinary Shiraz and Grenache wines from South Australia. While the most sought-after are undeniably expensive (they're made in tiny quantities from ancient vines), they are huge, rich and concentrated, and represent some of planet Earth's most compelling wines. -- Robert M. Parker, Jr.
  • My unrealized ambition is to tend my vines, produce wine, and work like an artisan. I dream of rediscovering the old traditions and customs of wine growing, not necessarily to deny the technology which we have today, but to harness it and work in harmony with nature. -- Gerard Depardieu
  • I don't do a lot when I'm in Gascony. I swim and play the odd game of golf, but mainly I sit around. We're set an hour-and-a-half from the Pyrenees and an hour-and-a-half from the Bay of Biscay, so we get plenty of storms. But we're surrounded by vines and sunflowers - it's lovely. -- Terry Wogan
  • To happy convents, bosomed deep in vines, Where slumber abbots, purple as their wines. -- Alexander Pope
  • Sometimes the taproot and the vines are far apart. Like English and the Asian poem. -- Shirley Geok-lin Lim
  • Words slip into a language the way white-green vines slide between slats in a fence. -- Tim Seibles
  • Sorrows are gardeners: they plant flowers along waste places, and teach vines to cover barren heaps. -- Henry Ward Beecher
  • Naked you are blue like the night in Cuba,you have vines and stars in your hair, -- Pablo Neruda
  • A red brick Presbyterian church... captured by kudzu vines as surely as a butterfly in a net. -- Barbara Ascher
  • After a war life catches desperately at passing hints of normalcy like vines entwining a hollow twig. -- Chinua Achebe
  • In an old house in Paris that was covered with vines 74 lived twelve little girls in two straight lines. -- Ludwig Bemelmans
  • Flat fields produce mediocre grapes, but rolling hills produce the greatest grapes. Why? Because the vines must struggle for survival. -- Billy Cannon
  • Around them small animals scampered along knotted cables and flaking vines, chirruping, squealing, venting yellow farts. Everywhere was animation, purpose, hurry. Momentum." -- Gregory Benford
  • She had come into the garden expecting summer roses and had instead been caught in a bank of twisted, thorny, frostbitten vines. -- Nenia Campbell
  • A wise, joyous bookit unfolds the knowledge and the beauty of the two lives it embraces-old wisdom and young discover, intertwining like vines. -- Rex Reed
  • People are like vines ... We are born and we grow. Like vines, people also need a tree to cling to, to give them support. -- Elizabeth Kata
  • Critics must excuse me if I compare them to certain animals called asses, who, by gnawing vines, originally taught the great advantage of pruning them. -- William Shenstone
  • September fattens on vines. Roses flake from the wall. The smoke of harmless fires drifts to my eyes. This is plenty. This is more than enough. -- Geoffrey Hill
  • You know how the bonds of family are, my lady... They cling as tightly as vines. And sometimes, like vines, they cling tightly enough to kill. -- Cassandra Clare
  • To savour Istanbul's back streets, to appreciate the vines and trees that endow its ruins with accidental grace, you must, first and foremost, be a stranger to them. -- Orhan Pamuk
  • The lives of people are like young trees in a forest. They are being choked by climbing vines. The vines are old thoughts and beliefs planted by dead men. -- Sherwood Anderson
  • Radio, sewing machine, bookends, ironing board and that great big piano lamp - peace, that's what I like. Butterbean vines planted all along the front where the strings are. -- Eudora Welty
  • I know that wine is, above all else, a blessing, a gift of nature, a joy as pure and elemental as the soil and vines and sunshine from which it springs. -- Robert Mondavi
  • Blessed the one who meditates on death each day and destroys the base passions lurking in the vines of the heart, for he will be consoled in the moment of separation. -- Ephrem the Syrian
  • Yet how bored they both looked, and how wearily Ethel regarded Jim sometimes, as if she wondered why she had trained the vines of her affection on such a wind-shaken poplar. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • The spirit of the year, like bacchant crowned, With lighted torch goes careless on his way; And soon bursts into flame the maple's spray, And vines are running fire along the ground. -- Edith M. Thomas
  • then, as though it had been waiting on a near by roof for their arrival, the moon came slanting suddenly through the vines and turned the girl's face the color of white roses. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • A large bare forehead gives a woman a masculine and defying look. The word "effrontery" comes from it. The hair should be brought over such a forehead as vines are trailed over a wall. -- Leigh Hunt
  • But some stories sprout bright vines that tendril off beyond our sight, carrying the folk we love best with them, and if I knew how to accept that with graces, I would share the secret. -- Catherynee M. Valente
  • It takes a fierce devotion to defend your artistic space, and eternal vigilance over it, because the needs of others will grow like vines in your little plot and claim it back for the jungle. -- Judith Ortiz Cofer
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