Fruit Quotes - Page 12

One thing is obvious: Our policy, which is directed at making the country ungovernable, has started to bear fruit. The process that has been initiated is irreversible.

In an orchard there should be enough to eat, enough to lay up, enough to be stolen, and enough to rot on the ground.

True faith will always show itself by its fruits . . . I suspect that, with rare exceptions, men die just as they have lived.

All the conscious decisions that I have taken in my life have never borne fruit. Not even come close! So, I am just very happy not planning.

I believe war is the inevitable fruit of our economic system.

Odd, isn't it, that a thief and a vagabond should repent, when so many who are rich and secure remain hard and frivolous, and without fruit for God or man?

When once the woman has tempted us, and we have tasted the forbidden fruit, there is no such thing as checking our appetites, whatever the consequences may be.

He who wrongs the innocent must bear the fruit of his act, like dust flung against the wind.

Miss Tarabotti was not one of life's milk-water misses--in fact, quite the opposite. Many a gentleman had likened his first meeting with her to downing a very strong cognac when one was expecting to imbibe fruit juice--that is to say, startling and apt to leave one with a distinct burning sensation.

I love the religion of Christianity - which cometh from above - which is a pure, peaceable, gentle, easy to be entreated, full of good fruits, and without hypocrisy.

Where the roots of private virtue are diseased, the fruit of public probity cannot but be corrupt.

Revenge is a luscious fruit which you must leave to ripen.

Once I've decided to do something, I do usually try to carry it through to fruition.

Ethics, as has been well said, are the finest fruits of humanity, but they are not its roots

Everything we're doing is planting a seed that will come to fruition at some point

The grapevine should be named after a more bitter fruit. It should be called the grapefruit tree.

I am grateful... grapefruit.

Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few; and that, too, at the expense of social pleasure, health, conscience, life.

It is much more exquisite to be blown from the tree as a flower than to be shaken down as a shriveled and bitter fruit.

When an action is once done, it is right or wrong for ever; no accidental failure of its good or evil fruits can possibly alter that.

He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit, He that leaps the wide gulf should prevail in his suit.

Kids can be born with potential but unless it's encouraged - pushed, even - I don't think it will ever come to fruition.

Even though Eve ate the fruit first, God went looking for Adam. It had been Adam whom God had revealed himself to as LORD God in the context of giving Adam divine instruction.

Certain seeds it will not nurture, certain fruit it will not bear and when the land kills of its own volition, we acquiesce and say the victim had no right to live

We like things to manifest right away, and they may not. Many times, we're just planting a seed and we don't know exactly how it is going to come to fruition. It's hard for us to realize that what we see in front of us might not be the end of the story.