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Peaches Quotes

I think drugs are like strawberries and peaches.

I think drugs are like strawberries and peaches.

Biography/Pesonal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

See how the light tenderly love the apricots, it takes them over completely, enters into their pulp, light them from all sides! But it is miserly with the peaches and light only one side of them.

"Joachim Gasquet's Cézanne: A Memoir with Conversations". Book by Joachim Gasquet, Thames and Hudson, London, p. 119 (note 2), in: 'Fumées dans la campagne', 1991.

The ripest peach is highest on the tree

James Whitcomb Riley (1993). “The Complete Poetical Works of James Whitcomb Riley”, p.224, Indiana University Press

Inside the peach, there is a stone.

Margaret Atwood (2011). “Alias Grace: A Novel”, p.69, Anchor

I couldn't unpeach the peaches.

Annie Dillard (2011). “Pilgrim at Tinker Creek”, p.32, Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd

As touching peaches in general, the very name in Latine whereby they are called Persica, doth evidently show that they were brought out of Persia first.

"Natural History". Book by Pliny the Elder, Book XV, Chapter 13. Holland's translation; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 591,

Shall I part my hair behind? Do I dare to eat a peach?

"The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" l. 122 (1917)

What a business is this of a portrait painter! You bring him a potato and expect he will paint you a peach.

Carrie Rebora Barratt, Gilbert Stuart, Ellen Gross Miles (2004). “Gilbert Stuart”, p.6, Metropolitan Museum of Art

Fresh peach pie can lift a bullying reprobate into apologetic courtesy; I have watched it happen.

Leif Enger (2001). “Peace Like a River”, p.291, Atlantic Monthly Press

There's a boy across the river with an ass like a peach; alas I was no swimmer and lost my Clementine.

William S. Burroughs (2007). “Naked Lunch: The Restored Text”, p.114, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

Some critics are emotionally desiccated, personally about as attractive as a year-old peach in a single girl's refrigerator.

"Mel Brooks Is Always Funny and Often Wise in This 1975 Playboy Interview". Interview with Alex Belth, www.thedailybeast.com. February 16, 2014.