150 Apple Fruit Quotes

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Famous Apple Fruit Quotes

Surely the apple is the noblest of fruits. — Henry David Thoreau

An apple a day keeps the doctor away. — Benjamin Franklin

An apple is an excellent thing -- until you have tried a peach. — George du Maurier

An apple is sweeter than grapes, but grape is called an apple. — Turkish Proverbs

Give me juicy autumnal fruit, ripe and red from the orchard. - Walt Whitman

Give me juicy autumnal fruit, ripe and red from the orchard. — Walt Whitman

An apple a day keeps anyone away, if you throw it hard enough. — Stephen Colbert

Woman is at once apple and serpent. — Heinrich Heine

I produce music as an apple tree produces apples. — Camille Saint-Saens

old pear tree starlings announce harvest time — Phil Noble

An apple a day, if well aimed, keeps the doctor away. - P. G. Wodehouse

An apple a day, if well aimed, keeps the doctor away. — P. G. Wodehouse

Almost all wild apples are handsome. They cannot be too gnarly and crabbed and rusty to look at. The gnarliest will have some redeeming traits even to the eye. — Henry David Thoreau

The tarter the apple, the tastier the cider. — Beverly Lewis

Good apple pies are a considerable part of our domestic happiness. — Jane Austen

The apple does not fall far from the tree. — German proverbs

In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally. — W. Somerset Maugham

Short Apple Fruit Quotes

  • If you want apples, you have to shake the trees. — Bulgarian Proverbs
  • The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree. — English Proverbs
  • Give me spots on my apples, but leave me the birds and the bees, please. — Joni Mitchell
  • I'll squeeze the cider out of your adam's apple. — Moe Howard
  • The older I get, the more I become an apple pie, sparkling cider kind of guy. — Scott Foley
  • ...the avocado is a food without rival among the fruits, the veritable fruit of paradise — David Fairchild
  • Fruit of a tree falls near its roots. — Turkish Proverbs
  • I reckon I tried everything on the old apple, but salt and pepper and chocolate sauce topping. — Gaylord Perry
  • If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it. — Mao Zedong
  • Pears cannot ripen alone. So we ripened together. — Meridel Le Sueur

Apple Fruit Image Quotes

Apple fruit quote Be a fruit loop in a world full of cheerios.
Be a fruit loop in a world full of cheerios.

Apples And Oranges Quotes

I can't compare quarterbacks as apples and oranges in my mind because everybody's in a different system. — John Elway

Comparing Apple to Netflix is like comparing apples to oranges, especially if the oranges made so many mistakes that people stopped eating oranges and just went back to Blockbuster. — Reed Hastings

In 1957, “West Side Story” had introduced the musical to the reckless dark side of teen-age life; “Bye Bye Birdie,” set in Sweet Apple, Ohio, where the citizens apparently dress mostly in chartreuse, mauve, orange, periwinkle, and turquoise, was a walk on the bright side. — John Lahr

Apple fruit quote Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.
Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

It's funny, in a way the actor is a writer. It's not like the two things are so separate as to be like apples and oranges. The writer and the actor are one. — Sam Shepard

Books and movies are like apples and oranges. They both are fruit, but taste completely different. — Stephen King

Comparing science and religion isn't like comparing apples and oranges - it's more like apples and sewing machines. — Jack Horner

Apple fruit quote Be kind and be truthful and your life will be fruitful.
Be kind and be truthful and your life will be fruitful.

You just kind of go and do your own thing. Sometimes it's really hard to compare apples and oranges, so you don't really think of it that way. You just perform to your fullest potential and hope everybody else does too. And however it works out, it works out. — Jennifer Nettles

I got up one Christmas morning and we didn't have nothing to eat. We didn't have an apple, we didn't have an orange, we didn't have a cake, we didn't have nothing. — Muddy Waters

There is only a policeman in front of something you have need for and don't have access to, so you put a guard there... But if orange trees and apple trees grew all over the place, you couldn't sell them. — Jacque Fresco

The apple was the first fruit of the world according to Genesis, but it was no Cox's Orange Pippin. God gave the crab apple and left the rest to man. — Jane Grigson

Apple Quotes

The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall. — Che Guevara

For the birth of something new, there has to be a happening. Newton saw an apple fall; James Watt watched a kettle boil; Roentgen fogged some photographic plates. And these people knew enough to translate ordinary happenings into something new. — Alexander Fleming

Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree. — Martin Luther

Apple fruit quote Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.
Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

All badness is spoiled goodness. A bad apple is a good apple that became rotten. Because evil has no capital of its own, it is a parasite that feeds on goodness. — Fulton J. Sheen

If life gives you lemons, make apple juice and make people wonder how the hell you did it. — Gurbaksh Chahal

American soldiers in battle don't fight for what some president says on T.V., they don't fight for mom, apple pie, the American flag...they fight for one another. — Hal Moore

Apple fruit quote Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.
Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.

The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of starstuff. — Carl Sagan

Put a small child in a playpen with an apple and a bunny. If s/he eats the apple and plays with the bunny, s/he's normal;but if s/he eats the bunny and plays with the apple, I'll buy you a new car. Somewhere along the line we must have been TAUGHT to do the wrong thing. — Maynard James Keenan

Did perpetual happiness in the Garden of Eden maybe get so boring that eating the apple was justified? — Chuck Palahniuk

The insufferable arrogance of human beings to think that Nature was made solely for their benefit, as if it was conceivable that the sun had been set afire merely to ripen men's apples and head their cabbages. — Cyrano de Bergerac

Apple Trees Quotes

You can't sow an apple seed and expect to get an avocado tree. The consequences of your life are sown in what you do and how you behave. — Tom Shadyac

The whole foundation of Christianity is based on the idea that intellectualism is the work of the Devil. Remember the apple on the tree? Okay, it was the Tree of Knowledge. You eat this apple, you're going to be as smart as God. We can't have that. — Frank Zappa

The apple falls not far from the tree. — Polish Proverbs

Apple fruit quote Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet
Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet

Not sorry, not calling, not crying All will pass like smoke of white apple trees Seized by the gold of autumn, I will no longer be young. — Sergei Yesenin

We complain and complain, but we have lived and seen the blossom -apple, pear, cherry, plum, almond blossom - in the sun; and the best among us cannot pretend they deserve - or could contrive - anything better. — J. B. Priestley

The apple cannot be stuck back on the Tree of Knowledge; once we begin to see, we are doomed and challenged to seek the strength to see more, not less. — Arthur Miller

Apple fruit quote The tree of silence bears the fruit of peace.
The tree of silence bears the fruit of peace.

The trees are Indian Princes, But soon they'll turn to Ghosts; The scanty pears and apples Hang russet on the bough; Its Autumn, Autumn, Autumn late, 'Twill soon be Winter now. Robin, Robin Redbreast, O Robin dear! And what will this poor Robin do? For pinching days are near. — William Allingham

Martin Luther was asked, what would you do if tomorrow the world would come to an end, and he said, 'I would plant an apple tree today.' This is a real good answer. I would start shooting a movie. — Werner Herzog

It is remarkable how closely the history of the apple tree is connected with that of man. — Henry David Thoreau

It was not the apple on the tree but the pair on the ground that caused the trouble in the garden of Eden. — Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Apple Pie Quotes

Oppression is as American as apple pie. — Audre Lorde

If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe. — Carl Sagan

As time goes on we get closer to that American Dream of there being a pie cut up and shared. Usually greed and selfishness prevent that and there is always one bad apple in every barrel. — Rick Danko

The greatest enemy of hunger for God is not poison but apple pie. It is not the banquet of the wicked that dulls our appetite for heaven, but endless nibbling at the table of the world. It is not the X-rated video, but the prime-time dribble of triviality we drink in every night. — John Piper

Of emotions, of love, of breakup, of love and hate and death and dying, mama, apple pie, and the whole thing. It covers a lot of territory, country music does. — Johnny Cash

My favorite pudding is good old English apple pie. — Jeremy Bulloch

I've read hundreds of cookbooks. Most of those cookbooks don't even tell you how to get a steak ready, how to bake biscuits or an apple pie. — Colonel Sanders

The one snack I really love is YoCrunch yogurt. It's like an apple pie in a cup! You have your apples on the bottom, your yogurt in the middle, and piecrust crumbs on top. — Gabby Douglas

If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe. — Carl Sagan

I've always loved movies about con men. I think con men are as American as apple pie. — Bill Paxton

Apple Cider Quotes

I'm an all-things-in-moderation kind of person. I do eat a warm donut occasionally. I especially enjoy a cider donut when I'm apple picking. I don't think there's anything wrong with that. — Rachael Ray

When I was a little kid, my mother and I used to watch the Golden Globes and I would dress up and she would get sparkling apple cider and we would make a tray of hors doeuvres and watch it together. And I would get up and make a pretend speech. — Lea Michele

I love cooking during Christmas, all smells like the hot apple cider, the hot spiced wine. — Amy Smart

The heat of autumn is different from the heat of summer. One ripens apples, the other turns them to cider. — Jane Hirshfield

Up until Prohibition, an apple grown in America was far less likely to be eaten than to wind up in a barrel of cider. ("Hard" cider is a twentieth-century term, redundant before then since virtually all cider was hard until modern refrigeration allowed people to keep sweet cider sweet.) — Michael Pollan

For something warm, try adding cinnamon sticks and nutmeg to apple cider simmering on the stove. You'll get the added benefit of making your home smell amazing. — Clinton Kelly

The older I get, the more I feel. — Sharon Olds

I don't think there's anything wrong being a dreamer. — Erin Morgenstern

I always go to the Agriculture Building, where they make apple cider popsicles for a dollar. — Kate DiCamillo

I adopted a healthier diet. I take at least a tablespoon of apple-cider vinegar a day. It's an old wives' tale, but it really is one of the best things you can put in your mouth. — Melissa Etheridge

Fruit Trees Quotes

A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love. — St. Basil

A Christian should resemble a fruit tree with real fruit, not a Christmas tree with decorations tied on — John Stott

Some people think that as soon as you plant a tree, it must bear fruit. We must allow it to grow a bit. — Tunku Abdul Rahman

A life without love is like a tree without fruit. - Stephen King

A life without love is like a tree without fruit. — Stephen King

According to traditional wisdom in rural France, a baby in the womb should be compared to fruit on the tree. Not all the fruit on the same tree is ripe at the same time...we must accept that some babies need a much longer time than others before they are ready to be born. — Michel Odent

Promises that you make to yourself are often like the Japanese plum tree - they bear no fruit. — Francis Marion

Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit. - Kahlil Gibran

Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit. — Kahlil Gibran

On the motionless branches of some trees, autumn berries hung like clusters of coral beads, as in those fabled orchards where the fruits were jewels . . . — Charles Dickens

It's like the time capsule with everything in it. Or like the seed that when you plant it, becomes the enormous tree with leaves and fruit. Everybody was in that little seed, and so everything can open. The tree of dance is like that. It just takes a long, long time to blossom. — George Balanchine

In a tree that you can't climb, there are always a thousand fruits. — Indian Proverbs

Sweet Fruit Quotes

No good water comes from a muddy spring. No sweet fruit comes from a bitter seed. — Jose Rizal

The spirit of humility is sweeter than honey, and those who nourish themselves with this honey produce sweet fruit. — Anthony of Padua

Be a Gardener. Dig a ditch. Toil and sweat. And turn the earth upside down. And seek the deepness. And water plants in time. Continue this labor. And make sweet floods to run, and noble and abundant fruits to spring. Take this food and drink, and carry it to God as your true worship. — Julian of Norwich

The winter will be short, the summer long, The autumn amber-hued, sunny and hot, Tasting of cider and of scuppernong; All seasons sweet, but autumn best of all. The squirrels in their silver fur will fall Like falling leaves, like fruit, before your shot. — Elinor Wylie

Bitter are the roots of study, but how sweet their fruit. — Cato the Younger

God is the Seed; The Universe is the Tree, Impulses and passions are the branches, Intelligence is the flower, Pure Consciousness is the fruit, Love is the sweetness in the fruit. — Sathya Sai Baba

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet. - Aristotle

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet. — Aristotle

Forbidden fruit is sweet. — Russian Proverbs

I am like a tree in a forest. Birds come to the tree, they sit on its branches and eat its fruits. To the birds, the fruit may be sweet or sour or whatever. The birds say sweet or they say sour, but from the tree's point of view, this is just the chattering of birds. — Ajahn Chah

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Apple Watch Quotes

So excited for the Apple Watch. For centuries, we've checked the time by looking at our phones. Having it on your wrist? Genius. — Ellen DeGeneres

I’m not just living in the tradition and culture and the past, I also want to be connected to the future. The Apple Watch connects me to the future. My watch connects me to history, to eternity. — Jean-Claude Biver

I wasn't allowed to watch MTV before school, but somehow I managed to, when I was five or six and Fiona Apple's video for "Criminal" came on. She was so odd and dark, and I immediately felt some kind of connection with her. She was also the first person I admired for their looks. — Sky Ferreira

The difference between the TAG Heuer watch and the Apple Watch is very important. That one is called Apple and this one is called TAG Heuer. — Jean-Claude Biver

And make us as Newton was, who in his garden watching The apple falling towards England, became aware Between himself and her of an eternal tie. — W. H. Auden

Apple Watch is the most personal device we've ever created. — Tim Cook

We should be thanking Apple for launching the $10,000 'apple watch' as the new gold standard in douchebag detection. — Anna Kendrick

Hillary Clinton could use one of these Apple Watches. She could hook it up to her secret email account. If you want to contact Hillary, she's at hillary@pantsuit.com. — David Letterman

remember the golden apple-trees; O, do not pity them, as you watch them drop one by one, for they fall exhausted, numb, blind but in certain ecstasy, for theirs is the hunger for Paradise. — Hilda Doolittle

Why, he wondered, should he remember her suddenly, on such a day, watching the rain falling on the apple trees? — Daphne Du Maurier

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More Apple Fruit Quotes

Whole-fruit consumption is also self-limiting, because the fiber makes it more filling. For example, it would be quite difficult to eat five apples, but it’s a breeze to drink the sugar contained in five apples when juiced. — Max Lugavere

I felt like a seed in a pomegranate. Some say that the pomegranate was the real apple of Eve, fruit of the womb, I would eat my way into perdition to taste you. — Jeanette Winterson

I also eat fruit instead of drinking juices. That's something I've read up on. I think that if you drink a lot of fruit juice you take in way too much sugar. You'd be better off eating a bunch of strawberries or apples. — Kris Humphries

The apple blossom exists to create fruit; when that comes, the petal falls. — Kabir

Lo! sweeten'd with the summer light, The full-juiced apple, waxing over-mellow, Drops in a silent autumn night. All its allotted length of days The flower ripens in its place, Ripens and fades, and falls, and hath no toil, Fast-rooted in the fruitful soil. — Alfred Lord Tennyson

Peppermint swirled into my nostrils, sharp as glass, then raspberry almost to sweet, like too-ripe fruit. Apple, crisp and pure. Nuts, buttery, warm, earthy — Maggie Stiefvater

My favorite fruit is grapes. Because with grapes, you always get another chance. 'Cause, you know, if you have a crappy apple or a peach, you're stuck with that crappy piece of fruit. But if you have a crappy grape, no problem - just move on to the next. 'Grapes: The Fruit of Hope.' — Demetri Martin

The goldenrod is yellow, The corn is turning brown, The trees in apple orchards With fruit are bending down. — Helen Hunt Jackson

The breezes taste Of apple peel. The air is full Of smells to feel- Ripe fruit, old footballs, Burning brush, New books, erasers, Chalk, and such. The bee, his hive, Well-honeyed hum, And Mother cuts Chrysanthemums. Like plates washed clean With suds, the days Are polished with A morning haze. — John Updike

Nobody is going to invest a fortune into good orchard land, all the farming equipment necessary, the fertilizer, the seedlings, the nonstop Herculean work effort needed to grow apples, then bring them to the fruit stand for people to take home for free. — Ted Nugent

The farther north you go, the fewer fruits and vegetables there are. What kind of apple trees do you suggest the Inuit get their apples from? And how much oil is expended transporting such things out there? It's an equation. — Margaret Atwood

I like fruit baskets because it gives you the ability to mail someone a piece of fruit without appearing insane. Like, if someone just mailed you an apple you'd be like, 'huh? What the hell is this?' But if it's in a fruit basket you're like, 'this is nice!' — Demetri Martin

Adam did not want the apple for the apple's sake; he wanted it because it was forbidden. — Mark Twain

A charitable man is like an apple tree-he gives his fruit and is silent; the philanthropist is like the successful hen. — Austin O'Malley

And what is more melancholy than the old apple-trees that linger about the spot where once stood a homestead, but where there is now only a ruined chimney rising our of a grassy and weed-grown cellar? They offer their fruit to every wayfarer--apples that are bitter-sweet with the moral of times vicissitude. — Nathaniel Hawthorne

Apples, grapes... any kind of fruit gives me the energy I need to get through my busy day. — Kristin Chenoweth

She had only to stand in the orchard, to put her hand on a little crab tree and look up at the apples, to make you feel the goodness of planting and tending and harvesting at last. — Willa Cather

What wondrous life is this I lead! Ripe apples drop about my head. — Andrew Marvell

From my experience with wild apples, I can understand that there may be reason for a savage's preferring many kinds of food which the civilized man rejects. The former has the palate of an outdoor man. It takes a savage or wild taste to appreciate a wild fruit. — Henry David Thoreau

It is an excellent circumstance that hospitality grows best where it is most needed. In the thick of men it dwindles and disappears, life fruit in the thick of a wood; but where people are planted sparely it blossoms and matures, like apples on a standard or an espalier. It flourishes where the inn and lodging-house cannot exist. — Hugh Miller

Such is always the pursuit of knowledge. The celestial fruits, the golden apples of the Hesperides, are ever guarded by a hundred-headed dragon which never sleeps, so that it is an Herculean labor to pluck them. — Henry David Thoreau

The fruit is what really matters, not how gnarly or beautiful the apple tree is. — Aiden Wilson Tozer

Don't swear off all the fruits just because you ate one bad apple. — Tiffanie DeBartolo

He had, they said, tasted in succession all the apples of the tree of knowledge, and, whether from hunger or disgust, had ended by tasting the forbidden fruit. — Victor Hugo

I've seen spring come to the orchard every year as far back as I can remember and I've never grown tired of it. Oh, the wonder of it! The outrageous beauty! God didn't have to give us cherry blossoms you know. He didn't have to make apple trees and peach trees burst into flower and fragrance. But God just loves to splurge. He gives us all this magnificence and then, if that isn't enough, He provides fruit from such extravagance. — Lynn Austin

What is more cheerful, now, in the fall of the year, than an open-wood-fire? Do you hear those little chirps and twitters coming out of that piece of apple-wood? Those are the ghosts of the robins and blue-birds that sang upon the bough when it was in blossom last Spring. In Summer whole flocks of them come fluttering about the fruit-trees under the window: so I have singing birds all the year round. — Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Turn off your computer and go out of doors. Dig a large enough hole to transplant a mature apple tree. Nurture the tree, feed it, coddle it so that its fruit will be ample, bright and firm. Practice open-hand strikes against the rough bark of the trunk until it's time to harvest. Choose the champion of your apple crop, pluck it from the tree, and beat yourself about the face and tits with it until your mettle will suffice. — Nick Offerman

That's like comparing apples with hermaphroditic ground sloths. — Chuck Klosterman

We're gonna get weaker. That's already happened. They used to say, you know, an apple a day keeps the doctor away. Now they're saying eat five fruits. That's evidence. You can't argue with that. — Karl Pilkington

If Radiohead were a fruit we would be apples, because apples are festive — Thom Yorke

My heart is like a singing birdWhose nest is in a water'd shoot;My heart is like an apple-treeWhose boughs are bent with thick-set fruit... — Christina Rossetti

He couldn’t see why people made such a fuss about people eating their silly old fruit anyway, but life would be a lot less fun if they didn’t. And there was never an apple, in Adam’s opinion, that wasn’t worth the trouble you got into for eating it. — Neil Gaiman

The test of a man is: does he bear apples? Does he bear fruit? — Abraham Maslow

I always make my favorite pancakes with milk, and I also add some fruit - like a banana or apple with some cinnamon sprinkled on top. I also sometimes put peanut butter on my pancakes! — Gabriela Isler

Now it is autumn and the falling fruit and the long journey towards oblivion. The apples falling like great drops of dew to bruise themselves an exit from themselves. — D. H. Lawrence

The cool blade Severs between coolness, apple-rind Compelling a recognition. — Charles Tomlinson

Who gives to Aristaeus honey; Or wine to Bacchus, or Triptolemus Earth's fruits, or apples to Alcinous? — Ovid

I was actually a fruitarian at that point in time. I ate only fruit. Now I'm a garbage can like everyone else. And we were about three months late in filing a fictitious business name so I threatened to call the company Apple Computer unless someone suggested a more interesting name by five o'clock that day. Hoping to stimulate creativity. And it stuck. And that's why we're called Apple. — Steve Jobs

A thousand trees are seen towards heaven rising, With beautiful and sweetly-scented apples; The orange, wearing on its lovely fruit The colour Daphne carried in her hair; Bent low, nay almost fallen to the ground, The citron, heavy with its yellow load; And, last, the graceful lemon with its fruit Of pleasant smell and shaped like virgins' breasts. — Luis de Camoes

The fuel of the future is going to come from fruit like that sumach out by the road, or from apples, weeds, sawdust - almost anything. — Henry Ford

So don't be tempted by the shiny apple Don't you eat of a bitter fruit Hunger only for a taste of justice Hunger only for a world of truth 'Cause all that you have is your soul. — Tracy Chapman

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