93 Grapefruit Quotes

Following is our list of grapefruit quotations and slogans full of insightful wisdom and perspective about passion fruit.

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Famous Grapefruit Quotes

A grapefruit is just a lemon that saw an opportunity and took advantage of it. - Oscar Wilde

A grapefruit is just a lemon that saw an opportunity and took advantage of it. — Oscar Wilde

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

A hangover is the wrath of grapes. - Dorothy Parker

A hangover is the wrath of grapes. — Dorothy Parker

Anyone who imagines that all fruits ripen at the same time as the strawberries knows nothing about grapes. — Paracelsus

Watermelon - it's a good fruit. You eat, you drink, you wash your face. - Enrico Caruso

Watermelon - it's a good fruit. You eat, you drink, you wash your face. — Enrico Caruso

I am sure the grapes are sour. — Aesop

The night is a strawberry. — Louise Penny

old pear tree starlings announce harvest time — Phil Noble

The grape gains its purple tinge by looking at another grape. [Lat., Uvaque conspecta livorem ducit ab uva.] — Juvenal

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

If life gives you lemons, make some kind of fruity juice. - Conan O'Brien

If life gives you lemons, make some kind of fruity juice. — Conan O'Brien

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

A fruit salad is delicious precisely because each fruit maintains its own flavor. — Sean Covey

You can't spell Citrus without UT — Steve Spurrier

People pretend not to like grapes when the vines are too high for them to reach - Marguerite de Navarre

People pretend not to like grapes when the vines are too high for them to reach — Marguerite de Navarre

Short Grapefruit Quotes

  • As for those grapefruit and buttermilk diets, I'll take roast chicken and dumplings. — Hattie McDaniel
  • I have balls the size of grapefruits and come this Sunday, you'll be spitting out the seeds. — Vince McMahon
  • I got balls the size of grapefruits! — Vince McMahon
  • Hollywood's a great place to live... if you're a grapefruit. — Rod Serling
  • By God, I could make myself bring her that economically halved grapefruit, that sugarless breakfast. — Vladimir Nabokov
  • If I filled the Earth with blueberries, I would have the same number as atoms in a grapefruit. — Jon Bergmann
  • Imagine the clouds dripping Dig a hole in your garden to put them in — Yoko Ono
  • I am grateful... grapefruit. — Bjork
  • The grapevine should be named after a more bitter fruit. It should be called the grapefruit tree. — Chrystos
  • This is unexpected... like squirt from aggressive grapefruit. — Earl Derr Biggers

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The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do. — Galileo Galilei

He who knows nothing loves nothing. He who can do nothing understands nothing. He who understands nothing is worthless. But he who understands also loves, notices, sees. The more knowledge is inherent in a thing, the greater the love. — Paracelsus

The fight is never about grapes or lettuce. It is always about people. - Cesar Chavez

The fight is never about grapes or lettuce. It is always about people. — Cesar Chavez

No greater thing is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen. — Epictetus

Put a good bunch of grapes under the winepress, and a delicious juice will come out. Under the winepress of the cross, our soul produces a juice that feeds and strengthens us. When we haven't got any crosses, we are dry. If we carry them with resignation, what happiness, what sweetness we feel! — John Vianney

One who plants grapes by the roadside, and one who marries a pretty woman, share the same problem. — African Proverbs

A small speckled visitor Wearing a crimson cape Brighter than a cherry Smaller than a grape A polka-dotted someone Walking on my wall A black-hooded lady In a scarlet shawl. — Joan Walsh Anglund

It is well to remember that there are five reasons for drinking: the arrival of a friend, one's present or future thirst, the excellence of the cognac, or any other reason — W. C. Fields

In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage. — John Steinbeck

When this is over...we will got to the rainforest, or a beach as white as bone. We will eat grapes from the vine, we will swim with sea turtles, we will walk miles on cobblestone streets. We will laugh and talk and confess. We will. — Jodi Picoult

Passion Fruit Quotes

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

Emotions are not 'bad.' At the roots of our emotions are primal energies which can be put to fruitful use. Indeed...the energies of enlightenment arises from the very same natural origins as those which give rise to our everyday passions and emotions. — James H. Austin

Good Demeter mothering keeps a child in the heat and passion of life which immortalize and establish soulfulness. Mothering involves not only physical survival and achievement—Demeter's grain and fruit—it is also concerned with guiding a child to his or her unknown depths and the mystery of fate. — Thomas Moore

If you have a great passion it seems that the logical thing is to see the fruit of it, and the fruit are children. — Roman Polanski

Jealousy is one of the wickedest of all the passions. It is that which has been the most fruitful mother of tragedies, murders, and wars. But reprehensible though it is, jealousy is almost rather to be pitied than blamed--its first victims are those who harbour the feeling. — Arthur Alfred Lynch

On January 30, 1988, my twenty-seventh birthday, I became a strict vegetarian. I developed a passion for health and nutrition. My diet consists of fruits, vegetables, grains, nuts and legumes only, and has for the past 15 years now. — Dexter Scott King

A principal fruit of friendship, is the ease and discharge of the fullness and swellings of the heart, which passions of all kinds do cause and induce. — Francis Bacon

What stirs lyrical poets to their finest flights is neither the delight of the senses nor the fruitful contentment of the settled couple; not the satisfaction of love, but its passion. And passion means suffering. — Denis de Rougemont

This philosophy of hate, of religious and racial intolerance, with its passionate urge toward war, is loose in the world. It is the enemy of democracy; it is the enemy of all the fruitful and spiritual sides of life. It is our responsibility, as individuals and organizations, to resist this. — Mary Heaton Vorse

To be happy you must have taken the measure of your powers, tasted the fruits of your passion, and learned your place in the world. — George Santayana

Fruit Juice 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

It is not all bad, this getting old, ripening. After the fruit has got its growth it should juice up and mellow. God forbid I should live long enough to ferment and rot and fall to the ground in a squash. — Emily Carr

Dates are great because they’re a high-energy fruit with a lot of fiber. — Hannah Bronfman

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

One sometimes gets the impression that the mere words ' Socialism ' and ' Communism ' draw towards them with magnetic force every fruit-juice drinker, nudist, sandal-wearer, sex-maniac, Quaker, 'Nature Cure' quack, pacifist, and feminist in England. — George Orwell

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

The quest for our origin is the sweet fruit's juice which maintains satisfaction in the minds of the philosophers. — Luca Pacioli

I often go on a liquid fast a couple of days a week. I never take just water. Instead, I'll have maybe six glasses of vegetable and fruit juices a day. — Paul Lynde

I have no sugar. I don’t eat fruit or even fruit juice because of the sugar. I eat chicken and salmon and rice. — Britney Spears

When a draco has eaten much fruit, it seeks the juice of the bitter lettuce; it has been seen to do this. — Sayings

Orange Juice Quotes

Breakfast without orange juice is like a day without sunshine. — Anita Bryant

My main ambition as a gardener is to water my orange trees with gin, then all I have to do is squeeze the juice into a glass. — W. C. Fields

If God dislikes gays so much, how come he picked Michelangelo, a known homosexual, to paint the Sistine Chapel ceiling while assigning Anita Bryant to go on television and push orange juice? — Mike Royko

Music can lift us out of depression or move us to tears - it is a remedy, a tonic, orange juice for the ear. — Oliver Sacks

If the real world is orange juice, then art is like orange-juice concentrate. — Martin Mull

Champagne and orange juice is a great drink. The orange improves the champagne. The champagne definitely improves the orange. — Philip the Apostle

Come over here and sit on my knee and finish your orange juice. — Sonny Liston

Try not thinking of peeling an orange. Try not imagining the juice running down your fingers, the soft inner part of the peel. The smell. Try and you can't. The brain doesn't process negatives. — Douglas Coupland

Try not thinking of peeling an orange. Try not imagining the juice running down your fingers, the soft inner part of the peel. The smell. Try and you can't. The brain doesn't process negatives. — Doug Coupland

I made orange juice from concentrate and showed her the trick of squeezing the juice of one real orange into it. It removes the taste of being frozen. She marveled at this, and I laughed and said, Life is easy. What I meant was, Life is easy with you here, and when you leave, it will be hard again. — Miranda July

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More Grapefruit Quotes

Yellow is a very favorable vibration for mental or intellectual activity, as it promotes a clear state of mind. Yellow heightens your awareness and alleviates depression, sadness, or any kind of despondency. Yellow vibration foods are: pineapples, bananas, grapefruit, lemons and corn. — Tae Yun Kim

I have always loved marijuana. It has been a source of joy and comfort to me for many years. And I still think of it as a basic staple of life, along with beer and ice and grapefruits - and millions of Americans agree with me. — Hunter S. Thompson

Life... is like a grapefruit. Well, it's sort of orangey-yellow and dimpled on the outside, wet and squidgy in the middle. It's got pips inside, too. Oh, and some people have half a one for breakfast. — Douglas Adams

So far I've always kept my diet secret but now I might as well tell everyone what it is. Lots of grapefruit throughout the day and plenty of virile young men. — Angie Dickinson

Onstage I've been hit by a grapefruit, beercans, eggs, spit, money, cigarette butts, Mandies, Quaaludes, joints, bras, panties, and a fist. — Iggy Pop

Austin and I proceeded to knock back a couple of Ketel One and grapefruit juices, which happened to be my drink of the moment. Someone told me that grapefruit was a great detoxifier and I decided I wanted to start cleaning out my liver WHILE I was having a cocktail. — Chelsea Handler

My mom always puts a grapefruit in my stocking. I like grapefruit, but why put it in a stocking like it's a gift? It's almost as bad as coal. — Skylar Grey

With our lives and food chain set up to make us fat - I mean, you can't drive down any highway in America and find a grapefruit - a guy needs to be smarter and more determined to get lean. — David Zinczenko

I'm being hypocritical because I have a Twitter, but I try to not talk about things like, 'Oh, I had a grapefruit this morning and it was delicious,' because, who cares? — Sayings

Life...is like a grapefruit. It's orange and squishy , and has a few pips in it, and some folks have half a one for breakfast. — Douglas Adams

Family's the one thing you can't change. You can cover yourself with tattoos. You can get a grapefruit-sized ring going through your earlobe. You can change your name. You can move to a different continent. But you cannot change who your parents were, and who your siblings are, and who your children are. — Jonathan Franzen

Give death announcements each time you move instead of giving announcements of the change of address. Send the same when you die. — Yoko Ono

« He squeezed his hands into fists. I picked up a grapefruit-sized rock and handed it to him. It went flying. Home run, Beast Lord style. — Ilona Andrews

Almonds. Apricots. Avocadoes. Some peaches I don't know. Grapefruit. Lemones. Probably oranges. — Jane Smiley

I made a point of eating so fast I never kept the other people waiting who generally ordered only chef's salad and grapefruit juice because they were trying to reduce. Almost everybody I met in New York was trying to reduce. — Sylvia Plath

Rosewood has always been one of my favourite scents, as has the pink grapefruit and pepper we've also put in Homme. — David Beckham

If I filled the Earth with blueberries, I would have the same number as atoms in a grapefruit. — Jonathan Bergmann

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