Pear Quotes

Oh to be a pear tree - any tree in bloom! With kissing bees singing of the beginning of the world! (Zora Neale Hurston)
Slice a pear and you will find that its flesh is incandescent white. It glows with inner light. Those who carry a knife and a pear are never afraid of the dark. View quote
Yann Martel
An apple resists being eaten. An apple is not eaten, it is conquered. The crunchiness of a pear is far more appealing. It is giving and fragile. To eat a pear is akin to ... kissing. View quote
Yann Martel
Pear Drops were exciting because they had a dangerous taste. All of us were warned against eating them, and the result was that we ate them more than ever. View quote
Roald Dahl
I don't care whether you had a 30-day notice, a 3-day notice, or a partridge in a pear tree! View quote
Judith Sheindlin
You should go to a pear tree for pears, not to an elm. - Maxims. View quote
Publilius Syrus
As for my next book, I won't write it till it has grown heavy in my mind like a ripe pear; pendant, gravid, asking to be cut or it will fall. View quote
Virginia Woolf
I put it [a still life of a pear, made by Manet there [on the wall, next to Ingres' painting 'Jupiter'], for a pear like that would overthrow any god. View quote
Edgar Degas
There are only ten minutes in the life of a pear when it is perfect to eat. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
For there's no rood has not a star above it; The cordial quality of pear or plum Ascends as gladly in a single tree, As in broad orchards resonant with bees; And every atom poises for itself, And for the whole. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
If we cannot make voluntary and conscious steps in the admirable science of universals, let us see the parts wisely, and infer the genius of nature from the best particulars with a becoming charity. What is best in each kind is an index of what should be the average of that thing. Love shows me the opulence of nature, by disclosing to me in my friend a hidden wealth, and I infer an equal depth of good in every other direction. It is commonly said by farmers that a good pear or apple costs no more time or pains to rear than a poor one; so I would have no work of art, no speech, or action, or thought, or friend, but the best. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
I could peel you like a pear and god himself would see the justice in it. View quote
Katharine Hepburn
The fault of many of our artists and intellectuals lies in their original sin: they are not true revolutionaries. We can try to graft the elm tree so that it will bear pears, but at the same time we must plant pear trees. New generations will come that will be free of original sin. View quote
Che Guevara
If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it yourself. If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution. All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience. View quote
Mao Zedong
Where Cezanne captured and intensified shards of the eternal (every pear far more sharply defined than it could be in life), Monet portrayed the changeability and flux of every moment. 'The Water Lilies' give you a jittery, amorphous sense of a world seen at the speed of light. View quote
Jerry Saltz
But we have seen it in the air, A fairy like a William Pear. View quote
Mervyn Peake
A man watches his pear tree day after day, impatient for the ripening of the fruit. Let him attempt to force the process, and he may spoil both fruit and tree. But let him patiently wait, and the ripe fruit at length falls into his lap. View quote
Abraham Lincoln
I am sure that in the story of Adam and Eve, the forbidden fruit was a fig and not an apple, pear or anything else. View quote
Yotam Ottolenghi
The seed of God is in us, Meister Eckhart said. Pear seeds grow into pear trees, nut seeds into nut trees, and God seed into G o d . View quote
Marilyn Ferguson
My favorite meal to make is seared ahi, and my wife does the most amazing pear salad. View quote
Joel Parkinson
After 19 years of experimenting, a thousand mistakes, over 400 books, at least 200 bad diets... and a partridge in a pear tree, I have found what I believe are the best answers this planet has to offer about living a healthy, happy, and balanced life. (Marilu Henner)
'My Life' is soft, with notes of pear and gardenia, but still bold, with a woody base. View quote
Mary J. Blige
I'm not trying to be a different weight. I want to be a different body type so that I'm not an apple. I just want to be a pear! View quote
Octavia Spencer
In London I had pear trees in my back garden, so I'd make my own pear and green tomato chutney. View quote
Stephen Moyer
The rose is a rose, And was always a rose, But the theory now goes That the apple's a rose, And the pear is, and so's The plum, I suppose, The dear only knows What will next prove a rose, You, of course, are a rose - But were always a rose. View quote
Robert Frost