Apricot Quotes

More varied than any landscape was the landscape in the sky, with islands of gold and silver, peninsulas of apricot and rose against a background of many shades of turquoise and azure. (Cecil Beaton)
The blossoms of the apricot blow from the east to the west, And I have tried to keep them from falling. View quote
Ezra Pound
When we go up to the shelves in the reading-room of the British Museum, how like it is to wasps flying up and down an apricot tree that is trained against a wall, or cattle coming down to drink at a pool! View quote
Samuel Butler (novelist)
All the seasons run their race In this quiet resting place; Peach, and apricot, and fig Here will ripen, and grow big; Here is store and overplus,- More had not Alcinoüs! View quote
Henry Austin Dobson
In a land of quince jelly, apple butter, apricot jam, blueberry preserves, pear conserves, and lemon marmalade, you always get grape jelly. View quote
William Least Heat-Moon
That evening, as I watched the sunset's pinwheels of apricot and mauve slowly explode into red ribbons, I thought: The sensory misers will inherit the earth, but first they will make it not worth living on. View quote
Diane Ackerman