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Quotes about Grapes

I am impelled, not to squeak like a grateful and
apologetic mouse, but to roar like a lion out of
pride in my profession.
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Apple: I look like a
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stomach.
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The conditions are ideal.
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IF 'GRAPES OF
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You cannot eat a
cluster of grapes at
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if you eat them one by
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be the change
you want to see in the world.
— Gandhi
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Fact 137:
Grapes explode when you put
them in the microwave.
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lfl@ve the sky.
It's So limitless.
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Observe good faith and justice
toward all nations.
Cultivate eace an armony with all.
- George Washington
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JOHN
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THE GRAPES
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Apples, grapes... any kind of fruit gives me the energy I need to get through my busy day. Votes: 6

Kristin Chenoweth
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You cannot eat a cluster of grapes at once, but it is very easy if you eat them one by one. Votes: 5

Jacques Roumain
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We should all do what, in the long run, gives us joy, even if it is only picking grapes or sorting the laundry. Votes: 5

E. B. White
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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. Votes: 5

Epictetus
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Grapes become wine only when they have been squeezed. Votes: 4

Oswald Chambers
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I have even written a book about Wine called The Grapes of Ralph. Votes: 4

Ralph Steadman
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The fight is never about grapes or lettuce. It is always about people. Votes: 4

Cesar Chavez
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You could think of extraordinary examples to the contrary: The Grapes of Wrath... and even into the 70s. Votes: 4

Charlton Heston
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In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage. Votes: 4

John Steinbeck
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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. Votes: 4

Galileo Galilei
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We ought to do good to others as simply as a horse runs, or a bee makes honey, or a vine bears grapes season after season without thinking of the grapes it has borne. Votes: 4

Marcus Aurelius
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I was born January 6, 1937, eight years after Wall Street crashed and two years before John Steinbeck published The Grapes of Wrath, his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about the plight of a family during the Great Depression. Votes: 4

Lou Holtz
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In our short walks we passed the kitchen where food was prepared for the nurses and doctors. There we got glimpses of melons and grapes and all kinds of fruits, beautiful white bread and nice meats, and the hungry feeling would be increased tenfold. Votes: 4

Nellie Bly
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A hangover is the wrath of grapes. Votes: 3

Dorothy Parker
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Cheese and jam are really nice. Cheese and apple as well. Cheese and grapes are good. Votes: 3

Georgie Henley
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I wrote The Grapes of Wrath in one hundred days, but many years of preparation preceded it. Votes: 3

John Steinbeck
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What I do and what I dream include thee, as the wine must taste of its own grapes. Votes: 3

Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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I once owned a collection of 77 novels that won the Pulitzer. The only good novel of the bunch was The Grapes of Wrath. Votes: 3

Larry McMurtry
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I went to the juice isle, I learned something. Cranberries are taking over everything. What do you got, apples? Put some cranberrise in there, make it 50/50. Cran-apple. Grapes? Cran-grape. Mangos? Cran-mango. Pork chops? Cran-chop! Votes: 3

Brian Regan
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When you look at 'Grapes of Wrath,' the weakest moments are those in which Steinbeck is spouting a political idea directly at the reader. The book's real power comes from its slower, broader movement. Votes: 3

Philipp Meyer
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[Akiro] Kurosawa, no doubt, was a big influence. Movies sometimes more than directors have influenced me: The Grapes of Wrath, by John Ford, was an extraordinary discovery. Sergei Eisenstein, of course. Later on, [Ingmar] Bergman. Votes: 3

Costa-Gavras
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The way he talked about moving south reminded us of the Joads in Grapes of Wrath. He was a smart kid, but all he was thinking about was peaches.-Only Shot At A Good Tombstone, page 24 Votes: 3

Robert R. Mitchell
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Be sure to buy organic versions of the 'dirty dozen:' the fruits and vegetables that, when grown conventionally, are loaded with pesticides and chemicals: Grapes, apples, lettuce, bell peppers, carrots, nectarines, peaches, strawberries, pears, kale, and celery. Votes: 3

Suzanne Somers
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My childhood was influenced by the roles my father played in his movies. Whether Abraham Lincoln or Tom Joad in the 'Grapes of Wrath,' his characters communicated certain values which I try to carry with me to this day. Votes: 3

Jane Fonda
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Grapes are juicy. Strawberries. Oranges. Good pork chops are succulent," said Dusty. "But the word isn't accurately descriptive of a person." Smiling with delight, Ahriman said, "Oh, really, not accurately descriptive? Be careful housepainter. Your genes are showing. What if I were a cannibal? Votes: 3

Dean Koontz
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Remember, the Arctic didn't have any ice. And the Northwest Passage was wide open. They were raising grapes in Scotland for God sakes, had a huge winery. Iceland was a farming community. As some of the glaciers retreated they found villages that were covered with ice. Votes: 3

Don Young
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I never ate of the grapes nor feared of the eruptions. Votes: 2

David O. Selznick
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You can be drinking the wine today, but picking the grapes tomorrow. Votes: 2

Jonathan Tucker
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My goodness, everyone is planting grapes, even a neighbor with only five acres. Votes: 2

Doc Severinsen
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Nothing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. Votes: 2

Epictetus
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I saw this wino, he was eating grapes. I was like, "Dude, you have to wait". Votes: 2

Mitch Hedberg
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The intoxication of anger, like that of the grape, shows us to others, but hides us from ourselves. Votes: 2

Charles Caleb Colton
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The television critic, whatever his pretensions, does not labour in the same vineyard as those he criticizes; his grapes are all sour. Votes: 2

Frederic Raphael
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We found vines of a large size, and in some cases quite loaded with grapes; we also found an abundance of roses, which appeared to be like those of Castile. Votes: 2

Junipero Serra
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Sometimes you've just got to grab an apple - or grapes, or strawberries. Something that's healthy but maybe a little bit more adventurous, if you can see fruit as adventurous. Votes: 2

LL Cool J
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If there are occasions when my grape turned into a raisin and my joy bell lost its resonance, please forgive me. Charge it to my head and not to my heart. Votes: 2

Jesse Jackson
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To the eyes of a miser a guinea is more beautiful than the sun, and a bag worn with the use of money has more beautiful proportions than a vine filled with grapes. Votes: 2

William Blake
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I've been into the habit of freezing white grapes and using them as a snack. Instead of eating peanuts or popcorn or something like that or pretzels, I just eat the white grapes. Votes: 2

Mike Ditka
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I say 20 words in English. I say money, money, money, and I say hot dog! I say yes, no and I say money, money, money and I say turkey sandwich and I say grape juice. Votes: 2

Carmen Miranda
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From the time I was a small boy, I remember working in the fields with my grandfather and father. We weren't growing grapes, but we were farming crops, creating something good out of the earth. Votes: 2

Scott Pruett
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I believe that the responsibility of the winemaker is to take that fruit and get it into the bottle as the most natural and purest expression of that vineyard, of the grape varietal or blend, and of the vintage. Votes: 2

Robert M. Parker, Jr.
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I was probably never going to get to do the kind of things dramatically that I really wanted to do, so I returned to theater from time to time, and to write, and produce. It's by no means sour grapes. Votes: 2

Larry Hovis
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Nothing great 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. Votes: 2

Epictetus
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Telling a story is like trying to eat grapes with a fork. It's always trying to get away from you. And if you're a good author, and you've challenged yourself, and you're telling big stories, there's more and more that's trying to get away from you simultaneously. Votes: 2

Brent Weeks
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The Hebrew Bible contains multiple provisions to ensure that no one would go hungry. The corners of the field, forgotten sheaves of grain, gleanings that drop from the hands of the gleaner, and small clusters of grapes left on the vine were to be given to the poor. Votes: 2

Jonathan Sacks
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I can no more think of my own life without thinking of wine and wines and where they grew for me and why I drank them when I did and why I picked the grapes and where I opened the oldest procurable bottles, and all that, than I can remember living before I breathed. Votes: 2

M. F. K. Fisher
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Have you read 'The Grapes of Wrath?' That was my family. My dad was a sharecropper in western Oklahoma. When the dust storms came and everything got wiped out, they came to California. The guys with the mattresses on the tops of their cars in the movie? That was the way it was. Votes: 2

B. Wayne Hughes
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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.' Votes: 2

Demetri Martin
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I was a mother who worked ridiculously hard to keep catastrophe at bay. I didn't allow my kids to eat hamburgers for fear of E. coli. I didn't allow them to play with rope, string, balloons - anything that might strangle them. They had to bite grapes in half, avoid lollipops, eat only when I could watch them. Votes: 2

Ann Hood
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For me, it's the unexpected and surprising combinations of produce that are the most exciting and lure me into the kitchen for a little bit of experimenting. Apples and sweet potatoes together? Who knew? Carrots with grapes? Okay. I may not be Julia Child, but I can do pretty well with a simple recipe and a lot of enthusiasm. Votes: 2

Marlo Thomas
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I remember reading 'The Grapes of Wrath' in high school in 1983. My family had immigrated to the U.S. three years before, and I had spent the better part of the first two years learning English. John Steinbeck's book was the first book I read in English where I had an 'Aha!' moment, namely in the famed turtle chapter. Votes: 2

Khaled Hosseini
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The older the grapes, sweeter the wine. Votes: 1

Janis Joplin
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When we are crushed like grapes, we cannot think of the wine we will become. Votes: 1

Henri Nouwen
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If reassurances could dull pain, nobody would ever go to the trouble of pressing grapes. Votes: 1

Scott Lynch
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Forsake Alcohol, eat grapes instead! Votes: 0

Recep Tayyip Erdogan
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I am sure the grapes are sour. Votes: 0

Aesop
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I look like the wrath of grapes. Votes: 0

Jane Ace
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guilt to motherhood is like grapes to wine Votes: 0

Fay Weldon
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Nuts don't come in bunches. Only grapes do. Votes: 0

John Sandford
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The tartness of his face sours ripe grapes. Votes: 0

William Shakespeare
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There are no great enologists. Only good grapes Votes: 0

Michel Rolland
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Wherever wine grapes are grown, it is beautiful. Votes: 0

Margrit Mondavi
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There are purple grapes in the Land of Git-Thare. Votes: 0

Sam Walter Foss
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My life will be sour grapes and ashes without you. Votes: 0

Daisy Ashford
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I'm one of the little foxes that spoil the grapes. Votes: 0

J. D. Salinger
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The unforgivable political sin is vanity; the killer diet is sour grapes. Votes: 0

Neil Kinnock
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I'll want to hear,' Samuel said. 'I eat stories like grapes. Votes: 0

John Steinbeck
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The Fox, when hee cannot reach the grapes, saies they are not ripe. Votes: 0

George Herbert
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The best medicine against the grapes of wrath is a whiff of grapeshot Votes: 0

Napoleon Bonaparte
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All holy piety in public, and all peeled grapes and self-indulgence in private. Votes: 0

Terry Pratchett
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One who can find lemons sweet and grapes sour is ready for Dame Fortune. Votes: 0

Mason Cooley
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I thought these grapes were ripe, but I see now they are quite sour. Votes: 0

Aesop
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We must meditate, brothers. These grapes will yield no wine we tread upon it. Votes: 0

Charles Spurgeon
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Only a fool tries to reconstruct a bunch of grapes from a bottle of wine. Votes: 0

Jeanette Winterson
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beautiful December grapes, blue as plums, every grape a little skinful of sweet, tasteless water Votes: 0

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
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I never give anyone just one congratulation. Congratulations are always plural. They are similar to grapes. Votes: 0

Demetri Martin
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A winemaker never, never changes the character of a wine. The character comes from the grapes. Votes: 0

Michel Rolland
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Bewildered is the fox who lives to find that grapes beyond reach can be really sour. Votes: 0

Dorothy Parker
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I am certain that the good Lord never intended grapes to be made into grape jelly. Votes: 0

Fiorello H. La Guardia
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One day you are drinking the wine, and they next day you are picking the grapes. Votes: 0

Lou Holtz
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People pretend not to like grapes when the vines are too high for them to reach Votes: 0

Marguerite de Navarre
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There is stuff I would have liked to have done. But there are no sour grapes. Votes: 0

Frank Gehry
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Or for the gorgeously bare vampire to give her a sensual massage while feeding her peeled grapes. Votes: 0

Jeaniene Frost
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White grapes are very attractive but when it comes to dessert people generally like cake with icing. Votes: 0

Fran Lebowitz
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Fresh grapes and wine are perhaps the most luscious foods we mortals encounter during our sojourn here. Votes: 0

Jeff Cox
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Anyone who imagines that all fruits ripen at the same time as the strawberries knows nothing about grapes. Votes: 0

Paracelsus
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It's true, some wine improves with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place. Votes: 0

Abigail Van Buren
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Food for thought, eat my words with your mind: Emcees are grapes, and grapes are crushed to wine. Votes: 0

MF Grimm
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Without good company all dainties Lose their true relish, and like painted grapes, Are only seen, not tasted. Votes: 0

Philip Massinger
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The vine bears three kinds of grapes: the first of pleasure, the second of intoxication, the third of disgust. Votes: 0

Diogenes
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Your marriage, Jake said, almost impatiently. It's like the grapes. Just a paint job.He went straight to bed. Votes: 0

Charlie Carillo
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Flat fields produce mediocre grapes, but rolling hills produce the greatest grapes. Why? Because the vines must struggle for survival. Votes: 0

Billy Cannon
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And never since harvests were ripened, / Or laborers born, / Have men gathered figs of the thistle, / Or grapes of the thorn! Votes: 0

Phoebe Cary
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Have you ever taken a serious political stand on anything? Yeah. Sure. For twenty-four hours once I refused to eat grapes. Votes: 0

Woody Allen
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I watched Picasso visit the Planet of the Apes, as the masters rot on walls and the angels eat the grapes. Votes: 0

Adam Ant
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Oh, when I was a kid in show business I was poor. I used to go to orgies to eat the grapes. Votes: 0

Rodney Dangerfield
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People aren't grapes - you can't weigh them in a bunch, but I guess it's easier than dealing with people as individuals. Votes: 0

Rita Mae Brown
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I feel like I am too old to eat jelly. But I am too young to eat prunes. I am between grapes. Votes: 0

Greg Fitzsimmons
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From cane reeds, sugar. From a worm's cocoon, silk. Be patient if you can, and from sour grapes will come something sweet. Votes: 0

Rumi
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Behold the grapes and all the fruits that Autumn gives today, As robed in red and gold, she rules, the Empress of Decay! Votes: 0

Henry Abbey
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Here's to the man Who owns the land That bears the grapes That makes the wine That tastes as good As this does. Votes: 0

Omar Khayyam
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So I got into growing grapes, not realizing that there was a heck of a lot more to it than meets the eye. Votes: 0

Pat Paulsen
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A man makes no noise over a good deed, but passes on to another as a vine to bear grapes again in season. Votes: 0

Marcus Aurelius
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I can put two and two together, you know. Do not think you are dealing with a man who has lost his grapes. Votes: 0

Tom Stoppard
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Since a fully mature, rigorous vine will fully use 60 square feet or more spacings closer than 6x10 for wine grapes aren't usually recommended in America." Votes: 0

Jeff Cox
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A real fox calls sour not only those grapes that he cannot reach but also those that he has reached and taken away from others. Votes: 0

Friedrich Nietzsche
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Right now everyone is drinking bad wine made of sour grapes and hysteria. Let them drink it, and let them regret it in the morning. Votes: 0

Sarah Addison Allen
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Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord: / He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored ... Votes: 0

Julia Ward Howe
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God in his goodness sent the grapes To cheer both great and small; Little fools will drink too much And great fools none at all! Votes: 0

Walter Scott
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Ceres wanted a united front in the plant war." "The plant war," Percy said. "You're going to arm all the little grapes with tiny assault rifles? Votes: 0

Rick Riordan
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The whole purpose of the winepress is to preserve the grapes. Accept Pressing moments. What you accomplish in a moment of pressure will be used forever. Votes: 0

Moffat Machingura
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Ceres wanted a united front in the plant war.The plant war, Percy said. You're going to arm all the little grapes with tiny assault rifles? Votes: 0

Rick Riordan
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I could spend a whole day at a spa. Id get a facial, a scalp rub, massages, then eat some grapes and be good to go. Votes: 0

Dule Hill
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Go on, have a glass of wine with dinner. What is wine, anyway? Pure grapes. A glass of wine is much better for you than a Coke. Votes: 0

Jack LaLanne
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Mankind does not drink alcohol because there are breweries, distilleries, and vineyards; men brew beer, distill spirits, and grow grapes because of the demand for alcoholic drinks. Votes: 0

Ludwig von Mises
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Therell always be some weird thing about eating four grapes before you go to bed, or drinking a special tea, or buying this little bean from El Salvador. Votes: 0

Richard Simmons
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I hate to cry and I hate to sound like sour grapes, but no one ever listens to me. No one ever hears what I have to say. Votes: 0

Mike Tyson
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The dreary flies, lazy and casual, Stick to the ceiling, buzz along the wall. O heart, the spider shuffles from the mould Weaving, between the pinks and grapes, his pall. Votes: 0

Allen Tate
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As slippery as smooth grapes, words exploding in the light like dormant seeds waiting in the vaults of vocabulary, alive again, and giving life: once again the heart distills them. Votes: 0

Pablo Neruda
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The Californians are an idle, thriftless people, and can make nothing for themselves. The country abounds in grapes, yet they buy, at a great price, bad wine made in Boston... Votes: 0

Richard Henry Dana, Jr.
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Wisdom doesn't automatically come with old age.Nothing does --- except wrinkles.It's true,some wines improves with age.But only if the grapes were good in the first place Votes: 0

Abigail Van Buren
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[We believe that unions have always been about much more than the industries in which they operate.] The fight is never about grapes or lettuce, ... It is always about people. Votes: 0

Cesar Chavez
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Wisdom doesn't automatically come with old age. Nothing does - except wrinkles. It's true, some wines improve with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place. Votes: 0

Abigail Van Buren
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Indigo has a purifying, stabilizing, cleansing effect when fear, repression, and obsessions have disturbed your mental body. Indigo food vibrations are: blackberries, blue plums, blueberries, purple brocoli, beetroot, and purple grapes. Votes: 0

Tae Yun Kim
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The fallen hazel-nuts, Stripped late of their green sheaths, The grapes, red-purple, Their berries Dripping with wine, Pomegranates already broken, And shrunken fig, And quinces untouched, I bring thee as offering. Votes: 0

Hilda Doolittle
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Purple as tulips in May, mauve into lush velvet, purple as the stain blackberries leave on the lips, on the hands, the purple of ripe grapes sunlit and warm as flesh.... Votes: 0

Marge Piercy
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I didn't watch the Emmys because - well, for one, I have been to awards shows, and I understand how it works. For another, sour grapes. Actually, that's probably number one. Votes: 0

Kurt Fuller
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Clusters of bats hung like bunches of withered grapes from the roof and when, from time to time, either Kerim's head or Bond's brushed against them, they exploded twittering into the darkness. Votes: 0

Ian Fleming
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You want hot days to get your fruit ripe but then you want it to cool off nicely at night so that the grapes stay on the vine longer and develop complexity. Votes: 0

Drew Bledsoe
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I'm such a goody two-shoes, I don't even taste the fruit at the grocery store. Like oh, are these grapes good? I can't even do that. I'm that much of a rule-follower. Votes: 0

Laura Benanti
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There are no letters in the mailbox And there are no grapes upon the vine And there are no chocolates in your boxes anymore And there are no diamonds in the mine Votes: 0

Leonard Cohen
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Shall I let in the stranger, Shall I welcome the sailor, Or stay till the day I die? Hands of the stranger and holds of the ships, Hold you poison or grapes? Votes: 0

Dylan Thomas
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A man who was fond of wine was offered some grapes at dessert after dinner. "Much obliged," said he, pushing the plate aside, "I am not accustomed to take my wine in pills." Votes: 0

Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
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Almost everything in 'A Day With Wilbur Robinson' has some basis in truth. And yes, my sister did pay me to feed her grapes while she talked to her boyfriend on the phone. Votes: 0

William Joyce
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It's sour grapes, I admit, I want to be more famous so people are examining my work couplet by couplet, you know what I mean? That's the level where I want to go. Votes: 0

Black Francis
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It's sour grapes, I admit, I want to be more famous so people are examining my work couplet by couplet, you know what I mean? That's the level where I want to go. Votes: 0

Frank Black
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I have to tell you, and I don't mean this as sour grapes or anything, but it is hard to play for fans who see you all the time, makes it much harder. Votes: 0

Roger Daltrey
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Most people hew the battlements of life from compromise, erecting their impregnable keeps from judicious submissions, fabricating their philosophical drawbridges from emotional retractions and scalding marauders in the boiling oil of sour grapes. Votes: 0

Zelda Fitzgerald
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October, here's to you. Here's to the heady aroma of the frost-kissed apples, the winey smell of ripened grapes, the wild-as-the-wind smell of hickory nuts and the nostalgic whiff of that first wood smoke. Votes: 0

Ken Weber
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My family makes these vinegars - out of everything from grapes to peaches and cherries. We go through the whole process with the giant vat and drainer, label them, and give them as Christmas presents. Votes: 0

Mario Batali
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always there is a sort of dream of air between you and the hills of California, a veil of unreality in the intervening air. It gives the hills the bloom that peaches have, or grapes in the dew.

Stella Benson
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...when you buy just two or three tons from a grower, they see the artisan work you do with their grapes, and then they want to give you their good fruit. By keeping small I can put my heart into it.

John Bennett Ramsey
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There is this school of thought that says the usage of all mystical and occult powers is bad. I find that thought is usually propounded by people who don't have any powers. It's kind of a sour grapes attitude.

Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
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although I have no fish, / I do not want any frog; / Or any elderberries either, / Instead of a bunch of grapes: / Although I have no love, / I do not want anything else, / Whether Love is gracious to me or hostile.

Hadewijch
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My only grudge against nature was that I could not turn my Lolita inside out and apply voracious lips to her young matrix, her unknown heart, her nacreous liver, the sea-grapes of her lungs, her comely twin kidneys.

Vladimir Nabokov
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If we believe in Jesus, it is not what we gain but what He pours through us that really counts. God’s purpose is not simply to make us beautiful, plump grapes, but to make us grapes so that He may squeeze the sweetness out of us.

Oswald Chambers
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Oh, wherefore come ye forth in triumph from the north, With your hands, and your feet, and your raiment all red? And wherefore doth your rout send forth a joyous shout? And whence be the grapes of the wine-press which ye tread?

Thomas B. Macaulay
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The bodies of the damned shall be crowded together in hell, like grapes in a wine-press, which press one another till they burst; every distinct sense and organ shall be assailed with its own appropriate and most exquisite sufferings.

Jeremy Taylor
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Those times when I play on stage in front of lots of people, it's such an unusual and borderline unhealthy process, even though I love it and I really do it with humility. I don't have serfs getting me grapes after, or things like that.

Gavin Rossdale
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You can grow grapes in almost any part of the world. You just have to develop your palate enough to realize wine is an expression of the place where you make it. You don't have to take over the world; just be an artist and express your area.

Maynard James Keenan
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Good days are to be gathered like grapes, to be trodden and bottled into wine and kept for age to sip at ease beside the fire. If the traveler has vintaged well, he need trouble to wander no longer; the ruby moments glow in his glass at will.

Freya Stark
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The world is now multicultural the same way the world is round. It's not a selling point, it's not a 'quirky' feature, it's not a cynical marketing ploy, it's not an artistic statement, it's not even a plot device. It's a fact, like seedless grapes.

Zadie Smith
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When I closed THE GRAPES OF WRATH, I was a different man. It enriched my powers of thinking and discipline, and my relationships. I left prison more informed than when I went in. And the more informed you are, the less arrogant and aggressive you are.

Nelson Mandela
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In the luxuriance of a bowl of grapes set out in ritual display, in a bottle of wine, the soil and sunshine of California reached millions for whom that distant place would henceforth be envisioned as a sun-graced land resplendent with the goodness of the fruitful earth.

Kevin Starr
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Family grapes of wrath (18 quotes)

I was born January 6, 1937, eight years after Wall Street crashed and two years before John Steinbeck published The Grapes of Wrath, his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about the plight of a family during the Great Depression. Votes: 1 Lou Holtz

Grapes of wrath (31 quotes)

In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage. Votes: 3 John Steinbeck

Sour grapes (45 quotes)

There is stuff I would have liked to have done. But there are no sour grapes. Votes: 7 Frank Gehry


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