Quotes and Sayings About Vines
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The more congenial page of some tenth-rate poeticule worn out with failure after failure and now squat in his hole like the tailless fox, he is curled up to snarl and whimper beneath the inaccessible vine of song.
-- Algernon Charles Swinburne -
Vines and trees will teach you that which you will never learn from masters.
-- Bernard of Clairvaux -
Hot dogs and Red Vines and potato chips and French fries are my favorite foods.
-- Betty White -
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.
-- Drew Bledsoe -
I drank at every vine, the last was like the first. I came upon no wine so wonderful as thirst.
-- Edna St. Vincent Millay -
Upon your shattered ruins where This vine will flourish still, as rare, As fresh, as fragrant as of old. Love will not crumble.
-- Eleanor Farjeon -
The benevolence of wrapping the partridge in a vine leaf brings out its quality, just as the barrel of Diogenes brought forth the qualities of the great thinker.
-- Emmanuel des Essarts -
I ran into the gigantic and gigantically wasteful lumbering of great Sequoias, many of whose trunks were so huge they had to be blown apart before they could be handled. I resented then, and I still resent, the practice of making vine stakes hardly bigger than walking sticks out of these greatest of living things.
-- Gifford Pinchot -
The Moral is that gardeners pine, Whene'er no pods adorn the vine. Of all sad words experience gleans, The saddest are: It might have beans.
-- Guy Wetmore Carryl -
As naturally as the oak bears an acorn and the vine a gourd, man bears a poem, either spoken or done.
-- Henry David Thoreau -
I had begun to think my ripening body would wither untasted on the vine.
-- Jacqueline Carey -
Christ , in the parable of the vine dressers, has taught us a sublime lesson of justice, by showing that to the things which are not our own, we can have no just claim.
-- James F. Cooper -
isn't it wonderful that two of the most sacred and symbolic plants, the olive and the vine, live on almost nothing, a terrace of limestone, sun and rain ...
-- Janet Erskine Stuart -
The vine that has been made to bear fruit in the spring, withers and dies before autumn.
-- Jean-Baptiste Rousseau -
Compromise means to go just a little bit below what you know is right. It's just a little bit, but it's the little foxes that spoil the vine.
-- Joyce Meyer -
Drooping along the ground the vine misses its widowed elm.
-- Juvenal -
Happiness is a vine that takes root and grows within the heart, never outside it.
-- Khalil Gibran -
Everything - a horse, a vine - is created for some duty... For what task, then, were you yourself created?
-- Marcus Aurelius -
People pretend not to like grapes when the vines are too high for them to reach
-- Marguerite de Navarre -
I have to have lemon and honey. I have to have apple cider vinegar, Braggs. And I have to have either Red Vines or Twizzlers. These things, you know, are the things that help my vocal performance.
-- Mary J. Blige -
Around existence twine, (Oh, bridge that hangs across the gorge!) ropes of twisted vine.
-- Matsuo Basho -
The duty of the branch is to cling to the vine.
-- Max Lucado -
Philanthropy without scale and sustainability is like any other bad business that will simply wither and die on the vine.
-- Naveen Jain -
The strength of weak people constantly appalls me. Have you ever seen a vine kill an oak tree? Deadly.
-- Rae Foley -
A wise, joyous bookit unfolds the knowledge and the beauty of the two lives it embraces-old wisdom and young discover, intertwining like vines.
-- Rex Reed -
Affliction brings out graces that cannot be seen in a time of health. It is the treading of the grapes that brings out the sweet juices of the vine; so it is affliction that draws forth submission, weanedness from the world, and complete rest in God. Use afflictions while you have them.
-- Robert E. Murray -
On a charcoal kiln a vine keeps climbing, while being burned to death.
-- Soseki Natsume
