Quotes of Strawberry - somelinesforyou

“ The past should be culled like a box of fresh strawberries, rinsed of debris, sweetened judiciously and served in small portions, not very often. ”

- Laura Palmer

“ We do not rejoice in victories. We rejoice when a new kind of cotton is grown and when strawberries bloom in Israel. ”

- Golda Meir

“ Doubtless God could have made a better berry but doubtless God never did. ”

- William Allen Butler

“ Darryl Strawberry has been voted to the Hall of Fame five years in a row. ”

- Ralph Kiner

“ On a strawberry sundae of a day, all daisies and June sun and pastoral posing by world leaders on the Lancaster House lawn. ”

- John Vinocur

“ A man traveling across a field encountered a tiger. He fled, the tiger after him. Coming to a precipice, he caught hold of the root of a wild vine and swung himself over the edge. The tiger sniffed at him from above. Trembling, the man looked down to where, far below, another tiger was waiting to eat him… ”

- Zen Poem

“ For the world was changing, and sweetness was gone, and virtue too. Worry had crept on a corroding world, and what was lost — good manners, ease and beauty? Ladies were not ladies anymore, and you couldn't trust a gentleman's word… Oh, strawberries don't taste as they used to and the thighs of women have lost their clutch! ”

- John Steinbeck

“ Why the hell are we conditioned into the smooth strawberry-and-cream mother-goose, Alice-and- Wonderland fable, only to be broken on the wheel as we grow older and become aware of ourselves as individuals with a dull responsibility in life? ”

- Sylvia Plath

“ One of the joys our technological civilization has lost is the excitement with which seasonal flowers and fruits were welcomed; the first daffodil, strawberry or cherry are now things of the past, along with their precious moment of arrival. Even the tangerine — now a satsuma or clementine — appears de-pipped months before Christmas. ”

- Derek Jarman

“ The measure of achievement is not winning awards. It's doing something that you appreciate, something you believe is worthwhile. I think of my strawberry souffle. I did that at least twenty-eight times before I finally conquered it. ”

- Julia Child
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