Peach Quotes
More Peach Quotes
Do I dare to eat a peach?
— 1915 'The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock' (first published in Poetry magazine, collected in Prufrock and Other Observations, 1917).
The pretension is nothing; the performance everything. A good apple is better than an insipid peach.
leigh hunt— The Story of Rimini, preface to revised ed. (1832)
Then hath thy orchard fruit, thy garden flowers, Fresh as the air, and new as are the hours. The early cherry, with the later plum, Fig, grape, and quince, each in his time doth come: The blushing apricot, and woolly peach Hang on thy walls, that every child may reach.
Ben Jonson— 1616 The Forest,'To Penshurst'.
She is pale but affectionate, clinging to his arm — always clinging to his arm. Any one can see that she is a peach and of the cling variety.
o. henry— "A Tempered Wind"
The ripest peach is highest on the tree.
james whitcomb riley— The Ripest Peach.
My former health minister, Kamran Bagheri Lankarani, is like a peach. I love to eat him.
mahmoud ahmadinejad— [17]
A man bites into a dry peach and says "This peach is not good;" the peach replies "It is not my fault that you don't know the proper use for a dry peach."
tori amos— A quote from the special inclusions in the sheet music book for her album "Under the Pink"
My grandmother would shanghai pilots at the Havana airport so they'd bring me cartons of mango baby food -- the only kind I'd eat. I learned to eat peach later. And in every carton, she'd slip in a Cuban record.
gloria estefan— www.miamiherald.com
Here we are folks The dream we all dream of Boy versus girl in the World Series of love Tell me, have U got the look? U walked in (I walked in) I woke up (U woke up) I never seen a pretty girl look so tough' baby (baby) U got that look, yes U do (yes U do) Color U peach and black Color me takin' aback, baby Crucial, I think I wantcha.
prince— U Got the Look
All the heart was full of feeling: love had ripened into speech, Like the sap that turns to nectar, in the velvet of the peach.
— William Wallace Harney, Adonais.
Thus do I live, from pleasure quite debarred, Nor taste the fruits that the sun's genial rays Mature, john-apple, nor the downy peach.
— John Philips, The Splendid Shilling, line 115.
The ripest peach is highest on the tree.
james whitcomb riley— James Whitcomb Riley, The Ripest Peach; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 591.
A little peach in an orchard grew, A little peach of emerald hue; Warmed by the sun and wet by the dew It grew.
Eugene Field— Eugene Field, The Little Peach; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 591.
What wondrous life is this I lead! Ripe apples drop about my head; The luscious clusters of the vine Upon my mouth do crush their wine; The nectarine, and curious peach, Into my hands themselves do reach; Stumbling on melons, as I pass, Ensnared with flowers, I fall on grass.
Andrew Marvell— c.1650-1652 'The Garden' (published1681), stanza 5.
