Grapes Quotes

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."

I once owned a collection of 77 novels that won the Pulitzer. The only good novel of the bunch was The Grapes of Wrath.

One day you are drinking the wine, and they next day you are picking the grapes.

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

I have even written a book about Wine called The Grapes of Ralph.

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.

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.

Cheese and jam are really nice. Cheese and apple as well. Cheese and grapes are good.

I feel like I am too old to eat jelly. But I am too young to eat prunes. I am between grapes.

Don't long for the unripe grape.

I'm one of the little foxes that spoil the grapes.

Nuts don’t come in bunches. Only grapes do.

Apples, grapes... any kind of fruit gives me the energy I need to get through my busy day.

I didn't even know what I did in 'What's Eating Gilbert Grape'. I just went off with whatever I felt instinctually without a second thought.

The word snob belongs to the sour-grape vocabulary.

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.

A winemaker never, never changes the character of a wine. The character comes from the grapes.

Grapes become wine only when they have been squeezed.

Bring me wine, but wine which never grew In the belly of the grape

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.

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?

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.

I watched Picasso visit the Planet of the Apes, as the masters rot on walls and the angels eat the grapes.

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.

The Fox, when hee cannot reach the grapes, saies they are not ripe.

...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.

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

There are purple grapes in the Land of Git-Thare.

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.

It is said that the propriety even of old Cato often yielded to the exciting influence of the grape.

Victory won't come to me unless I go to it; a grape tendril ties a knot in knots till knotted thirty times

One who can find lemons sweet and grapes sour is ready for Dame Fortune.

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.

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.

When I was younger we had a grape arbor, and my mom would go out and pick grapes and make grape jam in the sink - boil it, put it in jars, and give it away as gifts.

I've never had any delusions about being a leading man, and it's not sour grapes to say that in the best films that I've always enjoyed, the cliched leading man type isn't a part of the picture.

A fly, a grape-stone, or a hair can kill.

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.

It's just that the grape has me down.

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

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?

I look like the wrath of grapes.

It all went a bit grape-shaped.

Only a fool tries to reconstruct a bunch of grapes from a bottle of wine.

Or for the gorgeously bare vampire to give her a sensual massage while feeding her peeled grapes.

Fresh grapes and wine are perhaps the most luscious foods we mortals encounter during our sojourn here.

I'll want to hear,' Samuel said. 'I eat stories like grapes.

I wrote The Grapes of Wrath in one hundred days, but many years of preparation preceded it.

The grape becomes tinted from the grape it comes in contact with.

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.