Quotes about Apples
There always comes in September a parched brightness to the air that hits Rabbit two ways, smelling of apples and blackboard dust and marking the return to school and work in earnest, but then again reminding him he's suffered another promotion, taken another step up the stairs that has darkness at the head.
- John Updike
There is one thought for the field, another for the house. I would have my thoughts, like wild apples, to be food for walkers, and will not warrant them to be palatable if tasted in the house.
- Henry David Thoreau
Sustain me with raisins; refresh me with apples, for I am faint with love.
- Song of Solomon 2:5
I said, “I will climb the palm tree; I will take hold of its fruit.” May your breasts be like clusters of the vine, the fragrance of your breath like apples,
- Song of Solomon 7:8
I love apples. I actually do eat an apple a day.
- Lawrence Wright
It was sufficiently late in the year for the orchards to be ruddy with ripe apples; and in a few places the hop-pickers were already at work. I thought it all extremely beautiful, and made up my mind to sleep among the hops that night: imagining some cheerful companionship in the long perspectives of poles, with the graceful leaves twining
- Charles Dickens
The tarter the apple, the tastier the cider.
- Beverly Lewis
The flowers of the apple are perhaps the most beautiful of any tree's, so copious and so delicious to both sight and scent.
- Henry David Thoreau
I know the look of an apple that is roasting and sizzling on the hearth on a winter's evening, and I know the comfort that comes of eating it hot, along with some sugar and a drench of cream... I know how the nuts taken in conjunction with winter apples, cider, and doughnuts, make old people's tales and old jokes sound fresh and crisp and enchanting.
- Mark Twain
His banner over me was love.Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples: for I am sick of love.
- Anonymous
I fear that he who walks over these fields a century hence will not know the pleasure of knocking off wild apples. Ah, poor man, there are many pleasures which he will not know!
- Henry David Thoreau