Bearing Fruit Quotes (page 2)

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• school
• bear
• black

One of the greatest paradoxes of the Black Power movement was that it talked unceasingly about not imitating the values of white society, but in advocating violence it was imitating the worst, the most brutal, and the most uncivilized value of American life. American Negroes had not been mass murderers. They had not murdered children in Sunday school, nor had they hung white men on trees bearing strange fruit. They had not been hooded perpetrators of violence, lynching human beings at will... Martin Luther King jr.

• tree
• bear
• winter

It is said that in some countries trees will grow, but will bear no fruit because there is no winter there. John Bunyan

• flower
• garden
• bear

just as you would not neglect seeds that you planted with hope that they will bear vegetables and fruits and flowers so you must attend to nourish the garden of your becoming. Jean Houston

• believe
• beauty
• fruit

Some mornings they awake and can believe that they traverse an Eden, unbearably fair in the Dawn, squandering all its Beauty, day after day unseen, bearing them fruits, presenting them Game, bringing them a fugitive moment of Peace,--how, for days at a time, can they not, dizzy with it, believe themselves pass'd permanently into Dream...? Thomas Pynchon

• love
• joy
• my love

Give Me StrengthThis is my prayer to thee, my lord---strike, strike at the root of penury in my heart. Give me the strength lightly to bear my joys and sorrows. Give me the strength to make my love fruitful in service. Give me the strength never to disown the poor or bend my knees before insolent might. Give me the strength to raise my mind high above daily trifles. And give me the strength to surrender my strength to thy will with love. Rabindranath Tagore

• best
• tree
• fruit

Trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit. Moliere

• best
• tree
• fruit

The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit. Moliere

• fruit
• maturity
• bear

Whatever seeds each man cultivates will grow to maturity and bear in him their own fruit. If they be vegetative, he will be like a plant. Giovanni Pico della Mirandola

• god
• fruit
• bear

Sorrow is a fruit. God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it. Victor Hugo

• wisdom
• courage
• fruit

Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit. Baltasar Gracian

• tree
• together
• science

There does not exist a category of science to which one can give the name applied science. There are science and the applications of science, bound together as the fruit of the tree which bears it. Louis Pasteur

• good
• evil
• bear

Behind the man is the Tree of Life, bearing twelve fruits, and the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil is behind the woman; the serpent is twining round it. Arthur E. Waite

• promise
• tree
• bear

Promises that you make to yourself are often like the Japanese plum tree - they bear no fruit. Francis Marion

• justice
• fruit
• mercy

I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice. Abraham Lincoln

• fruit
• evil
• men

Neither gods nor men can foresee when an evil deed will bear its fruit. Bodhidharma