Stephen Fry Quotes

Taste every fruit of every tree in the garden at least once. It is an insult to creation not to experience it fully. Temperance is wickedness.

Stephen Fry

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• Ye are the fruits of one tree and the leaves of one branch.

  

  Baha'u'llah
  • Tree
  • Fruits
  • Branch

• I grew up with three little brothers. Every Christmas, we'd have piles of toy trucks and Lincoln Logs and G.I. Joes under the tree. Those were for them. For me? My No. 1 favorite present of all time: books. Two or three tall stacks of wonderful stories that I could lose myself in for weeks.

  

  Karen Robards
  • Up
  • Time
  • Myself

• The unrecorded past is none other than our old friend, the tree in the primeval forest which fell without being heard.

  

  Barbara Tuchman
  • Past
  • Friend
  • Tree

• The universe is an example of love. Like a tree. Like the ocean. Like my body. Like my wheelchair. I see the love.

  

  Ram Dass
  • Love
  • Universe
  • Tree

• 'Economics for Everybody' begins with understanding God's principles for organizing His creation and what that means for us as creatures and stewards.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • God
  • Understanding
  • Creation

• I'm certainly not into money and prestige. For me there is simply nothing more exciting than people involved in the creation of great products. That is what drives me.

  

  Aaron Levie
  • People
  • Great
  • Money

• Donald Trump is Hillary Clinton’s Christmas gift wrapped up under a tree. I am the lump of coal in her stocking.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Up
  • Trump
  • Tree

• If my decomposing carcass helps nourish the roots of a Juniper tree or the wings of a vulture-that is immortality enough for me. And as much as anyone deserves.

  

  Edward Abbey
  • Tree

• Mr Raj had been purely Orientally and fancifully complimentary (‘So great a man, his lingam as long and thick as a tree, the father of whole villages’).

  

  Anthony Burgess
  • Great
  • Long
  • Father

• Sorrow is knowledge: they who know the mostMust mourn the deepest o’er the fatal truth,The Tree of Knowledge is not that of Life.

  

  Lord Byron
  • Life
  • Truth
  • Knowledge

• The ripest peach is highest on the tree.

  

  James Whitcomb Riley
  • Tree

• I grew up in a reform Jewish family in St. Louis. Our idea of Judaism was no bar mitzvahs and a Christmas tree that had a skirt at the bottom embroidered with the names of my grandparents.

  

  Danny Meyer
  • Up
  • Family
  • Tree

• I planted an orchard when I was 13. The impulse came from wanting to grow my own apples. That and the nursery catalog showed an apple tree with a beautiful girl standing under the fruit. Whether the flavor or the picture that did it, I've been hooked since.

  

  Bill Pullman
  • Beautiful
  • Girl
  • Picture

• Only the love that flows from the heart of Christ can heal. Only He in whom that love flows, even as the sap in the tree or the blood in the body, can restore the wounded soul.

  

  Ellen G. White
  • Heart
  • Soul
  • Tree

• I did not want to be a tree, a flower or a wave. In a dancer's body, we as audience must see ourselves, not the imitated behavior of everyday actions, not the phenomenon of nature, not exotic creatures from another planet, but something of the miracle that is a human being.

  

  Martha Graham
  • Nature
  • Tree
  • Everyday

• I write most of my music in my house, which is like a tree house.

  

  Chord Overstreet
  • Music
  • House
  • Tree

• Lord save us all from old age and broken health and a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms.

  

  Mark Twain
  • Hope
  • Age
  • Lost

• The alpine environment is very delicate. I've been able to see change in the mountains in the 20 years that I've been climbing full-time. Glaciers have receded. The tree-line is changing. That's very rapid to see nature changing in a 20-year period.

  

  Conrad Anker
  • Time
  • Nature
  • Environment

• When I'm cutting a tree, if I'm thinking about anything other than that 40-foot oak tree... I'm a dead man. It's a therapy thing for me.

  

  Eric Church
  • Thinking
  • Tree
  • Cutting

• I am Valentino Rossi. If I stay in MotoGP it is to try to win. When that is not possible it is time to stay at home and work in the garden!

  

  Valentino Garavani
  • Time
  • Work
  • Home

• There are many beautiful things in the world around us, but pearls can only be discovered in the depths of the sea; if we wish to posses spiritual pearls we must plunge into the depths, that is, we must pray, we must sink down into the secret depths of contemplation and prayer. Then we shall perceive precious pearls.

  

  Sadhu Sundar Singh
  • World
  • Beautiful
  • Wish

• Humility is the mother of all virtues; purity, charity and obedience. It is in being humble that our love becomes real, devoted and ardent. If you are humble nothing will touch you, neither praise nor disgrace, because you know what you are. If you are blamed you will not be discouraged. If they call you a saint you will not put yourself on a pedestal.

  

  Mother Teresa
  • Real
  • Mother
  • Virtue

• Scientists didn't discover the noble gas helium - the second most common element in the universe - on Earth until 1895. And they thought it existed in minute quantities only, until miners found a huge underground cache in Kansas in 1903.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Earth
  • Universe
  • Thought

• Taste every fruit of every tree in the garden at least once. It is an insult to creation not to experience it fully. Temperance is wickedness.

  

  Stephen Fry
  • Tree
  • Creation
  • Insult