Unripe Figs Quotes & Sayings

When I was growing up, there were two things that were unpopular in my house. One was me, and the other was my guitar. — Bruce Springsteen

I watched my mother do what she did best, and realized there would never be a way to cut myself from her entirely. No matter how strong or weak I was, she was a part of me, as crucial as my own heart. I would never be strong enough, in all my life, to do without her. — Sarah Dessen

Intelligence is quickness in seeing things as they are. — George Santayana

But steel bars have never yet kept out a mob; it takes something a good deal stronger: human courage backed up by the consciousness of being right. — Ray Stannard Baker

As a linguist, I don't think of Ada as a big language. Now, English and Japanese, those are big languages. Ada is just a medium-sized language. — Larry Wall

But a man doesn't have to have dark magic to do dark things. — Charlie N. Holmberg

We are still masters of our fate.
We are still captains of our souls. — Winston S. Churchill

The Lord expects you to do some things for yourself. — Bear Bryant

Germany would be the biggest loser in a euro breakup. — Peter Bofinger

We cannot adopt the way of living that was satisfactory a hundred years ago. The world in which we live has changed, and we must change with it. — Felix Adler

I just want to tell a good story, so I always ask myself, 'Are these people real to me?' — Ruth Rendell

The figs on the fig tree in the yard are green; Green, also, the grapes on the green vine Shading the brickred porch tiles. The money's run out. How nature, sensing this, compounds her bitters. Ungifted, ungrieved, our leavetaking. The sun shines on unripe corn. Cats play in the stalks. Retrospect shall not soften such penury - Sun's brass, the moon's steely patinas, The leaden slag of the world - But always expose The scraggy rock spit shielding the town's blue bay Against — Sylvia Plath