Grape Quotes

“Jelly beans! Millions and billions of purples and yellows and greens and licorice and grape and raspberry and mint and round and smooth and crunchy outside and soft-mealy inside and sugary and bouncing jouncing tumbling clittering clattering skittering fell on the heads and shoulders and hardhats and carapaces of the Timkin works, tinkling on the slidewalk and bouncing away and rolling about underfoot and filling the sky on their way down with all the colors of joy and childhood and holidays, coming down in a steady rain, a solid wash, a torrent of color and sweetness out of the sky from above, and entering a universe of sanity and metronomic order with quite-mad coocoo newness. Jelly beans!”
― Harlan Ellison, "Repent, Harlequin!" Said the Ticktockman

“Seek more strength for weaker spine
No grape grows on sinner’s vine”
― Munia Khan

“A vine bears three grapes, the first of pleasure, the second of drunkenness, and the third of repentance.”
― Diogenes Laërtius, Complete Works

“Each grape she pulled off grew back again on the cluster. In the dream it was evident that the girl had spent many years at that infinite window trying to finish the cluster, and was in no hurry to so because she knew that in the last grape lay death.”
― Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez, Of Love and Other Demons

“Grape”
― grape

“From the Holy Grail
my lips, they lust a little more. Smoky grapes, Cabernet,
I sense a tug of war”
― Soroosh Shahrivar, Letter 19