Vines Quotes

Adrian Rogers told us as often as he could he took the Bible literally. He illustrated by saying he believed the world was created in six 24-hour days. And he repeated this to make an impression upon us. In private (Jerry Vines was with us), I asked Rogers what he did with the slavery passages of the New Testament. Did he take them literally? He paused and said, 'Well, I believe slavery is a much-maligned institution. If we had slavery today, we would not have this welfare mess.'

I have to have lemon and honey. I have to have apple cider vinegar, Braggs. And I have to have either Red Vines or Twizzlers. These things, you know, are the things that help my vocal performance.

Isn't it wonderful that two of the most sacred and symbolic plants, the olive and the vine, live on almost nothing, a terrace of limestone, sun and rain.

Happiness is a vine that takes root and grows within the heart, never outside it.

Wine makes daily living easier, less hurried with fewer tensions and more tolerance.

Vines and trees will teach you that which you will never learn from masters.

The peoples of the Mediterranean began to emerge from barbarism when they learned to cultivate the olive and the vine.

There are no letters in the mailbox And there are no grapes upon the vine And there are no chocolates in your boxes anymore And there are no diamonds in the mine

The duty of the branch is to cling to the vine.

Everything - a horse, a vine - is created for some duty... For what task, then, were you yourself created?

On a charcoal kiln a vine keeps climbing, while being burned to death.

Cultures grow on the vine of tradition.

Hot dogs and Red Vines and potato chips and French fries are my favorite foods.

Upon your shattered ruins where, This vine will flourish still, as rare, As fresh, as fragrant as of old. Love will not crumble.

God uproots the vine that He Himself has not planted.

I drank at every vine, the last was like the first. I came upon no wine so wonderful as thirst.

Philanthropy without scale and sustainability is like any other bad business that will simply wither and die on the vine.

Compromise means to go just a little bit below what you know is right. It's just a little bit, but it's the little foxes that spoil the vine.

The vine-stock bears fruit as long as it is attached to its stem; apart from that, no.

This policeman came up to me with a pencil and a piece of very thin paper. He said, "I want you to trace someone for me."

I had begun to think my ripening body would wither untasted on the vine.

A wise, joyous bookit unfolds the knowledge and the beauty of the two lives it embraces-old wisdom and young discover, intertwining like vines.

I didn't really understand the importance of little things. I didn't really understand that it was the little foxes that spoil the vine. And if we're not faithful in little things, that God will never be able to make us ruler over great things.

As naturally as the oak bears an acorn and the vine a gourd, man bears a poem, either spoken or done.

Plant no other tree before the vine.

You want hot days to get your fruit ripe but then you want it to cool off nicely at night so that the grapes stay on the vine longer and develop complexity.

Around existence twine, (Oh, bridge that hangs across the gorge!) ropes of twisted vine.

Critics must excuse me if I compare them to certain animals called asses, who, by gnawing vines, originally taught the great advantage of pruning them.

A little saint best fits a little shrine, A little prop best fits a little vine, As my small cruse best fits my little wine.

I'm definitely looking forward to the day when I stop working - if I ever stop working. I like the idea of keeling over in my tomato vines in Sardinia or northern Italy.

And time cast forth my mortal creature To drift or drown upon the seas Acquainted with the salt adventure Of tides that never touch the shores. - I who was rich was made the richer By sipping at the the vine of days.

Where are the feasts we were promised? Where is the wine, the new wine, dying on the vine.

Words slip into a language the way white-green vines slide between slats in a fence.

The main thing is not to let go of the vine.

To happy convents, bosomed deep in vines, Where slumber abbots, purple as their wines.

You know how the bonds of family are, my lady... They cling as tightly as vines. And sometimes, like vines, they cling tightly enough to kill.

We must live in all kinds of days, both high days and low days, in simple dependence upon Christ as the branch on the vine. This is the supreme experience

Dr. Johnson ... sometimes employed himself in chymistry, sometimes in watering and pruning a vine, and sometimes in small experiments, at which those who may smile, should recollect that there are moments which admit of being soothed only by trifles.

That is faith, cleaving to Christ, twining round Him with all the tendrils of our heart, as the vine does round its support.

Peas went with carrots as infallibly as ham went with eggs. For years I thought carrots and peas grew on the same vine.

turn and turn and turn again you see the what, but not the when remedy and wrong entwine and so they form a single vine

A red brick Presbyterian church... captured by kudzu vines as surely as a butterfly in a net.

The vine that has grown old on an old tree falls with the ruin of that tree, and through that bad companionship must perish with it.

Twas Noah who first planted the vine And mended his morals by drinking its wine.

The vine that has been made to bear fruit in the spring, withers and dies before autumn.

Plant no tree sooner than the vine.

After a war life catches desperately at passing hints of normalcy like vines entwining a hollow twig.

No small thing, a bee's sting When it enters the heart Not so benign, the growing vine When it tears stone apart

Hee that is in a Taverne thinkes he is in a vine-garden.

Thou art an elm, my husband, I a vine.