Quotations on Apples

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The insufferable arrogance of human beings to think that Nature was made solely for their benefit, as if it was conceivable that the sun had been set afire merely to ripen men's apples and head their cabbages.
- Cyrano de Bergerac
(Keywords: Nature, Men, Apples, Arrogance, Sun)

Love doesn't grow on trees like apples in Eden - it's something you have to make. And you must use your imagination too.
- Joyce Cary
(Keywords: Imagination, Love, Apples, Trees)

The God of the Christians is a father who makes much of his apples, and very little of his children.
- Denis Diderot
(Keywords: God, Father, Apples, Children)

In science, "fact" can only mean "confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent." I suppose that apples might start to rise tomorrow, but the possibility does not merit equal time in physics classrooms.
- Stephen Jay Gould
(Keywords: Time, Science, Possibility, Apples, Merit, Physics, Tomorrow)

There is more to sex appeal than just measurements. I don't need a bedroom to prove my womanliness. I can convey just as much sex appeal, picking apples off a tree or standing in the rain.
- Audrey Hepburn
(Keywords: Sex, Apples, Rain, Sex appeal)