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Olive Quotes & Sayings

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He was forty years old, no more, and the color of a white napkin stained with olive oil. — Anonymous

Unbelievable! I said, What would I be doing walking the streets at night as a stuffed olive- gate-crashing cocktail parties? — Louise Rennison

Experience teaches us in a millennium what passion teaches us in an hour. — Olive Schreiner

Salad of baby spinach, artichoke hearts, and slices of fig, drizzled with olive oil and salt and a little fresh lemon juice, — Adriana Trigiani

A brush of green olive paste is worth pursuing. — Nigel Slater

Ones real deathless wealth is all the beautiful souls one has seen and spiritually touched. — Olive Schreiner

I drink too much. The last time I gave a urine sample it had an olive in it. — Rodney Dangerfield

There was never a great man who had not a great mother. — Olive Schreiner

A maiden's first kiss cometh hard, yea, it is as the first olive out of a bottle, requiring much skill; but the rest are easy. — Gelett Burgess

Well, why not just snap my damn olive branch and beat me with it? I was only trying to help. — Carrie Butler

How hard it is to make your thoughts look anything but imbecile fools when you paint them with ink on paper. — Olive Schreiner

I know there will be spring, as surely as the birds know it when they see above the snow two tiny, quivering green leaves. Spring cannot fail us. — Olive Schreiner

That's silly, Anna," said the Honorable Olive. "Being afraid is silly, you know it is. — Eva Ibbotson

The olive grove of Academe, Plato's retirement, where the Attic bird Trills her thick-warbled notes the summer long. — John Milton

My days are jam-packed with carpools, classroom assistance, tending to chickens, dogs and seven acres of olive trees! — Carre Otis

Sometimes it's like people are a million times more beautiful to you in your mind. It's like you see them, that's how they really are. — Olive Ann Burns

Clary wondered what exactly peanut-fish-olive-tomato soup tasted like. — Cassandra Clare

That just seems to be the way we're built. — Irvin D. Yalom

There is nothing hard inside the olive; nothing hard outside the nut. — Horace

I will get a cat and a parrot and live alone in single blessedness. — Olive Higgins Prouty

I'm trying to incorporate colour into my life. Until recently, everything in my closet was black, white, grey, navy or olive. — Jennifer Morrison

We were equals once when we lay new-born babes on our nurse's knees. We will be equal again when they tie up our jaws for the last sleep. — Olive Schreiner

Soul, what have I to do with you? — Olive Schreiner

I am a man who believes nothing, hopes nothing, fears nothing, feels nothing. I am beyond the pale of humanity [ ... ] — Olive Schreiner

The combination of olive oil, garlic and lemon juice lifts the spirits in winter. — Yotam Ottolenghi

I am not in so great a hurry to put my neck beneath any man's foot; and I do not so greatly admire the crying of babies — Olive Schreiner

I use honey to condition my hair and eggs for protein. Also, mayonnaise and olive oil are great options for keeping it moisturized. — Tasha Smith

Who we really are shows up between extending the olive branch and waiting to see if it is received. — Bonnie Lyn Smith

Don't let's ask for the moon! We have the stars! — Olive Higgins Prouty

For those of us who have a ground of knowledge which we cannot transmit to outsiders, it is perhaps more profitable to act fearlessly than to argue. — Olive Schreiner

No good work is ever done while the heart is hot and anxious and fretted. — Olive Schreiner

A Depressive?'
'Smiles in ballrooms, weeps in bedrooms. Ill in her head.' Olive tapped her temple. 'And here.' She touched her heart. — Jessie Burton

My hair can get quite dry, so I condition it in olive oil once a week. — Jerry Hall

My feeling is that there is nothing in life but refraining from hurting others, and comforting those who are sad. — Olive Schreiner

There's something so beautiful in coming on one's very inmost thoughts in another. In one way it is one of the greatest pleasures one has. — Olive Schreiner

If olive oil comes from olives, then where does baby oil come from? — Jane Wagner

An olive, with a pit ... — Victor Feguer

If the Olive Trees knew the hands that planted them, Their Oil would become Tears. — Mahmoud Darwish

Birds seem to be the happiest creatures on earth, yet they have none of what we call the comforts of life. — Olive Thorne Miller

Power! Did you ever hear of men being asked whether other souls should have power or not? It is born in them. — Olive Schreiner

They are called finishing-schools and the name tells accurately what they are. They finish everything. — Olive Schreiner

No one looks at an olive tree and asks why it hides it fruits. It blossoms when its ready and under the right conditions. — Sadiqua Hamdan

My chances of being PM are about as good as the chances of finding Elvis on Mars, or my being reincarnated as an olive. — Boris Johnson

Wise he is deemed who can question well, and also answer back: the sons of men can no secret make of the tidings told in their midst. 30. — Olive Bray

As a people, Serbians are very tall, and we have olive skin and dark hair, which can look very nice. You have to be very beautiful to stand out. — Ana Ivanovic

I have olive skin, so if I'm in the sun for even 15 minutes, I turn brown. — Audrina Patridge

Wisdom never kicks at the iron walls it can't bring down. — Olive Schreiner

Why hate, and struggle, and fight? Let is be as it would. — Olive Schreiner

Cancer teaches that life is too short to be lived like that; you take you knocks when they come, not in advance. — Olive Ann Burns

I am officially Jewish, but I'm Jewish in the same way the Olive Garden is an Italian restaurant. — A. J. Jacobs

With her dark eyes, elegant nose and olive complexion, Claire looked timeless, old-worldly. — Sarah Addison Allen

Just as oil is present in every part of the olive, so love permeates every part of creation. — Paramahansa Yogananda

The brain works better if the hand works too. — Olive Schreiner

Jerusalem artichokes have a great affinity with nuts. I love them with chopped walnuts or almonds, lemon juice, garlic, herbs and plenty of olive oil. — Yotam Ottolenghi

He fell to the ground like an olive tree, young, beautiful, strong, covered with white blossoms, suddenly shattered by a bolt of lightning in a storm. — Alessandro Baricco

She looked at me in a troubled sort of way, the way I look today at people who rave about the food at Applebee's or the Olive Garden. — Wade Rouse

I went to my prom. I wore this olive green, floor-length backless dress. It was rad. — Lorde

She had stayed on simply because she had forgotten that her feet could carry her away. — Olive Tilford Dargan

But to mourn, that's different. To mourn is to be eaten alive with homesickness for the person. — Olive Ann Burns

Oh, gosh, Olive. I'm so embarrassed." "No need to be," Olive tells her. "We all want to kill someone at some point." (179) — Elizabeth Strout

I don't know anything about American history or presidents. I don't know what tailgating is! I've never been to an Olive Garden! — Emma Watson

But never mind, Olive thinks now. You move aside and make way for the new. — Elizabeth Strout

There's nothing like a Harley-Davidson for getting around mud holes, rocks, and wagon ruts on dirt roads - or for making an impression on girls. — Olive Ann Burns

For still the new transcends the old In signs and tokens manifold; Slaves rise up men; the olive waves, With roots deep set in battle graves! — John Greenleaf Whittier

Life is like pouring water into a Coca- Cola bottle; if you're the least bit scared you can't do it — Olive Ann Burns

You gotta have good olive oil. You should have a cooking olive oil and you should have a finishing olive oil, like an extra-virgin olive oil. — Emeril Lagasse

How can people in California have problems with their feet?" asks Molly moving around Olive with a plate of sandwiches. "Don't they drive everywhere? — Elizabeth Strout

Were floods of tears to be unloosed In tribute to my grief, The doves of Noah ne'er had roost Nor found an olive-leaf. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

Nothing like an orange and olive green-striped couch sitting on orange carpet and surrounded by dark wood paneling to get the inspiration rolling. — Erynn Mangum

One has no right to form ideals of people, and then, because they don't justify them, become bitter. — Olive Schreiner

I don't have olive skin. Nobody could tell from my skin that I'm Mediterranean. I'm quite fair, and I do burn easily. — Rory Bremner

Call me not an olive, till thou see me gathered. — George Herbert

He knows his olive trees better than he knows his children. — Rebecca Helm-Ropelato

She turned back to inspect a bank of greens: olive, jade, leaf, kiwi, lime, a silver-green like the back of birch leaves, a bright pistachio. — Anne Bartlett

You wouldn't hurt a virgin, would you? Where do you think they get virgin olive oil, huh? Don't you think we're pathetic enough as it is? — Italy

Greet each man with peace, and leave each man with love. Ask yourself - One more enemy, or one more dove? — Suzy Kassem

Well, widow-comforter, how is she?" Olive spoke in the dark from the bed.
"Struggling," he said.
"Who isn't? — Elizabeth Strout

I have olive skin, so if I get pale, I look green. I have to tan. — Nicole Richie

After a year, the aromatics in an olive oil are gone. Sometimes the bottles on the shelf in the supermarket are there a lot longer than you are. — Jose Andres

He is my first olive: let me make a face while I swallow it. — Elizabeth Gaskell

The first time someone asked me if I was pregnant, I was eating friend cheese at the Summit County Fair — Olive B. Persimmon

We have been so blinded by thinking and feeling that we have never seen the World. — Olive Schreiner

A word may become so defiled by bad use that it will take a century before it can be purifed, and brought into use again. — Olive Schreiner

Why is it that an extended olive branch often turns to a clinched fist of hatred? — Don Williams

Know that mumblings and pleadings are far from meaningless for if they come from the heart they are, in fact, prayers. — Olive Rose Steele

The Story of an African Farm by Olive Schreiner. — Denise Scott Brown

There is no night as deep as this
Inevitable mind's abyss
Where I now dwell with foes alone — Olive Fraser

I've always wanted to have a Greek sitcom called Olive Lucy. — Zach Galifianakis

For me, there is no better tapa than a really good stuffed olive. — Jose Andres

I cook a lot of Italian food. Bucatini Pomodoro is my best: it's a fat spaghetti with tomato, olive oil, and reminds me of getting married in Italy. — Bill Rancic

Forgiveness is like an olive tree, mistress. Once it takes root, it will grow, and it's hard to kill. — Mesu Andrews

If we put a vinaigrette together, every part of it is weighed. For the burger, we do a bit of arugula, olive oil - everything is weighed. To the gram. — Jean-Georges Vongerichten

Naw, you livin' cause you had the good sense to fall down 'twixt them tracks. — Olive Ann Burns

My family isn't really Italian. We're more like Olive Garden Italian. — Mike Birbiglia

Good morrow, fair ones; pray you, if you know,
Where in the purlieus of this forest stands
A sheep-cote fenc'd about with olive trees? — William Shakespeare

God said, 'When one man and one woman shine together, it makes the most perfect light. — Olive Schreiner

O Love! what hours were thine and mine, In lands of palm and southern pine; In lands of palm, of orange-blossom, Of olive, aloe, and maize and vine! — Alfred Lord Tennyson

floral olive oil sorbet with mandarin orange swirls. — Elizabeth A. Reeves

The olive tree is surely the richest gift of Heaven. I can scarcely expect bread. — Thomas Jefferson

Jesus meant us to ast God to hep us stand the pain, not beg Him to take the pain away. — Olive Ann Burns