“Too late for fruit, too soon for flowers.”
Walter de La Mare
“No shade, no shine, no butterflies, no bees,/ No fruits, no flowers, no leaves, no birds, - November!”
Thomas Hood
“There is no fruit which is not bitter before it is ripe”
Publilius Syrus
“WITHOUT the flowers, the plant yields no fruit. Without the emerging fruit, ripeness cannot happen.”
Sri Sathya Sai Baba
“Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.”
Abraham Lincoln
“Winter has passed, and spring has come. The seeds you have sown with tears will bear fruit very soon.”
Cardinal Zen
“And ye shall sow the eighth year, and eat yet of old fruit until the ninth year; until her fruits come in ye shall eat of the old store.”
Bible