Peach Sayings and Quotes

The peach is a near perfect fruit. Juicy, firm, with just the right amount of sweetness, they’re tasty alone or in baked goods. Below you’ll find a collection of insightful and humorous peach quotes.

A peach, slightly unbalanced, so that it listed to one side, its hue the color of an early sunrise. Allegra Goodman
You can be the ripest, juiciest peach in the world, and there's still going to be somebody who hates peaches. Dita Von Teese
Peach pits are poisonous / This is not a mistake / Girlhood is growing fruit around cyanide / It will never be yours for swallowing. Brenna Twohy
Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it. Alice Walker
One does a whole painting for one peach and people think just the opposite - that particular peach is but a detail. Pablo Picasso
If you start with a great peach, there's nothing you're ever going to do that's going to make it any better than when it comes off the tree. In 1970, that was a revolution. Ruth Reichl
The ripest peach is highest on the tree — And so her love, beyond the reach of me James Whitcomb Riley
My earliest memory is making peach cobbler with my grandmother. A wonderful memory. I grew up in a restaurant family - B.B.Q. restaurant. Rick Bayless
An apple is an excellent thing—until you have tried a peach. George du Maurier
The use of food metaphors is really well established English... Somebody is a peach, a hot tamale. Erin Mckean
Inside the peach there's a stone. Margaret Atwood
Sunrise paints the sky with pinks and the sunset with peaches. Cool to warm. So is the progression from childhood to old age. Vera Nazarian
Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education. Mark Twain
You could be the tastiest, most juiciest, most delicious peach out there in the world; there's still going to be people out there who don't like peaches . Benson Henderson
Fresh peach pie can lift a bullying reprobate into apologetic courtesy; I have watched it happen. Leif Enger
Memories, even hard memories, grew soft like peaches as they grow older. Sarah Addison Allen
But no matter what you do, that seed will grow to be a peach tree. You may wish for an apple or an orange, but you will get a peach. Jonathan Aibel
Well I don't know anything that's good for you that smells like peaches that isn't peaches. Silvio Muraglia
Cause there's nothing can compare with / Strolling along Peach tree street with my baby on my arm / I got the sweetest peach in Georgia, and she just came off the farm Mason
She's a peach / She was dark, she was tan / She made me glad to be a man / She was young, she was smart Prince Rogers Nelson
That was a long cold night / But then the sun came out to thaw the ice / Open the window man to smell the peach blossom Jeffrey Scott Lyster
The peach is a symbol of immortality in Taoist mythology. Desmond R. Layne
Peach is revered as a delicious and healthy summer fruit in most temperature regions of the world. Desmond R. Layne
Anyone who's bitten into a fully ripe, just-picked peach--hot from the summer's sun and ripe enough to be what the Masumotos call a 'gusher'--knows that the feeling is completely, thoroughly arresting. David Mas Masumoto
At eight years old, eating peach after peach in the orchard was about nothing more than rampant consumption of forbidden sweets. David Mas Masumoto
A peach--a juicy ripe one--can seduce anyone with its ethereal flavor and sensual texture. David Mas Masumoto
It was an aroma that would saturate every breath of the next several days. It was those sun-heated mouthfuls of peach that haunted my memories, that finally led me back to the kitchen as my life's work. David Mas Masumoto
I loved peeling peaches until the pads on my fingers puckered and shriveled from all the juiciness. David Mas Masumoto
Although peaches and nectarines do soften and become juicier and more aromatic after harvest, they don't get any sweeter. That requires picking the fruit at the highest possible maturity. Russ Parsons
Peaches and nectarines that have the most sugar and are the most mature have a background color (yellow) with a golden, almost orange cast. When you see a piece of fruit like this, pick it no matter what the variety is. Russ Parsons