Fig Quotations

The most appealing thing to me about food is combining and layering flavors, tastes, and textures. So the perfect sandwich has to be toasted. It has to have Emmenthal Swiss cheese and a combination of sweet and savory - some cranberry or fig thing happening - with different kinds of meats like Black Forest ham and roast beef.

The accords were fig leaves of democratic procedure to hide the nakedness of Stalinist dictatorship.

The type of fig leaf which each culture employs to cover its social taboos offers a twofold description of its morality. It reveals that certain unacknowledged behavior exists and it suggests the form that such behavior takes.

I have to admit that I can't take a whole fig and eat it on its own as I would a peach or mango. It's just too much.

A great fig should look like it's just about to burst its skin. When squeezed lightly it should give a little and not spring back. It must be almost unctuously sweet, soft and wet.

I am sure that in the story of Adam and Eve, the forbidden fruit was a fig and not an apple, pear or anything else.

Let the world slide, let the world go; A fig for care, and a fig for woe! If I can't pay, why I can owe, And death makes equal the high and low

I am thinking it's possibly workable. The FIG will have to see how it turns out in the competition situation, and I'm sure they will be doing some small adjustments because it's a big departure from what we've had before.

For us to put the vote off ... I have to be convinced that it's more than a fig leaf, that it's real reform.

We don't make one pair of Levi's in the United States any more. Want to wear Tony Lama Boots? You're probably wearing Chinese boots. You want to eat Fig Newton cookies? You're eating a foreign product. Didn't used to be. It's Mexican now. We are seeing a wholesale movement away from this country of things that we make, products that we produce, that used to have attached to them good jobs for Americans.

Consent is simply a fig leaf for marketing.

There is always some fig leaf being used.

But the olive tree said unto them, Should I leave my fatness, wherewith by me they honour God and man, and go to be promoted over the trees? / And the trees said to the fig tree, Come thou, and reign over us.

One day it hit me: Truest friends, God bless their hearts, could not care less. They love you, they're pleased you're getting married and, ultimately, they don't give a fig how you get it done.

This is a fig leaf. It's an attempt by the Chinese to do the least amount possible,

This is not the IOC's position, and we were not consulted about this letter, ... The position of the IOC remains the same. The FIG documented and validated the result of the competition, and those results will stand.

This is not the IOC's position, and we were not consulted about this letter. The position of the IOC remains the same. The FIG documented and validated the result of the competition, and those results will stand.

This is not time for studies and fig leaves. It's time for bold action.

The Indian fig trees sent down from every branch suckers, like smooth strings, which rooted themselves in the ground to draw up more water.

We might imagine that Jesus had many human faults. He failed most humanly, in my reckoning, when he killed the fig tree just because it didn't bear any figs for his breakfast; that was a disgraceful, bad-tempered thing to do, and to try and make a virtue of it by saying it was a demonstration of faith only made things worse.

It's a fig leaf. It's covering up their unwillingness to commit to the Vermont Promise Scholarship.

I do not believe that this nomination was withdrawn simply because of the president's refusal to release White House documents. That is a fig leaf to cover the real problem which was a badly mismanaged and rush nomination.

I would not give a fig for the simplicity this side of complexity, but I would give my life for the simplicity on the other side of complexity.

The statue that advertises its modesty with a fig leaf really brings its modesty under suspicion