Famous quotes containing the words ground and/or fruit:
“The future is just as much a condition of the present as is the past. What shall be and must be is the ground of that which is.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (18441900)
“The sight of a Black nun strikes their sentimentality; and, as I am unalterably rooted in native ground, they consider me a work of primitive art, housed in a magical color; the incarnation of civilized, anti-heathenism, and the fruit of a triumphing idea.”
—Alice Walker (b. 1944)