Watermelon Quotes

“If you want to give yourself a fair chance to succeed, never expect too much too soon”
― Po Bronson

“I love watermelon!
Chomp! Chomp! Chomp!”
― Greg Pizzoli, The Watermelon Seed

“Land is a ripe mango on your tongue
the ocean is a watermelon in your mouth.”
― Sneha Subramanian Kanta

“Miss Collins: That's the picture, the one in the silver frame up there on the mantle. We cooled the watermelon in the springs and afterwards played games. She hid somewhere and he took ages to find her. It got to be dark and he hadn't found her yet and everyone whispered and giggled about it and finally they came back together- her hangin' on to his arm like a common little strumpet- and Daisy Belle Huston shrieked out, "Look, everyboy, the seat of Evelyn's skirt!" It was-covered with-grass stains! Did you ever hear of anything outrageous?”
― Tennessee Williams, Portrait of a Madonna

“It's a wonderful fantasy, but it's not real. It's just watermelon magic.”
― Hope Ramsay, Last Chance Beauty Queen

“She was tall and slender with long dark hair that swung in a shiny ponytail from one shoulder to the other, her dress swirling beneath her cinched waist.
He thought suddenly of watermelon. It was hard to come by back in Scotland but even before he'd ever tasted one in the flesh it had reminded him of summer (which was also hard to come by back in Scotland).
He knew what watermelon tasted like now; it was one of his favorite things. He could almost feel it in his mouth as he stood there, that cold sweet powerful explosion of almost nothing.
He needed to find a slice as soon as possible.”
― Sarah-Kate Lynch, The Wedding Bees

“On election season politicos dawn their timber boots and red handkerchiefs. Many claim salt of the earth roots every time they eat a watermelon, but they never bite the bitterness of the rind. Everyone likes a good show and the politics of poverty never disappoint.”
― Anthony Harkins, Appalachian Reckoning: A Region Responds to Hillbilly Elegy

“The people you leave behind when you are going on this path, are like a watermelon on a hot day when they call, to check on you. Talking to them is refreshing and can even become addictive.”
― Diana-Maria Georgescu, THE UNSTOPPABLE THIRST : El Camino de Santiago de Compostela An Alchemic Path Towards The Inner Self

“I was sitting on a sofa petting a duck like a cat when a Russian walked through the door holding a watermelon, and my friend looked at him and said to me, “That’s my roommate, Yuri.” I replied, “Your roommate is a watermelon?”
― Jarod Kintz, Music is fluid, and my saxophone overflows when my ducks slosh in the sounds I make in elevators.

“Freelance' means I can take watermelon breaks and no one can yell at me.”
― Mandy Ashcraft