Tropical Fruit Quotes

I am a grateful... grapefruit.

I'm a really huge fan of papaya juice.

Although the pineapple had been widely disseminated for centuries among the native peoples of South and Central America, it didn't figure in European history until 1493.

Where the banana grows man is sensual and cruel.

Don't like lychees.

What does the good ship bear so well? The cocoa-nut with its stony shell, And the milky sap of its inner cell.

As a kid, I'd never have avocado. You'd get some melon and the odd fresh peach. But avocados? Mangoes? I'd never had a mango in my life.

Man, the flavor of a pineapple is 100 times more powerful than the flavor of meat.

I had a craving for pineapple and a pink cardigan" - Becky Bloomwood Shopaholic and Baby

When one has tasted watermelon he knows what the angels eat.

I can't wait to get off the stage, because I've got some LifeSavers in my pocket and pineapple is next!

Pineapple definitely one of my essential fruits, everyday.

Mango is always a staple in my household.

If I had to become a food I would be a pineapple. Spiky, but quite sweet really.

Somebody give me a banana. I'm playing like a monkey, so I might as well eat like one.

For I am coconut / and the heart of me / is sweeter / than you know.

I have an avocado tree at my place in Los Angeles - it's the smoother-skinned one, which tends to be a little stringy. Often the birds or raccoons get the avocados before I can harvest them. I have figs, too, which are great with prosciutto, of course. I have limes and lemons, which I use to make lemonade.

I happen to love coconut, particularly for that sweet and crunchy texture it adds to any dish.

Yeah, I like cars and basketball. But you know what I like more? Bananas.

The first thing I do whenever I go to Thailand is seek out the closest restaurant or stall selling mango-and-sticky rice: it's a little hillock of glutinous rice drenched in lashings of coconut milk and served with fresh mango.

The sun setting on the Ucayali, with the Andean foothills in the background, and the taste of freshly cut papaya in my mouth, restoring a body utterly shattered, made for one of those 'ones to tell the grandchildren' memories.

Slice Mango - something that, you know, is a phenomenal drink, but mango is not a flavour that is easily liked by many people in the West. People in Latin America like it. But we do a lot of Mango in India.

Coconut is one of those love-hate ingredients.

Coconut water is just the best for you; it's always something we had in Brazil. Since I was a little girl, I've been drinking it.

I think pineapple is very sexy. It reminds me of bikinis and the beach.