Maturity is most rapid in the low latitudes, where pineapples and women most do thrive. — Nathaniel Parker Willis
I thought these grapes were ripe, but I see now they are quite sour. — Aesop
Give me juicy autumnal fruit, ripe and red from the orchard. — Walt Whitman
With years a richer life begins, the spirit mellow: ripe age gives tones to violins, wine, and good fellows. — John Townsend Trowbridge
Some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age. — C. E. M. Joad
You are either green and growing, or ripe and rotting. — Frosty Westering
old pear tree starlings announce harvest time — Phil Noble
Men are like a fine wine. They all start out like grapes, and it's our job to stomp on them and keep them in the dark until they mature into something you'd like to have dinner with. — Jill Shalvis
Wisdom is in yourself, just like a sweet ripe mango is already in a young green one. — Ajahn Chah
Short Ripen Quotes
Much travel is needed before a raw man is ripened. — Arabic Proverbs
Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit. — Aristotle
The Fates are just: they give us but our own; Nemesis ripens what our hands have sown. — John Greenleaf Whittier
When bounteous autumn rears her head, he joys to pull the ripened pear. — John Dryden
Even melon grown in shade will ripen in the end. — Roland Winters
You mellow too much you ripen and rot. — Woody Allen
Minds ripen at very different ages. — Elizabeth Montagu
The power that makes grass grow, fruit ripen, and guides the bird in flight is in us all. — Anzia Yezierska
It is looking at things for a long time that ripens you and gives you a deeper meaning. — Vincent Van Gogh
They are fruit and transport: ripening melons, prairie schooners journeying under full sail. — Kathleen Norris
Ripen Image Quotes
R.i.p Quotes
The voice of an Angel, the Heart of a Lamb, the spirit of a Lioness, the presence of a Goddess, love you R.I.P Whitney Houston. — Wyclef Jean
The bodybuilding world has lost one of its greatest legends. I had a chance to speak with Steve Michalik a year ago at The Upper State Bodybuilding competition. We laughed and shared our personal opinions about bodybuilding [today's scene and how it was in the past]. Steve, we'll miss you. R.I.P. — Lee Haney
On social media there's this thing where on many occasions, there's a single proscribed way of acting. Like if somebody dies, everyone has to say "R.I.P.! R.I.P.!" Basically they're saying, "Don't hurt me, I'm a good person." — Jon Ronson
R.I.P. Steve Jobs. I bet you're busy right now revolutionizing and redesigning the afterlife for all of us to enjoy when our time comes — Joe Satriani
Yesterday I lost not only a competitor, friend but most importantly a brother. Andy Irons you will be in my heart for eternity! R.I.P AI — Mick Fanning
R.I.P. Alexander McQueen, a kind soul and brilliant creative genius. Sad and shocking. You've touched us all. — Joe Zee
R.I.P. A careless abbreviation of "requiescat in pace", attesting to indolent goodwill to the dead. According to the learned Dr. Drigge, however, the letters originally meant nothing more than "reductus in pulvis". — Ambrose Bierce
Ripple Quotes
Invention, my dear friends, is 93% perspiration, 6% electricity, 4% evaporation, and 2% butterscotch ripple — Gene Wilder
Everything you do right now ripples outward and affects everyone. Your posture can shine your heart or transmit anxiety. Your breath can radiate love or muddy the room in depression. Your glance can awaken joy. Your words can inspire freedom. Your every act can open hearts and minds. — David Deida
Every time you stand up for an ideal, you send forth a tiny ripple of hope. — Robert Kennedy
Just as ripples spread out when a single pebble is dropped into water, the actions of individuals can have far-reaching effects. — Dalai Lama
Your actions is like a raindrop; it falls into the pond making ripples and then its over. — Sarah Dessen
Time is a vindictive bandit to steal the beauty of our former selves. We are left with sagging, rippled flesh and burning gums with empty sockets. — Raphael
The voice of the Great Spirit is heard in the twittering of birds, the rippling of mighty waters, and the sweet breathing of flowers. — Zitkala-Sa
Everybody talks about wanting to change things and help and fix, but ultimately all you can do is fix yourself. And that's a lot. Because if you can fix yourself, it has a ripple effect. — Rob Reiner
Ripe Fruit Quotes
According to traditional wisdom in rural France, a baby in the womb should be compared to fruit on the tree. Not all the fruit on the same tree is ripe at the same time...we must accept that some babies need a much longer time than others before they are ready to be born. — Michel Odent
To use bitter words, when kind words are at hand,
Is like picking unripe fruit when the ripe fruit is there. — Thiruvalluvar
Don’t eat fruits before they are ripe. — Thai Proverbs
Weep not for me. Rather let your tears flow for the sorrows of the multitude. My work is done. Like a ripe fruit I admit the gathering. Death has no terrors for it is a wise law of nature. I am ready whenever the summons may come. — Lucretia Mott
Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness, Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun. — John Keats
Everything vanishes around me, and works are born as if out of the void. Ripe, graphic fruits fall off. My hand has become the obedient instrument of a remote will. — Paul Klee
A mother's hardest to forgive. Life is the fruit she longs to hand you Ripe on a plate. And while you live, Relentlessly she understands you. — Phyllis Mcginley
Peppermint swirled into my nostrils, sharp as glass, then raspberry almost to sweet, like too-ripe fruit. Apple, crisp and pure. Nuts, buttery, warm, earthy — Maggie Stiefvater
The breezes taste Of apple peel. The air is full Of smells to feel- Ripe fruit, old footballs, Burning brush, New books, erasers, Chalk, and such. The bee, his hive, Well-honeyed hum, And Mother cuts Chrysanthemums. Like plates washed clean With suds, the days Are polished with A morning haze. — John Updike
The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do. — Galileo Galilei
The strawberry grows underneath the nettle And wholesome berries thrive and ripen best Neighbour'd by fruit of baser quality. — William Shakespeare
Art is a ripening, an evolution, an uplifting which enables us to emerge from darkness into a blaze of light. — Jerzy Grotowski
Praise is God's sunlight in the heart. It destroys sin germs. It ripens the fruits of the Spirit. It is the oil of gladness that lubricates life's activities. — Smith Wigglesworth
No greater thing is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen. — Epictetus
The insufferable arrogance of human beings to think that Nature was made solely for their benefit, as if it was conceivable that the sun had been set afire merely to ripen men's apples and head their cabbages. — Cyrano de Bergerac
As soon as the legitimate Lebanese government is convinced that the conditions have ripened and that Lebanon is able to maintain stability on its own... Then, the Syrian forces will return to their homeland. — Bashar al-Assad
Impatience is a great obstacle to success; he who treats everything with brusqueness gathers nothing, or only immature fruit which will never ripen. — Napoleon Bonaparte
Tomatoes that can sit in the pantry slowly ripening for months without rotting. Plants that can better weather climate change. Mosquitoes that are unable to transmit malaria. Ultra-muscular dogs that make fearsome partners for police and soldiers. Cows that no longer grow horns. These organisms might sound far-fetched, but in fact, they already exist, thanks to gene editing. And they're only the beginning. As I write this, the world around us is being revolutionized by CRISPR, whether we're ready for it or not. — Jennifer Doudna
I think of my studio as a vegetable garden, where things follow their natural course. They grow, they ripen. You have to graft. You have to water. — Joan Miro
It is not all bad, this getting old, ripening. After the fruit has got its growth it should juice up and mellow. God forbid I should live long enough to ferment and rot and fall to the ground in a squash. — Emily Carr
The heat of autumn
is different from the heat of summer.
One ripens apples, the other turns them to cider. — Jane Hirshfield
This was one of those perfect New England days in late summer where the spirit of autumn takes a first stealing flight, like a spy, through the ripening country-side, and, with feigned sympathy for those who droop with August heat, puts her cool cloak of bracing air about leaf and flower and human shoulders. — Sarah Orne Jewett
There are different kinds and degrees of love, and they change over time, ripening and deepening and changing us in the process. — Cassandra King
I want to take my rightful share of life by force, I want to give lavishly, I want love to flow from my heart, to ripen and bear fruit. There are many horizons that must be visited, fruit that must be plucked, books read, and white pages in the scrolls of life to be inscribed with vivid sentences in a bold hand. — Tayeb Salih
Slowly blossomed, slowly ripened in Siddhartha the realisation, the knowledge, what wisdom actually was, what the goal of his long search was. It was nothing but a readiness of the soul, an ability, a secret art, to think every moment, while living his life, the thought of oneness, to be able to feel and inhale the oneness. — Hermann Hesse
Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom. It is the result of long and patient effort in self-control. Its presence is an indication of ripened experience, and of a more than ordinary knowledge of the laws and operations of thought. — James Allen
Truly, everything in this world depended on time. Time ripened all. If you had time, you succeeded in working the human mud internally and turning it into spirit. Then you did not fear death. If you did not have time, you perished. — Nikos Kazantzakis
Anyone who imagines that all fruits ripen at the same time as the strawberries knows nothing about grapes. — Paracelsus
Trees bend low with ripened fruit; clouds hang down with gentle rain; noble people bow graciously. This is the way of generous things. — Bhartrhari
August is ripening grain in the fields blowing hot and sunny, the scent of tree-ripened peaches, of hot buttered sweet corn on the cob. Vivid dahlias fling huge tousled blossoms through gardens and joe-pye-weed dusts the meadow purple. — Jean Hersey
I don't respond well to mellow, you know what I mean, I have a tendency to... if I get too mellow, I ripen and then rot. — Woody Allen
Ideas, like young wine, should be put in storage and taken up again only after they have been allowed to ferment and to ripen. — Richard Strauss
What is first seen as a loss is now seen as a gain. For he finds solitude, not in far off, quite places; he creates it out of himself, spreads it around him, wherever he may be, because he loves it and slowly he ripens in this tranquility. For the inner process is beginning to unfold, stillness is extraordinarily important. — Janwillem van de Wetering
Lo! sweeten'd with the summer light,
The full-juiced apple, waxing over-mellow,
Drops in a silent autumn night.
All its allotted length of days
The flower ripens in its place,
Ripens and fades, and falls, and hath no toil,
Fast-rooted in the fruitful soil. — Alfred Lord Tennyson
It is my feeling that Time ripens all things; with Time all things are revealed; Time is the father of truth. — Francois Rabelais
In meditation and in our daily lives there are three qualities that we can nurture, cultivate, and bring out. We already possess these, but they can be ripened: precision, gentleness, and the ability to let go. — Pema Chodron
Frigidity is largely nonsense. It is this generation's catchword, one only vaguely understood and constantly misused. Frigid women are few. There is a host of diffident and slow-ripening ones. — Phyllis Mcginley
And never since harvests were ripened, / Or laborers born, / Have men gathered figs of the thistle, / Or grapes of the thorn! — Phoebe Cary
With the ripening of the fruits in Autumn the leaves begin to wither and the trees, taking up their sap from the earth through the roots, recover themselves and are restored to their former solid texture. But the strong air of winter compresses and solidifies them. — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio
In all negotiations of difficulty, a man may not look to sow and reap at once; but must prepare business, and so ripen it by degrees. — Francis Bacon
Acts of virtue ripen into habits; and the goodly and permanent result is the formation or establishment of a virtuous character. — Thomas Chalmers
Nothing great is produced suddenly, since not even the grape or the fig is. If you say to me now that you want a fig, I will answer to you that it requires time: let it flower first, then put forth fruit, and then ripen. — Epictetus
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