Ripe Quotes

Ripe Quote of the day

The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall.

The moment is ripe for an experienced businessman to talk practical, prudent economics to the electorate - which is why Mitt Romney's political fortunes are steadily being resurrected from the grave.

If the time is not ripe, we have to ripen the time.

To use bitter words, when kind words are at hand, Is like picking unripe fruit when the ripe fruit is there.

Give me juicy autumnal fruit, ripe and red from the orchard.

When you're green, your growing. When you're ripe, you rot.

I don't tap dance, and I don't think you can learn to tap dance in three weeks at my ripe old age.

Our God of Grace often gives us a second chance, but there is no second chance to harvest a ripe crop.

Country to me is living life at its simplest: Learning to appreciate a sliced vine-ripe tomato with a dash of salt, served between two slices of good bread and eaten over the kitchen sink.

With years a richer life begins, the spirit mellow: ripe age gives tones to violins, wine, and good fellows.

Wisdom is in yourself, just like a sweet ripe mango is already in a young green one.

If the times aren't ripe, you have to ripen the times.

In my garden the winds have beaten the ripe lilies; in my garden, the salt has wilted the first flakes of young narcissus.

I feel my brains, like a pear, to see if it's ripe; it will be exquisite by September.

I will take the sun in my mouth and leap into the ripe air Alive with closed eyes to dash against darkness

A broken life in the hands of God is ripe for blessing.

As for my next book, I won't write it till it has grown heavy in my mind like a ripe pear; pendant, gravid, asking to be cut or it will fall.

When your consciousness has become ripe in true zazen-pure like clear water, like a serene mountain lake, not moved by any wind-then anything may serve as a medium for realization.

You are either green and growing, or ripe and rotting.

A photographer cannot be inexperienced, or too mature. A photographer ought to be half-ripe.

Life is a thump ripe melon, so sweet and such a mess.

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.

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.

If you happen to be one of the fretful minority who can do creative work, never force an idea; you'll abort it if you do. Be patient and you'll give birth to it when the time is ripe. Learn to wait.

There will always be something to ruin our lives, it all depends on what or which finds us first. We are always ripe and ready to be taken.

The time is ripe, and rotten-ripe, for change... [Truth's] mirror is turned forward, to reflect The promise of the future, not the past.

Her hair that lay along her back Was yellow like ripe corn.

America is ripe for lies and lethargy. The pure mountain air is going and gone. It is a huge burden and a sadness for us all.

What is happening to me happens to all fruits that grow ripe. It is the honey in my veins that makes my blood thicker, and my soul quieter.

The prime of life is that fleeting time between green and over-ripe.

Splendid cheeses they were, ripe and mellow, and with a two hundred horse-power scent about them that might have been warranted to carry three miles, and knock a man over at two hundred yards.

May you keep dreaming until the day you die. May imagination overtake memory. May you die young at a ripe old age.

Fruits that blossom first will first be ripe.

There is no fruit which is not bitter before it is ripe.

O Helena, goddess, nymph, perfect, divine! To what, my love, shall I compare thine eyne? Crystal is muddy. O, how ripe in show Thy lips, those kissing cherries, tempting grow!

As long as you're green, you're growing. As soon as you're ripe, you start to rot.

The world has more winnable people than ever before but it is possible to come out of a ripe field empty-handed.

On you and me and everything, I bestow my ripe blessings and boisterous bliss.

I would like to live to a ripe old age and raise watermelons in Wyoming.

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

If you believe in the soul, do not clutch at sensual sweetness before it is ripe on the slow tree of cause and effect.

Ripe old age, cheerful, useful, and understanding, is one of the finest influences in the world.

A ruined man fell from her hands like a ripe fruit, to lie rotting on the ground.

Whatever I do is done out of sheer joy; I drop my fruits like a ripe tree. What the general reader or the critic makes of them is not my concern.

Several ripe persimmons Left on the branches; Gray clouds come and go.

Depart from the highway, and transplant thyself in some enclosed ground; for it is hard for a tree that stands by the wayside to keep her fruit till it be ripe.

My resolve to die was not the whim of an hour. It was the ripe, sound fruit that had slowly grown to full size, lightly rocked by the winds of fate whose next breath would bring it to the ground.

Personality is only ripe when a man has made the truth his own.

The tartness of his face sours ripe grapes.

The hour is ripe, and yonder lies the way.