Ripe Quotes

If it could only be like this always - always summer, always alone, the fruit always ripe and Aloysius in a good temper.

But I think it's a little different in Europe, because 40 is really the best age for a woman. That's when we hit our peak and become this ripe fruit.

Some things never leave a person: scent of the hair of one you love, the texture of persimmons, in your palm, the ripe weight.

The hour is ripe, and yonder lies the way.

The tartness of his face sours ripe grapes.

Just call me a family man and an actor who digs his whole scene, side interests and all. Just say I feel mighty good at the ripe old age of 27.

I thought I'd live to a ripe old age, because I always felt there was a lot to do. I had a driven feeling. I always thought in the present.

How do you know that the fruit is ripe? Simply because it leaves the branch.

Nothing shows one who his friends are like prosperity and ripe fruit.

My Bubbie lived to 104, which is probably a little too old to consider a ripe old age, because she had already started to turn. I still say she died young.

Men talk about Bible miracles because there is no miracle in their lives. Cease to gnaw that crust. There is ripe fruit over your head.

Ripe in wisdom was he, but patient, and simple, and childlike.

Even chimps understand the concept - if a troop of chimps enters a fruit tree, they will only pick the fruits that are ripe and leave the others growing. That is sustainability.

We felt like we had done as much as you can do with the slasher genre. We were trying to find the next group of scary movies that were ripe for parody.

Ripe bananas are the mark of a good produce section. A good produce section is the mark of a superior grocery store. A superior grocery store is the mark of a good man.

What wondrous life is this I lead! Ripe apples drop about my head.

It is almost always wrong that the time isn't ripe to decide something. That is always said of difficult problems.

You want hot days to get your fruit ripe but then you want it to cool off nicely at night so that the grapes stay on the vine longer and develop complexity.

When the time is ripe for certain things, these things appear in different places in the manner of violets coming to light in the early spring.

There is ripe fruit over your head.

The time is ripe, and rotten-ripe, for change.

Widows, like ripe fruit, drop easily from their perch.

The day of fortune is like a harvest day, We must be busy when the corn is ripe. [Ger., Ein tag der Gunst ist wie ein Tag der Ernte, Man muss geschaftig sein sobald sie reift.]

Rushing into action, you fail. Trying to grasp things, you lose them. Forcing a project to completion, you ruin what was almost ripe.

Software patents, in particular, are very ripe for abuse. The whole system encourages big corporations getting thousands and thousands of patents. Individuals almost never get them.

I knew I couldn't go on like this, but I'd never been capable of simply nipping an anxiety in the bud. I always had to wait until it was ripe and mature and fell from me.

My hand has become the obedient instrument of a remote will.

Let us draw a lesson from nature, which always works by short ways. When the fruit is ripe, it falls.

A scent that disturbs me and delights me. It smells like ripe pears, vetiver, a bit of violet and something else- something spicy almost biting and exotic.

If the fruit is green it will not fall to the ground even if you beat it with a sharp stick. When it is ripe it falls of its own accord in the silence of the night.

He feared his maturity as it grew upon him with its ripe thought, its skill, its finished art; yet which lacked the poetry of boyhood to make living a full end of life.

Those who are born of parents broken with old age, or of such as are not yet ripe or are too young, or of drunkards, soft or effeminate men, want a great and liberal ingenuity or wit.

Truth is a fruit which should not be plucked until it is ripe.

Fairies, arouse! Mix with your song Harplet and pipe, Thrilling and clear, Swarm on the boughs! Chant in a throng! Morning is ripe, Waiting to hear.

And so, from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe. And then, from hour to hour, we rot and rot; And thereby hangs a tale.

The color of the king doth come and go, Between his purpose and his conscience, Like heralds 'twixt two dreadful battles set: His passion is so ripe, it needs must break.

Nothing has ever remained of any revolution but what was ripe in the conscience of the masses.

I would say that my peak was making my first million at the ripe age of 29, after the first album.

The man who remains a fool even in advanced age is really a fool, just as the Indra-Varuna fruit does not become sweet no matter how ripe it might become.

And if we were another country being analyzed by America, we would conclude that this country is ripe for stealing elections and for fraud.

The Fox, when hee cannot reach the grapes, saies they are not ripe.

You can, when Time is ripe, swope to your feet - at your full height - at a single gesture. Ready to go where? Why... Wherever God motions.

If two or three persons should come with a high spiritual aim and with great powers, the world would fall into their hands like a ripe peach.

She wore white heirloom lace about her throat And in her hair a bright golden feather A pearl like a plum hung ripe from her neck But her smile fetched ten gold together

Poetry relishes ripe fruit - but ripe is one thing and overripe quite another. That's something poetry doesn't like, so it couldn't care less if I were to fall overripe to the ground.

True love is the ripe fruit of a lifetime.

As an apple is not in any proper sense an apple until it is ripe, so a human being is not in any proper sense a human being until he is educated.

Everything can be made fun of. The most serious things are ripe for making fun of them.

What is the point of it all? Not leaving legacies. But being ripe. Being ripe.

Noon, ripe as thunder and silent as thought, had fled unfingered.