Ripe Quotes

The time is ripe for the whole region to live in peace.

A thought falls like a ripe fruit from the tree of idleness.

Truth is a fruit that can only be picked when it is very ripe.

A happy childhood is the pledge of a ripe manhood.

Educational reforms are like ripe fruit. They rarely travel well.

I like the word OLD. Not senior, that's for proms. Older? Older than whom? 'Old' is honorable and ripe

It is the mission of art to remind man from time to time that he is human, and the time is ripe, just now, today, for such a reminder.

I'm ripe for the picking for the Scientologists - one of those creeps. Someone's got to find me. Some little weird cult can just pluck me up, because I'm ripe for the picking.

In judgement be ye not too confident, Even as a man who will appraise his corn When standing in a field, ere it is ripe.

Here is a hero who did nothing but shake the tree as soon as the fruit was ripe. Does this seem to be too small a thing to you? Then take a good look at the tree he shook.

Hee that eats the hard shall eate the ripe.

Times are ripe to discuss about the vote right, at least on an administrative level, for immigrant persons.

The germs of all truth lie in the soul, and when the ripe moment comes, the truth within answers to the fact without as the flower responds to the sun, giving it form for heat and color for light.

Hopefully we have a slightly different vibe, but also East Side is where a lot young people live. It is a really fun, trendy, funky neighborhood, and it is ripe for satire, that area specifically.

America is ripe for a service revolution.

We are never ripe till we have been made so by suffering.

From here on in, Harry, I may be as woefully wrong as Humphrey Belcher who believed the time was ripe for a cheese cauldron.

Parodies are hard to do well, as is shown by the mediocrity of so many recent attempts. No matter how ripe a genre is for satirizing, unless you know how to do it, there are no guarantees.

Sinclair Lewis may be ripe for a revival; his books raise several interesting issues of art and fashion.

The whole thing is just ripe to be a very good thing.

So may'st thou live, till like ripe fruit thou drop Into thy mother's lap.

When I was almost 13 I was ripe for religion. I was actually just plain ripe.

Frost in January minus 20 for a week. Dead birds frozen on the branch—they fall with the first thaw like ripe fruit—death-ripened. We shall all end like them—just a stain in the snow.

Gemma~Was he really looking at me that way? Kartik~What way? Gemma~Like a piece of ripe fruit? Katrik~You'd best be on your guard with him.

I was ripe ten years ago. Now I’m merely preserved, and before long I’ll be buried back in the orchard with the other pits.” -Amanda to Jack

I think we're ripe for social revolution now. There is the necessary yearning, and the necessary, or at least incipient, outrage. And there is an inchoate knowing that all is not right.

Without hard work, time itself becomes an ally of the primitive forces of social stagnation. So we must help time and realize that the time is always ripe to do right.

What shelter to grow ripe is ours? What leisure to grow wise?

The five kinds of grains are considered good plants, but if the grains are not ripe, they are worse than cockles. It is the same with regard to kindness, which must grow into maturity.

I think parenthood is just ripe for comedy. This just happens to be told from the perspective of women.

The time is not yet ripe to say what happened. When history's ready, then we can talk about it

That death is best which comes appropriately at a ripe age.

In human years I am 29. In actress years I'm the ripe, promising age of 18 to 35. That's how it works here in Hollyweird.

Ah Fate, cannot a man Be wise without a beard? East, West, from Beer to Dan, Say, was it never heard That wisdom might in youth be gotten, Or wit be ripe before 't was rotten?

guilt politics ... I regard as conveniently paralyzing, ripe for backlash defensiveness, counterproductive, and boring.

The 2016 presidential election is ripe for the emergence of a game-changing political leader who either dramatically reforms one of the existing parties or mounts an independent bid.

In my family, they were all big boozers, but they all lived to ripe old ages.

Everyday can be extraordinary And ripe, Like a flower burst, If the will is there.

The time was not yet ripe for the growth of mathematical science among us, and any development that might have taken place in that direction was rudely stopped by the civil war.

Peace is eternal. It is never too late to have peace. Time is always ripe for that. We can make our life truly fruitful if we are not cut off from our Source, which is the peace of Eternity.

Status is always ripe for satire, status is always good for comedy.

Should [reformers] attempt more than the established habits of the people are ripe for, they may lose all and retard indefinitely the ultimate object of their aim.

When I go to the shore, I take along the poems of Pablo Neruda. I suppose it's because the poems are simultaneously lush and ripe and kind of lazy, yet throbbing with life - like summer itself.

If you trap the moment before it's ripe, The tears of repentence you'll certainly wipe; But if once you let the ripe moment go You can never wipe off the tears of woe.

Al the povere peple tho pescoddes fetten; Benes and baken apples thei broghte in hir lappe, Chibolles and chervelles and ripe chiries manye, And profrede Piers this present to plese with Hunger.

For youthful faults ripe virtues shall atone.

I have seem even those who have long since abjured God die in grace. . . . Atheists don't use their drying to bargain for a better seat at the table

Pure wisdom is the 'fruit of life' banal platitudes are the 'bane of existence'.

Pride, anger and hatred are fruits from the same garden that poison the world when ripe. A leader cultivates no such fruits.

oh love, doesn’t the fact that the world is so big, laid out like ripe fruitmake you want to stay?