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

“On the third day, she smelled the fruit as soon as she came in. She followed the scent to the kitchen, and the peach…

— Allegra Goodman

Archery, fencing, spear fighting, all of the martial arts, tea ceremony, flower arranging...in all of these, correct breathing, correct balance, and correct stillness help…

— Karlfried Graf Durckheim

There is ripe fruit over your head.

— Henry David Thoreau

The breezes taste Of apple peel. The air is full Of smells to feel- Ripe fruit, old footballs, Burning brush, New books, erasers, Chalk,…

— John Updike

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…

— Kiki Dimoula

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

— Voltaire

Among gardeners, enthusiasm and experience rarely exist in equal measures. The beginner dreams of home-grown bouquets and baskets of ripe fruit, the veteran of…

— Roger Swain

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

— Andrew Marvell

True love is the ripe fruit of a lifetime.

— Alphonse de Lamartine

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

— John Milton

It is sparkling light, aromatic plants, a lofty palace, a flowing river, ripe fruit, a beautiful wife and abundant clothing, in an eternal abode…

— Muhammad

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

— Thiruvalluvar

Fruits that blossom first will first be ripe.

— William Shakespeare

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

— Andy Hargreaves

Heaven is the day of which grace is the dawn; the rich, ripe fruit of which grace is the lovely flower; the inner shrine…

— Thomas Guthrie