Ripe Quotes

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

— Natalie Clifford Barney

Are you green and growing or ripe and rotting?

— Ray Kroc

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

— Andy Hargreaves

“The world is ripe, and we'll pluck it like an apple from a tree.”

— Ron Rash

“The situation is now ripe for superposition!”

— Anonymous

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

— Publilius Syrus

I want to die young at a ripe old age.

— Ashley Montagu

The hour is ripe, and yonder lies the way.

— Virgil

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

— Bel Kaufman

Forgive me, Your Grace. Are you suggesting a woman is some sort of … piece of fruit to you? One squeeze, and…

— Tessa Dare

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

— Thiruvalluvar

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

— Andre Gide

“that the time is always ripe, that the place is here and the time is now.”

— Johan Galtung

Love is like a fruit. It may look good, but you shouldn't bite in it until it's ripe.

— Nick Hertl

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

— Ida Tarbell

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

— James Russell Lowell

“Everywhere the grain stood ripe and the hot afternoon was full of the smell of the ripe wheat, like the smell of…

— Willa Cather

I think the time is ripe for a return to the refinement of lifestyle that the pocket watch embodies. A personal pleasure…

— Richard Mille

It was in France that I first learned about food. And that even the selection of a perfect pear, a ripe piece…

— Robert Carrier

Here is a hero who did nothing but shake the tree as soon as the fruit was ripe. Does this seem to…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

On my cornice linger the ripe black grapes ungathered; Children fill the groves with the echoes of their glee, Gathering tawny chestnuts,…

— William C. Bryant

The well-ordered mind knows the value, no less than the charm, of reticence. The fruit of the tree of knowledge ... falls…

— Agnes Repplier

I remember seeing Airplane, and even Mel Brooks movies like History of the World Part I, and just really loving that style…

— Ashley Tisdale

Should [reformers] attempt more than the established habits of the people are ripe for, they may lose all and retard indefinitely the…

— Thomas Jefferson

but art is not relative to perfection in any tangible sense. It is our coarse antennae trembling blindly as it traces the…

— Laird Barron

This is a glorious biography ... The time is ripe for a new biography of Edith Wharton of this intimacy and on…

— Mark Bostridge

You are good when you strive to give of yourself. Yet you are not evil when you seek gain for yourself. For…

— Khalil Gibran

Books are attracted to me. They make a beeline for me, and stick to me. I have been so fond of them…

— Sergei Eisenstein

The best hopes of any community rest upon that class of its gifted young men who are not encumbered with large possessions……

— Rutherford B. Hayes

Mark how fleeting and paltry is the estate of man-yesterday in embryo, tomorrow a mummy or ashes. So for the hairsbreadth of…

— Marcus Aurelius

Someone told me once that blues is like whiskey. They keep whiskey in the barrel for so many years, and then they…

— Buddy Guy

I'm skeptical that the novel will be "re­invented." If you start thinking about a medical textbook or something, then, yes, I think…

— Jeff Bezos

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

— Allegra Goodman

I believe you can train yourself to become a positive thinker, but you must cultivate a desire to develop the skill of…

— M. Russell Ballard

“I have been finding treasures in places I did not want to search. I have been hearing wisdom from tongues I did…

— Suzy Kassem

To a Mistress Dying Lover. YOUR beauty, ripe and calm and fresh As eastern summers are, Must now, forsaking time and flesh,…

— William Davenant

True love is the ripe fruit of a lifetime.

— Alphonse de Lamartine

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

— Matthew Arnold

“Until we're rotten, we cannot be ripe.”

— Anonymous

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

— James Russell Lowell