They are fruit and transport: ripening melons, prairie schooners journeying under full sail. — Kathleen Norris Copy Share Image
This bud of love, by summer's ripening breath, May prove a beauteous flower when next we meet — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
We make no apology then for raising our voices loud to a world that is ripening in sin the lord has said,”… — Spencer W. Kimball Copy Share Image
Frigidity is largely nonsense. It is this generation's catchword, one only vaguely understood and constantly misused. Frigid women are few. There is… — Phyllis McGinley Copy Share Image
The idea which...shuts out the Second Coming from our minds, the idea of the world slowly ripening to perfection, is a myth,… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
In this there is no measuring with time, a year doesn’t matter, and ten years are nothing. Being an artist means: not… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Nothing is finer for the purposes of great productions than a very gradual ripening of the intellectual powers. — John Keats Copy Share Image
I learn it every day of my life, learn it with pain I am grateful for: patience is everything! — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Bright star, would I were stedfast as thou art--- Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night And watching, with eternal lids… — John Keats Copy Share Image
August is ripening grain in the fields blowing hot and sunny, the scent of tree-ripened peaches, of hot buttered sweet corn on… — Jean Hersey Copy Share Image
The Christian is like the ripening corn; the riper he grows the more lowly he bends his head. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
This was one of those perfect New England days in late summer where the spirit of autumn takes a first stealing flight,… — Sarah Orne Jewett Copy Share Image
The soul of man, like the bird in the shell, is still growing or ripening in sin or grace, till at last… — John Flavel Copy Share Image
Farewell, a long farewell to all my greatness! This is the state of man: today he puts forth The tender leaves of… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Two angels guide The path of man, both aged and yet young. As angels are, ripening through endless years, On one he… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“Is then the fruit of a fig-tree not perfect suddenly and in one hour, and would you possess the fruit of a… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
I had looked forward to old age as a time of quietness, a time to draw my horizons about me, to watch… — R. S. Thomas Copy Share Image
Water. Its sunny track in the plain; its splashing in the garden canal, the sound it makes when in its course it… — Jacques Roumain Copy Share Image
To bring the best human qualities to anything like perfection, to fill them with the sweet juices of courtesy and charity, prosperity,… — Alexander Smith Copy Share Image
Gestation requires protected space; ripening requires both permeability to the outer — and non-disturbance. — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
Being an artist means, not reckoning and counting, but ripening like the tree which does not force its sap and stands confidence… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Time is the most important thing in human life, for what is pleasure after the departure of time? and the most consolatory,… — Alexander von Humboldt Copy Share Image
The highest branch of solitary amusement is reading; but even in the choice of books the fancy is first employed; for in… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
Your face encompasses the beauty of the whole earth. Your lips, as red as ripening fruit, gently part as if in pain.… — Edvard Munch Copy Share Image
