I had begun to think my ripening body would wither untasted on the vine. — Jacqueline Carey Copy Share Image
The Future, like a fruitfuller Summer, sits Ripening her Eden silently. — Gerald Massey Copy Share Image
May I die like a dog rather than hasten the ripening of a sentence by a single second! — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
Gestation requires protected space; ripening requires both permeability to the outer — and non-disturbance. — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
The whole world is one immense woman, and we are in her very womb, we are not yet born, we are joyfully… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
If woman is inconstant, good, I am faithful to ebb and flow, I fall in season and now is a time of… — Denise Levertov Copy Share Image
Way out in the country tonight he could smell the pumpkins ripening toward the knife and the triangle eye and the singeing… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
There are different kinds and degrees of love, and they change over time, ripening and deepening and changing us in the process. — Cassandra King 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
This bud of love, by summer's ripening breath, May prove a beauteous flower when next we meet — William Shakespeare 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
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
In the beginning, compassion is like the seed without which we cannot have any fruit; in the middle, compassion is like water… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
It is not all bad, this getting old, ripening. After the fruit has got its growth it should juice up and mellow.… — Josh Billings 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
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
“There is a season to this ripening, the way sap of tree rises to fulfill fruit of the topmost branch, or the… — Marjorie M. Evasco Copy Share Image
Live in this world, because this world gives a ripening, maturity, integrity. The challenges of this world give you a centering, an… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
A man watches his pear-tree day after day, impatient for the ripening of the fruit. Let him attempt to force the process,… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Our minds must meditate on some object. According to what he thinks, a man can create an atmosphere of radiance, exuberance, buoyancy;… — Swami Paramananda Copy Share Image
My birthplace was California, but I couldn't forget Armenia, so what is one's country? Is it land of the earth, in a… — William Saroyan 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
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
How not to imagine the tumors ripening beneath his skin, flesh I have kissed, stroked with my fingertips, pressed my belly and… — Dorianne Laux Copy Share Image
The spring rains woke the dormant tillers, and bright green shoots sprang from the moist earth and rose like sleepers stretching after… — Rick Yancey 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
Do Not Stand at My Grave and Weep Do not stand at my grave and weep, I am not there, I do… — Mary Elizabeth Frye Copy Share Image
They are fruit and transport: ripening melons, prairie schooners journeying under full sail. — Kathleen Norris Copy Share Image
People look with sympathetic eyes only at the blossom and the fruit, and disregard the long period of transition during which the… — Berthold Auerbach 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
The thing you are ripening toward is the fruit of your life. It will make you bright inside, no matter what you… — Stewart Edward White Copy Share Image
Art is a ripening, an evolution, an uplifting which enables us to emerge from darkness into a blaze of light. — Jerzy Grotowski 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
“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
In creativity the way will be found for subject to pass into object, the identity of subject with object will be restored.… — Nikolai Berdyaev Copy Share Image
