Ripe Quotes

250 quotes by 220 authors

If you happen to be one of the fretful minority who can do creative work, never force an idea; you'll abort it if you do.… — Robert A. Heinlein
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 many… — Roger Swain
It is sparkling light, aromatic plants, a lofty palace, a flowing river, ripe fruit, a beautiful wife and abundant clothing, in an eternal abode of… — Muhammad
To a Mistress Dying Lover. YOUR beauty, ripe and calm and fresh As eastern summers are, Must now, forsaking time and flesh, Add light to… — William Davenant
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… — Thomas Jefferson
A revolution without a prior reformation would collapse or become a totalitarian tyranny. A reformation means that masses of our people have reached the point… — Saul Alinsky
If the time is not ripe, we have to ripen the time. — Dorothy Height
If the times aren't ripe, you have to ripen the times. — Dorothy Height
Tragedy was foresworn, in ritual denial of the ripe knowledge that we are drawing away from one another, that we share only one thing, share… — William Gaddis
Politicians learned hundreds of years ago that people who had little material wealth were incredibly jealous of those who had more than they did. This… — Neal Boortz
And what a congress of stinks!- Roots ripe as old bait, Pulpy stems, rank, silo-rich, Leaf mold, manure, lime, piled against slippery planks, Nothing would… — Theodore Roethke
I'm going to buy some green bananas because by the time I get home they'll be ripe. — Ryan Stiles
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… — Sri Chinmoy
Noon, ripe as thunder and silent as thought, had fled unfingered. — Mervyn Peake
This is a glorious biography ... The time is ripe for a new biography of Edith Wharton of this intimacy and on this scale ...… — Unknown Author
Are you green and growing or ripe and rotting? — Ray Kroc
In opening China, the English have secured their presence in East Asia. If we don't commit more resources to get into Southeast Asia now, they… — Jules Ferry
I believe you can train yourself to become a positive thinker, but you must cultivate a desire to develop the skill of setting personal worthy… — M. Russell Ballard
True love is the ripe fruit of a lifetime. — Alphonse de Lamartine
A man watches his pear-tree day after day, impatient for the ripening of the fruit. Let him attempt to force the process, and he may… — Abraham Lincoln

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