Ripe Quotes
250 Ripe quotes by 220 unique authors
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We felt like we had done as much as you can do with the slasher genre. We were trying to find the next group of…
— Keenen Ivory Wayans
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The breezes taste Of apple peel. The air is full Of smells to feel- Ripe fruit, old footballs, Burning brush, New books, erasers, Chalk, and…
— John Updike
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The fruit falls from the tree when it gets ripe. So wait for the time to come. Do not hurry. Moreover, no one has the…
— Swami Vivekananda
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Ripe in wisdom was he, but patient, and simple, and childlike.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Be a student. Stay open and willing to learn from everyone and anyone. Being a student means you have room for new input. When you…
— Wayne Dyer
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Ripe vegetables were magic to me. Unharvested, the garden bristled with possibility. I would quicken at the sight of a ripe tomato, sounding its redness…
— Michael Pollan
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Ripe for romance? Is that not only the self-conscious and sensitive young man's way of saying he was heavy with passion? Is not, perhaps, romance…
— Trevanian
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It is better to live under a tree in a jungle inhabited by tigers and elephants, to maintain oneself in such a place with ripe…
— Chanakya
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It is the mission of art to remind man from time to time that he is human, and the time is ripe, just now, today,…
— Ben Shahn
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There were so many miracles at work: that a blossom might become a peach, that a bee could make honey in its thorax, that rain…
— Jane Hamilton
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Educational reforms are like ripe fruit. They rarely travel well.
— Andy Hargreaves
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According to traditional wisdom in rural France, a baby in the womb should be compared to fruit on the tree. Not all the fruit on…
— Michel Odent
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You can, when Time is ripe, swope to your feet - at your full height - at a single gesture. Ready to go where? Why...…
— Marita Bonner
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A scent that disturbs me and delights me. It smells like ripe pears, vetiver, a bit of violet and something else- something spicy almost biting…
— Rebecca Wells
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God made sun and moon to distinguish the seasons, and day and night; and we cannot have the fruits of the earth but in their…
— John Donne
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The time was not yet ripe for the growth of mathematical science among us, and any development that might have taken place in that direction…
— Simon Newcomb
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Fairies, arouse! Mix with your song Harplet and pipe, Thrilling and clear, Swarm on the boughs! Chant in a throng! Morning is ripe, Waiting to…
— William Allingham
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Nature has got it all wrong: When you are younger, it should be harder to get pregnant, and as you get older it should be…
— Halle Berry
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On the train: staring hypnotized at the blackness outside the window, feeling the incomparable rhythmic language of the wheels, clacking out nursery rhymes, summing up…
— Sylvia Plath
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When the leaves fall, the whole earth is a cemetery pleasant to walk in. . . . How beautifully they go to their graves! How…
— Henry David Thoreau
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A photographer cannot be inexperienced, or too mature. A photographer ought to be half-ripe.
— Nobuyoshi Araki
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Without hard work, time itself becomes an ally of the primitive forces of social stagnation. So we must help time and realize that the time…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Wisdom is in yourself, just like a sweet ripe mango is already in a young green one.
— Ajahn Chah
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The man who remains a fool even in advanced age is really a fool, just as the Indra-Varuna fruit does not become sweet no matter…
— Chanakya
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A broken life in the hands of God is ripe for blessing.
— Joni Eareckson Tada
Who Wrote These Ripe Quotes
220 authors contributed a total of 250 Ripe Quotes, led by these top contributors: