Ripe Quotes

250 Ripe quotes by 220 unique authors

I was already devouring literature and I was the ripe old age of 15 when I decided to be an actor. I just thought plays… — Chiwetel Ejiofor
I thought I'd live to a ripe old age, because I always felt there was a lot to do. I had a driven feeling. I… — Debbie Harry
One of the great reasons, I am sure, why [David O.] McKay has lived to such a good, ripe, and vigorous old age has been… — Ernest L. Wilkinson
The Ripe FigNow that You live here in my chest,anywhere we sit is a mountaintop.And those other images,which have enchanted peoplelike porcelain dolls from China,which… — Unknown Author
Having proceeded to this length, for which they are now ripe, we shall have a formidable rebellion against reason, the principle of all government, and… — Henry Knox
First, I emptied the closets of your clothes, threw out the bowl of fruit, bruised from your touch, left empty the jars you bought for… — Natasha Trethewey
Several ripe persimmons Left on the branches; Gray clouds come and go. — Santoka Taneda
As our fathers said, you can tell a ripe corn by its look. — Chinua Achebe
I like the word OLD. Not senior, that's for proms. Older? Older than whom? 'Old' is honorable and ripe — Bel Kaufman
What is the point of it all? Not leaving legacies. But being ripe. Being ripe. — Maurice Sendak
Life is a thump ripe melon, so sweet and such a mess. — Greg Brown
Ah Fate, cannot a man Be wise without a beard? East, West, from Beer to Dan, Say, was it never heard That wisdom might in… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
A person of mature years and ripe development, who is expecting nothing from literature but the corroboration and renewal of past ideas, may find satisfaction… — Charles Horton Cooley
Purple as tulips in May, mauve into lush velvet, purple as the stain blackberries leave on the lips, on the hands, the purple of ripe… — Marge Piercy
Men talk about Bible miracles because there is no miracle in their lives. Cease to gnaw that crust. There is ripe fruit over your head. — Henry David Thoreau
The world has more winnable people than ever before but it is possible to come out of a ripe field empty-handed. — Donald McGannon
The time is ripe, and rotten-ripe, for change; Then let it come: I have no dread of what Is called for by the instinct of… — James Russell Lowell
The time is ripe, and rotten-ripe, for change... [Truth's] mirror is turned forward, to reflect The promise of the future, not the past... — James Russell Lowell
If you trap the moment before it's ripe, The tears of repentence you'll certainly wipe; But if once you let the ripe moment go You… — William Blake
The five kinds of grains are considered good plants, but if the grains are not ripe, they are worse than cockles. It is the same… — Mencius
In judgement be ye not too confident, Even as a man who will appraise his corn When standing in a field, ere it is ripe. — Dante Alighieri
A man who is a politician at forty is a statesman at three score and ten. It is at this age, when he would be… — W. Somerset Maugham
There is no fruit which is not bitter before it is ripe. — Publilius Syrus
How do you know that the fruit is ripe? Simply because it leaves the branch. — Andre Gide
When the people are too much attached to savage independence, to be tolerant of the amount of power to which it is for their good… — John Stuart Mill

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