Ripe Quotes
250 Ripe quotes by 220 unique authors
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The earth is ready, the time is ripe, for the authoritative expression of the feminine as well as the masculine interpretation of that common social…
— Anna Garlin Spencer
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The fact is I am not having sex. But I feel absolutely ripe for the, what would you say? plucking?
— Angelina Jolie
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I am involved in a lot of nonprofits. And when I reached the ripe old age of 60, I wanted to provide leadership to some…
— David Rubenstein
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Status is always ripe for satire, status is always good for comedy.
— Stephen Colbert
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It is almost always wrong that the time isn't ripe to decide something. That is always said of difficult problems.
— Chris Patten
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I would say that my peak was making my first million at the ripe age of 29, after the first album.
— Anita Baker
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You want hot days to get your fruit ripe but then you want it to cool off nicely at night so that the grapes stay…
— Drew Bledsoe
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Splendid cheeses they were, ripe and mellow, and with a two hundred horse-power scent about them that might have been warranted to carry three miles,…
— Jerome K. Jerome
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When I was almost 13 I was ripe for religion. I was actually just plain ripe.
— Kathie Lee Gifford
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In this age of quick fixes and microwave mindsets, most of us want what we want, and we want it right now, whether it is…
— Derek Rydall
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By 3000 B.C. the art of Egypt was so ripe and so far advanced that it is surprising to find any student of early culture…
— James Henry Breasted
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Rushing into action, you fail. Trying to grasp things, you lose them. Forcing a project to completion, you ruin what was almost ripe.
— Laozi
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If the fruit is green it will not fall to the ground even if you beat it with a sharp stick. When it is ripe…
— Sathya Sai Baba
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The mind must become the servant of the intellect, not the slave of the senses. It must discriminate and detach itself from the body. Like…
— Sathya Sai Baba
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Now musing o'er the changing scene Farmers behind the tavern screen Collect; with elbows idly press'd On hob, reclines the corner's guest, Reading the news…
— John Clare
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Spring comes with joyous laugh, and song, and sunshine, and the burnt sacrifice of the over-ripe boot and the hoary overshoe. The cowboy and the…
— Edgar Wilson Nye
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The computer is a tool akin to a telescope or a microscope; a tool that opens vast frontiers of possibilities and brings them to light;…
— John Paul Caponigro
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A happy childhood is the pledge of a ripe manhood.
— Amos Bronson Alcott
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The 2016 presidential election is ripe for the emergence of a game-changing political leader who either dramatically reforms one of the existing parties or mounts…
— Ron Fournier
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The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall.
— Che Guevara
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Personality is only ripe when a man has made the truth his own.
— Soren Kierkegaard
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Everything vanishes around me, and works are born as if out of the void. Ripe, graphic fruits fall off. My hand has become the obedient…
— Paul Klee
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When you're green, your growing. When you're ripe, you rot.
— Ray Kroc
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If an apple blossom or a ripe apple could tell its own story, it would be, still more than its own, the story of the…
— Lucy Larcom
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No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution.
— Niccolo Machiavelli
Who Wrote These Ripe Quotes
220 authors contributed a total of 250 Ripe Quotes, led by these top contributors: