Ripened Quotes

40 quotes by 35 authors

October, here's to you. Here's to the heady aroma of the frost-kissed apples, the winey smell of ripened grapes, the wild-as-the-wind smell of hickory nuts… — Ken Weber
Is the parent better than the child into whom he has cast his ripened being? Whence, then, this worship of the past? — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Trees bend low with ripened fruit; clouds hang down with gentle rain; noble people bow graciously. This is the way of generous things. — Bhartrhari
The decline of Rome was the natural and inevitable effect of immoderate greatness. Prosperity ripened the principle of decay; the cause of the destruction multiplied… — Edward Gibbon
It was the month of May, the month when the foliage of herbs and trees is most freshly green, when buds ripened and blossoms appear… — Thomas Malory
We accept it because we have seen the vision. We know that we cannot reap the harvest, but we hope that we may so well… — Liberty Hyde Bailey
Our eyes are holden that we cannot see things that stare us in the face, until the hour arrives when the mind is ripened; then… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Wherever souls are being tried and ripened, in whatever commonplace and homely way, there God is hewing out the pillars for His temple. — Phillips Brooks
Great men are but common men more fully developed and ripened. — Orison Swett Marden
In meditation and in our daily lives there are three qualities that we can nurture, cultivate, and bring out. We already possess these, but they… — Pema Chodron
The harvest of the Lordâ€™s field is seldom ripened by sunshine only. It must go through its days of wind, rain and storm. — J C Ryle
As soon as the legitimate Lebanese government is convinced that the conditions have ripened and that Lebanon is able to maintain stability on its own...… — Bashar al-Assad
Affliction is a treasure, and scarce any man hath enough of it. No man hath affliction enough that is not matured and ripened by it… — John Donne
Fulfill - you can far more than fulfill - the brightest anticipations of those who, in the name of human freedom, and in the face… — Robert Dale Owen
Comely was the town by the curving river that they dismantled in a year's time. Beautiful was Colleton in her last spring as she flung… — Pat Conroy
Slowly blossomed, slowly ripened in Siddhartha the realisation, the knowledge, what wisdom actually was, what the goal of his long search was. It was nothing… — Hermann Hesse
Man is the nobler growth our realms supply, And souls are ripened in our northern sky. — Anna Letitia Barbauld
The nineteenth century planted the words which the twentieth century ripened into the atrocities of Stalin and Hitler. There is hardly an atrocity committed in… — Eric Hoffer
Even a good man sees evil days, as long as his good deed has not ripened; but when his good deed has ripened, then does… — Max Muller
Pears cannot ripen alone. So we ripened together. — Meridel Le Sueur

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