Ripeness Quotes

23 quotes by 21 authors

The beginnings of moral enterprises in this world are never to be measured by any apparent growth. ... At length comes the sudden ripeness and… — Henry Ward Beecher
Watch a French housewife as she makes her way slowly along the loaded stalls... searching for the peak of ripeness and flavor... What you are… — Keith Floyd
There is a moment in the history of every nation, when . . . the perceptive powers reach their ripeness and have not yet become… — Marsilio Ficino
October is the opal month of the year. It is the month of glory, of ripeness. It is the picture-month. — Henry Ward Beecher
It is one of the greatest problems. It will appear very paradoxical, but this is true - before you can lose your ego, you must… — Rajneesh
Chronological time is what we measure by clocks and calendars; it is always linear, orderly, quantifiable, and mechanical. Kairotic time is organic, rhythmic, bodily, leisurely,… — Sam Keen
Genius has no youth, but starts with the ripeness of age and old experience. — Mark Twain
One reason writers write is out of revenge. Life hurts; certain ideas and experiences hurt; one wants to clarify, to set out illuminations, to replay… — Cynthia Ozick
The ripeness of adolescence is prodigal in pleasures, skittish, and in need of a bridle. — Plutarch
It says nothing against the ripeness of a spirit that it has a few worms. — Friedrich Nietzsche
The West is color. Its colors are animal rather than vegetable, the colors of earth and sunlight and ripeness. — Jessamyn West
Man was matter, that was Snowden's secret. Drop him out a window, and he'll fall. Set fire to him and he'll burn. Bury him and… — Joseph Heller
To crave and to have are as like as a thing and its shadow. For when does a berry break upon the tongue as sweetly… — Marilynne Robinson
Yossarian was cold, too, and shivering uncontrollably. He felt goose pimples clacking all over him as he gazed down despondently at the grim secret Snowden… — Joseph Heller
Autumn teaches us that fruition is also death; that ripeness is a form of decay. The willows, having stood for so long near water, begin… — Gretel Ehrlich
We wanderers, ever seeking the lonelier way, begin no day where we have ended another, and no sunrise finds us where left by sunset. Even… — Khalil Gibran
Men must endure Their going hence, even as their coming hither. Ripeness is all. — William Shakespeare
Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness, Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun; Conspiring with him how to load and bless With fruit the vines that… — John Keats
All the rest is silence On the other side of the wall, And the silence ripeness, And the ripeness all. — Wystan Hugh Auden
Autumn is the eternal corrective. It is ripeness and color and a time of maturity; but it is also breadth, and depth, and distance. What… — Hal Borland

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