Ripeness Quotes
23 quotes by 21 authors
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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
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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
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There is a moment in the history of every nation, when . . . the perceptive powers reach their ripeness and have not yet become…
— Marsilio Ficino
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October is the opal month of the year. It is the month of glory, of ripeness. It is the picture-month.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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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
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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
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Genius has no youth, but starts with the ripeness of age and old experience.
— Mark Twain
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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
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The ripeness of adolescence is prodigal in pleasures, skittish, and in need of a bridle.
— Plutarch
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It says nothing against the ripeness of a spirit that it has a few worms.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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The West is color. Its colors are animal rather than vegetable, the colors of earth and sunlight and ripeness.
— Jessamyn West
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Men must endure Their going hence, even as their coming hither. Ripeness is all.
— William Shakespeare
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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
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All the rest is silence On the other side of the wall, And the silence ripeness, And the ripeness all.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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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
Who Wrote These Ripeness Quotes
21 authors contributed a total of 23 Ripeness Quotes as follows: