Ripening Quotes

41 Ripening quotes by 35 unique authors

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit. — Aristotle
It is not all bad, this getting old, ripening. After the fruit has got its growth it should juice up and mellow. God forbid I… — Josh Billings
This bud of love, by summer's ripening breath, May prove a beauteous flower when next we meet — William Shakespeare
People look with sympathetic eyes only at the blossom and the fruit, and disregard the long period of transition during which the one is ripening… — Berthold Auerbach
May I die like a dog rather than hasten the ripening of a sentence by a single second! — Gustave Flaubert
If there is no other world and there is no fruit and ripening of actions well done or ill done, then here and now in… — Gautama Buddha
Nothing is finer for the purposes of great productions than a very gradual ripening of the intellectual powers. — John Keats
The idea which...shuts out the Second Coming from our minds, the idea of the world slowly ripening to perfection, is a myth, not a generalization… — C.S. Lewis
Gestation requires protected space; ripening requires both permeability to the outer — and non-disturbance. — Jane Hirshfield
A man watches his pear-tree day after day, impatient for the ripening of the fruit. Let him attempt to force the process, and he may… — Abraham Lincoln
Farewell, a long farewell to all my greatness! This is the state of man: today he puts forth The tender leaves of hope, tomorrow blossoms,… — William Shakespeare
There are different kinds and degrees of love, and they change over time, ripening and deepening and changing us in the process. — Cassandra King
The thing you are ripening toward is the fruit of your life. It will make you bright inside, no matter what you are outside. It… — Stewart Edward White
Our minds must meditate on some object. According to what he thinks, a man can create an atmosphere of radiance, exuberance, buoyancy; and this brings… — Swami Paramananda
If woman is inconstant, good, I am faithful to ebb and flow, I fall in season and now is a time of ripening. — Denise Levertov
The Christian is like the ripening corn; the riper he grows the more lowly he bends his head. — Alfred Bertram Guthrie
My birthplace was California, but I couldn't forget Armenia, so what is one's country? Is it land of the earth, in a specific place? Rivers… — William Saroyan
Live in this world, because this world gives a ripening, maturity, integrity. The challenges of this world give you a centering, an awareness. And that… — Rajneesh
There is a succession of experiences which together constitute the educational and developmental ripening of the learner, according to the Sufis. People who think that… — Idries Shah
Frigidity is largely nonsense. It is this generation's catchword, one only vaguely understood and constantly misused. Frigid women are few. There is a host of… — Phyllis McGinley
Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousands of miles and all the years you have lived. The odors of fruits waft me… — Helen Keller
This was one of those perfect New England days in late summer where the spirit of autumn takes a first stealing flight, like a spy,… — Sarah Orne Jewett
To 'choose' dogma and faith over doubt and experience is to throw out the ripening vintage and to reach greedily for the Kool-Aid. — Christopher Hitchens
Age is not all decay; it is the ripening, the swelling, of the fresh life within, that withers and bursts the husk. — George MacDonald
We make no apology then for raising our voices loud to a world that is ripening in sin the lord has said,” Say nothing but… — Spencer W. Kimball

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