Ripening Quotes

41 quotes by 35 authors

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,â€ Say nothing but… — Spencer W. Kimball
How not to imagine the tumors ripening beneath his skin, flesh I have kissed, stroked with my fingertips, pressed my belly and breasts against, some… — Dorianne Laux
The whole world is one immense woman, and we are in her very womb, we are not yet born, we are joyfully ripening. — Yevgeny Zamyatin
Negotiating with memories isn't easy: how to choose between those panting to be told, those still ripening, those already shriveling, and those destined to be… — Steve Toltz
Bright star, would I were stedfast as thou art--- Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night And watching, with eternal lids apart, Like nature's… — John Keats
Way out in the country tonight he could smell the pumpkins ripening toward the knife and the triangle eye and the singeing candle. — Ray Bradbury
I had begun to think my ripening body would wither untasted on the vine. — Jacqueline Carey
Schemes are like fruit, they require a certain ripening. — George R. R. Martin
Being an artist means, not reckoning and counting, but ripening like the tree which does not force its sap and stands confidence in the storms… — Rainer Maria Rilke
Your face encompasses the beauty of the whole earth. Your lips, as red as ripening fruit, gently part as if in pain. It is the… — Edvard Munch
The highest branch of solitary amusement is reading; but even in the choice of books the fancy is first employed; for in reading, the heart… — Mary Wollstonecraft
In this there is no measuring with time, a year doesnâ€™t matter, and ten years are nothing. Being an artist means: not numbering and counting,… — Rainer Maria Rilke
We should worship lord Shiva so that we are freed from our worldly attachments just like a fruit falls from a tree after ripening. Once… — Yajur Veda
Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is slow-ripening fruit. — Aristotle
This bud of love by summers ripening breath, May prove a beauteous flower when next we meet -William Shakespeare — William Shakespeare
Farewell? a long farewell to all my greatness. This is the state of man; todayhe puts forth The tender leaves of hopes, tomorrow blossoms, And… — William Shakespeare

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