Ripening Quotes
41 Ripening quotes by 35 unique authors
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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I had begun to think my ripening body would wither untasted on the vine.
— Jacqueline Carey
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Schemes are like fruit, they require a certain ripening.
— George R. R. Martin
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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
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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
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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
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In this there is no measuring with time, a year doesn’t matter, and ten years are nothing. Being an artist means: not numbering and counting,…
— Rainer Maria Rilke
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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
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Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is slow-ripening fruit.
— Aristotle
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This bud of love by summers ripening breath, May prove a beauteous flower when next we meet -William Shakespeare
— William Shakespeare
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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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I'm hurt, hurt and humiliated beyond endurance, seeing the wheat ripening, the fountains never ceasing to give water, the sheep bearing hundreds oflambs, the she-dogs,…
— Federico GarcÃa Lorca
Who Wrote These Ripening Quotes
35 authors contributed a total of 41 Ripening Quotes, led by these top contributors: