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Ripe in wisdom was he, but patient, and simple, and childlike. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
What wondrous life is this I lead! Ripe apples drop about my head. -- Andrew Marvell
Ripe old age, cheerful, useful, and understanding, is one of the finest influences in the world. -- Ida Tarbell
A mother's hardest to forgive. Life is the fruit she longs to hand you Ripe on a plate. And while you live, Relentlessly she understands you. -- Phyllis McGinley
Everything vanishes around me, and works are born as if out of the void. Ripe, graphic fruits fall off. My hand has become the obedient instrument of a remote will. -- Paul Klee
A breeze blew softly, slightly rippling the water as it carried the heady scents of late Carolina springtime through the air. Honeysuckle. Jasmine. Ripe, pungent river mud. Ah, the world felt right. -- Caitlin Rush
Ripe bananas are the mark of a good produce section. A good produce section is the mark of a superior grocery store. A superior grocery store is the mark of a good man. -- Stanley Tucci
Ripe for romance? Is that not only the self-conscious and sensitive young man's way of saying he was heavy with passion? Is not, perhaps, romance only the fiction by means of which the tender-minded negotiate their lust? -- Trevanian
Are you green and growing or ripe and rotting? -- Ray Kroc
The time was ripe for Flower. The vibe was right. -- Jody Watley
When you're green, your growing. When you're ripe, you rot. -- Ray Kroc
Status is always ripe for satire, status is always good for comedy. -- Stephen Colbert
Personality is only ripe when a man has made the truth his own. -- Soren Kierkegaard
Conditions are ripe for triumph. We will win. And we will wield great power here. -- Daniel Ortega
As long as you're green, you're growing. As soon as you're ripe, you start to rot. -- Ray Kroc
We must use time wisely and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right. -- Nelson Mandela
The day of fortune is like a harvest day, We must be busy when the corn is ripe. -- Torquato Tasso
The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall. -- Che Guevara
No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution. -- Niccolo Machiavelli
The fact is I am not having sex. But I feel absolutely ripe for the, what would you say? plucking? -- Angelina Jolie
We all wish to reach a ripe old age, but none of us are prepared to admit that we are already there. -- Francisco de Quevedo
There will always be something to ruin our lives, it all depends on what or which finds us first. We are always ripe and ready to be taken. -- Charles Bukowski
Barack Obama has talked a lot about changing the way America relates to the world, and few areas are as ripe for reform as our policies on foreign aid. -- Iqbal Quadir
Just call me a family man and an actor who digs his whole scene, side interests and all. Just say I feel mighty good at the ripe old age of 27. -- Bobby Darin
Having proceeded to this length, for which they are now ripe, we shall have a formidable rebellion against reason, the principle of all government, and against the very name of liberty. -- Henry Knox
Whatever I do is done out of sheer joy; I drop my fruits like a ripe tree. What the general reader or the critic makes of them is not my concern. -- Henry Miller
I don't see the desert as barren at all; I see it as full and ripe. It doesn't need to be flattered with rain. It certainly needs rain, but it does with what it has, and creates amazing beauty. -- Joy Harjo
I think the time is ripe for a return to the refinement of lifestyle that the pocket watch embodies. A personal pleasure that you know you have in your pocket, which requires an elegant gesture to use and show to others. -- Richard Mille
Cities are ripe for redesign, and many are already well on that path. Cloud-based networks that provide easy and inexpensive access to and tracking of services like transportation, energy, waste management, bill pay, citizen engagement and more are testing and enriching their services. -- Lisa Gansky
By 3000 B.C. the art of Egypt was so ripe and so far advanced that it is surprising to find any student of early culture proposing that the crude contemporary art of the early Babylonians is the product of a civilization earlier than that of the Nile. -- James Henry Breasted
Once we're willing to confront our emotional suffering, we begin making choices based on attraction instead of aversion, love instead of fear. Where we used to think about what was 'safe,' we now become interested in doing what seems right or fun or meaningful or ripe with possibilities. -- Martha Beck
Sense the blessings of the earth in the perfect arc of a ripe tangerine, the taste of warm, fresh bread, the circling flight of birds, the lavender color of the sky shining in a late afternoon rain puddle, the million times we pass other beings in our cars and shops and out among the trees without crashing, conflict, or harm. -- Jack Kornfield
I was already devouring literature and I was the ripe old age of 15 when I decided to be an actor. I just thought plays were the most fantastic way of expressing life. I thought I'd discovered Shakespeare - 'hey, there's a new guy in town, don't know if anyone's read him.' I was just excited about the whole thing, from day one. -- Chiwetel Ejiofor
There is ripe fruit over your head. -- Henry David Thoreau
America is ripe for a service revolution. -- Harvey Mackay
For youthful faults ripe virtues shall atone. -- William Wordsworth
The tartness of his face sours ripe grapes. -- William Shakespeare
The time is ripe, and rotten-ripe, for change. -- James Russell Lowell
Fruits that blossom first will first be ripe. -- William Shakespeare
Widows, like ripe fruit, drop easily from their perch. -- Jean de la Bruyere
Hee that eats the hard shall eate the ripe. -- George Herbert
The hour is ripe, and yonder lies the way. -- Virgil
True love is the ripe fruit of a lifetime. -- Alphonse de Lamartine
Educational reforms are like ripe fruit. They rarely travel well. -- Andy Hargreaves
You are either green and growing, or ripe and rotting. -- Frosty Westering
The aristocrat is the democrat ripe, and gone to seed. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I want to die young at a ripe old age. -- Ashley Montagu
A happy childhood is the pledge of a ripe manhood. -- Amos Bronson Alcott
Give me juicy autumnal fruit, ripe and red from the orchard. -- Walt Whitman
A basket of ripe fruit is holier than any prayer book. -- Marty Rubin
If the times aren't ripe, you have to ripen the times. -- Dorothy Height
Noon, ripe as thunder and silent as thought, had fled unfingered. -- Mervyn Peake
That death is best which comes appropriately at a ripe age. -- Propertius
The whole thing is just ripe to be a very good thing. -- Joe
Several ripe persimmons Left on the branches; Gray clouds come and go. -- Santoka Taneda
Nothing shows one who his friends are like prosperity and ripe fruit. -- Charles Dudley Warner
The prime of life is that fleeting time between green and over-ripe. -- Cullen Hightower
Her hair that lay along her back Was yellow like ripe corn. -- Dante Gabriel Rossetti
What shelter to grow ripe is ours? What leisure to grow wise? -- Matthew Arnold
A thought falls like a ripe fruit from the tree of idleness. -- Natalie Clifford Barney
A broken life in the hands of God is ripe for blessing. -- Joni Eareckson Tada
Life is a thump ripe melon, so sweet and such a mess. -- Greg Brown
If the time is not ripe, we have to ripen the time. -- Dorothy Height
The time is ripe for the whole region to live in peace. -- Nabil Elaraby
We are never ripe till we have been made so by suffering. -- Henry Ward Beecher
There is no fruit which is not bitter before it is ripe. -- Publilius Syrus
Truth is a fruit which should not be plucked until it is ripe.... -- Voltaire
The Fox, when hee cannot reach the grapes, saies they are not ripe. -- George Herbert
As our fathers said, you can tell a ripe corn by its look. -- Chinua Achebe
Feel not obliged to make good use of every ripe fruit on the vine. -- Kathryn Hall
I thought these grapes were ripe, but I see now they are quite sour. -- Aesop
Truth is a fruit that can only be picked when it is very ripe. -- Voltaire
guilt politics ... I regard as conveniently paralyzing, ripe for backlash defensiveness, counterproductive, and boring. -- Robin Morgan
So may'st thou live, till like ripe fruit thou drop Into thy mother's lap. -- John Milton
On you and me and everything, I bestow my ripe blessings and boisterous bliss... -- Rob Brezsny
A photographer cannot be inexperienced, or too mature. A photographer ought to be half-ripe. -- Nobuyoshi Araki
Everyday can be extraordinary And ripe, Like a flower burst, If the will is there. -- Scott Hastie
How do you know that the fruit is ripe? Simply because it leaves the branch. -- Andre Gide
When I was almost 13 I was ripe for religion. I was actually just plain ripe. -- Kathie Lee Gifford
What is the point of it all? Not leaving legacies. But being ripe. Being ripe. -- Maurice Sendak
I would like to live to a ripe old age and raise watermelons in Wyoming. -- Lou Reed
The revolution is not an apple that falls when ripe. You have to make it fall. -- Ernesto Che Guevara
Violence send deep roots into the heart, it has no seasons, it is always ripe, evergreen. -- Pat Conroy
I'm going to buy some green bananas because by the time I get home they'll be ripe. -- Ryan Stiles
Wisdom is in yourself, just like a sweet ripe mango is already in a young green one. -- Ajahn Chah
Everything can be made fun of. The most serious things are ripe for making fun of them. -- Jim Carrey
Give me juicy autumnal fruit, ripe and red from the orchard.[Give me the splendid silent sun] -- Walt Whitman
Give me juicy autumnal fruit, ripe and red from the orchard."[Give me the splendid silent sun] -- Walt Whitman
Nothing has ever remained of any revolution but what was ripe in the conscience of the masses. -- Alexandre Auguste Ledru-Rollin
A ruined man fell from her hands like a ripe fruit, to lie rotting on the ground. -- Emile Zola
I feel my brains, like a pear, to see if it's ripe; it will be exquisite by September. -- Virginia Woolf
Times are ripe to discuss about the vote right, at least on an administrative level, for immigrant persons. -- Gianfranco Fini
Sinclair Lewis may be ripe for a revival; his books raise several interesting issues of art and fashion. -- Jane Smiley
I think parenthood is just ripe for comedy. This just happens to be told from the perspective of women. -- Mila Kunis
The time is not yet ripe to say what happened. When history's ready, then we can talk about it -- Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
I like the word OLD. Not senior, that's for proms. Older? Older than whom? 'Old' is honorable and ripe -- Bel Kaufman
The birthing wolf,Her heart fed with tenderness,Gave forth from ripe brown nipples,Food to feed the universe. -- Roman Payne
With years a richer life begins, the spirit mellow: ripe age gives tones to violins, wine, and good fellows. -- John Townsend Trowbridge
Let us draw a lesson from nature, which always works by short ways. When the fruit is ripe, it falls. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is almost always wrong that the time isn't ripe to decide something. That is always said of difficult problems. -- Chris Patten
I would say that my peak was making my first million at the ripe age of 29, after the first album. -- Anita Baker
The world has more winnable people than ever before but it is possible to come out of a ripe field empty-handed. -- Donald McGannon
Our God of Grace often gives us a second chance, but there is no second chance to harvest a ripe crop. -- Kurt von Schleicher
To use bitter words, when kind words are at hand,Is like picking unripe fruit when the ripe fruit is there. -- Thiruvalluvar
In human years I am 29. In actress years I'm the ripe, promising age of 18 to 35. That's how it works here in Hollyweird. -- Olivia Wilde
It ought to be lovely to be old, To be full of the peace that comes with experience And wrinkled ripe fulfillment -- D. H. Lawrence
Pride, anger and hatred are fruits from the same garden that poison the world when ripe. A leader cultivates no such fruits. -- Israelmore Ayivor
Muftis and bishops should be like ripe camembert cheeses - a bit on the nose and not for the faint-hearted, but memorable! -- Michael Leunig
Our nation is ripe with a multitude of successful people, who have achieved much for themselves with little impact on anyone else -- Fela Durotoye
I don't tap dance, and I don't think you can learn to tap dance in three weeks at my ripe old age. -- Huey Lewis
I will take the sun in my mouth and leap into the ripe air Alive with closed eyes to dash against darkness -- e. e. cummings
May you keep dreaming until the day you die. May imagination overtake memory. May you die young at a ripe old age. -- Mark Batterson
Rushing into action, you fail. Trying to grasp things, you lose them. Forcing a project to completion, you ruin what was almost ripe. -- Laozi
The time is ripe, and rotten-ripe, for change... [Truth's] mirror is turned forward, to reflect The promise of the future, not the past... -- James Russell Lowell
In my garden the winds have beaten the ripe lilies; in my garden, the salt has wilted the first flakes of young narcissus. -- Hilda Doolittle
From here on in, Harry, I may be as woefully wrong as Humphrey Belcher who believed the time was ripe for a cheese cauldron. -- J. K. Rowling
And if we were another country being analyzed by America, we would conclude that this country is ripe for stealing elections and for fraud. -- DeForest Soaries
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If you believe in the soul, do not clutch at sensual sweetness before it is ripe on the slow tree of cause and effect. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Some things never leave a person: scent of the hair of one you love, the texture of persimmons, in your palm, the ripe weight. -- Li-Young Lee

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