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A pear should come to the table popped with juice, Ripened in warmth and served in warmth. On terms Like these, autumn beguiles the fatalist. -- Wallace Stevens
As soon as the legitimate Lebanese government is convinced that the conditions have ripened and that Lebanon is able to maintain stability on its own... Then, the Syrian forces will return to their homeland. -- Bashar al-Assad
In the course of her education she had gone through the history usually put into the hands of young people... now her ripened reason gave to her present study at least the advantage of novelty. -- Charlotte Smith
I've noticed a growth in Spike and definitely in myself. I feel like the seeds that he planted in me five years ago have ripened up to a place where I could even tackle this role in the way that I did. -- Rosario Dawson
We accept it because we have seen the vision. We know that we cannot reap the harvest, but we hope that we may so well prepare the land and so diligently sow the seed that our successors may gather the ripened grain. -- Liberty Hyde Bailey
Fulfill - you can far more than fulfill - the brightest anticipations of those who, in the name of human freedom, and in the face of threats that have ripened into terrible realities since, fought that battle which placed you where you now stand. -- Robert Dale Owen
Pears cannot ripen alone. So we ripened together. -- Meridel Le Sueur
She looked like autumn, when leaves turned and fruit ripened. -- Sarah Addison Allen
Great men are but common men more fully developed and ripened. -- Orison Swett Marden
When bounteous autumn rears her head, he joys to pull the ripened pear. -- John Dryden
Man is the nobler growth our realms supply, And souls are ripened in our northern sky. -- Anna Letitia Barbauld
One in whom persuasion and belief Had ripened into faith, and faith become A passionate intuition. -- William Wordsworth
Unto us all our days are love's anniversaries, each one In turn hath ripened something of our happiness. -- Robert Bridges
And never since harvests were ripened, / Or laborers born, / Have men gathered figs of the thistle, / Or grapes of the thorn! -- Phoebe Cary
I find friendship to be like wine, raw when new, ripened with age, the true old man's milk and restorative cordial. -- Thomas Jefferson
Is the parent better than the child into whom he has cast his ripened being? Whence, then, this worship of the past? -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The harvest of the Lord's field is seldom ripened by sunshine only. It must go through its days of wind, rain and storm. -- J. C. Ryle
Trees bend low with ripened fruit; clouds hang down with gentle rain; noble people bow graciously. This is the way of generous things. -- Bhartrhari
Wherever souls are being tried and ripened, in whatever commonplace and homely way, there God is hewing out the pillars for His temple. -- Phillips Brooks
Dying is strange and hard if it is not our death, but a death that takes us by storm, when we've ripened none within us. -- Rainer Maria Rilke
A tree full of ripened fruits bows down naturally, because of the weight of the fruits and its willingness to make its fruits accessible to others. -- A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Often the soul is ripened into fuller goodness while age has spread an ugly film, so that mere glances can never divine the preciousness of the fruit. -- George Eliot
Affliction is a treasure, and scarce any man hath enough of it. No man hath affliction enough that is not matured and ripened by it and made fit for God. -- John Donne
Even a good man sees evil days, as long as his good deed has not ripened; but when his good deed has ripened, then does the good man see happy days. -- Max Muller
No mirror ever became iron again; No bread ever became wheat; No ripened grape ever became sour fruit. Mature yourself and be secure from a change for the worse. Become the light. -- Rumi
October, here's to you. Here's to the heady aroma of the frost-kissed apples, the winey smell of ripened grapes, the wild-as-the-wind smell of hickory nuts and the nostalgic whiff of that first wood smoke. -- Ken Weber
Frost in January minus 20 for a week. Dead birds frozen on the branchâ??they fall with the first thaw like ripe fruitâ??death-ripened. We shall all end like themâ??just a stain in the snow. -- Lawrence Durrell

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