Ripe Quotes

The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall. (Che Guevara)
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. View quote
Henry Miller
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. View quote
James Henry Breasted
The day of fortune is like a harvest day, We must be busy when the corn is ripe. View quote
Torquato Tasso
If it could only be like this always - always summer, always alone, the fruit always ripe and Aloysius in a good temper... View quote
Evelyn Waugh
If you happen to be one of the fretful minority who can do creative work, never force an idea; you'll abort it if you do. Be patient and you'll give birth to it when the time is ripe. Learn to wait. View quote
Robert A. Heinlein
America is ripe for lies and lethargy. The pure mountain air is going and gone. It is a huge burden and a sadness for us all. View quote
Ralph Steadman
Mark how fleeting and paltry is the estate of man - yesterday in embryo, tomorrow a mummy or ashes. So for the hairsbreadth of time assigned to thee, live rationally, and part with life cheerfully, as drops the ripe olive, extolling the season that bore it and the tree that matured it. View quote
Marcus Aurelius
You see, my children, when the corn is ripe it must be cut; when the wine is drawn it must be drunk. View quote
Alphonse Daudet
Time that withers you will wither me. We will fall like ripe fruit and roll down the grass together. Dear friend, let me lie beside you watching the clouds until the earth covers us and we are gone. View quote
Jeanette Winterson
To use bitter words, when kind words are at hand, Is like picking unripe fruit when the ripe fruit is there. (Thiruvalluvar)
What shelter to grow ripe is ours? What leisure to grow wise? View quote
Matthew Arnold
What wondrous life in this I lead! Ripe apples drop about my head; The luscious clusters of the vine Upon my mouth do crush their wine; The nectarine and curious peach Into my hands themselves do reach; Stumbling on melons, as I pass, Ensnared with flowers, I fall on grass. View quote
Andrew Marvell
If you trap the moment before it's ripe, The tears of repentance you'll certainly wipe; But if once you let the ripe moment go You can never wipe off the tears of woe. View quote
William Blake
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. View quote
Paul Klee
A Stalin functionary admitted, "Innocent people were arrested: naturally - otherwise no one would be frightened. If people, he said, were arrested only for specific misdemeanours, all the others would feel safe and so become ripe for treason. View quote
Paul Johnson
Times are ripe to discuss about the vote right, at least on an administrative level, for immigrant persons. View quote
Gianfranco Fini
Let us draw a lesson from nature, which always works by short ways. When the fruit is ripe, it falls. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Pale purple as the bloom om a ripe plum, veined with the gold of late flowering gorse, set with small slender birches,just turning yellow,with red-berried rowans and thicket of bracken, the heath lay steeped in sunshine. View quote
Flora Thompson
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. View quote
Charles Bukowski
The earth is ready, the time is ripe, for the authoritative expression of the feminine as well as the masculine interpretation of that common social consensus which is slowly writing justice in the State and fraternity in the social order. (Anna Garlin Spencer)
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. View quote
Bobby Darin
You want hot days to get your fruit ripe but then you want it to cool off nicely at night so that the grapes stay on the vine longer and develop complexity. View quote
Drew Bledsoe
When I was almost 13 I was ripe for religion. I was actually just plain ripe. View quote
Kathie Lee Gifford
We felt like we had done as much as you can do with the slasher genre. We were trying to find the next group of scary movies that were ripe for parody. View quote
Keenen Ivory Wayans