Quotes About Ripeness

The ripest fruit first falls.

Until we're rotten, we cannot be ripe.

As our fathers said, you can tell a ripe corn by its look.

There was a hint of spring in her sole green eyes, something summery in her complexion, and a rich autumn ripeness in her walk.

Neither's the one you get, less you want me to see if your apple's ripe, yet. - Yoren

grapes still sun-warmed

But the fruit that can fall without shaking indeed is too mellow for me.

I do love pears. All types of pears. Not too firm, not too soft; they have to be at the right time of their life.

There is a season for man's merit as well as for fruit.

But the fruit that can fall without shaking, Indeed is too mellow for me.

Autumn thanks the sun with an abundant harvest.

Ripeness and amplitude were the first and most essential ingredients of true comeliness. Men liked to grasp something substantial when in a mood to do so: this was Queen Sollace's experience.

A man's worth has its season, like fruit.

Things were somehow so good that they were in danger of becoming very bad because what is fully mature is very close to rotting

I feel my brains, like a pear, to see if it's ripe; it will be exquisite by September.

Autumn teaches us that fruition is also death; that ripeness is a form of decay. The willows, having stood for so long near water, begin to rust. Leaves are verbs that conjugate the seasons.

Age is of no importance unless you are a cheese.

Ripe avocados should be soft, not squishy, and you should be able to flick the little stem off easily.

Autumn is the eternal corrective. It is ripeness and color and a time of completion; but it is also breadth, and depth, and distance. What man can stand with Autumn on a hilltop and fail to see the span of his world and the substance of the rolling hills that reach to the far horizon?

Why does an apple fall when it is ripe? Is it brought down by the force of gravity? Is it because its stalk withers? Because it is dried by the sun, because it grows too heavy, or because the boy standing under the tree wants to eat it? None of these is the cause.... Every action of theirs, that seems to them an act of their own freewill is in the historical sense not free at all but is bound up with the whole course of history and preordained from all eternity.

If it could only be like this always - always summer, always alone, the fruit always ripe and Aloysius in a good temper.

Age is not important unless you're a cheese.

When an apple has ripened and falls, why does it fall? Because of its attraction to the earth, because its stalk withers, because it is dried by the sun, because it grows heavier, because the wind shakes it, or because the boy standing below wants to eat it?

Men must endure Their going hence, even as their coming hither. Ripeness is all.