Quotes About Ripe

I will take the sun in my mouth and leap into the ripe air Alive with closed eyes to dash against darkness

The day of fortune is like a harvest day, We must be busy when the corn is ripe.

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.

When I go to the shore, I take along the poems of Pablo Neruda. I suppose it's because the poems are simultaneously lush and ripe and kind of lazy, yet throbbing with life - like summer itself.

Regrettable," Salisbury said. "Truly regrettable. But I need them more than I need Marlowe, Master Shakespeare, for the next month or so. Conspiracies are useful-a force that may be directed to profitable service, like a waterfall through a millwheel, but I learned well from my father that they must not be plucked before they are ripe. I mean to use these conspiracies as he would, to secure the future of the realm.

You know the saying, "Four months between planting and harvest." But I say, wake up and look around. The fields are already ripe for harvest. —John 4:35

My thinness is eccentric, people say. Well, what can I do? I should very much prefer to be deliciously ripe.

It is almost always wrong that the time isn't ripe to decide something. That is always said of difficult problems.

The time is ripe, and rotten-ripe, for change.

In this gathering place, where violence is ripe, at the boundary of that which escapes cohesion, he who reflects within cohesion realizes that there is no longer any room for him.

The ripe earth yawns daily to swallow me. Love's love in her blackest season

Spring was in the air—ripe, verdant, full of promise. And with the spring came the rush and clamor of weddings. Marietta

Youth is pert and positive, Age modest and doubting: So Ears of Corn when young and light, stand bolt upright, but hang their Heads when weighty, full, and ripe.

Noon, ripe as thunder and silent as thought, had fled unfingered.

The flavor the came to me was a luscious Sincerest peach that I once had in California. This heirloom variety needed time to ripen on the tree to achieve its peak flavor. Unlike other peaches that were picked unripe so they would ship more easily, Sincerest peaches had to be eaten right away. But they were worth it- fragrant, luscious, juice-dripping-down-your-chin perfection.

There are many Summer ingredients I love: one of my favourite times is when the cherries are ready!

If it could only be like this always — always summer, always alone, the fruit always ripe...

Personality is only ripe when a man has made the truth his own.

READY FOR A BATH?" Am I ever. Now that my sense of smell had returned, I'm pretty aware of my own body odor. This vegetable is getting ripe. Despite

But I think it's a little different in Europe, because 40 is really the best age for a woman. That's when we hit our peak and become this ripe fruit.

In the height of summer, a ripe cantaloupe is one of the most intoxicating pieces of produce under the sun.

Blessed are not the enlightened whose every question has been answered and who are delighted with their own sublime insight, the mature and ripe ones whose one remaining action is to fall from the tree. Blessed, rather, are the chased, the harassed who must daily stand before my enigmas and cannot solve them.

I was a ripe prey for the alligator of ecstasy.  

A ripe watermelon will have a patch, creamy yellow in color, where the melon rested on the ground. If a watermelon has a white patch - or none at all - it hasnt fully matured.