Quotes About Ripe

Life is a thump ripe melon, so sweet and such a mess.

All through autumn we hear a double voice: one says everything is ripe; the other says everything is dying. The paradox is exquisite. We feel what the Japanese call "aware"--an almost untranslatable word meaning something like "beauty tinged with sadness.

The day was ripe and full of promise, and he was here for a hunt

But mankind is a dead tree, covered with fine brilliant galls of people.[..]And if it is so, why is it? she asked, hostile.They were rousing each other to a fine passion of opposition. Why, why are people all balls of bitter dust?Because they won't fall off the tree when they're ripe.They hang on to their old positions when the position is over-past, till they become infested with little worms and dry-rot.

Give me juicy autumnal fruit, ripe and red from the orchard. [ Give me the splendid silent sun ]

Jeeves was on a deck chair outside the back door, reading Spinoza with the cat Augustus on his lap. I had given him the Spinoza at Christmas and he was constantly immersed in it. I hadn't dipped into it myself, but he tells me it is good ripe stuff, well worth perusal. He would have risen at my approach, but I begged him to remain seated, for I knew that Augustus, like L. P. Runkle, resented being woken suddenly, and one always wants to consider a cat's feelings.

Violence send deep roots into the heart, it has no seasons, it is always ripe, evergreen.

The problem with mango plucking is the fruit falls too quickly; and harvest season is over far too soon.

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

The tender spring upon thy tempting lip Shows thee unripe; yet mayst thou well be tasted: Make use of time, let not advantage slip; Beauty within itself should not be wasted: Fair flowers that are not gather'd in their prime Rot and consume themselves in little time.

Don't forget that for now it's strawberry season

Ik zekere zin gingen de zaken zo goed dat ze alleen maar erg slecht zouden kunnen gaan want wat helemaal rijp is kan gaan rotten.

You think you fresh shytt. Im ripee.

Fresher than the harvest.

I was ripe ten years ago. Now I'm merely preserved, and before long I'll be buried back in the orchard with the other pits." -Amanda to Jack

Splendid cheeses they were, ripe and mellow, and with a two hundred horse-power scent about them that might have been warranted to carry three miles, and knock a man over at two hundred yards. 

It was a garden of abundance and decay: the tomatoes were too ripe, the marijuana too strong, woodlice were hiding under everything.

What a place, George thought. Greasy, grim and ripe for murder.

Into such miseries, your son came. Bright as a sunrise, sweet as ripe fruit.

The sky softened, opening over us like the ripe flesh of a fruit.

which he ate, the dark flesh parting to pink seeds under his teeth. The fruit was perfectly ripe, the juice brimming.

An overripe banana, yellow outside, squishy in

I thought I knew everything. There's the challenge fate loves best, isn't it? I was ripe for a fall and so … the apple.

we have ripe banana dipped in sweet batter and fried, and green banana to boot. Cookie does fry them up nice-nice in olive oil, sprinkle them with a little coarse salt and some cayenne, then drench them in so much butter