Quotes About Ripening Fruit

#1. Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.

Aristotle.

#2. Your face encompasses the beauty of the whole earth. Your lips, as red as ripening fruit, gently part as if in pain. It is the smile of a corpse. Now the hand of death touches life. The chain is forged that links the thousand families that are dead to the thousand generations to come.

Edvard Munch

#3. A man watches his pear tree day after day, impatient for the ripening of the fruit. Let him attempt to force the process, and he may spoil both fruit and tree. But let him patiently wait, and the ripe pear at length falls into his lap.

Abraham Lincoln

#4. It is not all bad, this getting old, ripening. After the fruit has got its growth it should juice up and mellow. God forbid I should live long enough to ferment and rot and fall to the ground in a squash.

Josh Billings

#5. God knew that children grow and mature best in a stable, loving family, and this was one reason He gave marriage to us.

Billy Graham

#6. Mature affection, homage, devotion, does not easily express itself. Its voice is low. It is modest and retiring, it lies in ambush, waits and waits. Such is the mature fruit. Sometimes a life glides away, and finds it still ripening in the shade.

Charles Dickens

#7. All things must come to the soul from its roots, from where it is planted.

Saint Teresa Of Avila

#8. It was time to take up the discussion over governance, housing, transportation, security, health care, and education - to define the country we wanted and outline our terms. Who were we. . . . What were our limits and our ambitions?

Juliana Barbassa

#9. She said something in Kiowa in a happy tone. My name is Ay-ti-Podle, the Cicada, whose song means there is a fruit ripening nearby. She gestured back toward the big bay saddle horse and tossed her hair back. It was as if she wanted to include Pasha in this newfound happiness.

Paulette Jiles

#10. We each carry our own designated end within us, our very own death ripening at its own rate inside of us. There are insignificant people who are harboring unawares the grandeur of large deaths. We carry it in us like a darkening fruit. It opens and spills out. That is death.

Rebecca Goldstein

#11. Schemes are like fruit, they require a certain ripening.

George R R Martin

#12. The thing you are ripening toward is the fruit of your life. It will make you bright inside, no matter what you are outside. It is a shining thing.

Stewart Edward White

#13. Faith, that faculty which enables us to believe things which we know to be untrue.

Bram Stoker

#14. People look with sympathetic eyes only at the blossom and the fruit, and disregard the long period of transition during which the one is ripening into the other.

Berthold Auerbach

#15. There is something about building up a comradeship - that I still believe is the greatest of all feats - and sharing in the dangers with your company of peers. It's the intense effort, the giving of everything you've got. It's really a very pleasant sensation.

Edmund Hillary

#16. Screw what Mom and Dad think. Screw the rest of the town. Screw perfection. This girl is mine.

Katie McGarry

#17. In the beginning, compassion is like the seed without which we cannot have any fruit; in the middle, compassion is like water to nourish the see we have planted; in the end, compassion is like the warmth of the sun that brings the fruit to ripening.

Gautama Buddha

#18. If there is no other world and there is no fruit and ripening of actions well done or ill done, then here and now in this life I shall be free from hostility, affliction, and anxiety, and I shall live happily.

Gautama Buddha

#19. Is then the fruit of a fig-tree not perfect suddenly and in one hour, and would you possess the fruit of a man's mind in so short a time and so easily?

Epictetus