Top 1200 Ripe Fruit Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

Some say that happiness is not good for mortals, & they ought to be answered that sorrow is not fit for immortals & is utterly useless to any one; a blight never does good to a tree, & if a blight kill not a tree but it still bear fruit, let none say that the fruit was in consequence of the blight.

The time is ripe for the whole region to live in peace.

Ripe in wisdom was he, but patient, and simple, and childlike.

The tartness of his face sours ripe grapes.

That death is best which comes appropriately at a ripe age.

The joy of the presence of Jesus, you must be able to give wherever you go. But you cannot give what you don't have. That's why you need a pure heart, a pure heart that you will receive as a fruit of your prayer, as a fruit of your oneness with Christ.

The commercial space industry is enormous and ripe for disruption.

The aristocrat is the democrat ripe, and gone to seed.

The prime of life is that fleeting time between green and over-ripe.

Nothing has ever remained of any revolution but what was ripe in the conscience of the masses.

Cause and effect, means and ends, seed and fruit cannot be severed; for the effect already blooms in the cause, the end preexists in the means, the fruit in the seed

The hour is ripe, and yonder lies the way.

On you and me and everything, I bestow my ripe blessings and boisterous bliss.

Ripe old age, cheerful, useful, and understanding, is one of the finest influences in the world.

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

A thousand trees are seen towards heaven rising, With beautiful and sweetly-scented apples; The orange, wearing on its lovely fruit The colour Daphne carried in her hair; Bent low, nay almost fallen to the ground, The citron, heavy with its yellow load; And, last, the graceful lemon with its fruit Of pleasant smell and shaped like virgins' breasts.

As long as you're green, you're growing. As soon as you're ripe, you start to rot.

When you really have something to offer to the world, then you can become truly humble. A tree when it has no fruit to offer, remains erect. But when the tree is laden with fruit, it bends down. If you are all pride and ego, then nobody will be able to get anything worthwhile from you. When you have genuine humility, it is a sign that you have something to offer to mankind.

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

The time was ripe for Flower. The vibe was right.

I'd love to see a new form of social security ... everyone taught how to grow their own; fruit and nut trees planted along every street, parks planted out to edibles, every high rise with a roof garden, every school with at least one fruit tree for every kid enrolled.

Several ripe persimmons Left on the branches; Gray clouds come and go.

When you're green, your growing. When you're ripe, you rot.

Now I am in the garden at the back . . . a very preserve of butterflies as I remember it, with a high fence, and a gate . . . where the fruit clusters on the trees, riper and richer than fruit has ever been since, in any other garden, and where my mother gathers some in a basket while I stand by, bolting furtive gooseberries, and trying to look unnerved.

You are either green and growing, or ripe and rotting.

The fruit of love is service. The fruit of service is peace. And peace begins with a smile.

I had seen an image of these hanging persimmons that are dried during the winter and turned into sweet, dried fruit. And I really like the idea of this very bitter, hard fruit before it's ripened - on display and slowly maturing and turning sweeter and letting its environment impact it. It felt like a very fitting metaphor for where I've come from.

Is not disease the rule of existence? There is not a lily pad floating on the river but has been riddled by insects. Almost every shrub and tree has its gall, oftentimes esteemed its chief ornament and hardly to be distinguished from the fruit. If misery loves company, misery has company enough. Now, at midsummer, find me a perfect leaf or fruit.

Drosophila,” I said, remembering the word. “What?” Lily asked. “Why do girls always fall for guys with the at ention span of drosophila?” “What?” “Fruit flies. Guys with the attention span of fruit flies.” “Because they’re hot?” “This,” I told her, “is not the time for being truthful.

We all wish to reach a ripe old age, but none of us are prepared to admit that we are already there.

The one thing He commands us as His branches is to bear fruit. Let us live to bless others, to testify of the life and the love there is in Jesus. Let us in faith and obedience give our whole life to that which Jesus chose us for and appointed us to-fruit-bearing.

We are never ripe till we have been made so by suffering.

Industries that are chaotic are ripe for innovation. They are open to anyone who has an idea.

For youthful faults ripe virtues shall atone.

I want to die young at a ripe old age.

A year living with your parents when you turn 30 has been ripe for comedy.

I want to take my rightful share of life by force, I want to give lavishly, I want love to flow from my heart, to ripen and bear fruit. There are many horizons that must be visited, fruit that must be plucked, books read, and white pages in the scrolls of life to be inscribed with vivid sentences in a bold hand.

The Fox, when hee cannot reach the grapes, saies they are not ripe.

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

Everyday can be extraordinary And ripe, Like a flower burst, If the will is there.

Wisdom is in yourself, just like a sweet ripe mango is already in a young green one.

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

The time is not yet ripe to say what happened. When history's ready, then we can talk about it

We don't know whether we'll be able to go to school because of budgetary constraints; that might not be bad because the schools are not doing anything of value for our children in the first place. Jesus said you can tell a tree by the fruit it bears and if the educational system of White America is good for us, where is the fruit from that system that says so?

The fruit does not make the tree good or bad but the tree itself is what determines the nature of the fruit. In the same way, a person first must be good or bad before doing a good or bad work.

Nature imitates herself. A grain thrown into good ground brings forth fruit; a principle thrown into a good mind brings forth fruit. Everything is created and conducted by the same Master-the root, the branch, the fruits-the principles, the consequences.

Hee that eats the hard shall eate the ripe.

Then the angel showed me the river of the water of life, as clear as crystal, flowing from the throne of God and of the Lamb down the middle of the great street of the city. On each side of the river stood the tree of life, bearing twelve crops of fruit, yielding its fruit every month. And the leaves of the tree are for the healing of the nations.

In my family, they were all big boozers, but they all lived to ripe old ages.

I've been at this for a while, and to a very real extent, you look at cover art with the same sort of expectation you have for playing slot machines in Vegas. That is to say, you hope to break even and promise yourself not to flinch when all you get is the same sort of mix of fruit that you get in a cup of generic fruit cocktail.

What wondrous life is this I lead! Ripe apples drop about my head.

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

The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall.

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

The flowers of life are but visionary. How many pass away and leave no trace behind! How few yield any fruit,--and the fruit itself, how rarely does it ripen! And yet there are flowers enough; and is it not strange, my friend, that we should suffer the little that does really ripen to rot, decay, and perish unenjoyed?

I eat a lot of fruit after I run. I find that hydrates me better than just drinking water. I have fruit already cut up for after a run, so when I'm done I can chow on cantaloupe or watermelon. It's so satisfying, and that probably keeps me from being too hungry for other things.

A happy childhood is the pledge of a ripe manhood.

I would like to live to a ripe old age and raise watermelons in Wyoming.

A broken life in the hands of God is ripe for blessing.

I thought these grapes were ripe, but I see now they are quite sour.