Quotes having the keyword Ripen
The insufferable arrogance of human beings to think that Nature was made solely for their benefit, as if it was conceivable that the sun had been set afire merely to ripen men's apples and head their cabbages.
by Cyrano de Bergerac (Playwright, French , born in 1619) keywords: afire, apples, arrogance, been, beings, benefit, conceivable, had, head, human, insufferable, made, men, merely, nature, ripen, set, solely, sun, their , think Letters are like wine; if they are sound they ripen with keeping. A man should lay down letters as he does a cellar of wine.
by Samuel Butler (Poet, British , born in 1835) keywords: cellar, does, down, keeping, lay, letters, man, ripen, should, sound , wine No greater thing is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.
by Epictetus (Philosopher, Greek , born in 2055) keywords: answer, any, bear, blossom, bunch, created, desire, fig, first, fruit, grapes, greater, more, must, ripen, suddenly, tell, than, then, thing , time Nothing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig. I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.
by Epictetus (Philosopher, Greek , born in 2055) keywords: answer, any, bear, blossom, bunch, created, desire, fig, first, fruit, grapes, great, more, must, nothing, ripen, suddenly, tell, than, then , time The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do.
by Galileo Galilei (Scientist, Italian , born in 1564) topics: Nature keywords: around, bunch, dependent, else, grapes, had, nothing, planets, revolving, ripen, still, sun, those , universe I have never been able to look upon America as young and vital but rather as prematurely old, as a fruit which rotted before it had a chance to ripen.
by Henry Miller (Author, American , born in 1891) keywords: able, america, been, before, chance, fruit, had, look, never, old, prematurely, rather, ripen, upon, vital, which , young The age I'm at now, you go from being a young girl to suddenly you blossom into a woman. You ripen, you know? And then you start to rot.
by Liv Tyler (Actor , born in 1975) keywords: age, being, blossom, girl, go, into, know, now, ripen, rot, start, suddenly, then, woman , young
