Ripened Quotes

We cannot see things that stare us in the face until the hour comes that the mind is ripened. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

We accept it because we have seen the vision. We know that we cannot reap the harvest, but we hope that we may so well prepare the land and so diligently sow the seed that our successors may gather the ripened grain. - Liberty Hyde Bailey

Some of the conditions that have ripened the growth outlook at the start of 2006 are unlikely to last into spring. Abnormally warm weather boosted construction activity in December. ... Judging by a 46,000 gain in construction employment in January, the winter 2006 will go down as an unusually early and strong period for building activity. - Steven Wieting

Sentiment is the ripened fruit of fantasy. - Madame Belazy

One in whom persuasion and belief
Had ripened into faith, and faith become
A passionate intuition. - William Wordsworth

I've noticed a growth in Spike and definitely in myself. I feel like the seeds that he planted in me five years ago have ripened up to a place where I could even tackle this role in the way that I did. - Rosario Dawson

Is the parent better than the child into whom he has cast his ripened being? Whence, then, this worship of the past? - Ralph Waldo Emerson

In the course of her education she had gone through the history usually put into the hands of young people... now her ripened reason gave to her present study at least the advantage of novelty. - Charlotte Smith

Great men are but common men more fully developed and ripened. - Orison Swett Marden