Ripeness Quotes

WITHOUT the flowers, the plant yields no fruit. Without the emerging fruit, ripeness cannot happen. - Sri Sathya Sai Baba

The West is color. Its colors are animal rather than vegetable, the colors of earth and sunlight and ripeness. - Jessamyn West

My aim is for ripeness of form. I want to make my forms so full, so juicy that one could add nothing more to them. - Henri Laurens

Men must endure, their going hence even as their coming hither. Ripeness is all. - William Shakespeare

It says nothing against the ripeness of a spirit that it has a few worms. - Friedrich Nietzsche

God gives us love. Something to love/ He lends us; but, when love is grown/ To ripeness that on which it throve/ Falls off, and love is left alone. - Alfred Lord Tennyson

Genius has no youth, but starts with the ripeness of age and old experience. - Mark Twain