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«It is sad to grow old but nice to ripen.»
Author: Brigitte Bardot (Actress, Model) | About: Age | Keywords: ripen, ripened, ripens
«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.»
«The Sun, with all the planets revolving around it, and depending on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as though it had nothing else in the Universe to do.»
«All fruits do not ripen in one season.»
Author: Laurie Junot | Keywords: ripen
«Minds ripen at very different ages.»
Author: Stevie Wonder (Musician, Singer, Songwriter) | About: Mind | Keywords: ages, ripen, ripened, ripens
«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.»
Author: Liv Tyler (Actress) | Keywords: blossom, ripen, rot, young girl
«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.»
Author: Epictetus | Keywords: fig, grapes, ripen
«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.»
«You mellow too much you ripen and rot»
«I don't respond well to mellow, you know what I mean, I-I have a tendency to... if I get too mellow, I-I ripen and then rot.»