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• I am involved in a lot of nonprofits. And when I reached the ripe old age of 60, I wanted to provide leadership to some I had been involved in.

  David Rubenstein

  Age, Nonprofits, Wanted

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• Purple as tulips in May, mauve into lush velvet, purple as the stain blackberries leave on the lips, on the hands, the purple of ripe grapes sunlit and warm as flesh.

  Marge Piercy

  Hands, Purple, Erotic

  Marge Piercy (2013). “Colors Passing Through Us”, p.132, Knopf

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• Men talk about Bible miracles because there is no miracle in their lives. Cease to gnaw that crust. There is ripe fruit over your head.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Miracle, Over You

  Henry David Thoreau, Odell Shepard (1961). “The Heart of Thoreau's Journals”, p.36, Courier Corporation

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• The world has more winnable people than ever before but it is possible to come out of a ripe field empty-handed.

  Donald McGannon

  People, World, Fields

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• Status is always ripe for satire, status is always good for comedy.

  Stephen Colbert

  Comedy, Satire

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. January 25, 2006.

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• It is almost always wrong that the time isn't ripe to decide something. That is always said of difficult problems.

  Chris Patten

  Problem, Said, Difficult

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• I would say that my peak was making my first million at the ripe age of 29, after the first album.

  Anita Baker

  Age, Albums, Firsts

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• So may'st thou live, till like ripe fruit thou drop Into thy mother's lap, or be with ease Gathered, not harshly plucked, for death mature: This is old age; but then thou must outlive Thy youth, thy strength, thy beauty, which will change To withered weak and grey.

  John Milton

  Mother, Age, Lap

  1665 Michael to Adam. Paradise Lost (published1667), bk.11, l.535-40.

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• The time is ripe, and rotten-ripe, for change.

  James Russell Lowell

  Society, Rotten

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.48

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• If the masses started to accept UFOs, it would profoundly affect their attitude towards life, politics, everything. It would threaten the status quo. Whenever people come to realize that there are larger considerations than their own petty lives, they are ripe to make radical changes on a personal level, which would eventually lead to a political revolution in society as a whole

  John Lennon

  Attitude, Political Revolution, People

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• Some things never leave a person:
  scent of the hair of one you love,
  the texture of persimmons,
  in your palm, the ripe weight.

  Li-Young Lee

  Hair, Texture, Weight

  Li-Young Lee (1986). “Rose: Poems”, p.19, BOA Editions, Ltd.

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• A thought falls like a ripe fruit from the tree of idleness.

  Natalie Clifford Barney

  Fall, Tree, Fruit

  Natalie Clifford Barney, Anna Livia (1992). “A Perilous Advantage: The Best of Natalie Clifford Barney”, p.119, New Victoria Publishers

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• Nothing shows one who his friends are like prosperity and ripe fruit.

  Charles Dudley Warner

  Friends, Fruit, Prosperity

  Charles Dudley Warner (1870). “My Summer in a Garden”, p.154

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

  George Herbert

  Foxes, Grapes

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.321

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• In my mind, I gave the woman gifts. I gave her a candle stub. I gave her a box of wooden kitchen matches. I gave her a cake of Lifebuoy soap. I gave her a ceilingful of glow-in-the-dark planets. I gave her a bald baby doll. I gave her a ripe fig, sweet as new wood, and a milkdrop from its stem. I gave her a peppermint puff. I gave her a bouquet of four roses. I gave her fat earthworms for her grave. I gave her a fish from Roebuck Lake, a vial of my sweat for it to swim in.

  Lewis Nordan

  Baby, Sweet, Dark

  Lewis Nordan (1992). “Music of the Swamp”, Algonquin Books

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• Otherwise I got out of bed on two strong legs. It might have been otherwise. I ate cereal, sweet milk, ripe, flawless peach. It might have been otherwise. I took the dog uphill to the birch wood. All morning I did the work I love. At noon I lay down with my mate. It might have been otherwise. We ate dinner together at a table with silver candlesticks. It might have been otherwise. I slept in a bed in a room with paintings on the walls, and planned another day just like this day. But one day, I know, it will be otherwise.

  Jane Kenyon

  Dog, Sweet, Strong

  Jane Kenyon (1996). “Otherwise: new and selected poems”, Graywolf Pr

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

  Aesop

  Grapes, Sour, Sour Grapes

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• There is ripe fruit over your head.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Over You, Fruit, Ripe Fruit

  Henry David Thoreau, Ronald A. Bosco (2005). “Nature's Panorama: Thoreau on the Seasons”, p.23, Univ of Massachusetts Press

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• As an apple is not in any proper sense an apple until it is ripe, so a human being is not in any proper sense a human being until he is educated.

  Horace Mann

  Education, Apples, Educated

  Horace Mann (1867). “Thoughts”, p.81

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• Oh, yesterday, that one, we all cry out. Oh, that one! How rich and possible everything was! How ripe, ready, lavish, and filled with excitement--how hopeful we were on those summer days, under the clean, white racing clouds. Oh, yesterday!

  Mary Oliver

  Summer, White, Yesterday

  Mary Oliver (2000). “Winter Hours: Prose, Prose Poems, and Poems”, p.28, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• If thou desire to see thy child virtuous, let him not see his father's vices: thou canst not rebuke that in them, that they behold practised in thee; till reason be ripe, examples direct more than precepts: such as thy behaviour is before thy children's faces, such commonly is theirs behind their parents' backs.

  Francis Quarles

  Children, Father, Parent

  "Enchiridion". Book by Francis Quarles. Book 3, XVIII, 1640-1641.

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• You want hot days to get your fruit ripe but then you want it to cool off nicely at night so that the grapes stay on the vine longer and develop complexity.

  Drew Bledsoe

  Night, Hot, Vines

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• Splendid cheeses they were, ripe and mellow, and with a two hundred horse-power scent about them that might have been warranted to carry three miles, and knock a man over at two hundred yards.

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Horse, Men, Two

  Jerome K. Jerome (2018). “Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog) (English French Edition illustrated): Trois Hommes dans un bateau(Anglais Français édition illustré)”, p.62, Clap Publishing, LLC.

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• When I was almost 13 I was ripe for religion. I was actually just plain ripe.

  Kathie Lee Gifford

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

  Scott Hastie

  Flower, Everyday, Extraordinary

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