#ripen

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. ↗

— Liv Tyler

#being #blossom #girl #go #i

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

#could #definitely #did #even #feel

Minds ripen at very different ages. ↗

— Stevie Wonder

#different #different ages #minds #ripen #very

To 'choose' dogma and faith over doubt and experience is to throw out the ripening vintage and to reach greedily for the Kool-Aid. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#dogma #doubt #experience #faith #greedily

The wise man does not grow old, but ripens. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#grow #man #old #ripens #wise

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

#because #cannot #diligently #gather #grain

It is sad to grow old but nice to ripen. ↗

— Brigitte Bardot

#grow #nice #old #ripen #sad

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. ↗

— Galileo Galilei

#around #bunch #dependent #else #grapes

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. ↗

— Henry Miller

#america #been #before #chance #fruit

It says nothing against the ripeness of a spirit that it has a few worms. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#few #nothing #ripeness #says #spirit