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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.

Galileo Galilei

This bud of love, by summer's ripening breath, May prove a beauteous flower when next we meet.

William Shakespeare

You don't want to pick grapes and have some of the earlier ripening mixed with the higher ripening, because you might get a blend of average. You want to pick all of them at their optimum maturity.

Daniel Bosch

Private equity has the money waiting to be spent and an industry ripening for that kind of activism.

Richard Spitzer

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.

Cyrano De Bergerac

You cannot pick the fruit and let it ripen later. That is when the flavor is lost.

José Roberto Prado

Frigidity is largely nonsense. It is this generation's catchword, one only vaguely understood and constantly misused. Frigid women are few. There is a host of diffident and slow-ripening ones.

Phyllis Mcginley

It is sad to grow old but nice to ripen.

Brigitte Bardot

The conditions are ideal. The grapes don't have to ripen as long, which makes the cool temperatures perfect for them.

Andy Walker

This is an issue that is clearly starting to ripen almost as we speak.

Dave Osiecki

Your face encompasses the beauty of the whole earth. Your lips, as red as ripening fruit, gently part as if in pain. It is the smile of a corpse. Now the hand of death touches life. The chain is forged that links the thousand families that are dead to the thousand generations to come.

Edvard Munch