Are you green and growing or ripe and rotting?
Ray Kroc

As long as you're green, you're growing. As soon as you're ripe, you start to rot.
Ray Kroc

But I think it's a little different in Europe, because 40 is really the best age for a woman. That's when we hit our peak and become this ripe fruit.
Juliette Binoche

By 3000 B.C. the art of Egypt was so ripe and so far advanced that it is surprising to find any student of early culture proposing that the crude contemporary art of the early Babylonians is the product of a civilization earlier than that of the Nile.
James H. Breasted

Conditions are ripe for triumph. We will win. And we will wield great power here.
Daniel Ortega

Everything vanishes around me, and works are born as if out of the void. Ripe, graphic fruits fall off. My hand has become the obedient instrument of a remote will.
Paul Klee

Having proceeded to this length, for which they are now ripe, we shall have a formidable rebellion against reason, the principle of all government, and against the very name of liberty.
Henry Knox

I can't discriminate? Oh, that's ripe, coming from a straight white man. What's the matter, baby doesn't feel like he belongs? Well why don't you try a place that was set up just for you? Like the world!
Lea DeLaria

I don't tap dance, and I don't think you can learn to tap dance in three weeks at my ripe old age.
Huey Lewis

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

I'm going to buy some green bananas because by the time I get home they'll be ripe.
Ryan Stiles

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

Just call me a family man and an actor who digs his whole scene, side interests and all. Just say I feel mighty good at the ripe old age of 27.
Bobby Darin

No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution.
Niccolo Machiavelli

Personality is only ripe when a man has made the truth his own.
Soren Kierkegaard

The day of fortune is like a harvest day, We must be busy when the corn is ripe.
Torquato Tasso

The earth is ready, the time is ripe, for the authoritative expression of the feminine as well as the masculine interpretation of that common social consensus which is slowly writing justice in the State and fraternity in the social order.
Anna Garlin Spencer

The fact is I am not having sex. But I feel absolutely ripe for the, what would you say? plucking?
Angelina Jolie

The moment is ripe for an experienced businessman to talk practical, prudent economics to the electorate - which is why Mitt Romney's political fortunes are steadily being resurrected from the grave.
Camille Paglia

The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall.
Che Guevara