Quotes by Ripening The Christian is like the ripening corn; the riper he grows the more lowly he bends his head. Alfred Bertram Guthrie ripening corn christian Schemes are like fruit, they require a certain ripening. George R. R. Martin ripening schemes fruit May I die like a dog rather than hasten the ripening of a sentence by a single second! Gustave Flaubert ripening dog may Gestation requires protected space; ripening requires both permeability to the outer — and non-disturbance. Jane Hirshfield gestation ripening space Nothing is finer for the purposes of great productions than a very gradual ripening of the intellectual powers. John Keats ripening purpose intellectual The whole world is one immense woman, and we are in her very womb, we are not yet born, we are joyfully ripening. Yevgeny Zamyatin ripening born world