Best 87 quotes in «fountain quotes» category

O, how wonderful is the human voice! It is indeed the organ of the soul! The intellect of man sits enthroned visibly upon his forehead and in his eye; and the heart of man is written upon his countenance. But the soul reveals itself in the voice only; as God revealed himself to the prophet of old in the still, small voice; and in a voice from the burning bush. The soul of man is audible, not visible. A sound alone betrays the flowing of the eternal fountain, invisible to man!

Siamo tutti bravi a chiacchierare, questo l'ho capito, ma adesso basta. Siamo tutti bravi a chiacchierare m a l'unica voce che conta è quella dei soldi, il nostro paese è questo, ragazzi. E io ho paura per questo paese. Penso che dovremmo avere tutti paura per questo paese.

Se una pallottola ti deve colpire, è già stata sparata.

Spring is the fountain of love for thirsty winter

College is like a fountain of knowledge - and the students are there to drink

They had crossed the terrace where weeds, ivy, and goldenrod had run amuck in the flowerbeds that lined the weather-beaten stone balustrade. Mounds of blue hydrangeas nearly as tall as Lucien crowded the three mossy steps that led down into the formal garden. He went down them, and Alice followed him toward the circular fountain. As they approached, two doves that had perched on the stately stone fountain urn fluttered away, cooing. Alice stopped beside the fountain pool and gazed down with a faraway expression at the lily pads, driven with dreamlike slowness over the surface of the shallow water like tiny sailing vessels. She studied the scene as though memorizing it, while Lucien gazed at her, watching the wind toy with her clothes and the tendrils of her hair that it had worked free from her neat coif. Her waving red-gold hair, blue eyes, and ivory skin, and the chaste, faraway serenity of her face, put him in mind of Botticelli's Venus, rising from the sea upon her scallop shell.

A film is a petrified fountain of thought.

Be like the fountain that overflows, not like the cistern that merely contains.

The heavenly Father is the fountain of all living water.

The speech of God’s beautiful woman is a fountain of life to those around her.

And in the fountain squatted a giant crab. I’m not talking ‘giant’ like $7.99 all-you-can-eat Alaskan king crab. I’m talking ‘giant’ like bigger than the fountain.

A woman moved is like a fountain troubled, Muddy, ill-seeming, thick, bereft of beauty.

Cleanse the fountain if you would purify the streams.

Conceiving God to be the fountain of wisdom, I thought it right and necessary to solicit his assistance for obtaining it.

Creation differs from subsistence only as the first leap of a fountain differs from its continuance.

Draw nigh to God, and He will draw nigh to you. Keep near to the fountain-head and with joy shall ye draw water out of the wells of salvation.

Discontent is like ink poured into water, which fills the whole fountain full of blackness.

Do not spit gum in the drinking fountains.

Every sunny morning is a great fountain; we quaff 'sweet hope' from it.

Faith is the fountain, the foundation and the fosterer of obedience.

He [William Harvey] bid me to goe to the Fountain-head, and read Aristotle, Cicero, Avicenna, and did call the Neoteriques shitt-breeches.

For know that all the inferior Creatures when hurt do cry and send forth the complaints to their Maker or grand Fountain whence they proceeded.

Greece appears to be the fountain of knowledge; Rome of elegance

He who has access to the fountain does not go to the water-pot.

Fountains are more romantic when you don't hate the person you're with.

Friendship flourishes at the fountain of forgiveness.

God is the universal substance in existing things. He comprises all things. He is the fountain of all being. In Him exists everything that is.

He is a perpetual fountain of good sense.

If God contains the fullness of all good things in Himself like an inexhaustible fountain, nothing beyond Him is to be sought by those who strike after the highest good and all the elements of happiness.

Hope is a gift. You can't choose to have it. To believe and yet to have no hope is to thirst beside a fountain.

I don't want anything to do with anything mechanical between me and the paper, including a typewriter, and I don't even want a fountain pen between me and the paper.

I have to write a first draft with a fountain pen before I type it up as a second.

Joy bubbles on a fountain of doubt.

It is one of the worst effects of prosperity to make a man a vortex instead of a fountain; so that, instead of throwing out, he learns only to draw in.

Let's face it, I like Stanford grads. I'd always hear about this campus, and everybody is riding bikes, and people hopping into fountains.

My countrymen have commissioned a bust of the Republic. It will be placed on the fountain of my native town.

May God keep fresh the fountain of our laughter and our tears!

Mathematics - the unshaken Foundation of Sciences, and the plentiful Fountain of Advantage to human affairs.

My counsel is, that we draw water from the true source and fountain, that is, that we diligently search the Scriptures. He who wholly possesses the text of the Bible, is a consummate divine.

Of all the animals, the boy is the most unmanageable, inasmuch as he has the fountain of reason in him not yet regulated.

Now to rivulets from the mountains Point the rods of fortune-tellers; Youth perpetual dwells in fountains, Not in flasks, and casks, and cellars.

Nature as a poet, an enthusiastic workingman, becomes more and more visible the farther and higher we go; for the mountains are fountains – beginning places, however related to sources beyond mortal ken.

Our neighbors shake their heads And take their valuables inside While my countrymen piss in the fountains To express their national pride.

Right after I did 'The Fountain,' I wanted to go make a documentary or something that was less constructed - more natural. I was searching for a project, and sniffing around, 'The Wrestler' fit right in

Phones and soundtracks and Muzak and fountains replace genuine and unpredictable human contact with a seamless soundtrack from a bad movie and a cliche that makes us believe we must all be happy.

Regeneration is the fountain; sanctification is the river.

Paris is the fountain-head of European civilisation, as Gomukhi is of the Ganga.

Professional footballers - those virile young stags of our modern culture - are near perpetual fountains of sputum.

Quoting Scripture leads you to the fountain, but only if you plunge in and come up wet will I know that you are a Christian.

Religion will prove to the believer a comforter and a sure guide to the fountain of true happiness.