Best 87 quotes in «fountain quotes» category

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.

Joy bubbles on a fountain of doubt.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

Regeneration is the fountain; sanctification is the river.

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

Seeing the show is like a visit to the fountain of youth for parents and the children.

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

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.

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

Slang is a foul pool at which every dunce fills his bucket, and then sets up as a fountain.

Talent is full of thoughts, Genius is thought. Talent is a cistern, Genius a fountain.

The Bible is endlessly interesting because it is God's story, and God by nature is himself endlessly interesting. The Bible is an ever-flowing fountain. The more you read it, the more you find its truth and beauty to be inexhaustible.

The bible is a remarkable fountain: the more one draws and drinks of it, the more it stimulates thirst.

The Bible is the fountain of truth.

The cistern contains: The fountain overflows.

The Creator, the fountain of all wisdom, the approver of perpetual order, the eternal and superessential spring of geometry and harmonics.

The fact is, we are leaky vessels, and we have to keep right under the fountain all the time to keep full of Christ, and so have fresh supply.

That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain.

The feminine values are the fountain of bliss. Know the masculine, Keep to the feminine.

The heart is the real fountain of youth.

The pitcher goes so often to the fountain that if gets broken.

The Ramones own the fountain of youth. Experiencing us is like having the fountain of youth.

There is a fountain filled with blood drawn from Immanuel's Veins. And those plunged beneath that watery grave to drink of His blood will never be the same.

The fountain is my speech. The tulips are my speech. The grass and trees are my speech.

The Fountain of Youth is in your mind.

The stream of praying cannot rise higher than the fountain of living.

The true leader must submerge himself in the fountain of the people.

There's like this great thing that Bette Davis said when someone asked her, "How do you get into Hollywood?" "Take Fountain!

To participate in mission is to participate in the movement of God's love toward people, since God is a fountain of sending love.

Wit is an intermittent fountain; kindness is a perennial spring.

Unfortunately complaining is one thing Eeyores are not afraid to do. They grudgingly carry their thimbles to the Fountain of Life, then mumble and grumble that they weren't given enough.

We are not fountains ourselves; but the Word of God is the true fountain.

We shall quench our thirst, for we shall drink deep at the bubbling fountain of Wisdom.

What is sure is that technological change is accelerating in all directions and, like children playing in a fountain, consumers are reveling in the experience.

[When asked if the voice is an instrument:] Yes, of course. Some are violins, some are fountain pens and some are stethoscopes. And others are just washboards.

A girl, hardly ten, holding a Barbie doll by its hair, bent over the edge of the fountain, sprinkled her face and forearms, and stared to the side for a moment as Piccoletto, who was also seated on the edge of the fountain, his legs outspread, chewing at his silver crucifix, pulled off his socks. The girl stared long into his leg holes at his balls hanging from his baggy yellow underwear and at the creased foreskin draped over the head of his large member.

... the spirit, I think, is a stream, a fountain, and must be continually poured out, for only if it is poured out will more and clearer streams come.

Few people know so clearly what they want. Most people can't even think what to hope for when they throw a penny in a fountain. Almost no one gets a chance to alter the course of human events on purpose, in the exact same way they wish for it to be altered.

Cos'è che vogliono? Si rendono conto di essere vivi? Come se la prolungata e intensa esposizione alla morte fosse la condizione necessaria per partecipare appieno della propria vita.

Alla gente tutta quella falsità non fa né caldo né freddo, forse perché l'ininterrotta propaganda commerciale della vita americana le ha instillato soglie eccezionalmente alte di tolleranza per le simulazioni, le gonfiature, le distorsioni, le stronzate e le vere e proprie menzogne, in altre parole per la pubblicità in ogni sua forma.