quotes about Fountain
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Slang is a foul pool at which every dunce fills his bucket, and then sets up as a fountain.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
Cleanse the fountain if you would purify the streams.
-- Amos Bronson AlcottSource : Amos Bronson Alcott (1877). “Table-talk”
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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.
-- Ann-Marie MacDonaldSource : Ann-Marie MacDonald (2011). “Fall On Your Knees”, p.503, Simon and Schuster
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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.
-- Benjamin Hoff -
Yoga is the fountain of youth. You're only as young as your spine is flexible.
-- Bob Harper -
... 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.
-- Brenda Ueland -
You do not know what is in you - an inexhaustible fountain of ideas.
-- Brenda Ueland -
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My countrymen have commissioned a bust of the Republic. It will be placed on the fountain of my native town.
-- Camille Claudel -
If Christ were only a cistern we might soon exhaust his fullness but who can drain a fountain?
-- Charles Spurgeon -
I have to write a first draft with a fountain pen before I type it up as a second.
-- Colm Toibin -
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Creation differs from subsistence only as the first leap of a fountain differs from its continuance.
-- Coventry Patmore -
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.
-- D. A. Carson -
To participate in mission is to participate in the movement of God's love toward people, since God is a fountain of sending love.
-- David Bosch -
I discovered something amazing, which has caused a lot of controversy - the fountain of youth. I have to keep it a secret!
-- David Copperfield -
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Talent is full of thoughts, Genius is thought. Talent is a cistern, Genius a fountain.
-- Edwin Percy Whipple -
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.
-- Gardiner Spring -
The fountain is my speech. The tulips are my speech. The grass and trees are my speech.
-- George T. Delacorte, Jr. -
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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.
-- Giordano Bruno -
That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain.
-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -
Regeneration is the fountain; sanctification is the river.
-- J. Sidlow Baxter -
For tradition to be alive it has to be allowed to be a fountain of power for things undreamt of, things to come.
-- Jabra Ibrahim Jabra -
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My pen is an artery, my heart is a fountain
-- Jay Electronica -
The Ramones own the fountain of youth. Experiencing us is like having the fountain of youth.
-- Joey Ramone -
He [William Harvey] bid me to goe to the Fountain-head, and read Aristotle, Cicero, Avicenna, and did call the Neoteriques shitt-breeches.
-- John AubreySource : John Aubrey (1957). “Brief lives”
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Hush! With sudden gush As from a fountain sings in yonder bush The Hermit Thrush.
-- John B. Tabb -
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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.
-- John Muir -
The Bible is the fountain of truth.
-- Joseph Franklin RutherfordSource : Joseph Franklin Rutherford (1928). “Reconciliation: a plain statement of the gracious provision Jehovah has made to bring all men into full harmony with Himself that the obedient ones may have everlasting life on earth in contentment and complete happiness”
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Bodybuilding is the closest we have to the fountain of youth.
-- Lee Labrada -
The bible is a remarkable fountain: the more one draws and drinks of it, the more it stimulates thirst.
-- Martin LutherSource : Martin Luther (1959). “What Luther says: an anthology”, Concordia
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When you're talking to the media, be a well, not a fountain.
-- Michael Deaver -
The pitcher goes so often to the fountain that if gets broken.
-- Miguel de Cervantes -
The hardest of all is learning to be a well of affection, and not a fountain, to show them that we love them, not when we feel like it, but when they do....
-- Nan FairbrotherSource : Nan Fairbrother (1954). “An English Year”
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No fountain so small but that Heaven may be imaged in its bosom.
-- Nathaniel Hawthorne -
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Water from a fountain quenches the excessive heat which would destroy this life. Thus water can be called the only everlasting source of continuous being.
-- Nicola Salvi -
Discontent is like ink poured into water, which fills the whole fountain full of blackness.
-- Owen Feltham -
Be like the fountain that overflows, not like the cistern that merely contains.
-- Paulo Coelho -
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There is a fountain inside you. Don't walk around with an empty bucket.
-- Rumi -
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.
-- Simon Mainwaring -
Friendship flourishes at the fountain of forgiveness.
-- William Arthur Ward -
The cistern contains: The fountain overflows.
-- William Blake -
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Fountains are more romantic when you don't hate the person you're with.
-- Dov Davidoff -
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.
-- Tom Tryon -
[Rubinstein was] a fountain from which music spouted, not a recitalist.
-- Donal Henahan -
Professional footballers - those virile young stags of our modern culture - are near perpetual fountains of sputum.
-- Frank Skinner -