I did not compose my work as one might put on a church vestment... rather it sprung from the truly fervent faith… — Franz Liszt Copy Share Image
The dumpling-eaters are a race sprung partly from the old Epicurean and partly from the Peripatetic Sect; they were first brought into… — John Arbuthnot Copy Share Image
America comes from a flawed but wonderful idea. Many great things have sprung forth over the past few hundred years but there… — Peter Buffett Copy Share Image
My love is like a red, red rose That's newly sprung in June: My love is like the melody That's sweetly played… — Robert Burns Copy Share Image
Despite those titles, power, and pelf, The wretch, concentred all in self, Living, shall forfeit fair renown, And, doubly dying, shall go… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
A court of heraldry sprung up to supply the place of crusade exploits, to grant imaginary shields and trophies to families that… — William Shenstone Copy Share Image
Secrets of the incomprehensible wisdom of God, unknown to any besides Himself! Man, sprung up only of a few days, wants to… — Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon Copy Share Image
No one really knows what mattresses are meant to gain from their lives either. They are large, friendly, pocket-sprung creatures that live… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
The wilderness is near as well as dear to every man. Even the oldest villages are indebted to the border of wild… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Those who actually set out to see the fall of a city or those who choose to go to a front line,… — James Fenton Copy Share Image
I have the words "Lose Well" on my shoulder. It's kind of a catchphrase that sprung up from my TV show at… — Chris Gethard Copy Share Image
When we affect to condemn savages, we should remember that by doing so we asperse our own progenitors; for they were savages… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Only he who can view his own past as an abortion sprung from compulsion and need can use it to full advantage… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
But the most horrible spot .... lies....immediately south west of Oxford Road and is known as Little Ireland. The race that lives… — Friedrich Engels Copy Share Image
There's this great fashion among writers, especially those who follow the transnational conservatives like V.S. Naipaul, to disavow one's place in the… — Karan Mahajan Copy Share Image
While [the Arians], like men sprung from a dunghill, truly "spoke from the earth" [Jn. 3:31], the bishops [of Nicea], not having… — Athanasius of Alexandria Copy Share Image
I like those fancy raincoats you bought. Really sprung for the big bucks. — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
When we have passed a certain age, the soul of the child we were and the souls of the dead from whom… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Its [the anthropological method] power to make us understand the roots from which our civilization has sprung, that it impresses us with… — Franz Boas Copy Share Image
Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast. If a man habituated to a narrow circle of cares and pleasures, out of which… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
And again it snowed, and again the sun came out. In the mornings on the way to the station Franklin counted the… — Steven Millhauser Copy Share Image
For a while the creative writing community sort of sprung out of places like Iowa and Syracuse. The graduates sort of went… — Ted Kooser Copy Share Image
The Scriptures obtain full authority among believers only when men regard them as having sprung from heaven, as if there the living… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
The all importance of clothes has sprung up in the intellect of the dandy without effort, like an instinct of genius; he… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
To the pilot of a deep sea submersible, upon finding out what would happen if the craft sprung a leak while submerged.… — Dan Rather Copy Share Image