Fertile Quotes

188 quotes by 170 authors

Immigrants are more fertile, and they love families, and they have more intact families, and they bring a younger population. Immigrants create an engine of… — Jeb Bush
A large proportion of mankind, like pigeons and partridges, on reaching maturity, having passed through a period of playfulness or promiscuity, establish what they hope… — C. D. Darlington
Memory, when duly impregnated with ascertained facts, is sometimes surprisingly fertile. — George Eliot
After all the fertile land in the immediate neighbourhood of the first settlers were cultivated, if capital and population increased, more food would be required,… — David Ricardo
Between gods and men, territories are set up. At least in the no-manâ€™s land of the heights of heaven, the depths of hell, and inside… — Luce Irigaray
All children start their school careers with sparkling imaginations, fertile minds, and a willingness to take risks with what they think, — Ken Robinson
If we carry this line of argument to its logical conclusion, the meaning of life consists of the flaws in one's conceptions and what one… — George Soros
It's what each of us sows, and how, that gives us character and prestige. Seeds of kindness, goodwill, and human understanding, planted in fertile soil,… — George Matthew Adams
I think genetic research is a fascinating and fertile area. — Katherine Dunn
Supposing I said there was a planet without schools or teachers, where study was unknown, and yet the inhabitants -- doing nothing but live and… — Maria Montessori
Wherever you have weakening states and turmoil, you will have a fertile petri dish for terrorism. — Robert D. Kaplan
What once seemed such a curse has become a blessing. All the agony that threatened to destroy my life now seems like the fertile ground… — Henri Nouwen
I can hardly believe that the South and North can live in peace, unless we can get rid of the negroes ... I believe that… — Abraham Lincoln
Woman possesses the cosmic force of an element, an invincible force of destruction, like nature's. She is, in herself alone, all nature! Being the matrix… — Octave Mirbeau
Irene Diamond's Fertile Ground is a provocative book. It stirs me to vigorous assent. It also triggers wide-eyed disbelief. . . . As it prods… — Janet Lembke
Why do we keep believing that we can control nature,even as it banishes us repeatedly from our homes in search of new fertile ground? — Maria Rodale
The best stock a man can invest in, is the stock of a farm; the best shares are plow shares; and the best banks are… — Henry Ward Beecher
It was not the visible sun, but its invisible Creator who consecrated this day for us, when the Virgin Mother, fertile of womb and integral… — Saint Augustine
This homage has been rendered not to me - for the Polish soil is fertile and does not lack better writers than me - but… — Henryk Sienkiewicz
The most fertile districts of the habitable globe are now actually cultivated by men for animals, at a delay and waste of aliment absolutely incapable… — Percy Bysshe Shelley

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