Fertile Quotes

188 quotes by 170 authors

Even modern English people are imperious, superior, ridden by class. All of the hypocrisy and the difficulties that are endemic in being British also make… — Pete Townshend
Mars once was wet and fertile. It's now bone dry. Something bad happened on Mars. I want to know what happened on Mars so that… — Neil deGrasse Tyson
Your heart is full of fertile seeds, waiting to sprout. — Morihei Ueshiba
When more Americans prefer freebies to freedom, these great United States will become a fertile ground for tyranny. — Allen West
Almost any biographer, if he respects facts, can give us much more than another fact to add to our collection. He can give us the… — Virginia Woolf
It certainly would have been adaptive for ancestral man to have a chubby wife during stressful times of famine. Not only would she have had… — Helen Fisher
I often recall these words when I am writing, and I think to myself, â€œItâ€™s true. There arenâ€™t any new words. Our job is to… — Haruki Murakami
To preserve the silence within--amid all the noise. To remain open and quiet, a moist humus in the fertile darkness where the rain falls and… — Dag Hammarskjold
It is most certainly a good thing that the world knows only the beautiful opus but not its origins, not the conditions of its creation;… — Thomas Mann
Butterflies are but flowers that blew away one sunny day when Nature was feeling at her most inventive and fertile. — George Sand
In order for the wheel to turn, for life to be lived, impurities are needed, and the impurities of impurities in the soil, too, as… — Primo Levi
Over the millennia the seed of stories planted in the fertile soil of bits and scraps of facts was watered by wishes and began to… — Terry Goodkind
A mind without instruction can no more bear fruit than can a field, however fertile, without cultivation. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
The surface of Earth heaved and seethed in fecund restlessness. Earth was most fertile where the most death was. — Kurt Vonnegut
The franchise and the virus work on the same principle, what thrives in one place will thrive in another. You just have to find a… — Neal Stephenson
Perfectionism means that you try desperately not to leave so much mess to clean up. But clutter and mess show us that life is being… — Anne Lamott
The metaphor is probably the most fertile power possessed by man — Jose Ortega y Gasset
There had been a popular joke on Freedom, started by a man named Calder. Looking down from space, he had said, the dominant life forms… — Larry Niven
A man with a scant vocabulary will almost certainly be a weak thinker. The richer and more copious one's vocabulary and the greater one's awareness… — Henry Hazlitt
Come into our home, daughters of Earth; dwell in our tunnels, harvest our fields; what we cannot do, you are now our hands to do… — Orson Scott Card

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