Fertile Quotes

188 Fertile quotes by 170 unique authors

Each new generation asks – What is the meaning of life? A more fertile way of putting the question would be – Why does man… — Peter Wessel Zapffe
Yours is a race whose imagination is limited to its own small appetites. Greed, lust, envy - these are the motivating forces of humankind. What… — David Gemmell
If you go searching for the Great Creator, you will come back empty-handed. The source of the universe is ultimately unknowable, a great invisible river… — Laozi
To exact of every man who writes that he should say something new, would be to reduce authors to a small number; to oblige the… — Samuel Johnson
Even though one is well advanced in virtue, should he stop mortifying himself, he soon would lose his modesty and virtue - just as fertile… — John Climacus
Service-learning is a particularly fertile way of involving young people in community service, because it ties helping others to what they are learning in the… — Colin Powell
Gratitude. More aware of what you have than what you don't. Recognizing the treasure in the simple - a child's hug, fertile soil, a golden… — Max Lucado
If menopause is the silent passage, 'male menopause' is the unspeakable passage. It is fraught with secrecy, shame, and denial. It is much more fundamental… — Gail Sheehy
The secret of good teaching is to regard the child's intelligence as a fertile field in which seeds may be sown, to grow under the… — Maria Montessori
With wrong farming methods, we turn fertile land into desert. Unless we go back to organic farming and save the soil, there is no future. — Jaggi Vasudev
Creativity arises from a constant churn of ideas, and one of the easiest ways to encourage that fertile froth is to keep your mind engaged… — Gretchen Rubin
Why does no one speak of the cultural advantages of the country? For example, is a well groomed, ecologically kept, sustainably fertile farm any less… — Gene Logsdon
Yet, upon the whole, the space I traversed is unlikely to become the haunt of civilized man, or will only become so in isolated spots,… — Charles Sturt
Tilling the fertile soil of man's vanity. — Ellen Glasgow
The fact is that writing, like any creative undertaking, carries with it both pain and great joy. The pain is often inherent in the most… — Judith Barrington
I ask the reader to remember that what is most obvious may be most worthy of analysis. Fertile vistas may open out when commonplace facts… — Lancelot Law Whyte
Life is in short cycles or periods; we are quickly tired, but we have rapid rallies. A man is spent by his work, starved, prostrate;… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
When one speaks of humanity, the idea is fundamental that this is something which separates and distinguishes man from nature. In reality, however, there is… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Rumi is astounding, fertile, abundant, almost more an excitable library of poetry than a person. — Robert Bly
It is a great thing to have a big brain, a fertile imagination, grand ideals, but the man with these, bereft of a good backbone,… — George Matthew Adams
Untilled soil, however fertile it may be, will bear thistles and thorns; so it is with man's mind. — Teresa of Avila
Heartache is very fertile ground for song-making but so is happiness, so is absolute bliss. — K D Lang
We are at last on the high lands of Mexico, the districts which at least three different races have chosen to settle in, neglecting the… — Edward Burnett Tylor
I'm amazed at how much my writing is improved when I step away from the computer, even in small amounts. If I'm stuck, I vacuum… — Donald Miller
All writers have roots they draw from - travel, work, family. My roots are in science and it is fertile ground for fiction. — Alan Lightman

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