Fountain Quotes
391 quotes by 320 authors
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Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig.
— Marcus Aurelius
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And I pray thee, loving Jesus, that as Thou hast graciously given me to drink in with delight the words of Thy knowledge, so Thou…
— Venerable Bede
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I'm a fountain of blood. In the shape of a girl.
— Bjork
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To find joy in work is to discover the fountain of youth.
— Pearl S. Buck
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Gentle reader, the Fountain of Youth is radioactive, and those who imbibe its poisonous heavy waters will suffer the hideous fate of decaying metal. Yet…
— William S. Burroughs
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A film is a petrified fountain of thought.
— Jean Cocteau
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As the valley gives height to the mountain, so can sorrow give meaning to pleasure; as the well is the source of the fountain, deep…
— William Arthur Ward
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Motherhood is the one thing in all the world which most truly exemplifies the God-given virtues of creating and sacrificing. Though it carries the woman…
— David O. McKay
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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
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Prayer is an all-efficient panoply, a treasure undiminished, a mine which is never exhausted, a sky unobscured by clouds, a heaven unruffled by the storm.…
— Saint John Chrysostom
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The stream of praying cannot rise higher than the fountain of living.
— Edward McKendree Bounds
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The world has never yet seen a truly great and virtuous nation, because in the degradation of women, the very fountains of life are poisoned…
— Lucretia Mott
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All through the deep blue night The fountain sang alone; It sang to the drowsy heart of the satyr carved in stone. The fountain sang…
— Sara Teasdale
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Land is not merely soil, it is a fountain of energy flowing through a circuit of soils, plants and animals.
— Aldo Leopold
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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…
— Nan Fairbrother
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There is a river in the ocean. In the severest droughts it never fails, and in the mightiest floods it never overflows. Its banks and…
— Matthew Fontaine Maury
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From the heart of this fountain of delights wells up some bitter taste to choke them even amid the flowers.
— Lucretius
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Happy in all that ragged, loose collapse of water, the fountain, its effortless descent and flatteries of spray...
— Richard Wilbur
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It is the property of things seen for the first time, or for the first time after long, like the flowers in spring, to reawaken…
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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The moral sense reappears today with the same morning newness that has been from of old the fountain of beauty and strength. You say there…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Who Wrote These Fountain Quotes
320 authors contributed a total of 391 Fountain Quotes, led by these top contributors: