Fountains Quotes
55 quotes by 48 authors
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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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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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Well, we've made some changes on this tour. We're no longer sleeping in the parking lots and swimming in the fountains. We've been staying in…
— Bill Walton
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You are quaffing drink from a hundred fountains: whenever any of these hundred yields less, your pleasure is diminished. But when the sublime fountain gushes…
— Rumi
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If we learn to love the earth, we will find labyrinths, gardens, fountains and precious jewels! A whole new world will open itself to us.…
— Teresa of Avila
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Graze on my lips; and if those hills be dry, stray lower, where the pleasant fountains lie.
— William Shakespeare
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Michelle Alexander's brave and bold new book paints a haunting picture in which dreary felon garb, post-prison joblessness, and loss of voting rights now do…
— Lani Guinier
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Revival, as contrasted with a Holy Ghost atmosphere is a clean- cut breakthrough of the Spirit, a sweep of Holy Ghost power, bending the hearts…
— Norman Grubb
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For more than twenty years by my own work and personal initiative, I have gathered from all the old streets of Vieux Paris photographic plates,…
— Eugene Atget
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The true fountains of evidence [are] the head and heart of every rational and honest man. It is there nature has written her moral laws,…
— Thomas Jefferson
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The Italian landscape has always harmonized the vulgar and the Vitruvian: the contorni around the duomo, the portiere'S laundry across the padrone's portone, Supercortemaggiore against…
— Robert Venturi
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I have seen in many places housing which has been developed under government influences, but I have never seen any projects in which governments have…
— John F. Kennedy
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Meanwhile, let us have a sip of tea. The afternoon glow is brightening the bamboos, the fountains are bubbling with delight, the soughing of the…
— Okakura Kakuzo
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When the fountains of government [borrowing] abundance began to dry up, when through lack of funds and the impossibility of negotiating fresh loans the state…
— John T. Flynn
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Every optimist moves along with progress and hastens it, while every pessimist would keep the worlds at a standstill. The consequence of pessimism in the…
— Helen Keller
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[Be grateful for the simple things in life. Don't take them for granted. After all...] What would a blind man give to see the pleasant…
— Izaak Walton
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Because many advances have happened, we've lost the urgency (and that's just human nature) that we had before, when we couldn't vote, couldn't use mass…
— Spike Lee
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We are not fountains ourselves; but the Word of God is the true fountain.
— Dwight L. Moody
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The problem of birth control and voluntary barrenness is poisoning the very fountains of life and defying God's injunction to multiply and replenish the earth.
— Hugh B. Brown
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Do not spit gum in the drinking fountains.
— Dave Barry
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