Sap Quotes
120 quotes by 101 authors
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Now the heart is so full that a drop overfills it, We are happy now because God so wills it; No matter how barren the…
— James Russell Lowell
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Principles-and I have in mind such principles as states' rights or national sovereignty or the free market or pacifism-have a way of drying up while…
— Max Lerner
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Boredom dismantles the mind, renders it superficial, out at the seams, saps it from within and dislocates it.
— Emile M. Cioran
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Oh, would that my mind could let fall its dead ideas, as the tree does its withered leaves! And without too many regrets, if possible!…
— Andre Gide
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Humanity cherishes its swaddling clothes; but it shall not grow up unless it can free itself from them. Turning down his mother's breast does not…
— Andre Gide
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Energy in a nation is like sap in a tree; it rises from bottom up.
— Woodrow Wilson
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Some people imagine that by returning to tradition, you will renew it. This is not true, for by returning to tradition, you renew nothing. But…
— Jabra Ibrahim Jabra
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Each is under the most sacred obligation not to squander the material committed to him, not to sap his strength in folly and vice, and…
— Anna Julia Cooper
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The main stem was then in most cases twisted in a zigzag form, which process checked the flow of the sap, and at the same…
— Robert Fortune
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We all know that any thing which retards in any way the free circulation of the sap, also prevents to a certain extent the formation…
— Robert Fortune
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I like to take the time out to listen to the trees, much in the same way that I listen to a sea shell, holding…
— Madeleine L'Engle
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The painter or draftsman ought to be solitary, in order that the well-being of the body not sap the vigour of the mind.
— Leonardo da Vinci
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In New York and New England the sap starts up in the sugar maple the very day the bluebird arrives, and sugar-making begins forthwith. The…
— John Burroughs
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Idleness is emptiness; the tree in which the sap is stagnant, remains fruitless.
— Hosea Ballou
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What is undeniable is that when comforts and convenience sap our energies and idealism, inactivity secretes sloth in to our minds like a poison in…
— Os Guinness
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Pansies in soft April rains Fill their stalks with honeyed sap Drawn from Earth's prolific lap.
— Bayard Taylor
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A great deal of energy is lost in the study by people who interact with non-physical beings. They get into your mind and your body…
— Frederick Lenz
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This apple tree is not the first one I draw, but perhaps the thousandth. I feel the sap rise to its spreading branches. I feel…
— Frederick Franck
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We are earth's children, and life is the same in sap as in blood; all that the earth, our mother, feels and expresses to the…
— Alphonse de Lamartine
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What does the good ship bear so well? The cocoa-nut with its stony shell, And the milky sap of its inner cell.
— John Greenleaf Whittier
Who Wrote These Sap Quotes
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