Sap Quotes

120 quotes by 101 authors

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
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
Boredom dismantles the mind, renders it superficial, out at the seams, saps it from within and dislocates it. — Emile M. Cioran
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
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
Energy in a nation is like sap in a tree; it rises from bottom up. — Woodrow Wilson
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Idleness is emptiness; the tree in which the sap is stagnant, remains fruitless. — Hosea Ballou
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
Pansies in soft April rains Fill their stalks with honeyed sap Drawn from Earth's prolific lap. — Bayard Taylor
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
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
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
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

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