Sprung Quotes

103 quotes by 94 authors

Everything is becoming science fiction. From the margins of an almost invisible literature has sprung the intact reality of the 20th century. — J. G. Ballard
'Cause your love got the best of me, and baby you're making a fool of me. You got me sprung and i don't care who… — Beyonce Knowles
Secrets of the incomprehensible wisdom of God, unknown to any besides Himself! Man, sprung up only of a few days, wants to penetrate, and to… — Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon
Nothing great or enduring, especially in music, has ever sprung full-fledged and unprecedented from the brain of any master; the best he gives to the… — James Weldon Johnson
Ambition first sprung from your blest abodes: the glorious fault of angels and of gods. — Alexander Pope
For I am yearning to visit the limits of the all-nurturing Earth, and Oceans, from whom the gods are sprung. — Homer
It seems that, after nineteen centuries of extraordinary glorification, the small Host for which so many cathedrals have sprung up, the small Host that has… — Francois Mauriac
Those who actually set out to see the fall of a city or those who choose to go to a front line, are obviously asking… — James Fenton
While [the Arians], like men sprung from a dunghill, truly "spoke from the earth" [Jn. 3:31], the bishops [of Nicea], not having invented their phrases… — Athanasius of Alexandria
Its [the anthropological method] power to make us understand the roots from which our civilization has sprung, that it impresses us with the relative value… — Franz Boas
Orpheus with his lute made trees, And the mountain tops that freeze, Bow themselves, when he did sing; To his music, plants and flowers Ever… — William Shakespeare
He with a graceful pride, While his rider every hand survey'd, Sprung loose, and flew into an escapade; Not moving forward, yet with every bound… — John Dryden
I pulled out the manuscript [from the envelope] and a great big stiff cardboard finger sprung up. This is someone that was so certain they… — Gardner Dozois
Breathes there the man, with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land! Whose heart hath ne'er… — Walter Scott
The "germ," wherever gathered, has ever been for me, "the germ of a story," and most of the stories strained to shape under my hand… — Henry James
There must be what Mr. Gladstone many years ago called a blessed act of oblivion. We must all turn our backs upon the horrors of… — Winston Churchill
Innumerable times a whole Christian community has broken down because it had sprung from a wish dreamâ€¦ Every human wish dream that is injected into… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
If there is one place on the face of the earth where all the dreams of living men have found a home from the very… — Romain Rolland
The Scriptures obtain full authority among believers only when men regard them as having sprung from heaven, as if there the living words of God… — John Calvin
Hope has never trickled down, it has always sprung up. — Naomi Klein

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