Fountain Quotes

In the desert, the only god is a well.

He [William Harvey] bid me to goe to the Fountain-head, and read Aristotle, Cicero, Avicenna, and did call the Neoteriques shitt-breeches.

Paris is the fountain-head of European civilisation, as Gomukhi is of the Ganga.

May God keep fresh the fountain of our laughter and our tears!

Quoting Scripture leads you to the fountain, but only if you plunge in and come up wet will I know that you are a Christian.

Slang is a foul pool at which every dunce fills his bucket, and then sets up as a fountain.

When we talk of leaving our childhood behind us, we might as well say that the river flowing onward to the sea had left the fountain behind.

I've learned one thing about life. We're a good deal like that ball, dancing on the fountain. We know as little about the forces that move us, and move the world around us, as that empty ball does.

Conceiving God to be the fountain of wisdom, I thought it right and necessary to solicit his assistance for obtaining it.

Unfortunately complaining is one thing Eeyores are not afraid to do. They grudgingly carry their thimbles to the Fountain of Life, then mumble and grumble that they weren't given enough.

Dread not events unknown, and be not downhearted, for the fountain of the water of life is involved in obscurity.

... the spirit, I think, is a stream, a fountain, and must be continually poured out, for only if it is poured out will more and clearer streams come.

You Do Not Know Is in You— an Inexhaustible Fountain of Ideas. Another reason for writing a diary is to discover that the ideas in you are an inexhaustible fountain.

There cannot be heaven without Christ. He is the sum total of bliss; the fountain from which heaven flows, the element of which heaven is composed. Christ is heaven and heaven is Christ.

What is pink? A rose is pink By the fountain's brink.

'La Dolce Vita' made we want to go to Rome and, if not jump into the Trevi Fountain, at least watch someone else do it. Maybe that's why I married an Italian...!

I think that when Evel Knievel crashed over the fountain at Caesars, it kind of gave you a credibility and then anticipation for everything he did.

Teachers are no longer the fountain of knowledge; the internet is.

[Rubinstein was] a fountain from which music spouted, not a recitalist.

Fountains are more romantic when you don't hate the person you're with.

The night is given to us to take breath, to pray, to drink deep at the fountain of power.

Life is fountain of joy; but where the rabble also gather to drink, all wells are poisoned.

Draw nigh to God, and He will draw nigh to you. Keep near to the fountain-head and with joy shall ye draw water out of the wells of salvation.

The fountain is my speech. The tulips are my speech. The grass and trees are my speech.

I cannot conceive a rank more honorable, than that which flows from the uncorrupted choice of a brave and free people, the purest source and original fountain of all power.

Writing for young readers is almost like dipping into a fountain of youth; for hours a day, I am a child again.

The cry for love and communion and for recognition that rises from the hearts of people in need reveals the fountain of love in us and our capacity to give life.

The blood, the fountain whence the spirits flow The generous stream that waters every part, And motion, vigor, and warm life conveys To every particle that moves or lives.

He is a perpetual fountain of good sense.

I write with a fountain pen. And then revise word by word and line by line so that the first draft of a scene is usually the tenth or so draft.

When I was born there were still different drinking fountains you had to drink out of.

He who has access to the fountain does not go to the water-pot.

If you think success is about so many more things and is so much more arbitrary, then you can be much more open to the idea that you can be Ben Fountain and publish your great book at forty-nine.

Dig inside. Inside is the fountain of good, and it will forever flow, if you will forever dig.

None of us can have as many virtues as the fountain-pen, or half its cussedness; but we can try.

My counsel is, that we draw water from the true source and fountain, that is, that we diligently search the Scriptures. He who wholly possesses the text of the Bible, is a consummate divine.

When you hear the voice of Rosa Ponselle, you hear a fountain of melody blessed by the Lord.

Every sunny morning is a great fountain; we quaff 'sweet hope' from it.

When you're talking to the media, be a well, not a fountain.

We are slowly isolating the genes involved with the aging process. We do not have the fountain of youth, but I think, in the coming decades, we will unravel the aging process at the genetic level.

When you drink water, don't forget the fountain.

Fancy restrained may be compared to a fountain, which plays highest by diminishing the aperture.

Deliver me from the long drought of the mind. Let leaves from the deciduous Cross fall on us, washing us clean, turning our autumn to gold by the affluence of their fountain.

Mind is blocking the fountain of intelligence like a rock.

And in the fountain squatted a giant crab. I’m not talking ‘giant’ like $7.99 all-you-can-eat Alaskan king crab. I’m talking ‘giant’ like bigger than the fountain.

Exercise is roughly the only equivalent of a fountain of youth that exists today, and its free to everyone.

The fountain of contentment must spring up in the mind.

The fountain of youth is like the monkeys paw in the W. W. Jacobs story. It never ends well.

The musings are the same I believe the fire to create burns so heavily that I am never far from a guitar or a fountain pen.

What is sure is that technological change is accelerating in all directions and, like children playing in a fountain, consumers are reveling in the experience.