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Quotes About Sprung

For I am yearning to visit the limits of the all-nurturing Earth, and Oceans, from whom the gods are sprung.
~ Homer
Confusion heard his voice, and wild uproar Stood ruled, stood vast infinitude confined; Till at his second bidding darkness fled, Light shone, and order from disorder sprung.
~ John Milton
Without understanding exactly how the trap got sprung, he can feel its teeth in him.
~ Joe Hill
An iron railroad would be a cheaper thing than a road of the common construction. Here lay in a few words the idea from which our railway system has sprung.
~ Andrew Carnegie
Confusion heard his voice, and wild uproar Stood ruled, stood vast infinitude confined; Till at his second bidding darkness fled, Light shone, and order from disorder sprung.
~ John Milton
The Beast had lurked indeed, and the Beast, at its hour, had sprung.
~ Henry James
Die Herren der Information haben die Poesie aus dem Auge verloren, wo Worte eine Bedeutung haben können, die sehr von der im Lexikon angegebenen abweicht, wo der metaphorische Funke der Dechiffrierfunktion immer einen Sprung voraus ist, wo eine andere, unerwartete Interpretation stets möglich ist.
~ J.M. Coetzee
When we have passed a certain age, the soul of the child we were and the souls of the dead from whom we have sprung come to lavish on us their riches and their spells.
~ Marcel Proust
As soon as the knowledge of the Reality has sprung up, there can be no fruits of past actions to be experienced, owing to the unreality of the body, in the same way as there can be no dream after waking.
~ Yogananda