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Quotes About Fountain

But aren't all great quests folly? El Dorado and the Fountain of Youth and the search for intelligent life in the cosmos-- we know what's out there. It's what isn't that truly compels us.
~ Jess Walter
They craned their heads like schoolboys to gaze at the malachite green fountain pen from London. It was an object well worth the attention of these five adult businessmen for three minutes.
~ Vicki Baum
The secret to the fountain of youth is to think youthful thoughts.
~ Josephine Baker
The fountain of beauty is the heart and every generous thought illustrates the walls of your chamber.
~ Francis Quarles
He discovers that God is the very source of our existence. As Lewis will put it: "He is the opaque centre of all existences, the thing that simply and entirely is, the fountain of facthood.
~ Unknown
Variations: II Green light, from the moon, Pours over the dark blue trees, Green light from the autumn moon Pours on the grass ... Green light falls on the goblin fountain Where hesitant lovers meet and pass. They laugh in the moonlight, touching hands, They move like leaves on the wind ... I remember an autumn night like this, And not so long ago, When other lovers were blown like leaves, Before the coming of snow.
~ Conrad Aiken
a bruise, blue in the muscle, you impinge upon me. As bone hugs the ache home, so I'm vexed to love you, your body the shape of returns, your hair a torso of light, your heat I must have, your opening I'd eat, each moment of that soft-finned fruit, inverted fountain in which I don't see me.
~ Li-Young Lee
Invocation" The day hanging by its feet with a hole In its voice And the light running into the sand Here I am once again with my dry mouth At the fountain of thistles Preparing to sing.
~ W.S. Merwin
The moonlight on the water outside the chamber window throws the reflection of ripples onto the whitewashed ceiling of the room, so they look as if they are underwater, floating with Melusina in the fountain. But I know that they are both gone from me, and our water mother is singing them on their journey down the sweet river to the deep springs of home.
~ Philippa Gregory
Mathematics - the unshaken Foundation of Sciences, and the plentiful Fountain of Advantage to human affairs.
~ Isaac Barrow
God is the universal substance in existing things. He comprises all things. He is the fountain of all being. In Him exists everything that is.
~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca
From the very fountain of enchantment there arises a taste of bitterness to spread anguish amongst the flowers.
~ Unknown
The enjoyment of God is the only happiness with which our souls can be satisfied. To go to heaven, fully to enjoy God, is infinitely better than the most pleasant accommodations here. Fathers and mothers, husbands, wives, or children, or the company of earthly friends, are but shadows; but God is the substance. These are but scattered beams, but God is the sun. These are but streams, but God is the fountain. These are but drops; but God is the ocean.16
~ Joel R. Beeke
The fear of the LORD is a fountain of life, to depart from the snares of death.
~ John Bunyan
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.
~ Unknown
At first it had slashed up the little silk pockets of her purse. Then she found part of an old thermometer container that slipped over the head of the scalpel, capping it like a fountain pen. It was this cap she removed when the soldier moved into the seat beside her and stretched his arm along the armrest they were (absurdly) meant to share.
~ John Irving
All lovely tales we have heard or read; An endless fountain of immortal drink, Pouring unto us from heaven's brink.
~ John Keats
He who receives Light from above, from the Fountain of Light, No other doctrine needs, though granted true; But these are false, or little else but dreams, Conjectures, fancies, built on nothing firm.
~ John Milton
His blessed count'nance; here I could frequent, With worship, place by place where he voutsaf'd Presence Divine, and to my Sons relate; On this Mount he appeerd, under this Tree Stood visible, among these Pines his voice I heard, here with him at this Fountain talk'd: So
~ John Milton
As for the Mormons one meets, however their doctrines be regarded, they will be found as rich in human kindness as any people in all our broad land, while the dark memories that cloud their earlier history will vanish from the mind as completely as when we bathe in the fountain azure of the Sierra.
~ John Muir
There was no need to import my crippling diet cola addiction to a brand-new world, and besides, the fountain was Pepsi products anyway. New planet, new life.
~ John Scalzi
There was no need to import my crippling diet cola addiction to a brand-new world, and besides, the fountain was Pepsi products anyway.
~ John Scalzi
The law of the wise is a fountain of life, to depart from the snares of death.
~ Unknown
A mother's love! O holy, boundless thing! Fountain whose waters never cease to spring!
~ Marguerite Gardiner