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Quotes About Fountain

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.
~ Giordano Bruno
The words of the godly are a life-giving fountain" (10:11 NLT).
~ Doug Fields
She throws her coin into a fountain already filled with hopeful coins, yet wonders if the wishes might become tangled.
~ Dr. SunWolf
Reason is not time only interpreter of life. The fountain of action is in time feelings.
~ Henry Theodore Tuckerman
I hadn't thought to bring anything to wash down the blood. I wondered if they had a font for holy water, and whether anyone would object to me using it as a drinking fountain. Though given that I was trying to absorb vampire magic, using holy water as a chaser probably wasn't a great idea.
~ Jim C. Hines
Someone who thinks of possessing a fountain made of a winged baby with water shooting out of its mouth must not have too many troubles.
~ Anne Ursu
To believe and yet to have no hope is to thirst beside a fountain.
~ Ann-Marie MacDonald
I only wish to be the fountain of love from which you drink, every drop promising eternal passion.
~ Anonymous
But if any far-off state there be Dearer than life to mortality, The hand of the Dark hath hold thereof, And mist is under the mist above; So we are sick for life, and cling On earth to this nameless and shining thing, For other life is a fountain sealed, And the deeps below are unrevealed, And we drift on legends for ever.
~ Euripides
You must see the garden front and the fountain. He leaned forward and put the car into gear. It's where my family live. And even then, rapt in the vision, I felt, momentarily, like a wind stirring the tapestry, an ominous chill at the words he used--not That is my home, but It's where my family live.
~ Evelyn Waugh
And we would leave the golden candlelight of the dining-room for the starlight outside and sit on the edge of the fountain, cooling our hands in the water and listening drunkenly to its splash and gurgle over the rocks. 'Ought we to be drunk every night?' Sebastian asked one morning. 'Yes, I think so.' ' I think so too.
~ Evelyn Waugh
The ideal would be to undertake no more action than the false action of a fountain - rising only to fall in the same place, glittering pointlessly in the sunlight and making a noise in the silence of the night that would set any dreamer dreaming of rivers, an absent smile on his lips.
~ Fernando Pessoa
I've heard of you,' Leon said, as James Adams approached. 'You're the guy that started the epic food fight in the campus dining-room.' James smirked. 'Good to know my legend lives on.' 'I bow down before you,' Alfie said. 'You're the guy that had sex in the campus fountain.' Grace shook her head. 'No, that was Dave Moss.
~ Robert Muchamore
We'd like to think that our youth was madder, brighter, happier than it was. It comforts us as we grow older, to believe that once upon a time we danced at dawn in a fountain.
~ Robert Nathan
Before there was any water there were tides of fire, both our tones flow from the older fountain.
~ Robinson Jeffers
He wanted to know what I saw in you. I told him... he paused again, and then continued almost shyly, that you poured out honor like a fountain, all around you. That's weird. I don't feel full of honor, or anything else, except maybe confusion. Naturally not. Fountains keep nothing for themselves.
~ Lois McMaster Bujold
He wanted to know what I saw in you. I told him... he paused again, and continued almost shyly, that you poured out honor like a fountain, all around you. That's weird. I don't feel full of honor, or anything else, except maybe confusion. Naturally not. Fountains keep nothing for themselves.
~ Lois McMaster Bujold
Now what is Love, I pray thee tell? It is that fountain and that well Where pleasure and repentance dwell. It is perhaps that saucy bell That tolls all into heaven or hell- And this is Love, as I hear tell.
~ Rosalind Miles
Yoga is the fountain of youth. You're only as young as your spine is flexible.
~ Bob Harper
Nature intended you to be the fountain-spring of cheerfulness and social life, and not the mountain of despair and melancholy.
~ Arthur Helps
Thou wast that all to me, love,For which my soul did pine—A green isle in the sea, love,A fountain and a shrine,All wreathed with fairy fruits and flowers,And all the flowers were mine.
~ Edgar Allan Poe
Nobody heard her tears; the heart is a fountain of weeping water which makes no noise in the world.
~ Edward Dahlberg
We have enough youth, how about a fountain of smart?
~ Anonymous
For lunches he rode the elevator to the fourth-floor food court and ate Thai Town or Subway at a table tucked among potted tropicals, gazing past milling teenagers to the little penny-choked fountain where a copper salmon spat water into a chlorinated pool.
~ Anthony Doerr