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Quotes About Bounty

Harvest is a joyful time of gathering the produce of the land
~ Sunday Adelaja
The best way to increase wolves in America, rabbits in Australia, and snakes in India is to pay a bounty on their scalps. Then every patriot goes to raising them.
~ Steven D. Levitt
The pride of the peacock is the glory of God. The lust of the goat is the bounty of God. The wrath of the lion is the wisdom of God. The nakedness of woman is the work of God. Excess of sorrow laughs. Excess of joy weeps. The roaring of lions, the howling of wolves, the raging of the stormy sea, and the destructive sword, are portions of eternity too great for the eye of man. —William Blake, from "Proverbs of Hell," The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
~ Jordan B. Peterson
La tierra es madre de todos, pero también da ponzoña
~ José Hernández
It is a great presumption to ascribe our successes to our own management, and not to esteem ourselves upon any blessing, rather as it is the bounty of heaven, than the acquisition of our own prudence.
~ Joseph Addison
The gods in bounty work up storms about us, that give mankind occasion to exert their hidden strength and throw out into practice virtues that shun the day, and lie concealed in the smooth seasons and the calms of life.
~ Joseph Addison
As a bounty hunter, I have to dress the part. If I came to the door and looked like Carrot Top, you'd laugh.
~ Duane Chapman
It's common knowledge that most of the guys at Guantanamo are nobodies. Many were turned in by bounty hunters.
~ Trevor Paglen
The tourist board have put a bounty on me head, but they like the biz from tourists.
~ Ken Bruen
Abundance is mine. I cannot be deprived of my supply. The trees do not lack for leaves, nor do the flowers fail to bloom.
~ Ernest Holmes
A pear-tree planted nigh: 'Twas charg'd with fruit that made a goodly show, And hung with dangling pears was every bough.
~ Alexander Pope
Trees generously share their fruit.Bees generously share their honey.Flowers generously share their perfume. Do likewise.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
The father spent his time talking and thinking of religion. He proclaimed himself an agnostic and was so absorbed in destroying the ideas of God that had crept into the minds of his neighbors that he never saw God manifesting himself in the little child that, half forgotten, lived here and there on the bounty of her dead mother's relatives.
~ Sherwood Anderson
Rich with the spoils of Nature.
~ Sir Thomas Browne
Why should she give her bounty to the dead? What is divinity if it can come Only in silent shadows and in dreams?
~ Wallace Stevens
At Christmas-tide the open hand Scatters its bounty o'er sea and land, And none are left to grieve alone, For Love is heaven and claims its own.
~ Margaret Elizabeth Sangster
A land of wheat, barley, vines, figs, and pomegranates; a land of olive oil and honey. Deuteronomy 8:8
~ Beth Moore
loud: for a son who was a hunter, for a daughter who would look after her parents when they were old, for an easy birth. The animals knew the goodness of that place. Caribou, lynx, bear came to drink. Muskrats made their lodges along the banks of the outlet rivers that flowed to the North Sea. In summers there were birds—mergansers, grebes, loons. In winter, the lake was a fine place to catch blackfish
~ Sue Harrison
As a vamp killer for hire, I travel light.
~ Faith Hunter
We are grateful for safety. We are grateful for bounty. We are grateful for life. We are grateful for laughter. We are grateful for each other and for family and for clan. Amen.
~ Faith Hunter
Fortune, in the distribution of her gifts, resembles a good fellow throwing pennies into the air for children to scramble after. She does not cast to this and to that one according to their respective merits, but leaves chance and their own activity to determine who shall get the most of her bounty.
~ bovee christian nestell viii
I knew I wanted to do a movie, an action movie, and when I left WWE in 2011, I didn't specifically know. I didn't leave to do 'Boone: The Bounty Hunter.'
~ John Morrison
The earth is bountiful, and where her bounty fails, nitrogen drawn from the air will refertilize her womb. I developed a process for this purpose in 1900. It was perfected fourteen years later under the stress of war by German chemists.
~ Nikola Tesla
Let us rejoice and give thanks. Not only are we become Christians, but we are become Christ. My brothers, do you understand the grace of God that is given us? Wonder, rejoice, for we are made Christ! If He is the Head, and we the members, then together He and we are the whole man.... This would be foolish pride on our part, were it not a gift of his bounty. But this is what He promised by the mouth of the Apostle: You are the body of Christ, and severally His members
~ St. Augustine of Hippo