Fountain Quotes - Page 16

• God, she was beautiful - my first image of the Orient - a woman such as only the desert poet knew how to praise: her face was the sun, her hair the protecting shadow, her eyes fountains of cool water, her body the most slender of palm-trees and her smile a mirage.

  Amin Maalouf

  Beautiful, Eye, Hair

  Amin Maalouf (1998). “Samarkand”, Interlink Publishing Group Incorporated

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• Living, there is no happiness in that. Living: carrying one’s painful self through the world. But being, being is happiness. Being: Becoming a fountain, a fountain on which the universe falls like warm rain.

  Milan Kundera

  Rain, Fall, Self

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• GOOD MORNING," said the little prince. "Good Morning," said the salesclerk. This was a salesclerk who sold pills invented to quench thirst. Swallow one a week and you no longer feel any need to drink. "Why do you sell these pills?" "They save so much time," the salesclerk said. "Experts have calculated that you can save fifty-three minutes a week." "And what do you do with those fifty-three minutes?" "Whatever you like." "If I had fifty-three minutes to spend as I liked," the little prince said to himself, "I'd walk very slowly toward a water fountain.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Morning, Water, Pills

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

  Christina Rossetti

  Rose

  Christina Rossetti (2008). “Poems and Prose”, p.202, OUP Oxford

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• Ancient traditions have long associated holy wells and springs as very special places of the Goddess or anima mundi: symbolic of the Great Mother and associated with birth, the feminine principle, the universal womb, the prima materia, the waters of fertility and refreshment and the fountain of life. The dreaming sites, as they are called, have also been associated with visions, healing, and other paranormal experiences. In ancient Greece, for example, there were more than three-hundred medical centers placed at water sources, where patients experienced healing.

  Christopher McDowell

  Life, Mother, Dream

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• The vicissitudes of life resemble one of those gilded balls seen in a fountain. Thrown up by the force of the water, it flies up and down - now at the top, catching the rays of the sun, now cast into the depths, then again shooting up, sometimes so high that it escapes altogether, and falls to the ground.

  Lady Randolph Churchill

  Life, Fall, Water

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• I have often found a small stream at its fountain-head, that, when followed up, carried away the camel with his load.

  Saadi

  Camels, Habit, Found

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• To the sick, indeed, nature is sick, but to the well, a fountain of health.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Nature, Health, Sick

  Henry David Thoreau (2011). “The Natural History Essays”, p.3, Gibbs Smith

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• I'm a fountain of blood in the shape of a girl . . . leave me now return tonight tide will show you the way if you forget my name you will go astray like a killer whale trapped in a bay

  Bjork

  Girl, Blood, Whales

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• The domestic relations precede, and in our present existence are worth more than all our other social ties. They give the first throb to the heart, and unseal the deep fountains of its love. Home is the chief school of human virtue. Its responsibilities, joys, sorrows, smiles, tears, hopes, and solicitudes form the chief interest of human life.

  William Ellery Channing

  Home, Heart, School

  William Ellery Channing (1837). “Essays, Literary & Political”, p.364

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• My poems are like a dagger
  Sprouting flowers from the hilt;
  My poetry is like a fountain
  Sprinkling streams of coral water.

  Jose Marti

  Flower, Water, Daggers

  "Simple Verses". Book by Jose Marti, 1891.

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• Reason is natural revelation, whereby the eternal father of light, and fountain of all knowledge, communicates to mankind that portion of truth which he has laid within the reach of their natural faculties: revelation is natural reason enlarged by a new set of discoveries communicated by God. . . .

  John Locke

  Truth, Father, Light

  'An Essay concerning Human Understanding' (1690) bk. 4, ch. 19, sect. 4

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• For all of us, as we grow older, perhaps the most important thing is to keep alive our love of others and to believe that our love and interest are as vitally necessary to them as to us. This is what makes us keep on growing and refills the fountains of energy.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Believe, Important, Energy

  Eleanor Roosevelt (1995). “What I Hope to Leave Behind: The Essential Essays of Eleanor Roosevelt”, Carlson Pub

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

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Sweet, Morning, Sunny

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• Get in touch with yourself. The fountain of creativity begins with the stream of conscious thought flowing inside you. Open the floodgate and creative ideas come rushing out.

  Nita Leland

  Creativity, Ideas, Rushing

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• The heart is a gate-less gate to divinity. Move to the heart. We are all hung up, stuck in the head - that is our problem. The only problem is that we think too much. There is only one solution - get down from the head to the heart. All your problems will disappear. Problems are created by the head. The heart is innocent. The heart is a fountain of love.

  Vasant Lad

  Moving, Heart, Thinking

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

  S. Jay Olshansky

  Exercise, Today, Youth

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• Anything's possible in Human Nature," Chacko said in his Reading Aloud voice. Talking to the darkness now, suddenly insensitive to his little fountain-haired niece. "Love. Madness. Hope. Infinite joy." Of the four things that were Possible in Human Nature, Rahel thought that Infinnate Joy sounded the saddest. Perhaps because of the way Chacko said it. Infinnate Joy. With a church sound to it. Like a sad fish with fins all over.

  Arundhati Roy

  Niece, Reading, Voice

  Arundhati Roy (2002). “The God of Small Things”, p.118, Penguin Books India

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• For if joyful is the fountain that rises in the sun, its springs are in the wells of sorrow unfathomable at the foundations of the Earth.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Spring, Sorrow, Foundation

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• As they advanced (towards the fountain) one after another of Bastian's Fastastican gifts fell away from him. The strong, handsome, fearless hero became the small, fat, timid boy. (...) But then he jumped into the crystal-clear water... He drank till his thrist was quenched. And joy filled him from head to foot, the joy of living and the joy of being himself. He was new born. And the best part of it was that he was now the very person he wanted to be. If he had been free to choose, he would have chosen to be no one else.

  Michael Ende

  Strong, Hero, Boys

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• I told him that I loved him and that I'd always love him and I felt like a child who throws a centavo into a fountain and then she has to tell someone her most extraordinary wish even though she knows that the wish should be kept secret and that, in telling it, she is quite probably losing it. He replied that I was not to worry, that the penny could come out of the fountain again and again and again.

  Colum McCann

  Children, Worry, Secret

  Colum McCann (2009). “Let The Great World Spin”, p.239, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Motherhood is the one thing in all the world which most truly exemplifies the God-given virtues of creating and sacrificing. Though it carries the woman close to the brink of death, motherhood also leads her into the very realm of the fountains of life and makes her co-partner with the Creator in bestowing upon eternal spirits mortal life.

  David O. McKay

  Mom, Sacrifice, Motherhood

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• Water from a fountain quenches the excessive heat which would destroy this life. Thus water can be called the only everlasting source of continuous being.

  Nicola Salvi

  Rain, Rivers, Water

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• Prayer is an all-efficient panoply, a treasure undiminished, a mine which is never exhausted, a sky unobscured by clouds, a heaven unruffled by the storm. It is the root, the fountain, the mother of a thousand blessings.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Mother, Prayer, Blessing

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• The stream of praying cannot rise higher than the fountain of living.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Prayer, Praying, Higher

  Edward McKendree Bounds (1920). “Purpose in Prayer”, p.75, CCEL

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