Fertile Quotes

The mountains are fountains not only of rivers and fertile soil, but of men.

All children start their school careers with sparkling imaginations, fertile minds, and a willingness to take risks with what they think.

Why should the immediate opportunity set be the only one considered, when tomorrow's may well be considerably more fertile than today's?

I think sadness and anger are really fertile ground for comedy. No one is really interested in a happy person doing comedy.

[The Goths'] poverty was incurable; since the most liberal donatives were soon dissipated in wasteful luxury, and the most fertile estates became barren in their hands.

The Spring is generally fertile in new acquaintances.

What once seemed such a curse has become a blessing. All the agony that threatened to destroy my life now seems like the fertile ground for greater trust, stronger hope, and deeper love.

I didn't have the patience for the research, or anything like that. I just like how it sets the imagination off. It's just an area that's very fertile for great words. Great metaphors, potentially.

Horror writers can write about everything in the real world that a mainstream novelist can--plus the supernatural, which is the most fertile field for metaphor imaginable.

The possessors of wealth can scarcely be indifferent to processes which, nearly or remotely have been the fertile source of their possessions.

We all have fertile creative periods and times when we can't figure out how we ever did it.

In the wisdom of uncertainty lies the freedom from our past, from the known, from the prison of past conditioning. Uncertainty is the fertile ground of creativity and freedom.

If you can make something genuine, then the ground is fertile for introducing something new. And that happened a few times in my life where I could sow the seeds and see something grow out of it.

A fertile soil alone does not carry agriculture to perfection.

Tilling the fertile soil of man's vanity.

Memory, when duly impregnated with ascertained facts, is sometimes surprisingly fertile.

Heaven is not one of your fertile Ohio bottoms, you may depend on it.

So near along life's stream are the fountains of innocence and youth making fertile its sandy margin; and the voyageur will do well to replenish his vessels often at these uncontaminated sources.

There is plenty of ambitious competition and hypocrisy in the middle class, which makes it a rather fertile environment for a writer.

Everything in science depends on what one calls an aperçu, on becoming aware of what is at the bottom of the phenomena. Such becoming aware is infinitely fertile.

Hip-hop and R&B are especially fertile bases of collaboration. It always makes good records and good music.

I think genetic research is a fascinating and fertile area.

The surface of Earth heaved and seethed in fecund restlessness. Earth was most fertile where the most death was.

I ask the reader to remember that what is most obvious may be most worthy of analysis. Fertile vistas may open out when commonplace facts are examined from a fresh point of view.

The paradox is the seed of truth. This germ just needs a fertile ground to flourish and bear fruit.

All soils are not fertile.

In my work, there's a tremendous amount of rejection and waves of fertile and fallow times.

Gratitude. More aware of what you have than what you don't. Recognizing the treasure in the simple - a child's hug, fertile soil, a golden sunset. Relishing in the comfort of the common.

Hope is like air if not built on a fertile ground. A ground that requires attention and nurturing. You cannot stop working on that ground even if the hope is sprouting higher into the sky.

The anger is useful too because when things about the world upset you, that is really a fertile feeling to channel into fiction and to put out into books.

We can look at history and see that [political turmoil is] fertile ground for art.

Republican despotism is more fertile in acts of tyranny, because everyone has a hand in it.

The cosmic calendar is quite a fertile mode for communicating how small we are over time and space.

Mars once was wet and fertile. It's now bone dry. Something bad happened on Mars. I want to know what happened on Mars so that we may prevent it from happening here on Earth.

There is the dumb silence of slumber or apathy... the fertile silence of awareness, pasturing the soul... the silence of peaceful accord with other persons or communion with the cosmos.

The most fertile districts of the habitable globe are now actually cultivated by men for animals, at a delay and waste of aliment absolutely incapable of calculation

The imagination is fertile. From seeds of the imagination, much is made manifest.

Since Hollywood seems to be more interested in people wearing tights and using powers, there seems to be a fertile ground for movies about real human beings.

So history is fertile territory for me and I think I could feel happy with any period of history, provided I had the right sources and the necessary time for the initial research.

Then why can’t I bully you into procreating? (Wulf) See! I’m the only human in history to have Viking yenta of his very own. God, how I wish my father had been a fertile man. (Chris)

Family was a fertile breeding ground for the kind of psychological bacteria that warped minds and devoured hope.

In general, a fact is worth more than theories in the long run. The theory stimulates, but the fact builds. The former in due time is replaced by one better but the fact remains and becomes fertile.

There are specific times where film noir is a natural concomitant of the mood. When there's insecurity, collapse of financial systems - that's where film noir always hits fertile ground.

To be fertile in hypotheses is the first perquisite of creativity and to be willing to throw them away the moment experience contradicts them is the next.

Imagination is so much more fertile than life.

Plant a good seed in people who have fertile hearts. When you are away, they'll miss you. When you are coming again, they can't wait!

Wounds are the fertile ground where flowers of kindness and wisdom will grow and thrive.

Faith is a fertile field.

Your mind is the most fertile and largest land in the universe. You can grow anything you desire.

The best education makes our minds more fertile.