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fountain™ is the brainchild of singer/songwriter j. Christian Miller, author of the Creative Guitar Mastery series of guitar learning.

Sometimes alone, sometimes with available friends, fountain™ is an "un-plugged" band featuring Chris and his acoustic guitar, his voice, and a collection of strong songs blending an ecclectic mix of classic rock, originals, and various other styles into a unique, tasteful take on strong songcraft covering various styles.

Some Quotes from Various Sources

Follow her down to a bridge by a fountain
where rocking horse people eat marshmallow pies
Everyone smiles as you drift past the flowers
that grow so incredibly high

John Lennon - Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds

 

Reach out your hand if your cup be empty
If your cup is full, may it be again
Let it be known, there is a fountain
that was not made by the hands of men

Grateful Dead - Ripple

 

“From the heart of the fountain of delight
rises a jet of bitterness that tortures
us among the very flowers.” or “In the midst of
the fountain of wit there arises something
bitter, which stings in the very flowers.”

Lucretius

 

“Here at the fountain's sliding foot,
Or at some fruit tree's mossy root,
Casting the body's vest aside,
My soul into the boughs does glide.”

Andrew Marvell quotes (English Poet, Politician and Satirist. 1621-1678)

 

The water of the fountain ran, the swift river ran, the day ran into evening, so much life in the city ran into death according to rule, time and tide waited for no man, the rats were sleeping close together in their dark holes again, the Fancy Ball was lighted up at supper, all things ran their course.”

Charles Dickens quotes (English novelist, generally considered the greatest of the Victorian era, 1812-1870)

 

“The people are the only legitimate fountain of power, and it is from them that the constitutional charter, under which the several branches of government hold their power, is derived”

James Madison quotes (American 4th US President (1809-17), and one of the founding fathers of his country. 1751-1836)

 

“A garden inclosed is my sister, my spouse; a spring shut up, a fountain sealed.” Bible

A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles.

~ Washington Irving 1783-1859) more...American writer, Rip Van Winkle, The Sketch Book

 

Be a fountain, not a drain.

Rex Hudler

 

Some people drink from the fountain of knowledge, others just gargle.

Robert Newton Anthony b. 1916) American writer, author

 

“The child-soul is an ever-bubbling fountain in the world of humanity”

Friedrich Froebel

 

“Friendship flourishes at the fountain of forgiveness.”

William Arthur Ward quotes (American dedicated scholar, author, editor, pastor and teacher)

 

“We go to a book as Narcissus went to the fountain, see ourselves therein, and are enamored”

The hardest of all is learning to be a well of affection, and not a fountain, to show them that we love them, not when we feel like it, but when they do”

Nan Fairbrother

 

“My mind is troubled, like a fountain stirred; And I myself see not the bottom of it.”

William Shakespeare quotes (English Dramatist, Playwright and Poet, 1564-1616)

 

"The world is full of abundance and opportunity, but far too many people come to the fountain of life with a sieve instead of a tank car… a teaspoon instead of a steam shovel. They expect little and as a result they get little.”

Ben Sweetland

 

“Mud not the fountain that gave drink to thee.”

William Shakespeare quotes (English Dramatist, Playwright and Poet, 1564-1616)

 

“There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age.”

Sophia Loren quotes (Italian film Actress, b.1934)

 

“Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig.”

Marcus Aurelius quotes (Roman emperor, best known for his Meditations on Stoic philosophy, AD 121-180)

 

“The conscious mind may be compared to a fountain playing in the sun and falling back into the great subterranean pool of subconscious from which it rises.”

Sigmund Freud quotes (Austrian neurologist and Founder of psychoanalysis. (father of prominent children's psychoanalyst Anna Freud), 1856-1939)

 

“Few people know so clearly what they want. Most people can't even think what to hope for when they throw a penny in a fountain.”

Barbara Kingsolver quotes (American Writer and Activist. b.1955)

 

“I only wish to be the fountain of love from which you drink, every drop promising eternal passion”

“As the valley gives height to the mountain, so can sorrow give meaning to pleasure; as the well is the source of the fountain, deep adversity can be a treasure.”

William Arthur Ward quotes (American dedicated scholar, author, editor, pastor and teacher)

 

“The hours I spend with you I look upon as sort of a perfumed garden, a dim twilight, and a fountain singing to it. You and you alone make me feel that I am alive. Other men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough.”

luca George Moore quotes (English Philosopher one of the fathers of the analytic philosophy. 1873-1958)

 

“To find joy in work is to discover the fountain of youth.”

Pearl S. Buck quotes (American author, 1938 Nobel Prize for Literature, 1892-1973)

 

You are quaffing drink from a hundred fountains: whenever any of these hundred yields less, your pleasure is diminished. But when the sublime fountain gushes from within you, no longer need you steal from the other fountains.”

Jalal ad-Din Rumi quotes (Persian Poet and Mystic, 1207-1273)

 

The hardest of all is learning to be a well of affection, and not a fountain, to show them that we love them, not when we feel like it, but when they do.

~ Nan Fairbrother 1913-71) English writer, author

 

“We are guilty of many errors and many faults but our worst crime is abandoning the children, neglecting the fountain of life. Many of the things we need can wait. The child cannot. Right now is the time his bones are being formed, his blood is being made, and his senses are being developed. To him we cannot answer 'Tomorrow.' His name is 'Today.'”

wolfdyke Gabriela Mistral quotes (Chilean poet, 1889-1957)

 

“Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.”

John Locke quotes (English Philosopher who made great contributions in studies of politics, government and psychology. 1632-1704)

 

“One receives as reward for much ennui, despondency, boredom --such as a solitude without friends, books, duties, passions must bring with it --those quarter-hours of profoundest contemplation within oneself and nature. He who completely entrenches himself against boredom also entrenches himself against himself: he will never get to drink the strongest refreshing draught from his own innermost fountain.”

Friedrich Nietzsche (German classical Scholar, Philosopher and Critic of culture, 1844-1900.)

 

“The fountain is my speech. The tulips are my speech. The grass and trees are my speech.”

George T. Delacorte

 

“For with thee is the fountain of life: in thy light shall we see light (Psalms 36:9).”

“You must intensify and render continuous by repeatedly presenting with suggestive ideas and mental pictures of the feast of good things, and the flowing fountain, which awaits the successful achievement or attainment of the desires.”

Claude M. Bristol quotes

 

“You flow for me almost too violently, fountain of pleasure. And often you empty the cup again by wanting to fill it.”

Friedrich Nietzsche quotes (German classical Scholar, Philosopher and Critic of culture, 1844-1900.)

 

This - this was what made life: a moment of quiet, the water falling in the fountain, the girl's voice...a moment of captured beauty. He who is truly wise will never permit such moments to escape.

Roger Bannister

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