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I looked up my family tree and found out I was the sap. -- Rodney Dangerfield
I don't have to look up my family tree, because I know that I'm the sap. -- Fred Allen
Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation... even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind. -- Leonardo da Vinci
We all know that any thing which retards in any way the free circulation of the sap, also prevents to a certain extent the formation of wood and leaves. -- Robert Fortune
The main stem was then in most cases twisted in a zigzag form, which process checked the flow of the sap, and at the same time encouraged the production of side branches at those parts of the stem where they were most desired. -- Robert Fortune
Each is under the most sacred obligation not to squander the material committed to him, not to sap his strength in folly and vice, and to see at the least that he delivers a product worthy the labor and cost which have been expended on him. -- Anna Julia Cooper
Inaction saps the vigor of the mind. -- Leonardo da Vinci
Why don't you bore a hole in yourself and let the sap run out? -- Groucho Marx
Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy. -- Leo Buscaglia
As every divided kingdom falls, so every mind divided between many studies confounds and saps itself. -- Leonardo da Vinci
General principles... are to the facts as the root and sap of a tree are to its leaves -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
We do not make beams from the hollow, decaying trunk of the fallen oak. We use the upsoaring tree in the full vigor of its sap. -- Sylvia Pankhurst
What is undeniable is that when comforts and convenience sap our energies and idealism, inactivity secretes sloth in to our minds like a poison in the blood. -- Os Guinness
Our consciousness rarely registers the beginning of a growth within us any more than without us; there have been many circulation of the sap before we detect the smallest sign of the bud. -- George Eliot
Prayers never bring anything... They may bring solace to the sap, the bigot, the ignorant, the aboriginal, and the lazy - but to the enlightened it is the same as asking Santa Claus to bring you something for Xmas -- W. C. Fields
I wonder if the sap is stirring yet, If wintry birds are dreaming of a mate, If frozen snowdrops feel as yet the sun And crocus fires are kindling one by one: Sing robin, sing: I still am sore in doubt concerning Spring. -- Christina Rossetti
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I advise everyone to find an island in this life. Find a place where this culture can't take energy away from you, sap your will and originality. Since anything physical can be mental, that island can be your home. Turn off the electromagnetic waves being forced upon you, the countless invisible forces coming at you all the time. -- RZA
During the course of administration, and in order to disturb it, the artillery of the press has been levelled against us, charged with whatsoever its licentiousness could devise or dare. These abuses of an institution so important to freedom and science are deeply to be regretted, inasmuch as they tend to lessen its usefulness and to sap its safety. -- Thomas Jefferson
I became intensely aware of the being-ness of trees. The feel of rough sun-warmed bark of an ancient forest giant, or the cool, smooth skin of a young and eager sapling, gave me a strange, intuitive sense of the sap as it was sucked up by unseen roots and drawn up to the very tips of the branches, high overhead. -- Jane Goodall
I have said this to explain the stanza that follows, in which the soul replies to those who call in question its holy tranquillity, who will have it wholly occupied with outward duties, that its light may shine before the world: these persons have no conception of the fibres and the unseen root whence the sap is drawn, and which nourish the fruit. -- John of the Cross
I love these pet names," she said, gazing soulfully up into his eyes, "Nitwit. Sap skull. Termagant. How they make my heart flutter! -- Loretta Chase
Sap which mounts, and flowers which thrust, Your childhood is a bower: Let my fingers wander in the moss Where glows the rosebud Let me among the clean grasses Drink the drops of dew Which sprinkle the tender flower -- Paul Verlaine
Oracle's got 100+ enterprise applications live in the #cloud; today, SAP's got nothin' but SuccessFactors until 2020. -- Larry Ellison
General principles... are to the facts as the root and sap of a tree are to its leaves. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
What sort of sap doesn't know by now that picture-perfect beauty is all done with smoke and mirrors anyway? -- Julie Burchill
The joke about SAP has always been, it's making '50s German manufacturing methodology, implemented in 1960s software technology, delivered to 1970-style manufacturing organizations, like, it's really - yeah, the incumbency - they are still the lingering hangover from the dot-com crash. -- Marc Andreessen
When I was growing up, my favorite movie was 'Somewhere in Time' with Christopher Reeve, which is a hugely romantic, sappy movie. I couldn't understand it when the guy didn't get the girl or the girl didn't get the guy in love stories. I was definitely a sap. -- Scott Michael Foster
I'm not denying that depression can be spiritually induced. Guilt from having wronged and hurt others can bring it on. A sense of having failed to live out the will of God can give rise to depression. Certainly the fear of death and what might follow can sap the joy out of life. -- Tony Campolo
I am such a sap when it comes to love! I believe in love at first sight all the way. But that's just the way it happened to me with my relationships. I love the idea of two people looking at each other and electricity flying around them; it's so romantic, and it's a great feeling. -- Kim Barnouin
If you bend a branch until it's horizontal, the sap will slow to a stopping point: a comma or colon, made of leaves grown into one another and over one another and hardened. Out of this pause comes a flower, which unfolds itself in spirals, as if the leaf form, unable to keep to its line, had begun to pivot. -- Alice Oswald
I am a woodlander, I have sap in my veins, -- Roger Deakin
Idleness is emptiness; the tree in which the sap is stagnant, remains fruitless. -- Hosea Ballou
Trees do not force their sap, nor does the flower push its bloom. -- Rainer Maria Rilke
No one dies of nausea, but it can seriously sap the will to live. -- Yann Martel
Energy in a nation is like sap in a tree; it rises from bottom up. -- Woodrow Wilson
SAP is becoming the standard for business software. Oracle is in a state of chaos. -- Bill Vaughan
Pansies in soft April rains Fill their stalks with honeyed sap Drawn from Earth's prolific lap. -- Bayard Taylor
I'm such a sap for democracy and politics that I get weepy when I see anybody voting. -- Tucker Carlson
The sound of her laughter was sticky as sap, the smell of night-blooming jasmine soft as a milk bath. -- Janet Fitch
The conservatism of a religion - it's orthodoxy - is the inert coagulum of a once highly reactive sap. -- Eric Hoffer
Spring is that wonderful if somewhat delusional time for a gardener when the sap rises and everything seems possible. -- Marta McDowell
At SAP, we see a dream for a simpler world, for a simpler SAP, and for a simpler customer experience. -- Bill McDermott
We have to fight them daily, lake fleas, those many small worries about the morrow, for they sap our energies. -- Etty Hillesum
Anger, resentment, envy, and self-pity are wasteful reactions. They greatly drain one's time. They sap energy better devoted to productive endeavors. -- Ruth Bader Ginsburg
What does the good ship bear so well? The cocoa-nut with its stony shell, And the milky sap of its inner cell. -- John Greenleaf Whittier
The painter or draftsman ought to be solitary, in order that the well-being of the body not sap the vigour of the mind. -- Leonardo da Vinci
I'm a sap, I'll cry at anything. But I don't cry when I feel manipulated, or when there's a music cue telling me to. -- John Krasinski
Look, we don't love like flowers with only one season behind us; when we love, a sap older than memory rises in our arms. -- Rainer Maria Rilke
The fascination of what's difficult Has dried the sap out of my veins, and rent Spontaneous joy and natural content Out of my heart. -- William Butler Yeats
I miss good old-fashioned honorable people just trying to make something of life. Simply, without hurting anyone else. I know that makes me a sap. -- Paula McLain
She stood in front of the mirror a long time, and finally decided she either looked like a sap or else she looked very beautiful. One or the other. -- Carson McCullers
I don't watch a lot of TV. I am madly in love, I'm a big sap, I'm madly in love with Extreme Makeover Home Edition. I cry every week. -- Eva LaRue
Her fatigue was gone; she felt vital and strong, like a tree coming back to life in the springtime, vibrant with sap, ready to put out buds and then blossoms. -- Linda Lael Miller
There is reason in the distinction of civil and uncivil. The manners are sometimes so rough a rind that we doubt whether they cover any core or sap-wood at all. -- Henry David Thoreau
It is not the sap within the furrowed bark, nor a wing attached to a claw, But rather a garden forever in bloom and a flock of angels forever in flight. -- Khalil Gibran
An organization is great if you have a clear vision to be able to make it powerful. If you don't, an organization can kind of sap energy that could go elsewhere. -- Ben Wikler
Men of sense esteem wealth to be the assimilation of nature to themselves, the converting of the sap and juices of the planet to the incarnation and nutriment of their design. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Before the bud swells, before the grass springs, before the plough is started, comes the sugar harvest. It is sequel of the bitter frost; a sap run is the sweet goodbye of winter. -- John Burroughs
Spring, which germinated in the earth, moved also with a strange restlessness, in the hearts of... women. As the weeks passed, inextinguishable hope, which mounts with the rising sap, looked from their faces. -- Ellen Glasgow
This apple tree is not the first one I draw, but perhaps the thousandth. I feel the sap rise to its spreading branches. I feel in my toes how its roots grip the earth. -- Frederick Franck
Principles-and I have in mind such principles as states' rights or national sovereignty or the free market or pacifism-have a way of drying up while the sap of life goes flowing in another direction. -- Max Lerner
Meaningful rules in the consumer credit market can accelerate economic recovery. Rules would increase consumer confidence and, more importantly, weed out all the tricks and traps that sap families of billions of dollars annually. -- Elizabeth Warren
Our hearts seemed safe in our breasts and sang to the Light The marrow in the bone We dreamed was safe. . . the blood in the veins, the sap in the tree Were springs of Deity. -- Edith Sitwell
Literature, properly so called, draws its sap from the deep soil of human nature's common and everlasting sympathies, the gathered leaf-mound of countless generations, and not from any top dressing capriciously scattered over the surface. -- James Russell Lowell

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