A Quote by Jean Ingelow

Tears are the showers that fertilize this world.

Jean Ingelow

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Jean Ingelow
English - Novelist
March 17, 1820 - July 20, 1897

Sorrows humanize our race; tears are the showers that fertilize the world.

Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton

Tears are the summer showers to the soul.

Alfred Austin

Tears are summer showers to the soul.

Alfred Austin

I can make your tears fall down like the showers that are British.

Louis Tomlinson

Tears are the softening showers which cause the seed of heaven to spring up in the human heart.

Walter Scott

Shining through tears, like April suns in showers, that labor to overcome the cloud that loads em.

Thomas Otway

Shining through tears, like April suns in showers, that labour to overcome the cloud that loads 'em.

Thomas Otway

But tears were not the things to find their way to Mr. Bumble’s soul; his heart was waterproof. Like washable beaver hats that improve with rain, his nerves were rendered stouter and more vigorous, by showers of tears, which, being tokens of weakness, and so far tacit admissions of his own power, pleased and exalted him.

Charles Dickens

Read from some humbler poet, Whose songs gushed from his heart, As showers from the clouds of summer, Or tears from the eyelids start.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Genius is not perfected, it is deepened. It does not so much interpret the world as fertilize itself with it.

Andre Malraux

I hate to take showers! Guitarists don't like showers 'cause we like the grease to build up on our fingers, makes playing more fluid.

Izzy Stradlin

My children make me cry on a daily basis about everything. Tears of joy, tears of pain, tears of sadness - all the tears, all the time.

Busy Philipps

It can take years of tears to melt the hardness that develops in this world, covering our tender, gentler inner selves. Tears for every devastating loss, tears for every humiliating failure, tears for every repeated mistake. Those who honor those tears, and even honor them, are not failures at love but rather its true initiates. First the pain and then the power. First the heart breaks and then it soars.

Marianne Williamson

Of all the peoples of the world, the Chinese are probably the most at home with their excrement. They know its value. For 4,000 years they have used raw human feces to fertilize fields.