In Scandinavian mythology, for example, the fountain of Mimir, source of hidden wisdom, lay under the roots of the great world tree and in Islamic culture fountains are found referred to in the Koran, in the garden called Paradise. In the Bible the passage 'It is done, I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end. I will give unto him that is athirst of the fountain of the water of life freely,' reflects the importance that fountains symbolized to the writers.
Quotes about alpha (16 Quotes)
In those days spirits were brave, the stakes were high, men were real men, women were real women and small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri were real small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri.
I was born in St. Andrew's and raised in Kingston then I attended the Alpha Boy's school.
I think we in the Alpha Band, which was a strange group anyway, weren't dealing with any of these issues. They sneaked up on us and took us over, before we know what was going on.
I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord.
Hitler's Auschwitz Bush's Abu Ghraib epitomize Christianity. Christians are hypocrites who travel in herds, but are without the loyalty. Islamists are extremely dangerous because, unlike the Christians, they believe the dogma. Judaism is the study of diversion, coercion, and manipulation. Jews are the alpha predators because their Gods are intellect, money and power. They use these Gods to pit the Christians and Islamists against themselves as well as each other.
You try to tell me anything about the newspaper business Sir, I have been through it from Alpha to Omaha, and I tell you that the less a man knows the bigger the noise he makes and the higher the salary he commands.
It was very early, and we were still like beta or alpha stage, and so we started receiving a ton of download. The server became overloaded, and that's when I realized that this had a huge market.
Alpha is not going to be a threat to the United States, ... I want to make that very clear.
At a certain point, even if the one alpha male is dominant, at a certain point there's a younger lion that is stronger, and everyone knows it.
This is the first time anyone has been able to look at the cancer risk associated with single alpha particles going through cells, and what we saw was the effects were in fact rather less than expected,
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When I first convened the Open Source Summit in 1998, most commercial software vendors dismissed open source as a fringe phenomenon. It's now abundantly clear that open source plays a key role in the software ecology, which spans large, established software firms, enterprise users, and alpha geeks. Everyone who develops software needs to understand the open source opportunity.
With Merced, it's been one delay after another, ... So we feel we can lead 64-bit computing with Alpha.
I've always thought of the T-shirt as the Alpha and Omega of the fashion alphabet.
I never expected I would be connected to the Alpha male as some kind of ancillary object, and to this day it mystifies me.