vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.    From LearnThat.org.  [F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940).]

The vitality of a seed.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

The strongest, the most amply endowed with what we call vitality or power to live, win.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Last Harvest] Reference

But the thought that it is mechanics and chemistry applied by something of which they as such, form no part, some agent or principle which we call vitality, is welcome to us.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Breath of Life] Reference

So the speech at CAGNY was all about the long-term vitality of the category.    From Wordnik.com.  [SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page] Reference

We won't find long term vitality in 99-cent burgers, no matter what Patrick Boyle says.    From Wordnik.com.  [Christina Pirello: Children's Health And The Meat Industry] Reference

The increased vitality is shown by the height and number of the apices of this wave-crest.    From Wordnik.com.  [Married Love: or, Love in Marriage] Reference

There may be good films and good music being made, but the vitality is not there any more.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Path For Art Games] Reference

The stakes could scarcely be higher - the long-term vitality of America's economy is at stake.    From Wordnik.com.  [BBC News | News Front Page | World Edition] Reference

While not glamorous work, a governance review is vital for the long-term vitality of the union.    From Wordnik.com.  [gauntlet.ucalgary.ca RSS feed] Reference

The something we call vitality, that a child recognizes, science does not find; vitality is something.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Breath of Life] Reference

The only function which gives them any tangible vitality is their power of imposing taxation and levying rates.    From Wordnik.com.  [Prisons and Prisoners: Some Personal Experiences] Reference

I have seen young girls suffer and grow sensibly lowered in vitality in the first years after they leave school.    From Wordnik.com.  [Twenty Years at Hull-House, With Autobiographical Notes] Reference

Of course it matters to the long term vitality of the project, but most end users don't care what it's written in.    From Wordnik.com.  [Original Signal - Transmitting Buzz] Reference

I've concluded that this isn't such a bad thing for the long term vitality of the RNC and for the country as well.    From Wordnik.com.  [Yahoo! Buzz US: Top Stories] Reference

Our economic vitality is based on generating hits – finding special talents that enjoy strong commercial appeal.    From Wordnik.com.  [Boing Boing: July 11, 2004 - July 17, 2004 Archives] Reference

These are important, but the underlying foundation for long-term vitality and connection is a couple's shared vision of life.    From Wordnik.com.  [Douglas LaBier: "For Adults Only" -- Creating a Sustainable Intimate Relationship] Reference

The physico-chemical forces do play second fiddle; that inexplicable something that we call vitality dominates and leads them.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Breath of Life] Reference

"A celebration of urban life and vitality" is fine when the competition is a stale shopping center or a hollowed-out downtown.    From Wordnik.com.  [Boing Boing: November 11, 2001 - November 17, 2001 Archives] Reference

It all works together on a number of levels to maintain vitality on the very razor's edge between total chaos and complete stability.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Dubious "Opportunity" for IDers] Reference

Nouns of this type are characterized by vitality but not by the same kind of animacy that Swahili-speakers assign to humans or animals.    From Wordnik.com.  [The English Is Coming!] Reference

In addition to providing a boost to the area's construction industry, she said, "we're going to be able to improve the long-term vitality of the housing we own.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Manitowoc Herald Times Reporter Latest Headlines] Reference

In other words, the long-term vitality of plants depends of the everyday people who grow these plants, allowing them to evolve, and then save seeds for generations.    From Wordnik.com.  [GOOD] Reference

Yet the word vitality stands for a reality, it stands for a peculiar activity in matter -- for certain movements and characteristics for which we have no other term.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Breath of Life] Reference

It seems to me that the idea of vitality entertained in our day by.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fragments of science, V. 1-2] Reference

The percentage vitality, that is, the number of seeds which germinate out of one hundred.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Nature Study] Reference

And because of the world having within it the seeds of a ceaseless vitality, that is true.    From Wordnik.com.  [Is The Young Man Absalom Safe? A Sermon Preached in The Church of St. Mary Magdalene, Stoke Bishop, on Sunday, July 19th, 1885] Reference

We have to take opportunities like this to collaborate to ensure the long term vitality of the Internet.    From Wordnik.com.  [Craig lists ways to battle spammers] Reference

The long-term vitality of the U.S. aerospace workforce is a priority issue for the Aerospace Industries Association.    From Wordnik.com.  [Apollo's Daughter :: STEM Brain Drain, especially women] Reference

And then, the hopelessness, the helplessness of under-vitality, which is often the real name for despair, had caught him again.    From Wordnik.com.  [August First] Reference

Natura medicatrix carried it off, that is to say the vitality of the mucous surfaces prevented the development of foreign germs.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Harvard Classics Volume 38 Scientific Papers (Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology)] Reference

It is this ebullience of youthful energy, this inexhaustible vitality, which is the admiration and despair of his contemporaries.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Grand Old Man] Reference

Egypt possesses a kind of vitality that is infectious.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shakespeare]

These things have a kind of vitality and reality that they don't have when they're simply abstractions.    From Wordnik.com.  [Berger And Talbott Briefing On President Europe Trip] Reference

"I miss the 'vitality' of the city: people on the streets, shops everywhere, the mix of cultures," she wrote.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kirsten Dirksen: America's Post-Fast Food Era and Europe's Old-Skoolers] Reference

In both The Sandbox and The American Dream, it is only the figure of the grandmother who retains some kind of vitality and freedom.    From Wordnik.com.  [These Illusions Are Real] Reference

At the thought of her own humdrum existence Eleanor laughs again with a return of that superabundant vitality which is hers by nature.    From Wordnik.com.  [When the Birds Begin to Sing] Reference