Quotes about spring
spring sadness swimming
Marisha Pessl Some people, every now and then, simply had to have One Too Many, go drifty voiced and slouch mouthed, swimming willfully around in their own sadness as if it were hot springs.
spring growth normal
Sherwood Smith Except. What is normal at any given time? We change just as the seasons change, and each spring brings new growth. So nothing is ever quite the same.
spring middle-of-nowhere matter
Sheryl Crow No matter how chaotic it is, wildflowers will still spring up in the middle of nowhere.
spring doors hands
Sherrilyn Kenyon (At the back of the cave, Phoebe placed her hand against one of the stones where a spring release opened an elevator door. Chris gave an over exaggerated gape.) Holy Hand Grenade, Batman, it’s a bat cave. (Chris)
spring oakland afternoon
Nick Swisher It's been like that all spring. It's just that balls decided to hang up there. It's hard to catch it when you can't see it. But that's how it's going to be in Oakland in the afternoon anyway.
spring believe flower
Nikos Kazantzakis When an almond tree became covered with blossoms in the heart of winter, all the trees around it began to jeer. 'What vanity,' they screamed, 'what insolence! Just think, it believes it can bring spring in this way!' The flowers of the almond tree blushed for shame. 'Forgive me, my sisters,' said the tree. 'I swear I did not want to blossom, but suddenly I felt a warm springtime breeze in my heart.
spring character roots
Nikola Tesla We should begin at the very root from which we spring, we should effect a radical reform in the character of the food.
spring kids freckles
Myrna Loy I was a homely kid with freckles that came out every spring and stuck on me till Christmas.
spring mirrors broken
Mignon McLaughlin It's terrifying to see someone inside of whom a vital spring seems to have been broken. It's particularly terrifying to see him in your mirror.
spring atlanta shock-absorber
Mark Martin Really, we don't relate our Atlanta setup to here. I feel like the shock [absorber] package will be different and the springs will certainly be different than Atlanta.
spring ignorance racism
Mario Balotelli Racism springs from ignorance.
spring food yellow
Mario Batali We would load up the yellow Cutlass Supreme station wagon and pick blackberries during blackberry season or spring onions during spring onion season. For us, food was part of the fabric of our day.
spring years joy
Michael Bruce Now spring returns; but not to me returns The vernal joy my better years have known; Dim in my breast life's dying taper burns, And all the joys of life with health have flown.
spring return
Michael Bruce Now Spring returns; but not to me returns.
spring promise silent
Merle Shain Each of us is a seed, a silent promise, and it is always Spring.
spring cutting arrogance
Mason Cooley Arrogance rides triumphantly through the gates, barely glancing at the old woman about to cut the rope and spring shut the trap.
spring fall men
Mencius Incessant falls teach men to reform, and distress rouses their strength. Life springs from calamity, and death from ease.
spring moon climbing
Oscar Wilde And all the woods are alive with the murmur and sound of Spring, And the rose-bud breaks into pink on the climbing briar, And the crocus-bed is a quivering moon of fire Girdled round with the belt of an amethyst ring.
spring humorous imagination
Oscar Wilde Indeed, so far from being humorous, the male American is the most abnormally serious creature who ever existed.. It is only fair to admit that he can exaggerate, but even his exaggeration has a rational basis. It is not founded on wit or fancy; it does not spring from any poetic imagination.
spring book reading
Oscar Wilde All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling.
spring feelings natural
Oscar Wilde All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling. To be natural is to be obvious, and to be obvious is to be inartistic.
spring garden soul
Lucretia Mott Those who go forth ministering to the wants and necessities of their fellow beings experience a rich return, their souls being as a watered garden, and a spring that faileth not
spring world matter
Lucretius The sum of things there is no power can change, For naught exists outside, to which can flee Out of the world matter of any kind, Nor forth from which a fresh supply can spring, Break in upon the founded world, and change Whole nature of things, and turn their motions about.
spring air body
Lucretius When bodies spring apart, because the air Somehow condenses, wander they from truth: For then a void is formed, where none before; And, too, a void is filled which was before.
spring order infinite-time
Lucretius It was certainly not by design that the particles fell into order, they did not work out what they were going to do, but because many of them by many chances struck one another in the course of infinite time and encountered every possible form and movement, that they found at last the disposition they have, and that is how the universe was created.
spring smell rooms
Margaret Millar the smell of lilacs crept poignantly into the room like a remembered spring.
spring past air
Margaret Millar The smell of moist earth and lilacs hung in the air like wisps of the past and hints of the future.
spring men poverty
Margaret Oliphant Spring cold is like the poverty of a poor man who has had a fortune left him - better days are coming ...
spring pride rivers
Michel de Montaigne Laws gain their authority from actual possession and custom: it is perilous to go back to their origins; laws, like our rivers, get greater and nobler as they roll along: follow them back upstream to their sources and all you find is a tiny spring, hardly recognizable; as time goes by it swells with pride and grows in strength.
spring writing character
Michel de Montaigne One man may have some special knowledge at first-hand about the character of a river or a spring, who otherwise knows only what everyone else knows. Yet to give currency to this shred of information, he will undertake to write on the whole science of physics. From this fault many great troubles spring.
spring simple men
Michel de Montaigne The first law that ever God gave to man was a law of pure obedience; it was a commandment naked and simple, wherein man had nothing to inquire after, or to dispute, forasmuch as to obey is the proper office of a rational soul, acknowledging a heavenly superior and benefactor. From obedience and submission spring all other virtues, as all sin does from self-opinion.
spring soul agitation
Michel de Montaigne As great enmities spring from great friendships, and mortal distempers from vigorous health, so do the most surprising and the wildest frenzies from the high and lively agitations of our souls.