Quotes about spring
spring pride information
If national pride is ever justifiable or excusable it is when it springs, not from power or riches, grandeur or glory, but from conviction of national innocence, information and benevolence.... John Adams
spring government people
There is but one element of government, and that is THE PEOPLE. From this element spring all governments. "For a nation to be free, it is only necessary that she wills it." For a nation to be slave, it is only necessary that she wills it.
spring lying home
The force that makes the winter grow Its feathered hexagons of snow , and drives the bee to match at home Their calculated honeycomb, Is abacus and rose combined. An icy sweetness fills my mind , A sense that under thing and wing Lies, taut yet living , coiled, the spring . Jacob Bronowski
spring rocks sea
That knowledge humbles me, melts my bones, closes my ears, and makes my teeth rock loosely in their gums. And it also liberates me. I am a big bird winging over high mountains, down into serene valleys. I am ripples of waves on silver seas. I'm a spring leaf trembling in anticipation. Maya Angelou
spring anticipation leafs
I'm a spring leaf trembling in anticipation.
spring heart emotion
The heart less bounding at emotion new, The hope, once crushed, less quick to spring again. Matthew Arnold
spring ideas crime
Crimes spring from fixed ideas. Max Stirner
spring flower people
I went across the fields to avoid the straight highways, along the firing lines where people were shooting at a small wooded hill, which is now covered with wooden crosses and lines of graves instead of spring flowers. Max Beckmann
spring opposites desire
Wonder has no opposite; it springs up already doubled in itself, compounded of dread and desire at once, attraction and recoil, producing a thrill, the shudder of pleasure and of fear. Marina Warner
spring fall tree
From all these trees, in the salads, the soup, everywhere, cherry blossoms fall. Matsuo Basho
spring rain tree
Spring rain conveyed under the trees in drops.
spring rain may
Spring rain leaking through the roof dripping from the wasps' nest.
spring mountain nine
Fresh spring! / The world is only Nine days old - / These fields and mountains!
spring butterfly air
April's air stirs in Willow-leaves...a butterfly Floats and balances
spring tree cherry-blossom
The oak tree: not interested in cherry blossoms.
spring tree want
I want to do for you what the spring does for the cherry trees Pablo Neruda
spring flower dark
I will bring you flowers from the mountains, bluebells, dark hazels, and rustic baskets of kisses. I want to do with you what spring does with the cherry trees.
spring men oats
Besides that, when elsewhere the harvest of wheat is most abundant, there it comes up less by one-fourth than what you have sowed. There, methinks, it were a proper place for men to sow their wild oats, where they would not spring up. [Lat., Post id, frumenti quum alibi messis maxima'st Tribus tantis illi minus reddit, quam obseveris. Heu! istic oportet obseri mores malos, Si in obserendo possint interfieri.] Plautus
spring helping-others helping
Happiness springs from doing good and helping others. Plato
spring years hiking
A souvenir of those years is a small cottage on the cliffs of Cornwall, where Joyce and I spend a spring month every year, hiking and seeing friends. Philip Warren Anderson
spring moving dark
Spring was moving in the air above and in the earth below and around him, penetrating even his dark and lowly little house with its spirit of divine discontent and longing. Kenneth Grahame
spring lying clouds
O what a flowery track lies spread before me, henceforth! What dust clouds shall spring up behind me as I speed on my reckless way! What carts I shall fling carelessly into the ditch in the wake of my magnificent onset!
spring snow bird
It was only a smile, nothing more. It didn't make everything all right. It didn't make ANYTHING all right. Only a smile. A tiny thing. A leaf in the woods, shaking in the wake of a startled bird's flight. But I'll take it. With open arms. Because when spring comes, it melts the snow one flake at a time, and maybe I just witnessed the first flake melting. - Amir Khaled Hosseini
spring heart eagles
Out of my deeper heart a bird rose and flew skywards. Higher and higher did it rise, yet larger and larger did it grow. At first it was but like a swallow, then a lark, then an eagle, then as vast as a spring cloud, and then it filled the starry heavens. Out of my heart a bird flew skywards. And it waxed larger as it flew. Yet it left not my heart. Khalil Gibran
spring believe heart
If winter should say, 'Spring is in my heart,' who would believe winter?
spring drinking water
Would that I were a dry well, and that the people tossed stones into me, for that would be easier than to be a spring of flowing water that the thirsty pass by, and from which they avoid drinking.
spring heart winter
In every winter's heart there is a quivering spring, and behind the veil of each night there is a shining dawn.
spring government order
ZEN is MEDITATION. ARCHY is Social Order. ZENARCHY is the Social Order which springs from Meditation. As a doctrine, it holds Universal Enlightenment a prerequisite to abolition of the State, after which a State will inevitably vanish. Or - that failing - nobody will give a damn. Kerry Thornley
spring years wind
Indoors or out, no one relaxes in March, that month of wind and taxes, the wind will presently disappear, the taxes last us all the year.
spring fall weather
As far as preference between fall and spring collections, I have none that I prefer to design. With fall you have a lot more items, but of course I am from the Dominican Republic, so I love the warm weather. Oscar de la Renta
spring flower cutting
Nothing says spring like hand-cut flowers.
spring tree age
And if I should live to be The last leaf upon the tree In the spring, Let them smile, as I do now, At the old forsaken bough Where I cling. Oliver Wendell Holmes
spring moon bird
April 19 And now it is spring. Birds are singing. Wistful notes and jubilant. And bare streets and no need for coats, and skipping ropes and bicycles and a thin new moon. Elizabeth Smart