Quotes about spring
spring blue years
Four ducks on a pond, / A grass-bank beyond, / A blue sky of spring, / White clouds on the wing: / What a little thing / To remember for years - / To remember with tears!. William Allingham
spring tree doe
A Poem does not grow by jerks. As trees in Spring produce a new ring of tissue, so does every poet put forth a fresh outlay of stuff at the same season. Wilfred Owen
spring jealous men
The jealous man is so preoccupied with what he hasn't got that he fails to appreciate the value of what he has got. He loses the ability to feel glad because the sun is shining. He doesn't see the wonder and the newness of the beginning of spring. William Ralph Inge
spring eye blue
The little windflower, whose just opened eye is blue as the spring heaven it gazes at. William C. Bryant
spring eye water
Thine eyes are springs in whose serene And silent waters heaven is seen. Their lashes are the herbs that look On their young figures in the brook.
spring lying june
I gazed upon the glorious sky And the green mountains round, And thought that when I came to lie At rest within the ground, 'Twere pleasant, that in flowery June When brooks send up a cheerful tune, And groves a joyous sound, The sexton's hand, my grave to make, The rich, green mountain-turf should break.
spring flower dies
Flowers spring up unsown and die ungathered.
spring sunshine bird
Showers and sunshine bring, Slowly, the deepening verdure o'er the earth; To put their foliage out, the woods are slack, And one by one the singing-birds come back.
spring men numbers
All political arrangements, in that they have to bring a variety of widely-discordant interests into unity and harmony, necessarily occasion manifold collisions. From these collisions spring misproportions between men's desires and their powers; and from these, transgressions. The more active the State is, the greater is the number of these. Wilhelm von Humboldt
spring energy results
Results are nothing; the energies which produce them and which again spring from them are everything.
spring men choices
Whatever does not spring from a man's free choice, or is only the result of instruction and guidance, does not enter into his very being, but still remains alien to his true nature; he does not perform it with truly human energies, but merely with mechanical exactness.
spring ascent pebbles
Merit has rarely risen of itself, but a pebble or a twig is often quite sufficient for it to spring from to the highest ascent. There is usually some baseness before there is any elevation. Walter Savage Landor
spring wine oil
Patience, piety, and salutary knowledge spring up and ripen under the harrow of affliction; before there is wine or oil, the grape must be trodden and the oil pressed.
spring causes fierce
Contentions fierce, Ardent, and dire, spring from no petty cause. Walter Scott
spring celestial sensibility
Sensibility is nature's celestial spring.
spring heart heaven
Tears are the softening showers which cause the seed of heaven to spring up in the human heart.
spring autumn tree
Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, you will vainly look for fruit on it in autumn.
spring loneliness loss
It cannot be doubted that theistic belief is a comfort and a solace to those who hold it, and that the loss of it is a very painful loss. It cannot be doubted, at least, by many of us in this generation, who either profess it now, or received it in our childhood and have parted from it since with such searching trouble as only cradle-faiths can cause. We have seen the spring sun shine out of an empty heaven, to light up a soulless earth; we have felt with utter loneliness that the Great Companion is dead. William Kingdon Clifford
spring failure enthusiasm
Success and happiness spring from facing failure after failure with enthusiasm. Winston Churchill
spring clouds youth
Not for no cold did freeze, Nor any cloud beguile Th'eternal flowering spring Torquato Tasso
spring training teammate
Spring training is for getting to know your teammates and forming a chemistry. I dont like it. Torii Hunter
spring player
I'm very confident my health isn't going to allow me to be a good player, especially in the spring. Steve Yzerman
spring heart night
Killing Lincoln is a must-read historical thriller. Bill O'Reilly recounts the dramatic events of the spring of 1865 with such exhilarating immediacy that you will feel like you are walking the streets of Washington DC on the night that John Wilkes Booth shot Abraham Lincoln. This is a hugely entertaining, heart-stopping read. Vince Flynn
spring bravery phases
Revolution is a phase, a mood, like spring, and just as spring has its buds and showers, so revolution has its ebullience, its bravery, its hope, and its solidarity. Some of these things pass. Rebecca Solnit
spring new-beginnings cutting
New beginnings and new shoots Spring again from hidden roots Pull or stab or cut or burn, Love must ever yet return. Robert Graves
spring believe heart
The Unitarian Church has done more than any other church to substitute character for creed, and to say that a man should be judged by his spirit; by the climate of his heart; by the autumn of his generosity; by the spring of his hope; that he should be judged by what he does; by the influence that he exerts, rather than by the mythology he may believe. Robert Green Ingersoll
spring fall acceptance
The falling leaf that tells of autumn's death is, in a subtler sense, a prophecy of spring.
spring heart eye
Spring is the season of gaiety, and winter of terror; in spring the heart of tranquility dances to the melody of the groves, and the eye of benevolence sparkles at the sight of happiness and plenty: in winter, compassion melts at universal calamity, and the tear of softness starts at the wailing of hunger and the cries of the creation in distress Samuel Johnson
spring flower autumn
Of the blessings set before you make your choice, and be content. No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of the spring: no man can, at the same time, fill his cup from the source and from the mouth of the Nile.
spring path originality
From thee, great God, we spring, to thee we tend,- Path, motive, guide, original, and end.
spring abiding-faith liberty
Our liberty springs from and depends upon an abiding faith in God. Ronald Reagan
spring heart great-things
I wasn't a great communicator, but I communicated great things, and they didn't spring full-bloom from my brow - they came from the heart of a great nation.
spring finals rotation
The end is near," Moridin said. "The Wheel has groaned its final rotation, the clock has lost its spring, the serpent heaves its final gasps. Robert Jordan