Famous Quotes & Sayings

Christopher Marlowe

Virtue is the fount whence honour springs.

Christopher McDougall

Extreme heroism springs from something that no scientific theory can fully explain; it's an illogical impulse that flies in the face of biology, psychology, actuarial statistics, and basic common sense.

Christopher Meloni

I love feeling the crispness of fall and the sensuality of spring.

Christopher Morley

April prepares her green traffic light and the world thinks Go.

Anne Bradstreet

The spring is a lively emblem of the Resurrection.

Anne Bradstreet

If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant.

Daniel Boone

Let peace, descending from her native heaven, bid her olives spring amidst the joyful nations; and plenty, in league with commerce, scatter blessings from her copious hand!

Clive Barker

Nothing ever begins. There is no first moment; no single word or place from which this or any story springs. The threads can always be traced back to some earlier tale, and the tales that preceded that; though as the narrator's voice recedes the connections will seem to grow more tenuous, for each age will want the tale told as if it were of its own making.

e. e. cummings

who knows if the moon's a balloon,coming out of a keen city in the sky--filled with pretty people? ( and if you and I should get into it,if they should take me and take you into their balloon, why then we'd go up higher with all the pretty people than houses and steeples and clouds: go sailing away and away sailing into a keen city which nobody's ever visited,where always it's Spring)and everyone's in love and flowers pick themselves

e. e. cummings

because it's Spring thingS dare to do people (& not the other way round)because it 's A pril Lives lead their own persons(in stead of everybodyelse's)but what's wholly marvellous my Darling is that you & i are more than you & i(be ca us e It's we)

e. e. cummings

So, when kiss Spring comes we'll kiss each kiss other on kiss the kiss lips because tic clocks tock don't make a toctic difference to kisskiss you and to kiss me.

e. e. cummings

Always it’s Spring)and everyone’s in love and flowers pick themselves.

e. e. cummings

wholly to be a fool while Spring is in the world my blood approves, and kisses are a far better fate than wisdom lady i swear by all flowers.

e. e. cummings

since feeling is first who pays any attention to the syntax of things will never wholly kiss you; wholly to be a fool while Spring is in the world my blood approves, and kisses are a far better fate than wisdom lady i swear by all flowers. Don't cry --the best gesture of my brain is less than your eyelids' flutter which says we are for eachother: then laugh, leaning back in my arms for life's not a paragraph And death i think is no parenthesis

e. e. cummings

In just - Spring when the world is mud- luscious the little lame balloonman whistles far and wee

e. e. cummings

it's spring when the world is puddle-wonderful

e. e. cummings

It is with roses and locomotives (not to mention acrobats Spring electricity Coney Island the 4th of July the eyes of mice and Niagara Falls) that my poems are competing.

E. B. White

The first day of spring was once the time for taking the young virgins into the fields, there in dalliance to set an example in fertility for nature to follow. Now we just set the clocks an hour ahead and change the oil in the crankcase.

Du Fu

My heart is in a world of water and crystal, My clothes are damp in this time of spring rains.

Donald Trump

People are amazed because I don't get much with the colds. Sometimes in the spring or in the fall, I'll get a little hay fever. And that comes and goes.

Andrew Carnegie

A library outranks any other one thing a community can do to benefit its people. It is a never failing spring in the desert.

Andrei Codrescu

These are the poems of a traveler and a lover who feels both the terror of time passing and the consolation of eternity. From such tension spring lovely poetic objects, ready for intelligent use.

Ally Condie

Red is the first color of spring. It's the real color of rebirth. Of beginning.

Anthony Daniels

Cruelty is like hope: it springs eternal.

Anthony de Mello

Love springs from awareness.

Anne Spencer

Heaven's Virginia when the year's at its Spring.

Anna Letitia Barbauld

The first pale blossom of the unripened year.

Anne Rivers Siddons

Walter loves the sea, and I need it in some elemental way that I cannot even come close to verbalizing. I become dim and shriveled somehow at my very core if I am away from the sea too long. When I return to it I seem to fill up and overflow with it, soaking in the vast, sighing wetness of it like a parched vine in a long, soft spring rain.

Andre Maurois

The need to express one's self in writing springs from a maladjustment of life, or from an inner conflict which the adolescent (or the grown man) cannot resolve in action.

Andre Maurois

The need to express oneself in writing springs from a mal-adjustment to life, or from an inner conflict which the adolescent (or the grown man) cannot resolve in action. Those to whom action comes as easily as breathing rarely feel the need to break loose from the real, to rise above, and describe it... I do not mean that it is enough to be maladjusted to become a great writer, but writing is, for some, a method of resolving a conflict, provided they have the necessary talent.

Ambrose Bierce

Spring beckons! All things to the call respond; the trees are leaving and cashiers abscond.

Ambrose Bierce

Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization.

Anthony Kiedis

I was like a clock that had exploded- my springs were hanging out, my hands were cockeyed, and my numbers were falling off.