Quotes about spring
spring memorable dark
The change from storm and winter to serene and mild weather, from dark and sluggish hours to bright and elastic ones, is a memorable crisis which all things proclaim. It is seemingly instantaneous at last. Henry David Thoreau
spring ice fishing
The fishermen say that the "thundering of the pond" scares the fishes and prevents their biting. Henry David Thoreau
spring men confusion
Let a man take time enough for the most trivial deed, though it be but the paring of his nails. The buds swell imperceptibly, without hurry or confusion,--as if the short spring days were an eternity. Henry David Thoreau
spring years sparrows
The first sparrow of spring! The year beginning with younger hope than ever!... What at such a time are histories, chronologies, traditions, and all written revelations? The brooks sing carols and glees to the spring. Henry David Thoreau
spring dust earth
Sphere Music - Some sounds seem to reverberate along the plain, and then settle to earth again like dust; such are Noise, Discord, Jargon. But such only as spring heavenward, and I may catch from steeples and hilltops in their upward course, which are the more refined parts of the former, are the true sphere music - pure, unmixed music - in which no wail mingles. Henry David Thoreau
spring exercise sauntering
If you would get exercise, go in search of the springs of life. Henry David Thoreau
spring men plant
Shall a man not have his spring as well as the plants? Henry David Thoreau
spring squirrels firsts
The first pleasant days of spring come out like a squirrel and go in again. Henry David Thoreau
spring years sparrows
The first sparrow of spring! The year beginning with younger hope than ever! Henry David Thoreau
spring may fans
Spring. March fans it, April christens it, and May puts on its jacket and trousers. Henry David Thoreau
spring firsts dawn
No mortal is alert enough to be present at the first dawn of spring. Henry David Thoreau
spring firsts
How imperceptibly the first springing takes place! Henry David Thoreau
spring flower men
The foul slime stands for the sloth and vice of man, the decay of humanity; the fragrant flower that springs from it, for the purity and courage which are immortal. Henry David Thoreau
spring age realization
As every season seems best to us in its turn, so the coming in of spring is like the creation of Cosmos out of Chaos and the realization of the Golden Age. Henry David Thoreau
spring wind snow
As a snow-drift is formed where there is a lull in the wind, so, one would say, where there is a lull of truth, an institution springs up. Henry David Thoreau
spring weather june
It is dry, hazy June weather. We are more of the earth, farther from heaven these days. Henry David Thoreau
spring blow length
Where there is a lull of truth, an institution springs up. But the truth blows right on over it, nevertheless, and at length blows it down. Henry David Thoreau
spring rome water
The most interesting thing which I heard of, in this township of Hull, was an unfailing spring, whose locality was pointed out tome on the side of a distant hill, as I was panting along the shore, though I did not visit it. Perhaps, if I should go through Rome, it would be some spring on the Capitoline Hill I should remember the longest. Henry David Thoreau
spring winter sun
Tis now the twenty-third of march, And this warm sun takes out the starch Of winter's pinafore - Methinks The Very pasture gladly drinks A health to spring, and while it sips It faintly smacks a myriad lips. Henry David Thoreau
spring men air
At first we will only skim the surface of the earth like young starlings, but soon, emboldened by practice and experience, we will spring into the air with the impetuousness of the eagle, diverting ourselves by watching the childish behavior of the little men or awling miserably around on the earth below us. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
spring men weakness
The man who discovers a woman's weakness is like the huntsman in the heat of the day who finds a cool spring. He wallows in it. Jean Giraudoux
spring artist rose
When the Divine Artist would produce a poem, He plants a germ of it in a human soul, and out of that soul the poem springs and grows as from the rose-tree the rose. James A. Garfield
spring dna hollywood
Washington and Hollywood spring from the same DNA. Jack Valenti
spring dark shining
Anytime new insight replaces an old assumption or a fossilized perception is the spring. New understandings sprout, new tolerances appear, and new curiosity draws you to previously dark places. Just as the sun shines earlier and longer in the spring, changes that seemed impossible appear to be possible with each new insight into your own health. Gary Zukav
spring years creating
The spring wakes us, nurtures us and revitalizes us. How often does your spring come? If you are a prisoner of the calendar, it comes once a year. If you are creating authentic power, it comes frequently, or very frequently. Gary Zukav
spring kids winning
I got that nickname my first spring training camp with the Expos in 1974. Tim Foli, Ken Singleton and Mike Jorgensen started calling me 'Kid' because I was trying to win every sprint. I was trying to hit every pitch out of the park. Gary Carter
spring cutting use
I'd come to realize that all our troubles spring from our failure to use plain, clear-cut language. Jean-Paul Sartre
spring government law
A properly functioning free market system does not spring spontaneously from society's soil as crabgrass springs from suburban lawns. Rather, it is a complex creation of laws and mores... Capitalism is a government program. George Will
spring flower angel
There are so many tender and holy emotions flying about in our inward world, which, like angels, can never assume the body of an outward act; so many rich and lovely flowers spring up which bear no seed, that it is a happiness poetry was invented, which receives into its limbs all these incorporeal spirits, and the perfume of all these flowers. Jean Paul
spring ice water
Waitress: "And to drink?" Artemis: "Spring water. Irish, if you have it. And no ice, please. As your ice is no doubt made from tap water, which rather defeats the purpose of spring water. Eoin Colfer
spring good-man kind
Good manners spring from just one thing - kind impulses. Elsa Maxwell
spring heart air
There's so much spring in the air- there's so much lazy sweetness in your heart. F. Scott Fitzgerald
spring order dripping
But I suppose you must touch life in order to spring from it. F. Scott Fitzgerald