Quotes about spring
spring joy taste
Taste the joy That springs from labor. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
spring autumn youth
It is autumn; not without But within me is the cold. Youth and spring are all about; It is I that have grown old.
spring artist essentials
The essential thing is to spring forth, to express the bolt of lightning one senses upon contact with a thing. The function of the artist is not to translate an observation but to express the shock of the object on his nature; the shock, with the original reaction. Henri Matisse
spring taken years
Tell Greece that her spring has been taken out of her year. Herodotus
spring flower may
The early bees are assaulting and fumbling the flowers: They call it 'easing the Spring.' Henry Reed
spring flower slides
We can slide it Rapidly backwards and forwards: we call this Easing the spring. And rapidly backwards and forwards The early bees are assaulting and fumbling the flowers: They call it easing the Spring.
spring eye azure
The eyes of spring, so azure, Are peeping from the ground; They are the darling violets, That I in nosegays bound. Heinrich Heine
spring eye night
The beauteous eyes of the spring's fair night With comfort are downward gazing.
spring water icicles
Music comes from an icicle as it melts, to live again as spring water. Henry Williamson
spring years purple
You violets that first appear, By your pure purple mantles known, Like the proud virgins of the year, As if the spring were all your own — What are you when the rose is blown? Henry Wotton
spring thinking source
But I think happiness springs from another source, a far deeper one that doesn't depend on will because it comes from love. Henryk Sienkiewicz
spring harmony discord
The fairest harmony springs from discord. Heraclitus
spring heart men
We are not to make the ideas of contentment and aspiration quarrel, for God made them fast friends. A man may aspire, and yet be quite content until it is time to raise; and both flying and resting are but parts of one contentment. The very fruit of the gospel is aspiration. It is to the heart what spring is to the earth, making every root, and bud, and bough desire to be more. Henry Ward Beecher
spring men feelings
Unfruitful emotion is to be suspected. Feeling acts as an impulse, as a spur, as a spring, and when feelings are excited, and they put nothing forward, they are sometimes even dangerous to a man.
spring tree cows
Maple-trees are the cows of trees (spring-milked).
spring men imagination
A practical, matter-of-fact man is like a wagon without springs: every single pebble on the road jolts him; but a man with imagination has springs that break the jar and jolt.
spring laughing religion
Of all joyful, smiling, ever-laughing experiences, there are none like those which spring from true religion.
spring men wish
You may say, "I wish to send this ball so as to kill the lion crouching yonder, ready to spring upon me. My wishes are all right, and I hope Providence will direct the ball." Providence won't. You must do it; and if you do not, you are a dead man.
spring writing self
By writing her self, woman will return to the body which has been more than confiscated from her, which has been turned into the uncanny stranger on display - the ailing or dead figure, which so often turns out to be the nasty companion, the cause and location of inhibitions. Censor the body and you censor breath and speech at the same time. Write your self. Your body must be heard. Only then will the immense resources of the unconscious spring forth. Helene Cixous
spring flower glowing
The bed of flowers Loosens amain, The beauteous snowdrops Droop o'er the plain. The crocus opens Its glowing bud, Like emeralds others, Others, like blood. With saucy gesture Primroses flare, And roguish violets, Hidden with care; And whatsoever There stirs and strives, The Spring's contented, If works and thrives. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
spring true-happiness moderation
True happiness springs from moderation. [Ger., Aus Massigkeit entspringt ein reines Gluck.]
spring roots views
Our virtues and view spring from one root.
spring book years
So then the year is repeating its old story again. We are come once more, thank God! to its most charming chapter. The violets and the Mayflowers are as its inscriptions or vignettes. It always makes a pleasant impression on us, when we open again at these pages of the book of life.
spring winter destiny
Our destiny often looks like a fruit-tree in winter. Who would think from its pitiable aspect that those rigid boughs, those rough twigs could next spring again be green, bloom, and even bear fruit? Yet we hope it, we know it.
spring true-happiness moderation
True happiness springs from moderation.
spring character responsibility
People with self-respect exhibit a certain toughness, a kind of moral nerve; they display what was once called *character,* a quality which, although approved in the abstract, sometimes loses ground to the other, more instantly negotiable virtues.... character--the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life--is the source from which self-respect springs. Joan Didion
spring america people
It was the United States of America in the cold late spring of 1967, and the market was steady and the G.N.P. high and a great many articulate people seemed to have a sense of high social purpose and it might have been a spring of brave hopes and national promise, but it was not, and more and more people had the uneasy apprehension that it was not.
spring twilight heart
Thick February mists cling heavily To the dead earth and to each leafless tree, And closer down upon the hilltops draw, Dull forecasts there of bright, sure-coming spring; Yet the heart gathers hope and strange delight From this dear, unlovely, wished-for sight Of leaden-misted twilights lengthening. Emma Lazarus
spring dirty dark
Fantastic! Right in the middle of that long stretch between Christmas and Spring Break, your coats are getting dirty, everything's dark, dingy - what a great time for a movie! John Hughes
spring roots growth
True religion is slow in growth, and, when once planted, is difficult of dislodgement; but its intellectual counterfeit has no root in itself: it springs up suddenly, it suddenly withers. John Henry Newman
spring worked
That's a play we worked on in spring training, Joe Torre
spring ocean water
True knowledge is a virtue of the talented, but harmful to those without discernment. Spring water free of impurity, entering the ocean, becomes undrinkable.
spring thinking years
The Arab Spring I think we will look back whether it's two years, five years, ten or fifteen. And say it's a good thing.