Quotes about spring
spring greed suffering
All human suffering springs from unbridled desire. Unless one extricates oneself from the clutch of greed, one will not free himself from the fetters of sorrow. Velupillai Prabhakaran
spring men sea
A man would know the end he goes to, but he cannot know it if he does not turn, and return to his beginning, and hold that beginning in his being. If he would not be a stick whirled and whelmed in the stream, he must be the stream itself, all of it, from its spring to its sinking in the sea. Ursula K. Le Guin
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 character hands
It is not with a rush and a spring that we are to reach Christ's character, and attain to perfect saintship; but step by step, foot by foot, hand over hand, we are slowly and often painfully to mount the ladder that rests on earth, and rises to heaven. Thomas Guthrie
spring progress brooks
From Helicon's harmonious springs A thousand rills their mazy progress take. Thomas Gray
spring wings taste
The insect-youth are on the wing, Eager to taste the honied spring, And float amid the liquid noon!
spring cuckoos harmony
The Attic warbler pours her throat, Responsive to the cuckoo's note, The untaught harmony of spring.
spring flower fall
Our judgment ripens; our imagination decays. We cannot at once enjoy the flowers of the Spring of life and the fruits of its Autumn. Thomas B. Macaulay
spring expression ideas
Propriety of thought and propriety of diction are commonly found together. Obscurity and affectation are the two greatest faults of style. Obscurity of expression generally springs from confusion of ideas; and the same wish to dazzle, at any cost, which produces affectation in the manner of a writer, is likely to produce sophistry in his reasonings.
spring moving watches
For seeing life is but a motion of Limbs... why may we not say, that all Automata (Engines that move themselves by springs and wheels as doth a watch) have an artificial life? Thomas Hobbes
spring men law
All men, among themselves, are by nature equal. The inequality we now discern hath its spring from the civil law.
spring delight
From heav'nly thoughts all true delight doth spring. Thomas Campion
spring shoes voice
March is a tomboy with tousled hair, a mischievous smile, mud on her shoes and a laugh in her voice. Hal Borland
spring winter forever
No Winter lasts forever, no Spring skips its turn. April is a promise that May is bound to keep, and we know it.
spring keeping-promises may
April is a promise that May is bound to keep.
spring rights grace
My rights all spring front an infinitely nobler source - from favor and grace of God. Gerrit Smith
spring garden land
I prayed only for a small piece of land, a garden, an ever-flowing spring, and bit of woods. Horace
spring citizens guarantees
To be a born American citizen seems a guarantee against pauperism; and this, perhaps, springs from the virtue of a vote. Herman Melville
spring green wags
Wag the world how it will, Leaves must be green in Spring.
spring ice wind
The opening of large tracts by the ice-cutters commonly causes a pond to break up earlier; for the water, agitated by the wind, even in cold weather, wears away the surrounding ice. Henry David Thoreau
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.
spring ice fishing
The fishermen say that the "thundering of the pond" scares the fishes and prevents their biting.
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.
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.
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.
spring exercise sauntering
If you would get exercise, go in search of the springs of life.
spring men plant
Shall a man not have his spring as well as the plants?
spring squirrels firsts
The first pleasant days of spring come out like a squirrel and go in again.
spring years sparrows
The first sparrow of spring! The year beginning with younger hope than ever!
spring may fans
Spring. March fans it, April christens it, and May puts on its jacket and trousers.
spring firsts dawn
No mortal is alert enough to be present at the first dawn of spring.
spring firsts
How imperceptibly the first springing takes place!