Quotes about spring
spring vigor orthodox
A heresy can spring only from a system that is in full vigor. Eric Hoffer
spring men white
God has given the salt lick to the deer; and He has given to man, red-skin and white, the delicious spring at which to slake his thirst. James F. Cooper
spring men a-man-thinketh
As the plant springs from, and could not be without, the seed, so every act of man springs from the hidden seeds of thought, and could not have appeared without them. James Allen
spring ideas track
Scepticism, like wisdom, springs out in full panoply only from the brain of a god, and it is little profit to see an idea in its growth, unless we track its seed to the power which sowed it. James Anthony Froude
spring moving winter
In winter, I plot and plan. In spring, I move. Henry Rollins
spring preparation heat
Early spring is the time for vigorous change, a preparation for the heat-driven oppression that is to come.
spring fall years
Spring and fall, those are very inspiring times of the year for me.
spring huffy trams
And always Melbourne, Melbourne, Melbourne, over and over the same photo in glaring greens and reds, of a tram, huffy, blunderous, manoeuvring itself with pole akimbo round the tight corner where Bourke Street enters Spring. Helen Garner
spring real past
At the beginning of this marvelous era it was natural to expect, and it was expected, that laborsaving inventions would lighten the toil and improve the condition of the laborer; that the enormous increase in the power of producing wealth would make real poverty a thing of the past... From Progress and Poverty, To those who, seeing the vice and misery that spring from the unequal distribution of wealth and privilege, feel the possibility of a higher social state and would strive for its attainment. Henry George
spring quality social
The quality of life, which in the ardour of spring was personal and sexual, becomes social in midsummer. Henry Beston
spring hero men
On the whole, my respect for my fellow-men, except as one may outweigh a million, is not being increased these days.... Such do not know that like the seed is the fruit, and that, in the moral world, when good seed is planted, good fruit is inevitable, and does not depend on our watering and cultivating; that when you plant, or bury, a hero in his field, a crop of heroes is sure to spring up. This is a seed of such force and vitality, that it does not ask our leave to germinate. Henry David Thoreau
spring winter gentle-rain
We loiter in winter while it is already spring.
spring opportunity should-have
One attraction in coming to the woods to live was that I should have leisure and opportunity to see the spring come in.
spring immortality
Spring-an experience in immortality.
spring believe cutting
Though I do not believe that a plant will spring up where no seed has been, I have great faith in a seed. Convince me that you have a seed there, and I am prepared to expect wonders.
spring winter men
They were pleasant spring days, in which the winter of man's discontent was thawing as well as the earth, and the life that had lain torpid began to stretch itself.
spring etc events
Events, circumstances, etc., have their origin in ourselves. They spring from seeds which we have sown.
spring fall tree
When the leaves of the strongest tree fall, spring is here. Henry Ford
spring butterfly air
April's air stirs in Willow-leaves...a butterfly Floats and balances Matsuo Basho
spring tree cherry-blossom
The oak tree: not interested in cherry blossoms.
spring tree want
I want to do for you what the spring does for the cherry trees Pablo Neruda
spring flower dark
I will bring you flowers from the mountains, bluebells, dark hazels, and rustic baskets of kisses. I want to do with you what spring does with the cherry trees.
spring men oats
Besides that, when elsewhere the harvest of wheat is most abundant, there it comes up less by one-fourth than what you have sowed. There, methinks, it were a proper place for men to sow their wild oats, where they would not spring up. [Lat., Post id, frumenti quum alibi messis maxima'st Tribus tantis illi minus reddit, quam obseveris. Heu! istic oportet obseri mores malos, Si in obserendo possint interfieri.] Plautus
spring helping-others helping
Happiness springs from doing good and helping others. Plato
spring years hiking
A souvenir of those years is a small cottage on the cliffs of Cornwall, where Joyce and I spend a spring month every year, hiking and seeing friends. Philip Warren Anderson
spring great-love littles
True and great love springs out of great knowledge, and where you know little you can love but little or not at all. Leonardo da Vinci
spring team years
What motivates me is not one more championship, it is the challenge each year. I have just thoroughly enjoyed starting in spring with a new team and trying to put all the elements together to make a team. LaVell Edwards
spring years practice
I can honestly say that two weeks after the national championship year, I'd forgotten about it and started laying the groundwork for spring practice. And so every year, that's been the thing that's motivated me. . . .
spring winter gun
. . . the first spring in five free from the rumour of guns across the Channel, a spring anxious to make up for the cold winter, life bursting out after four years of death. All of England raised her face to the sun. . . Laurie R. King
spring flower farewell
It’s spring! Farewell To chills and colds! The blushing, girlish World unfolds Each flower, leaf And blade of sod— Small letters sent To her from God. John Updike
spring heart winter
But perhaps age has taught me that the earth is still new, molten at the core and still forming, that black leaves in the winter forest will crawl with life in the spring, that our story is ongoing and it is indeed a crime to allow the heart's energies to dissipate with the fading of light on the horizon. James Lee Burke
spring may fraud
May is a pious fraud of the almanac. James Russell Lowell
spring flower evil
Evil springs up, and flowers, and bears no seed, And feeds the green earth with its swift decay, Leaving it richer for the growth of truth.