Quotes about spring
spring ignorance racism
Racism springs from ignorance. Mario Balotelli
spring food yellow
We would load up the yellow Cutlass Supreme station wagon and pick blackberries during blackberry season or spring onions during spring onion season. For us, food was part of the fabric of our day. Mario Batali
spring years joy
Now spring returns; but not to me returns The vernal joy my better years have known; Dim in my breast life's dying taper burns, And all the joys of life with health have flown. Michael Bruce
spring return
Now Spring returns; but not to me returns. Michael Bruce
spring promise silent
Each of us is a seed, a silent promise, and it is always Spring. Merle Shain
spring cutting arrogance
Arrogance rides triumphantly through the gates, barely glancing at the old woman about to cut the rope and spring shut the trap. Mason Cooley
spring fall men
Incessant falls teach men to reform, and distress rouses their strength. Life springs from calamity, and death from ease. Mencius
spring men despair
Our greatest indulgence towards a man springs from our despair of him. Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
spring sleep waiting
Hope sleeps in our bones like a bear waiting for spring to rise and walk. Marge Piercy
spring winning men
I wish to preach not the doctrine of ignoble ease but the doctrine of the strenuous life; the life of toil and effort; of labour and strife; to preach that highest form of success which comes not to the man who desires mere easy peace but to the man who does not shrink from danger, from hardship, or from bitter toil, and who out of these wins the splendid ultimate triumph. A life of ignoble ease, a life of that peace which springs merely from lack either of desire or of power to strive after great things, is as little worthy of a nation as of an individual. Theodore Roosevelt
spring fall natural
James was truly an unknown quantity. He was really, physically drained in the spring and he got dinged in the fall. We brought him along slowly, but he has a great future. He's a natural receiver. Terry Hoeppner
spring humility home
Sir" said Mrs. Meade indignantly. "There are NO deserters in the Confederate army." "I beg your pardon," said Rhett with mock humility. "I meant those thousands on furlough who FORGOT to rejoin their regiments and those who have been over their wounds for six months but who remain at home, going about their usual business or doing the spring plowing. Margaret Mitchell
spring tired thinking
I think that the Almighty gave springtime to a tired world so that its peoples might know rest. I think that He gave it to a troubled world so that the world's inhabitants might find peace. I think He gave it to a discouraged world so that hope and faith might be reborn! Margaret Elizabeth Sangster
spring looks cleaning
I look forward to spring cleaning and putting things in their place. It's therapeutic for me. Kimora Lee Simmons
spring flower heart
YOUR HEART IS FULL of fertile seeds, waiting to sprout. Just as a lotus flower springs from the mire to bloom splendidly, the interaction of the cosmic breath causes the flower of the spirit to bloom and bear fruit in this world. Morihei Ueshiba
spring shining bird
When the groundhog casts his shadow And the small birds sing And the pussywillows happen And the sun shines warm And when the peepers peep Then it is Spring Margaret Wise Brown
spring flower kissing
Every kiss provokes another. Oh, in those earliest days of love how naturally the kisses spring to life! So closely, in their profusion, do they crowd together that lovers would find it as hard to count the kisses exchanged in an hour as to count the flowers in a meadow in May... Marcel Proust
spring intelligent people
Nine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect. Marcel Proust
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. . . . LaVell Edwards
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. James Russell Lowell
spring believe past
O thou, whose days are yet all spring, Faith, blighted once, is past retrieving; Experience is a dumb, dead thing; The victory's in believing. James Russell Lowell
spring pride negative
Pride of origin, whether high or low, springs from the same principle in human nature; one is but the positive, the other the negative, pole of a single weakness. James Russell Lowell
spring years space
The incurable optimism of the farmer who throws his seed on the ground every spring, betting it and his time against the elements, seemed inextricably to blend with the creed of her pioneer forefathers that "it is better farther on"-- only instead of farther on in space, it was farther on in time, over the horizon of the years ahead instead of the far horizon of the west. Laura Ingalls Wilder
spring yesterday miracle
Yesterday the twig was brown and bare; To-day the glint of green is there; Tomorrow will be leaflets spare; I know no thing so wondrous fair, No miracle so strangely rare. I wonder what will next be there! Liberty Hyde Bailey
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. Henry Rollins
spring fall years
Spring and fall, those are very inspiring times of the year for me. Henry Rollins
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