Quotes about spring
spring rain heart
My heart is in a world of water and crystal, My clothes are damp in this time of spring rains. Du Fu
spring worst
Often the best in us springs from the worst in us. Andre Gide
spring book sleep
[Books] may sleep for a while and be neglected; but whenever the desire of information springs up in the human breast, there they are with mild wisdom ready to instruct and please us. Ann Plato
spring youth betray
Much education springs from some image of the future. If the image of the future held by a society is grossly inaccurate, its education system will betray its youth. Alvin Toffler
spring thinking government
Time and again-from the collapse of the Soviet Union to the events of 9/11 to the onset of the Arab Spring-events have caught the experts, whether in government or on the outside, completely by surprise. Business owners with comparable performance records go bust. Brokers lose their clients. Physicians get sued for malpractice. Yet think-tankers and policy wonks continue to opine, never pausing to reflect on-or apologize for-their spotty records. Andrew Bacevich
spring ideas drunk
Want to talk third wave feminism, you could cite Ariel Levy and the idea that women have internalized male oppression. Going to spring break at Fort Lauderdale, getting drunk, and flashing your breasts isn't an act of personal empowerment. It's you, so fashioned and programmed by the construct of patriarchal society that you no longer know what's best for yourself. A damsel too dumb to even know she's in distress. Chuck Palahniuk
spring training looks
A young ballplayer looks on his first spring training trip as a stage struck young woman regards the theater. Christy Mathewson
spring keys virtue
Virtue is the fount whence honour springs. Christopher Marlowe
spring common-sense psychology
Extreme heroism springs from something that no scientific theory can fully explain; it's an illogical impulse that flies in the face of biology, psychology, actuarial statistics, and basic common sense. Christopher McDougall
spring fall feelings
I love feeling the crispness of fall and the sensuality of spring. Christopher Meloni
spring thinking light
April prepares her green traffic light and the world thinks Go. Christopher Morley
spring resurrection emblems
The spring is a lively emblem of the Resurrection. Anne Bradstreet
spring adversity winter
If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant.
spring people community
A library outranks any other one thing a community can do to benefit its people. It is a never failing spring in the desert. Andrew Carnegie
spring intelligent lovely
These are the poems of a traveler and a lover who feels both the terror of time passing and the consolation of eternity. From such tension spring lovely poetic objects, ready for intelligent use. Andrei Codrescu
spring real color
Red is the first color of spring. It's the real color of rebirth. Of beginning. Ally Condie
spring cruelty eternal
Cruelty is like hope: it springs eternal. Anthony Daniels
spring awareness
Love springs from awareness. Anthony de Mello
spring virginia years
Heaven's Virginia when the year's at its Spring. Anne Spencer
spring years firsts
The first pale blossom of the unripened year. Anna Letitia Barbauld
spring rain sea
Walter loves the sea, and I need it in some elemental way that I cannot even come close to verbalizing. I become dim and shriveled somehow at my very core if I am away from the sea too long. When I return to it I seem to fill up and overflow with it, soaking in the vast, sighing wetness of it like a parched vine in a long, soft spring rain. Anne Rivers Siddons
spring writing men
The need to express one's self in writing springs from a maladjustment of life, or from an inner conflict which the adolescent (or the grown man) cannot resolve in action. Andre Maurois
spring real writing
The need to express oneself in writing springs from a mal-adjustment to life, or from an inner conflict which the adolescent (or the grown man) cannot resolve in action. Those to whom action comes as easily as breathing rarely feel the need to break loose from the real, to rise above, and describe it... I do not mean that it is enough to be maladjusted to become a great writer, but writing is, for some, a method of resolving a conflict, provided they have the necessary talent.
spring tree leaving
Spring beckons! All things to the call respond; the trees are leaving and cashiers abscond. Ambrose Bierce
spring believe science
Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization.
spring fall hands
I was like a clock that had exploded- my springs were hanging out, my hands were cockeyed, and my numbers were falling off. Anthony Kiedis
spring littles tiny
I love those tiny little onions in the spring that are so small they're almost like a little chive. Alice Waters
spring years long
As long as the Earth can make a spring every year, I can. Alice Walker
spring flower garden
The grape Hyacinth is the favorite spring flower of my garden - but no! I though a minute ago the Scilla was! and what place has the Violet? the Flower de Luce? I cannot decide, but this I know - it is some blue flower. Alice Morse Earle
spring wind sky
Rich meanings of the prophet-Spring adorn, / Unseen, this colorless sky of folded showers, / And folded winds ... Alice Meynell
spring autumn clouds
Spring and autumn are inconsiderable events in a landscape compared with the shadows of a cloud.
spring book autumn
Shut up the door: who loves me must not look / Upon the withered world, but haste to bring / His lighted candle, and his story-book, / And live with me the poetry of spring. Alice Cary
spring community watches
The international community cannot stand by and watch the massacre of Libyan protesters. In Rwanda we watched. In Kosovo we acted. Anne-Marie Slaughter