Spring Quotes

Would that I were a dry well, and that the people tossed stones into me, for that would be easier than to be a spring of flowing water that the thirsty pass by, and from which they avoid drinking.

None of us is certain about the outcome of the Arab Spring.

After the navy, I transferred to Harvard and finished there. I was there the spring term of 1951 and I stayed through the summer term and a whole other year, so I was able to do two years in a little less than a year and a half.

The true harbinger of spring is not crocuses or swallows returning to Capistrano, but the sound of the bat on the ball.

No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of spring.

I drank the silence of God from a spring in the woods.

Chicago is an October sort of city even in spring.

The beautiful spring came; and when Nature resumes her loveliness, the human soul is apt to revive also.

Spring beckons! All things to the call respond; the trees are leaving and cashiers abscond.

In the Spring, I have counted 136 different kinds of weather inside of 24 hours.

The Barks of Trees are best gathered in the Spring, if it be of great Trees, as Oaks or the like, because then they come easiest off, and so you may dry them if you please, but indeed your best way is to gather all Barks only for present use.

So the ideology was that: use sounds as instruments, as sounds on tape, without the causality. It was no longer a clarinet or a spring or a piano, but a sound with a form, a development, a life of its own.

The truth is that our way of celebrating the Christmas season does spring from myriad cultures and sources, from St. Nicholas to Coca-Cola advertising campaigns.

You mean guys don't get injured in spring training? Guys get hurt walking down the street.

We may not all break the Ten Commandments, but we are certainly all capable of it. Within us lurks the breaker of all laws, ready to spring out at the first real opportunity.

From labour health, from health contentment spring; contentment opes the source of every joy.

We expect to keep our writing sessions going until late spring, then to play some new material in a few secret club dates. The record will likely take a long time and may not surface until 1999!

Great literature must spring from an upheaval in the author's soul. If that upheaval is not present then it must come from the works of any other author which happens to be handy and easily adapted.

In spring they lie flat at the first warmth, they ruin my summer and in autumn they smell of women.

Autumn arrives in early morning, but spring at the close of a winter day.

It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn.

The day the Lord created hope was probably the same day he created Spring.

Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.

From the streets of Cairo and the Arab Spring, to Occupy Wall Street, from the busy political calendar to the aftermath of the tsunami in Japan, social media was not only sharing the news but driving it.

I had always planned to make a large painting of the early spring, when the first leaves are at the bottom of the trees, and they seem to float in space in a wonderful way. But the arrival of spring can't be done in one picture.

I like to express certain things that happen in my life, the joy of spring, the birds singing and young babies coming into the world. You know, the whole thing as well as the part I'm not happy with, the sad part.

When we finished the tour we had been writing together for a year. We moved forward from there and have just now finished our record. We're having a new record out in the Spring.

I love playing this game and every spring training feels like the first.

The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us.

Earth teach me to forget myself as melted snow forgets its life. Earth teach me resignation as the leaves which die in the fall. Earth teach me courage as the tree which stands all alone. Earth teach me regeneration as the seed which rises in the spring.