Spring Quotes
Every year, back come Spring, with nasty little birds yapping their fool heads off and the ground all mucked up with plants.Dorothy Parke
If there comes a little thaw, Still the air is chill and raw, Here and there a patch of snow, Dirtier than the ground below, Dribbles down a marshy flood; Ankle - Deep you stick in mud In the meadows while you sing, This is Spring.Christopher Pearce Cranch, A Spring Growl
Talk not of wasted affection, affection never was wasted, If it enrich not the heart of another, its waters returning Back to their springs, like the rain shall fill them full of refreshment; That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain.Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
More than in any other performing arts the lack of respect for acting seems to spring from the fact that every layman considers himself a valid critic.Uta Hagan
Could Hamlet have been written by a committee, or the Mona Lisa painted by a club Could the New Testament have been composed as a conference report Creative ideas do not spring from groups. They spring from individuals. The divine spark leaps from the finger of God to the finger of Adam.A. Whitney Griswold
All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling.Oscar Wilde
A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs - - Jolted by every pebble in the road.Henry Ward Beeche
From lightest words sometimes the direst quarrel springs.Cato the Elde
She is not fair to outward view As many maidens be Her loveliness I never knew Until she smiled on me Oh then I saw her eye was bright, A well of love, a spring of light.Hartley Coleridge
There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From its springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Beauty is a form of genius - - Is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation. It is of the great facts in the world like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in dark water of that silver shell we call the moon.Oscar Wilde
Truth springs from argument amongst friends.David Hume
Spring is a true reconstructionist.Henry Timrod
Long stormy spring - Time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May but at length the season of summer does come.Thomas Carlyle
A generation of men is like a generation of leaves the wind scatters some leaves upon the ground, while others the burgeoning wood brings forth - And the season of spring comes on. So of men one generation springs forth and another ceases.Home
Where self - Interest is suppressed, it is replaced by a burdensome system of bureaucratic control that dries up the wellspring of initiative and creativity.Pope John Paul II
There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so absolutely terrifying, that even man, the fighter, who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death, will be appalled, and so abandon war forever.Thomas Alva Edison
The first glance at History convinces us that the actions of men proceed from their needs, their passions, their characters and talents and impresses us with the belief that such needs, passions and interests are the sole spring of actions.Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
We slew the goliath of raciism, but, we now must contend with his offspring.Rev. Jesse Jackson
Cruelty is like hope: it springs eternal.Dr. Anthony Daniels, The Observer (1998)
It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.Kahlil Gibran
The fountain of content must spring up in the mind, and he who hath so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition, will waste his life in fruitless efforts and multiply the grief he proposes to remove.Samuel Johnson
Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart.Victor Hugo
From the end spring new beginnings.Pliny the Elde
All theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green.Johann von Goethe
Happiness is like a sunbeam, which the least shadow intercepts, while adversity is often as the rain of spring.Chinese Prove
The people have always some champion whom they set over them and nurse into greatness... This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs when he first appears he is a protector.Plato
My life is music. And in some vague, mysterious, and subconscious way, I have always been driven by a taut inner spring which has propelled me to almost compulsively reach for perfection in music, often - - In fact, mostly - - At the expense of everything else in my life.Stan Getz
I repeat... that all power is a trust that we are accountable for its exercise that from the people, and for the people all springs, and all must exist.Benjamin Disraeli
Sit quiety, doing nothing, spring comes, and the grass grows by itself.Zen Prove
True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt; its essence is love. It issues not in laugther, but in still smiles, which lie far deeper.Thomas Carlyle
Springtime is the land awakening. The March winds are the morning yawn.Lewis Grizzard
The thought manifests as the word; The word manifests as the deed; The deed develops into habit; And habit hardens into character. So watch the thought and its ways with care, And let it spring from love Born out of concern for all beings.The Buddha
At least two - Thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religous or political ideas.Aldous Huxley
Apothegms to thinking minds are the seeds from which spring vast fields of new thought, that may be further cultivated, beautified, and enlarged.James Ramsey
If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant.Anne Bradstreet
The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in good education.Plutarch, Morals
