Spring Quotes

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.

I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress.

Rebellion without truth is like spring in a bleak, arid desert.

The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in good education.

Fantastic! Right in the middle of that long stretch between Christmas and Spring Break, your coats are getting dirty, everything's dark, dingy - what a great time for a movie!

Dogwoods are great optimists. Daffodils wait and see, crouching firmly underground just in case spring doesn't come this year, but dogwoods have faith.

Never yet was a springtime, when the buds forgot to bloom.

The soft mellow warble of the bluebird, heard at its best throughout spring and early summer, is one of the sweetest, most confiding and loving sounds in nature.

Knowledge will not be acquired without pains and application. It is troublesome and deep, digging for pure waters; but when once you come to the spring, they rise up and meet you.

The old Chinese proverb springs to mind - No pain, no gain.

Summer makes me drowsy. Autumn makes me sing. Winter's pretty lousy, but I hate Spring.

There is nothing like the first hot days of spring when the gardener stops wondering if it's too soon to plant the dahlias and starts wondering if it's too late.

Saints spring and thrive most internally, when they are most externally afflicted. Afflictions are the mother of virtue.

Love is a lock that linketh noble minds, Faith is the key that shuts the spring of love.

The falling leaf that tells of autumn's death is, in a subtler sense, a prophecy of spring.

In June as many as a dozen species may burst their buds on a single day. No man can heed all of these anniversaries; no man can ignore all of them.

however long we have to live, there are never enough springs.

Don't forget it's daylight savings time. You spring forward, then you fall back. It's like Robert Downey Jr. getting out of bed.

But I think happiness springs from another source, a far deeper one that doesn't depend on will because it comes from love.

I enjoy the spring more than the autumn now. One does, I think, as one gets older.

All the ills of mankind spring from belonging to a race, a nation, a city, a group of some kind. The ideal would be to belong to none, and to care for allbut who is capable of that?

All desire springs from a lack, which it strives continually to fill.

Unfortunately there is nothing more inane than an Easter carol. It is a religious perversion of the activity of Spring in our blood.

Borscht is more than a soup, it's a weather vane. When my family says they want hot borscht I know winter is coming, and when they want cold borscht I know how far can spring be behind?

True goodness springs from a man's own heart. All men are born good.

When design springs from an understanding of the people who are going to use a product, you begin to see forms that you would never have imagined.

Oh, Spring! I want to go out and feel you and get inspiration. My old things seem dead. I want fresh contacts, more vital searching.

As long as the Earth can make a spring every year, I can.

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.

Often the best in us springs from the worst in us.

This fair but pitiless city of Manhattan was without a soul ... its inhabitants were manikins moved by wires and springs.

Cheers for spring; for life; for a growing soul.

Watch the thought and its ways with care, and let it spring from love born out of concern for all beings.

I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my eyes and all is born again.

Thine eyes are springs in whose serene And silent waters heaven is seen. Their lashes are the herbs that look On their young figures in the brook.

Much earnest philosphical thought is born of the life which springs from close association with nature.

Education is not acquisition of burdensome information regarding objects and men. It is the awareness of the immortal spirit within,, which is the spring of joy, peace and courage.

Spring makes everything young again except man.

I went to Communism as one goes to a spring of fresh water, and I left Communism as one clambers out of a poisoned river strewn with the wreckage of flooded cities and the corpses of the drowned.

Can words describe the fragrance of the very breath of spring - that delicious commingling of the perfume of arbutus, the odor of pines, and the snow - soaked soil just warming into life.

I have been all men known to history, Wondering at the world and at time passing; I have seen evil, and the light blessing Innocent love under a spring sky.

Science has never drummed up quite as effective a tranquilizing agent as a sunny spring day.

... the spring, the summer, The chilling autumn, angry winter, change Their wonted liveries; and the mazed world By their increase, now knows not which is which.

I know there will be spring, as surely as the birds know it when they see above the snow two tiny, quivering green leaves. Spring cannot fail us.

Sweet spring, full of sweet days and roses, a box where sweets compacted lie.

Certain springs are tapped only when you're alone.

Oh, Spring is surely coming, Her couriers fill the air; Each morn are new arrivals, Each night her ways prepare; I scent her fragrant garments, Her foot is on the stair.

I spring train in the winter, around early December...

It is our less conscious thoughts and our less conscious actions which mainly mould our lives and the lives of those who spring from us.

Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.