Spring Quotes

The very idea of true patriotism is lost, and the term has been prostituted to the very worst of purposes. A patriot, sir! Why, patriots spring up like mushrooms!

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

The month of May was come, when every lusty heart beginneth to blossom, and to bring forth fruit.

A warm, rainy day-this is how it feels when friends get together. Friend refreshes friend then, as flowers do each others, in a spring rain.

What potent blood hath modest May.

Crimes spring from fixed ideas.

I am confident that there truly is such a thing as living again, that the living spring from the dead, and that the souls of the dead are in existence.

Autumn is a season followed immediately by looking forward to spring.

You ought to know that October is the first Spring month.

When spring comes to Paris the humblest mortal alive must feel that he dwells in paradise.

Spring seems far off, impossible, but it is coming. Already there is dusk instead of darkness at five in the afternoon; already hope is stirring at the edges of the day.

It is autumn; not without But within me is the cold. Youth and spring are all about; It is I that have grown old.

I just did an interview where I was asked whether I drink beer or whisky, and I was sad to reveal that I'm pounding spring water.

What is evil?-Whatever springs from weakness.

I don't worry about playing basketball; that comes natural. I just want to have fun. David Robinson, Patrick Ewing, Michael Jordan: this is like spring break in the ghetto.

The older I grow the more do I love spring and spring flowers. Is it so with you?

Who are the violets now That strew the lap of the new-come spring?

O'er Egypt's land of memory floods are level, And they are thine, O Nile! and well thou knowest The soul-sustaining airs and blasts of evil, And fruits, and poisons spring where'er thou flowest.

Spring, summer, and fall fill us with hope; winter alone reminds us of the human condition.

This is my best time of the year (spring training). Heck, once the season starts, I go to work.

I look forward to the spring vegetables because the season is so short. Mushrooms, edible foraged herbs, wild leeks, early season asparagus.

In the spring or summer, I like going to the Hamptons or Fire Island. Anywhere I can hear waves, I'm there.

Nothing ever begins. There is no first moment; no single word or place from which this or any other story springs.

The will to do springs from the knowledge that we can do.

The flowers anew, returning seasons bring; but beauty faded has no second spring.

With the advent of spring and beginning of the new harvest season the creators of abundance, our peasants, come out to the fields to sow with good aspirations and hopes.

The flowers or weeds that spring up tomorrow are in the seeds we sow today. The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions.

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.

Pity! Religion has so seldom found A skilful guide into poetic ground! The flowers would spring where'er she deign'd to stray And every muse attend her in her way.

Peaches grow wild, and pigs can live in clover; A barrel of salted herrings lasts a year; The spring begins before the winter's over.

When lilacs last in the dooryard bloom'd / And the great star early droop'd in the western sky in the night, / I mourn'd, and yet shall mourn with ever-returning spring.

In the journey of the year, the autumn is Venice, spring is Naples, certainly, and the majestic maturity of summer is Rome.

His Majesty [the Lord] . . . rewards great services with trials, and there can be no better reward, for out of trials springs love for God.

I am going to notice the lights of the earth, the sun and the moon and the stars, the lights of our candles as we march, the lights with which spring teases us, the light that is already present.

Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul; and the heart of man knoweth none more fragrant.

Youth is like spring, an over praised season more remarkable for biting winds than genial breezes. Autumn is the mellower season, and what we lose in flowers we more than gain in fruits.

When will they make a tractor that can furnish the manure for farm fields and produce a baby tractor every spring?

Passion is the force that springs an artist from the needling cushion of depression.

Love springs from awareness.

God is His own motive. His love is not drawn out by our loveableness, but wells up, like an artesian spring, from the depths of His nature.

Ye flowers that drop, forsaken by the spring, Ye birds that, left by summer, cease to sing, Ye trees that fade, when Autumn heats remove, Say, is not absence death to those who love?

Poor, dear, silly Spring, preparing her annual surprise!

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.

Nostalgia in reverse, the longing for yet another strange land, grew especially strong in spring.

At the best of times, spring hurts depressives.

All errors spring up in the neighborhood of some truth; they grow round about it, and, for the most part, derive their strength from such contiguity.

Coach (Bear) Bryant wanted to see who was tough in the spring, who he could count on in the fall.

Love: woman's eternal spring and man's eternal fall.

Jealousy springs more from love of self than from love of another.

Weep like the waterwheel, that green herbs may spring up from the courtyard of your soul. If you wish for tears, have mercy on one who sheds tears; if you wish mercy, show mercy to the weak.