Spring Quotes

Our judgment ripens; our imagination decays. We cannot at once enjoy the flowers of the Spring of life and the fruits of its Autumn.

My rights all spring front an infinitely nobler source - from favor and grace of God.

What is all this juice and all this joy?

The four walls of paper are like a prison because every idea wants to spring out in all directions - everything is connected with everything else, sometimes more than others.

In spite of unseasonable wind, snow and unexpected weather of all sorts - a gardener still plants. And tends what they have planted ... believing that Spring will come.

Spring is my sweetheart.

A freshet in the autumn does not compensate for a drought in the spring.

Yet with these April sunsets, that somehow recall My buried life, and Paris in the spring, I feel immeasurably at peace, and find the world To be wonderful and youthful afterall

Of the infinite variety of fruits which spring from the bosom of the earth, the trees of the wood are the greatest in dignity.

I love baseball. I'll probably end up one of those old farts who go to spring training in Florida every year and drive from game to game all day.

I can't feel a thing; All mournful petal storms are dancing inside the very private spring of my head.

I was like a clock that had exploded- my springs were hanging out, my hands were cockeyed, and my numbers were falling off.

Falsehood is a perennial spring.

If I were a maker of perfumes, I would make one and call it 'Spring,' and it would smell like this cool, sweet, early-morning air.

I thought I could have leaped from earth to heaven at one spring when I first saw my sins drowned in the Redeemer's blood.

A lizard in the spring - hear his darling sing. A bird with wings to fly - go back to his darling weep and moan till he dies. A mole in the ground - root a mountain down.

I've been looking over the list of spring chores I made up last fall, and darned if they aren't fall chores, after all.

Something greater than the Iliad now springs to birth -Nescio quid maius nascitur Iliade

The greatest gift that Oxford gives her sons is, I truly believe, a genial irreverence toward learning, and from that irreverence love may spring.

When you drink of the water, don't forget the spring from which it flows.

Let yourself be silently drawn by the stronger pull of what you really love. In the depths there is a spring with all the water your heart is thirsty for.

The spring is a lively emblem of the Resurrection.

Love isn't like a reservoir. You'll never drain it dry. It's much more like a natural spring. The longer and farther it flows, the stronger and deeper and clearer it becomes.

See with your soul and not your eyes because to dance with the beasts you must penetrate their disguise.

The story must spring from an impression or perception pressing enough to have made the writer write. It should magnetize the imagination and give pleasure.

There is an energy which springs from sickness and debility: it has a more powerful effect than the real, but, sadly, expires in an even greater infirmity.

I watch the springs, the summers, the autumns; And when comes the winter snow monotonous, I shut all the doors and shutters To build in the night my fairy palace.

Spring's an expansive time: yet I don't trust March with its peck of dust, Nor April with its rainbow-crowned brief showers, Nor even May, whose flowers One frost may wither thro' the sunless hours.

My ideas are a curse. They spring from a radical discontent with the awful order of things. I play clown. I play carpenter. I play nurse. I play witch.

Ganguly is a very good leader. His return to the field brings a spring in the steps of the Indians. He is a great player.

Nothing can help me but that beauty. There was a dawn I remember when my soul heard something from your soul. I drank water from your spring and felt the current take me.

It was a perfect spring afternoon, and the air was filled with vague, roving scents, as if the earth exhaled the sweetness of hidden flowers.

Stars burn clear all night till dawn. Do that yourself, and a spring will rise in the dark with water your deepest thirst is for.

Virtue is the fount whence honour springs.

I have some shorter stories coming out in other books early next year. I might be pitching a re-vamp of Ghost Rider in the spring. We'll see.

Children are monsters of unbridled egotism and will, for they spring directly from nature, hostile intimations of immorality.

Your slightest look easily will unclose me, though I have closed myself as fingers, you open petal by petal myself a Spring opens her first rose.

Spring is God's way of saying, 'One more time!'

Beginning with doom in the bulb, the spring unravels.

There is a graveyard in my poor heart - dark, heaped-up graves, from which no flowers spring.

I heard the spring light whisper Above the dancing stream, The world is made forever in likeness of a dream.

'Tis a month before the month of May, And the spring comes slowly up this way.

Once in the midst of a seemingly endless winter, I discovered within myself an invincible spring.

Lofty mountains are full of springs; great hearts are full of tears.

Corruption springs from light: 'tis one same power Creates, preserves, destroys; matter whereon It works, on e'er self-transmutative form, Common to now the living, now the dead.

I came back out here from England and I was there for a while and it was beautiful and it is just great to see London going from Spring to Summer and Autumn.

Now Nature hangs her mantle green On every blooming tree, And spreads her sheets o'daisies white Out o'er the grassy lea.

There are degrees and kinds of solitude. I know of no solitude so secure as one guarded by a spring flood; nor do the geese, who have seen more kinds and degrees of aloneness than I have.

One swallow does not make a spring, nor does one fine day.

Incessant falls teach men to reform, and distress rouses their strength. Life springs from calamity, and death from ease.