Spring Quotes

A young ballplayer looks on his first spring training trip as a stage struck young woman regards the theater.

There are cases in which the blade springs, but the plant does not go on to flower. There are cases where it flowers, but no fruit is subsequently produced.

Before I pitch any game, from spring training to Game 7 of the World Series, I'm scared to death.

The clocks are all turned forward from Funny Time to Right Time. I always remember, "Spring back or Fall in.

The soy-bean, in particular, has proved sufficiently resistant to cold in spring and to adverse weather during summer to warrant heavy planting, especially throughout the South.

wholly to be a fool while Spring is in the world my blood approves, and kisses are a far better fate than wisdom lady i swear by all flowers.

And still the mad magnificent herald Spring assembles beauty from forgetfulness with the wild trump of April:witchery of sound and odour drives the wingless thing man forth in the bright air.

So, when kiss Spring comes we'll kiss each kiss other on kiss the kiss lips because tic clocks tock don't make a toctic difference to kisskiss you and to kiss me.

Don't go fighting against the Spring.

Youth is the spring-time of life. It is the time to acquire information, so that we may show it off in after years and paralyze people with what we know.

Fresh spring the herald of love's mighty king.

April comes like an idiot, babbling and strewing flowers.

Some people fall head over heels. Other people begin to fall without even knowing it—love grows like a spring flower beneath last autumn’s leaves and catches them by surprise.

autumn days have a holiness that spring lacks ... They are like old serene saints for whom death has lost its terror.

The splendid discontent of God With chaos made the world. And from the discontent of man The worlds best progress springs.

The impulse to perform a worthy action often springs from our best nature, but is afterwards tainted by the spur of selfishness or sinister interest.

Abstractness, sometimes hurled as a reproach at mathematics, is its chief glory and its surest title to practical usefulness. It is also the source of such beauty as may spring from mathematics.

Spring training means flowers, people coming outdoors, sunshine, optimism and baseball. Spring training is a time to think about being young again.

If you seek just a little truth, as most, you should not ignore abstract forms, the basis from which all short-lived experiences we call reality springs.

[On John Brown:] The poor wretch is hanged, but from his grave a root of bitterness will spring, the fruit of which at no distant day may be disunion and civil war.

When the time is ripe for certain things, these things appear in different places in the manner of violets coming to light in the early spring.

Just as the light and weightless vegetation of saltpeter floats over the old walls of houses as soon as the owner gets careless, so the literary vocation springs up in you.

Spring flies, and with it all the train it leads; and flowers, in fading, leave us but their seeds.

Cut down the forest, not just a tree. Out of the forest of desire springs danger. By cutting down both the forest of desire and the brushwood of longing, be rid of the forest, bhikkhus.

It cuts one sadly to see the grief of old people; they've no way o' working it off; and the new spring brings no new shoots out on the withered tree.

Best friend, my well-spring in the wilderness!

Hee that is in a towne in May loseth his spring.

'Tis substantially true, that virtue or morality is a necessary spring of popular government. The rule indeed extends with more or less force to every species of free Government.

[V]irtue or morality is a necessary spring of popular government.

I have looked upon all the universe has to hold of horror,and even the skies of spring and flowers of summer must ever afterward be poison to me.

No Winter lasts forever, no Spring skips its turn. April is a promise that May is bound to keep, and we know it.

A gush of bird song, a patter of dew A cloud and a rainbow's warning; Suddenly sunshine and perfect blue An April day in the morning!

We can, if we so choose, wander aimlessly over the continent of the arbitrary. Rootless as some winged seed blown about on a serendipitous spring breeze.

In the spring of her twenty-second year, Sumire fell in love for the first time in her life.

Lyrical poetry is much the same an every age, as the songs of the nightingales in every spring-time.

I am thankful that in a troubled world no calamity can prevent the return of spring.

Man is saved by love and duty, and by the hope that springs from duty, or rather from the moral facts of consciousness, as a flower springs from the soil.

The quality of life, which in the ardour of spring was personal and sexual, becomes social in midsummer.

Events, circumstances, etc., have their origin in ourselves. They spring from seeds which we have sown.

One attraction in coming to the woods to live was that I should have leisure and opportunity to see the spring come in.

The pleasure we feel in music springs from the obedience which is in it.

Spring-an experience in immortality.

Earthly pride is like the passing flower, that springs to fall, and blossoms but to die.

The study of crime begins with the knowledge of oneself. All that you despise, all that you loathe, all that you reject, all that you condemn and seek to convert by punishment springs from you.

Does not all the blood within me Leap to meet thee, leap to meet thee, As the springs to meet the sunshine.

Taste the joy That springs from labor.

A man without mirth is like wagon without springs, in which one is caused disagreeably to jolt by every pebble over which it turns.

You violets that first appear, By your pure purple mantles known, Like the proud virgins of the year, As if the spring were all your own — What are you when the rose is blown?

But your questions, which are unanswerable without exception, all spring from the same erroneous thinking.

The great secret of social alchemy is to profit best from each stage in our lives, to gather all its leaves in spring, all its flowers in summer, and all its fruits in autumn.