Spring Quotes

Would that I were a dry well, and that the people tossed stones into me, for that would be easier than to be a spring of flowing water that the thirsty pass by, and from which they avoid drinking.

If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant.

Here cometh April again, and as far as I can see the world hath more fools in it than ever.

Music comes from an icicle as it melts, to live again as spring water.

I loved you when love was Spring, and May, Loved you when summer deepened into June, and now when autumn yellows all the leaves.

It is with roses and locomotives (not to mention acrobats Spring electricity Coney Island the 4th of July the eyes of mice and Niagara Falls) that my poems are competing.

People who write about spring training not being necessary have never tried to throw a baseball.

Bottomless wonders spring from simple rules, which are repeated without end.

In the Spring a livelier iris changes on the burnish'd dove; In the Spring a young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love.

My activism did not spring from being black...The racial injustice that was present in this country during my youth was a challenge to my belief in the oneness of the human family.

No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn.

Just now the lilac is in bloom All before my little room.

I love spring flowers: daffodils and hyacinths are the ultimate flower for me. They are the essence of spring.

Winter always turns into Spring. Never, from ancient times on, has anyone heard or seen of winter turning back to autumn.

In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.

For still there are so many things that I have never seen: in every wood in every spring there is a different green.

I stare out the window and wait for spring.

All human suffering springs from unbridled desire. Unless one extricates oneself from the clutch of greed, one will not free himself from the fetters of sorrow.

See! From the brake the whirring pheasant springs, And mounts exulting on triumphant wings; Short is his joy! He feels the fiery wound, Flutters in blood, and panting beats the ground.

Every poet knows the pun is Pierian, that it springs from the same soil as the Muse?a matching and shifting of vowels and consonants, an adroit assonance sometimes derided as jackassonance.

The people always have 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.

That age is best which is the first When youth and blood are warmer.

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.

In every winter's heart there is a quivering spring, and behind the veil of each night there is a shining dawn.

During the winter, you head out into the darkness for a run. When spring comes, and the first crocus pokes up its head...you know it was worthwhile.

From powerful causes spring the empiric's gains, Man's love of life, his weakness, and his pains; These first induce him the vile trash to try, Then lend his name, that other men may buy.

The desert weed lives on, but the flower of spring blooms and wilts.

Can words describe the fragrance of the very breath of spring?

Some people plant in the spring and leave in the summer. If you're signed up for a season, see it through. You don't have to stay forever, but at least stay until you see it through.

The beautiful spring came; and when Nature resumes her loveliness, the human soul is apt to revive also.

The sober comfort, all the peace which springs from the large aggregate of little things.

Spring's last-born darling, clear-eyed, sweet, Pauses a moment, with white twinkling feet, And golden locks in breezy play, Half teasing and half tender, to repeat Her song of May.

Nor will I then thy modest grace forget, Chaste Snow-drop, venturous harbinger of Spring, And pensive monitor of fleeting years!

It's spring fever. That is what the name of it is. And when you've got it, you want—oh, you don't quite know what it is you do want, but it just fairly makes your heart ache, you want it so!

For if joyful is the fountain that rises in the sun, its springs are in the wells of sorrow unfathomable at the foundations of the Earth.

Loveliest of trees, the cherry now Is hung with bloom along the bough.

I have never had a feeling politically that did not spring from the sentiments embodied in the Declaration of Independence.

Let us close the springs of racial poison. Let us pray for wise and understanding hearts. Let us lay aside irrelevant differences and make our nation whole.

Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius.

Nothing is so beautiful as spring- When weeds in wheels, shoot long and lovely and lush.

April prepares her green traffic light and the world thinks Go.

All Nature seems at work. Slugs leave their lair The bees are stirring, birds are on the wing, And Winter slumbering in the open air, Wears on his smiling face a dream of spring.

I stuck my head out the window this morning and spring kissed me bang in the face.

it's spring when the world is puddle-wonderful

In Palm Springs, they think homelessness is caused by bad divorce lawyers.

My heart is in a world of water and crystal, My clothes are damp in this time of spring rains.

One penny may seem to you a very insignificant thing, but it is the small seed from which fortunes spring.

The merry cuckow, messenger of Spring, His trumpet shrill hath thrice already sounded.

Coming out of BYU's football spring, 1999, practice: We might have a chance to be pretty good.

In April the sweet showers fall And pierce the drought of March to the root, and all The veins are bathed in liquor of such power As brings about the engendering of the flower.