Spring Quotes - page 2

Though I do not believe that a plant will spring up where no seed has been, I have great faith in a seed. Convince me that you have a seed there, and I am prepared to expect wonders. (Henry David Thoreau)
Everything is becoming science fiction. From the margins of an almost invisible literature has sprung the intact reality of the 20th century. View quote
J. G. Ballard
On the approach of spring I withdraw without reluctance from the noisy and extensive scene of crowds without company, and dissipation without pleasure. View quote
Edward Gibbon
Ambition first sprung from your bless'd abodes; The glorious fault of angels and of gods. View quote
Alexander Pope
Unfortunately there is nothing more inane than an Easter carol. It is a religious perversion of the activity of Spring in our blood. View quote
Wallace Stevens
Many a time from a bad beginning great friendships have sprung up. View quote
Terence
From thee, great God, we spring, to thee we tend, Path, motive, guide, original, and end. View quote
Samuel Johnson
No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn. View quote
Hal Borland
Pippa's Song The year's at the spring The day's at the morn Morning's at seven, The Hill side's dew-pearled The lark's on the wing The snail's on the thorn God's in his heaven- All's right with the world. View quote
Robert Browning
The body sprang At once to the height, and stayed but the soul,no. View quote
Robert Browning
If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome. (Anne Bradstreet)
Yes, let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius. View quote
Pietro Aretino
Spring was moving in the air above and in the earth below and around him, penetrating even his dark and lowly little house with its spirit of divine discontent and longing. View quote
Kenneth Grahame
I think America concedes that true American music has sprung from the Negro. View quote
W. C. Handy
Somewhere beyond the curtain Of distorting days Lives that lonely thing That shone before these eyes Targeted, trod like Spring. View quote
William Butler Yeats
All our discontents about what we want appeared to spring from the want of thankfulness for what we have. View quote
Daniel Defoe
People who write about spring training not being necessary have never tried to throw a baseball. View quote
Sandy Koufax
'What is good for a bootless bene' With these dark words begins my tale And their meaning is, Whence can comfort spring When prayer is of no avail. View quote
William Wordsworth
Designers want me to dress like Spring, in billowing things. I don't feel like Spring. I feel like a warm red Autumn. View quote
Marilyn Monroe
Bricks should be made in Spring or Autumn so that they may dry uniformly. View quote
Vitruvius
Chicago is an October sort of city even in spring. (Nelson Algren)
Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers. View quote
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems. View quote
Rainer Maria Rilke
Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, you will vainly look for fruit on it in autumn. View quote
Walter Scott
Breathes there the man, with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land Whose heart hath neer within him burnd, As home his footsteps he hath turnd From wandering on a foreign strand If such there breathe, go mark him well For him no Minstrel raptures swell High though his titles, proud his name, Boundless his wealth as wish can claim Despite those titles, power, and pelf, The wretch, concentred all in self, Living, shall forfeit fair renown, And, doubly dying, shall go down To the vile dust, from whence he sprung, Unwept, unhonord, and unsung. View quote
Walter Scott