Spring Quotes - page 4

We wove a web in childhood, A web of sunny air; We dug a spring in infancy Of water pure and fair; We sowed in youth a mustard seed, We cut an almond rod; We are now grown up to riper age— Are they withered in the sod? (Charlotte Brontë)
This is a terrible hour, but it is often that darkest point which precedes the rise of day; that turn of the year when the icy January wind carries over the waste at once the dirge of departing winter, and the prophecy of coming spring. View quote
Charlotte Brontë
"When the spring comes, we will manure the plains of Kosova with the bones of Serbs, for we Albanians have suffered too much to forget." - Isa Boletini, Albanian leader 1913. View quote
Isa Boletini
Sphere Music - Some sounds seem to reverberate along the plain, and then settle to earth again like dust; such are Noise, Discord, Jargon. But such only as spring heavenward, and I may catch from steeples and hilltops in their upward course, which are the more refined parts of the former, are the true sphere music - pure, unmixed music - in which no wail mingles. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
Your God still walks in Eden, between the ancient trees, Where Youth and Love go wading through pools of primroses. And this is the sign we bring you, before the darkness fall, That Spring is risen, is risen again, That Life is risen, is risen again, That Love is risen, is risen again, and Love is Lord of all. View quote
Alfred Noyes
Victory will belong only to those who have faith in the people, those who are immersed in the life-giving spring of popular creativity. View quote
Vladimir Lenin
I have done one braver thing Than all the Worthies did; And yet a braver thence doth spring, Which is to keep that hid. View quote
John Donne
Now God comes to thee, not as in the dawning of the day, not as in the bud of the spring, but as the sun at noon to illustrate all shadows, as the sheaves in harvest, to fill all penuries, all occasions invite his mercies, and all times are his seasons. View quote
John Donne
Look well into thyself; there is a source of strength which will always spring up if thou wilt always look. View quote
Marcus Aurelius
All that happens is as usual and familiar as the rose in spring and the crop in summer. View quote
Marcus Aurelius
That which had grown from the earth, to the earth, But that which has sprung from heavenly seed, Back to the heavenly realms returns. This is either a dissolution of the mutual involution of the atoms, or a similar dispersion of the unsentient elements. (Marcus Aurelius)
No good water comes from a muddy spring. No sweet fruit comes from a bitter seed. View quote
José Rizal
In course of time the slow advance of knowledge, which has dispelled so many cherished illusions, convinced at least the more thoughtful portion of mankind that the alterations of summer and winter, of spring and autumn, were not merely the result of their own magical rites, but that some deeper cause, some mightier power, was at work behind the shifting scenes of nature. View quote
James Frazer
It is the individual who is not interested in his fellow men who has the greatest difficulties in life and provides the greatest injury to others. It is from among such individuals that all human failures spring. View quote
Alfred Adler
the streams buck like rams in a tent whips crack and from the hills come the crookedly combed shadows of the shepherds. black eggs and fools' bells fall from the trees. thunder drums and kettledrums beat upon the ears of the donkeys. wings brush against flowers. fountains spring up in the eyes of the wild boar. View quote
Jean Arp
Let us award a just, a brilliant homage to those rare men whom nature has endowed with the precious privilege of arranging a thousand isolated facts, of making seductive theories spring from them; but let us not forget to state, that the scythe of the reaper had cut the stalks before one had thought of uniting them into sheaves! View quote
François Arago
Corrupt influence, which is itself the perennial spring of all prodigality, and of all disorder; which loads us, more than millions of debt; which takes away vigor from our arms, wisdom from our councils, and every shadow of authority and credit from the most venerable parts of our constitution. View quote
Edmund Burke
God has given the salt lick to the deer; and He has given to man, red-skin and white, the delicious spring at which to slake his thirst. View quote
James Fenimore Cooper
I'm going out to clean the pasture spring I'll only stop to rake the leaves away (And wait to watch the water clear, I may) I shan't be gone long. You come too. View quote
Robert Frost
Now Momma's done away with the old black kettle she used to cook in when I was just littleAnd the door ain't sprung on her electric rangeThat little old farm and home we had it ain't there no more and that's too badFolks are doing away with the simple things. View quote
Dolly Parton
There is this incredible, indelible community that has sprung up around the show, a community that gathers in homes and clubs, from Los Angeles to Topeka, Kansas and around the world. A community that, in some places, meets quietly in a lesbian bar that doesn't even exist depending on whom you ask. (Jennifer Beals)
Men who fight wars in Winter don't live till Spring. View quote
Ursula K. Le Guin
In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt. View quote
Margaret Atwood
A breeze passes in the night. When did it spring up? Whence does it come? Whither is it going? No man knows. View quote
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
The primary thing when you take a sword in your hands is your intention to cut the enemy, whatever the means. Whenever you parry, hit, spring, strike or touch the enemy's cutting sword, you must cut the enemy in the same movement. It is essential to attain this. If you think only of hitting, springing, striking or touching the enemy, you will not be able actually to cut him. View quote
Miyamoto Musashi