Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings.
~By Gustave Flaubert ~
The natural term of the affection of the human animal for its offspring is six years.
~By George Bernard Shaw ~
Many a genius has been slow of growth. Oaks that flourish for a thousand years do not spring up into beauty like a reed.
~By George Henry Lewes ~
Nothing ever begins. There is no first moment; no single word or place from which this or any other story springs.
~By Clive Barker ~
Whatever kind of seed is sown in a field, prepared in due season, a plant of that same kind, marked with the peculiar qualities of the seed, springs up in it.
~By Guru Nanak ~
I am fully committed to Hannah Montana. It's what gave me this amazing opportunity to reach out to so many people. I'm really excited about our new season. We are making great new episodes that I can't wait for our fans to see and I'm looking forward to the "Hannah Montana" movie that will be out in the spring.
~By Miley Cyrus ~
Good laws are the offspring of bad actions.
~By Charles Macklin ~
Spring beckons! All things to the call respond; the trees are leaving and cashiers abscond.
~By Ambrose Bierce ~
I saw Ronnie Hawkins play near my hometown, Port Dover, Ontario, and I saw him play there on New Year's Eve and the following spring I booked myself to be his opening act on maybe five shows, and he hired me after the first night.
~By Rick Danko ~
Let peace, descending from her native heaven, bid her olives spring amidst the joyful nations; and plenty, in league with commerce, scatter blessings from her copious hand!
~By Daniel Boone ~
I played a heap of snow in a school play. I was under a sheet, and crawled out when spring came. I often say I'll never reach the same artistic level again.
~By Stellan Skarsgard ~
A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It's jolted by every pebble on the road.
~By Henry Ward Beecher ~
From the equality of rights springs identity of our highest interests; you cannot subvert your neighbor's rights without striking a dangerous blow at your own.
~By Carl Schurz ~
I don't want to mix the identities. Noah Drake isn't Rick Springfield.
~By Rick Springfield ~
From abundance springs satiety.
~By Titus Livius ~
When we finish this tour we are going to begin writing and go into the studio to hopefully have a brand new Foreigner album out in early spring next year. This will be the first Foreigner album out in about ten years.
~By Lou Gramm ~
Break open a cherry tree and there are no flowers, but the spring breeze brings forth myriad blossoms.
~By Ikkyu Sojun ~
Then in 1969, I spent the spring term at Cornell University in New York. The invasion of August 1968 had already happened, but the hardline regime took several months to crack down on dissidents.
~By Vaclav Klaus ~
Incongruity is the mainspring of laughter.
~By Max Beerbohm ~
I'm an old rock and roll buff. I love Bruce Springsteen and Tom Petty.
~By Nick Carter ~
Oh, Spring! I want to go out and feel you and get inspiration. My old things seem dead. I want fresh contacts, more vital searching.
~By Emily Carr ~
Any man who takes a job with the idea that it is simply a springboard for something else is a chump. His attention will be more on the other things than on the job at hand and so he will fail.
~By Charles Edison ~
Italy, and the spring and first love all together should suffice to make the gloomiest person happy.
~By Bertrand Russell ~
All real freedom springs from necessity, for it can be gained only through the exercise of the individual will, and that will can be roused to energetic action only by the force of necessity acting upon it from the outside to spur it to effort.
~By Anna C. Brackett ~
In fact, I was one of the few trusted people that Lucy allowed to play with their kids. I spent time at their summer home, rode horses at their ranch, and swam at their beach house. I even spent a Christmas with them at Palm Springs one year.
~By Keith Thibodeaux ~
No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn.
~By Hal Borland ~
You own a watch the invention of the mind, though for a single motion 'tis designed, as well as that which is with greater thought with various springs, for various motions wrought.
~By Richard Blackmore ~
From the end spring new beginnings.
~By Pliny the Elder ~
The tiger springs in the new year. Us he devours.
~By T. S. Eliot ~
The imagination is the spur of delights... all depends upon it, it is the mainspring of everything; now, is it not by means of the imagination one knows joy? Is it not of the imagination that the sharpest pleasures arise?
~By Marquis de Sade ~
You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming.
~By Pablo Neruda ~
Just able barely to mount a horse and ride about a little in the spring of 1866, my life was threatened daily, and I was forced to go heavily armed. The whole country was then full of militia, robbing, plundering and killing.
~By Jesse James ~
Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people.
~By Arthur Schopenhauer ~
These days baseball is different. You come to spring training, you get your legs ready, you arms loose, your agents ready, your lawyer lined up.
~By Dave Winfield ~
Analysis kills spontaneity. The grain once ground into flour springs and germinates no more.
~By Henri Frederic Amiel ~
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.
~By Orlando Bloom ~
Your days are short here; this is the last of your springs. And now in the serenity and quiet of this lovely place, touch the depths of truth, feel the hem of Heaven. You will go away with old, good friends. And don't forget when you leave why you came.
~By Adlai E. Stevenson ~
Nature is my springboard. From her I get my initial impetus. I have tried to relate the visible drama of mountains, trees, and bleached fields with the fantasy of wind blowing and changing colors and forms.
~By Milton Avery ~
We are all treading the vanishing road of a song in the air, the vanishing road of the spring flowers and the winter snows, the vanishing roads of the winds and the streams, the vanishing road of beloved faces.
~By Richard Le Gallienne ~
Love, work, and knowledge are the wellsprings of our lives, they should also govern it.
~By Wilhelm Reich ~
Baseball needs to put the steroids era behind it by having and enforcing tough rules against all kinds of artificial advantages, so that spring can return.
~By Marvin Olasky ~
Poor, dear, silly Spring, preparing her annual surprise!
~By Wallace Stevens ~
I drank the silence of God from a spring in the woods.
~By Georg Trakl ~
The earth is yet the place of the domicile of man and all the offspring of the first man.
~By Joseph Franklin Rutherford ~
Love grows. Lust wastes by Enjoyment, and the Reason is, that one springs from an Union of Souls, and the other from an Union of Sense.
~By William Penn ~
We may not all break the Ten Commandments, but we are certainly all capable of it. Within us lurks the breaker of all laws, ready to spring out at the first real opportunity.
~By Isadora Duncan ~
Out of need springs desire, and out of desire springs the energy and the will to win.
~By Denis Waitley ~
I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress.
~By Andre Gide ~
Democracy can only spring from practising it early, and democratic action was not to expected from young people brought up under a close authoritarian system.
~By Dora Russell ~
My art springs from my desire to have things in the world which would otherwise never be there.
~By Carl Andre ~
There can be a true grandeur in any degree of submissiveness, because it springs from loyalty to the laws and to an oath, and not from baseness of soul.
~By Simone Weil ~
I like to express certain things that happen in my life, the joy of spring, the birds singing and young babies coming into the world. You know, the whole thing as well as the part I'm not happy with, the sad part.
~By Roy Haynes ~
Folk music was out there. Clubs were springing up and they were hot with the college kids.
~By Dick Smothers ~
Life stands before me like an eternal spring with new and brilliant clothes.
~By Carl Friedrich Gauss ~
My rights all spring front an infinitely nobler source - from favor and grace of God.
~By Gerrit Smith ~
Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, you will vainly look for fruit on it in autumn.
~By Walter Scott ~
Bobby and I have been to various reunions of Our Gang. We've been to like three or four reunions over the past 15 years or so. We were at one in Palm Springs, California.
~By Tommy Bond ~
We would load up the yellow Cutlass Supreme station wagon and pick blackberries during blackberry season or spring onions during spring onion season. For us, food was part of the fabric of our day.
~By Mario Batali ~
In Palm Springs, they think homelessness is caused by bad divorce lawyers.
~By G. B. Trudeau ~
I've kind of fashioned my life after a Slinky. Bend me in a million shapes, and eventually I'll spring back to what I originally was.
~By Sylvester Stallone ~
I had only played five games in my senior year in high school. I was not large enough. Hell, when I graduated, I was about five foot four and weighed 120 pounds. I didn't go with the Dodgers until spring training of 1940 and I weighed all of 155 pounds soaking wet.
~By Pee Wee Reese ~
Behold, my friends, the spring is come; the earth has gladly received the embraces of the sun, and we shall soon see the results of their love!
~By Sitting Bull ~
We're given the springboard of the text, a plane ticket, told to report to Alabama, and there's a group of people all ready to make a film and it's a marvelous life.
~By Albert Finney ~
This nation is like a spring freshet; it overruns its banks and destroys all who are in its path.
~By Sitting Bull ~
We moved over to Silver Spring, actually near University Park.
~By Jim Fowler ~
I went across the fields to avoid the straight highways, along the firing lines where people were shooting at a small wooded hill, which is now covered with wooden crosses and lines of graves instead of spring flowers.
~By Max Beckmann ~
All our discontents about what we want appeared to spring from the want of thankfulness for what we have.
~By Daniel Defoe ~
As winter weather settles in around the country, millions of American families are facing skyrocketing home heating prices with even greater impact if cold temperatures persist into the spring.
~By Russ Carnahan ~
It is not from reason that justice springs, but goodness is born of wisdom.
~By Maurice Maeterlinck ~
Isn't it sad to go to your grave without ever wondering why you were born? Who, with such a thought, would not spring from bed, eager to resume discovering the world and rejoicing to be part of it?
~By Richard Dawkins ~
Surely the President can agree with us, that theft from government is not good. I know it's bold. It's out on the edge. I know from a Chicago-Springfield background it's hard to fully grasp that honesty could be part of government.
~By Newt Gingrich ~
It Might As Well Be Spring... I used to sing that as a young girl in my voice lessons. Then I picked it up again and it spoke to me in a whole new way.
~By Bernadette Peters ~
The Barks of Trees are best gathered in the Spring, if it be of great Trees, as Oaks or the like, because then they come easiest off, and so you may dry them if you please, but indeed your best way is to gather all Barks only for present use.
~By Nicholas Culpeper ~
A strangely reflective, even melancholy day. Is that because, unlike our cousins in the northern hemisphere, Easter is not associated with the energy and vitality of spring but with the more subdued spirit of autumn?
~By Hugh Mackay ~
The only thing that could spoil a day was people. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.
~By Ernest Hemingway ~
There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From its springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior.
~By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ~
Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always To be Blest.
~By Alexander Pope ~
The geysers and hot springs of the Yellowstone are another proof of recent volcanic activity.
~By Ellsworth Huntington ~
I am never at my best in the early morning, especially a cold morning in the Yorkshire spring with a piercing March wind sweeping down from the fells, finding its way inside my clothing, nipping at my nose and ears.
~By James Herriot ~
This we had to endure with a serious reduction in the price of goods - added to this early in the ensuing spring our glost oven fell while firing doing us considerable damage and rendering it necessary to build a new one.
~By John Hawley ~
Everyone has a breaking point, turning point, stress point, the game is permeated with it. The fans don't see it because we make it look so efficient. But internally, for a guy to be successful, you have to be like a clock spring, wound but not loose at the same time.
~By Dave Winfield ~
Spring and summer 1942 was probably the worst period of internal terror in Slovakia. It was also the time of mass deportation of Slovak Jews to the extermination camps in Poland.
~By Alexander Dubcek ~
My experience with Buffalo Springfield was that they did not rehearse.
~By Jim Messina ~
To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.
~By George Santayana ~
Nothing is so beautiful as spring - when weeds, in wheels, shoot long and lovely and lush; Thrush's eggs look little low heavens, and thrush through the echoing timber does so rinse and wring the ear, it strikes like lightning to hear him sing.
~By Gerard Manley Hopkins ~
The Olympic Games are the quadrennial celebration of the springtime of humanity.
~By Pierre de Coubertin ~
Obstacles are like wild animals. They are cowards but they will bluff you if they can. If they see you are afraid of them... they are liable to spring upon you; but if you look them squarely in the eye, they will slink out of sight.
~By Orison Swett Marden ~
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.
~By Khalil Gibran ~
Man is born passionate of body, but with an innate though secret tendency to the love of Good in his main-spring of Mind. But God help us all! It is at present a sad jar of atoms.
~By Lord Byron ~
For every person who has ever lived there has come, at last, a spring he will never see. Glory then in the springs that are yours.
~By Pam Brown ~
A babe in the house is a well-spring of pleasure, a messenger of peace and love, a resting place for innocence on earth, a link between angels and men.
~By Martin Farquhar Tupper ~
The will to do springs from the knowledge that we can do.
~By James Allen ~
The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.
~By Joan Didion ~
There is no such thing as chance; and what seem to us merest accident springs from the deepest source of destiny.
~By Friedrich Schiller ~
After the navy, I transferred to Harvard and finished there. I was there the spring term of 1951 and I stayed through the summer term and a whole other year, so I was able to do two years in a little less than a year and a half.
~By Harry Mathews ~
Every spring is the only spring, a perpetual astonishment.
~By Ellis Peters ~
And now, once again, I bid my hideous progeny go forth and prosper. I have an affection for it, for it was the offspring of happy days, when death and grief were but words, which found no true echo in my heart.
~By Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley ~
Mathematical discoveries, like springtime violets in the woods, have their season which no man can hasten or retard.
~By Janos Bolyai ~
I'm showing some of my sculptures in Holland in the spring, so we'll see.
~By Alan Vega ~
The Internet has exceeded our collective expectations as a revolutionary spring of information, news, and ideas. It is essential that we keep that spring flowing. We must not thwart the Internet's availability by taxing access to it.
~By Chris Cannon ~
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