The natural term of the affection of the human animal for its offspring is six years.
~By George Bernard Shaw ~
Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.
~By Rainer Maria Rilke ~
Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always To be Blest.
~By Alexander Pope ~
People try to keep their past, like kind of holding on to their past. Every Springsteen song talks about that.
~By John Cusack ~
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 ~
All our discontents about what we want appeared to spring from the want of thankfulness for what we have.
~By Daniel Defoe ~
If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?
~By Percy Bysshe Shelley ~
Expect to have hope rekindled. Expect your prayers to be answered in wondrous ways. The dry seasons in life do not last. The spring rains will come again.
~By Sarah Ban Breathnach ~
Spring won't let me stay in this house any longer! I must get out and breathe the air deeply again.
~By Gustav Mahler ~
Instead, in the absence of respect for human rights, science and its offspring technology have been used in this century as brutal instruments for oppression.
~By John Charles Polanyi ~
Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig.
~By Marcus Aurelius ~
Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that is where I renew my springs that never dry up.
~By Pearl S. Buck ~
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.
~By Jim Rohn ~
Break open a cherry tree and there are no flowers, but the spring breeze brings forth myriad blossoms.
~By Ikkyu Sojun ~
Who of us is mature enough for offspring before the offspring themselves arrive? The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults.
~By Peter De Vries ~
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 ~
Most success springs from an obstacle or failure. I became a cartoonist largely because I failed in my goal of becoming a successful executive.
~By Scott Adams ~
The way to make coaches think you're in shape in the spring is to get a tan.
~By Whitey Ford ~
So the ideology was that: use sounds as instruments, as sounds on tape, without the causality. It was no longer a clarinet or a spring or a piano, but a sound with a form, a development, a life of its own.
~By Luc Ferrari ~
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 ~
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 ~
I raised frogs every spring in our house from tadpoles and by end of summer our house was overrun with frogs.
~By William Joyce ~
O, wind, if winter comes, can spring be far behind?
~By Percy Bysshe Shelley ~
The Olympic Games are the quadrennial celebration of the springtime of humanity.
~By Pierre de Coubertin ~
No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face.
~By John Donne ~
It's the fans that need spring training. You gotta get 'em interested. Wake 'em up and let 'em know that their season is coming, the good times are gonna roll.
~By Harry Caray ~
The greatest good fortune of my return to Cambridge in 1946 was that there, in the spring, I met Elizabeth Fay Ringo. We were married a few months later.
~By James Tobin ~
The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in good education.
~By Plutarch ~
Jealousy springs more from love of self than from love of another.
~By Francois de La Rochefoucauld ~
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 ~
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 ~
All theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green.
~By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ~
Mathematical discoveries, like springtime violets in the woods, have their season which no man can hasten or retard.
~By Janos Bolyai ~
We moved over to Silver Spring, actually near University Park.
~By Jim Fowler ~
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 ~
You have to be like a clock spring, wound but not loose at the same time.
~By Dave Winfield ~
In the spring of 1994 I decided not to seek reelection to the Senate. I had made the decision 12 years earlier, Christmas Day of 1982, just after I had been first elected to a full term, that I would do the best I could for a limited time.
~By George J. Mitchell ~
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 ~
Let us turn elsewhere, to the wasps and bees, who unquestionably come first in the laying up of a heritage for their offspring.
~By Jean Henri Fabre ~
I'm an old rock and roll buff. I love Bruce Springsteen and Tom Petty.
~By Nick Carter ~
I admire Bruce Springsteen because he's a heroic person who has lots of integrity and has this incredible body of work that is so vital.
~By Elizabeth Wurtzel ~
My art springs from my desire to have things in the world which would otherwise never be there.
~By Carl Andre ~
The day the Lord created hope was probably the same day he created Spring.
~By Bern Williams ~
The methods of peace propaganda which aim at establishing peace doctrine by argument and by creating a feeling favorable to peace in general seem to fall short of reaching the springs of human action and of dealing with the causes of the conduct which they seek to modify.
~By Elihu Root ~
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 ~
Marriage is like twirling a baton, turning hand springs or eating with chopsticks. It looks easy until you try it.
~By Helen Rowland ~
Rebellion without truth is like spring in a bleak, arid desert.
~By Khalil Gibran ~
My rights all spring front an infinitely nobler source - from favor and grace of God.
~By Gerrit Smith ~
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 ~
When Jesus then is with the multitudes, He is not in His house, for the multitudes are outside of the house, and it is an act which springs from His love of men to leave the house and to go away to those who are not able to come to Him.
~By Origen ~
From heav'nly thoughts all true delight doth spring.
~By Thomas Campion ~
No one is immune from the larger events of his or her time - the Depression, World War II, civil rights, Vietnam, the spring of 1989 in China. These events intrude upon our lives and radically affect our directions.
~By Paul Tsongas ~
The geysers and hot springs of the Yellowstone are another proof of recent volcanic activity.
~By Ellsworth Huntington ~
Back 20 years ago, I was recording with Bruce Springsteen, and his producer called me and said I had to be in the studio the next day to finish the sessions, and I couldn't. I had to be in court, in California. All this took like 10 years out of my life.
~By Ronnie Spector ~
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 ~
And they turned around and leased it to The Assembly Of God Churches - their headquarters are in Springfield, Missouri. They leased it to them for the first year. Then, after the first year, they will donate it to the church.
~By Mel Tillis ~
Folk music was out there. Clubs were springing up and they were hot with the college kids.
~By Dick Smothers ~
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 ~
Men are as we have always known them, neither better nor worse from the hearts of rogues there springs a latent honesty, from the depths of honest men there emerges a brutish appetite - a thirst for extermination, a desire for blood.
~By Frederica Montseny ~
I love better to count time from spring to spring; it seems to me far more cheerful to reckon the year by blossoms than by blight.
~By Donald G. Mitchell ~
We met The Cult and were talking to them for a while. We went a few places with Offspring.
~By Daniel Johns ~
In the Spring, I have counted 136 different kinds of weather inside of 24 hours.
~By Mark Twain ~
In Palm Springs, they think homelessness is caused by bad divorce lawyers.
~By G. B. Trudeau ~
If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy, if a blade of grass springing up in the fields has power to move you, if the simple things of nature have a message that you understand, rejoice, for your soul is alive.
~By Eleonora Duse ~
In every tyrant's heart there springs in the end this poison, that he cannot trust a friend.
~By Aeschylus ~
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 is a true reconstructionist.
~By Henry Timrod ~
In the beginning of the human race there was no genetic load which would cause undesirable traits such as appear in offspring of marriages between relatives today.
~By Walter Lang ~
Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people.
~By Arthur Schopenhauer ~
From abundance springs satiety.
~By Titus Livius ~
In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.
~By Margaret Atwood ~
The four walls of paper are like a prison because every idea wants to spring out in all directions - everything is connected with everything else, sometimes more than others.
~By Ted Nelson ~
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 ~
They urged me to take up winter quarters at the forks of the Platt, stating that if I attempted to advance further until spring, I would endanger the lives of my whole party.
~By William Henry Ashley ~
True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt; its essence is love. It issues not in laughter, but in still smiles, which lie far deeper.
~By Thomas Carlyle ~
To be amused at what you read - that is the great spring of quotation.
~By Charles Edward Montague ~
I can't tell you if genius is hereditary, because heaven has granted me no offspring.
~By James Whistler ~
Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature.
~By Agnes Repplier ~
People ask me what I do in winter when there's no baseball. I'll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring.
~By Rogers Hornsby ~
We've been working on a new album, which is going to come out next spring, which is very different, a change of style for us - it's going to be almost like rock music.
~By Neil Tennant ~
Well, "The Wellspring" was written from 1983 to 1986. And it had a section in the beginning that was poems that began from others' experience.
~By Sharon Olds ~
Italy, and the spring and first love all together should suffice to make the gloomiest person happy.
~By Bertrand Russell ~
The tiger springs in the new year. Us he devours.
~By T. S. Eliot ~
For some reason in Spring Training, everything just clicked. You don't try to do anything in Spring Training but get ready, but things fell into place.
~By Bobby Bonilla ~
The advocates of abortion on demand falsely assume two things: that women must suffer if the lives of unborn children are legally protected; and that women can only attain equality by having the legal option of destroying their innocent offspring in the womb.
~By Robert Casey ~
Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.
~By Nathaniel Hawthorne ~
The meetings of the legislature at Springfield then first brought together that splendid group of young men of genius whose phenomenal careers and distinguished services have given Illinois fame in the history of the nation.
~By John George Nicolay ~
The attacks of which I have been the object have broken the spring of life in me... People don't realize what it feels like to be constantly insulted.
~By Edouard Manet ~
Well, first of all the Dominion Bureau of Statistics made a survey in the spring of 1970, which showed that on balance the difference in the cost of living between Canadian cities and American cities was 5 % to the advantage, of course, to the Canadian cities.
~By Leonard Woodcock ~
In order to dream, you need to have a springboard which is the facts... It gives it that touch of reality, and I think that's quite important... truth with fiction.
~By Janet Leigh ~
My friends are Peter Gabriel, Bruce Springsteen, and we're singing about mortality, getting older. It's an interesting time.
~By Sting ~
It's American Alternative radio stations that bug me. We're considered Alternative, but don't expect us to be played next to Blink 182 and Offspring. We're hardly of that generation.
~By Thurston Moore ~
When we're at the end of The Rite of Spring or of a Bruckner symphony, I want people to feel the music physically.
~By Esa-Pekka Salonen ~
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 ~
I wanted to pay tribute to my musical influences: Buffalo Springfield, Lightfoot, the Beatles, the Hollies.
~By Dan Fogelberg ~
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 Florida State League was considered the top A-league back then. You played in the spring training parks of major league teams, traveled throughout some great cities in Florida, and the pay was the best in A-ball.
~By Jim Evans ~
The little windflower, whose just opened eye is blue as the spring heaven it gazes at.
~By William C. Bryant ~
Don't forget it's daylight savings time. You spring forward, then you fall back. It's like Robert Downey Jr. getting out of bed.
~By David Letterman ~
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 ~
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