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 ~
It's easy to understand why the most beautiful poems about England in the spring were written by poets living in Italy at the time.
~By Philip Dunne ~
No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn.
~By Hal Borland ~
Mathematical discoveries, like springtime violets in the woods, have their season which no man can hasten or retard.
~By Janos Bolyai ~
You mean guys don't get injured in spring training? Guys get hurt walking down the street.
~By Bud Selig ~
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 ~
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 ~
No, Queer Eye has a book coming out before mine, in the Spring of 2004, in which each of us has a section and we do a brief overview of our subject area.
~By Ted Allen ~
Spring is when you feel like whistling even with a shoe full of slush.
~By Doug Larson ~
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 ~
The Beatles, Rolling Stones, Barbra Streisand, Bruce Springsteen, these are just some of the people who threatened to sue if we used their songs.
~By Colin Mochrie ~
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 ~
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 ~
All our discontents about what we want appeared to spring from the want of thankfulness for what we have.
~By Daniel Defoe ~
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 ~
I have always tried to hide my efforts and wished my works to have a light joyousness of springtime which never lets anyone suspect the labors it has cost me.
~By Henri Matisse ~
The spring of love becomes hidden and soon filled up.
~By Max Muller ~
The soy-bean, in particular, has proved sufficiently resistant to cold in spring and to adverse weather during summer to warrant heavy planting, especially throughout the South.
~By David F. Houston ~
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 ~
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 ~
I left Montana in Spring of 1866, for Utah, arriving at Salt Lake city during the summer.
~By Calamity Jane ~
A Poem does not grow by jerks. As trees in Spring produce a new ring of tissue, so does every poet put forth a fresh outlay of stuff at the same season.
~By Wilfred Owen ~
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 ~
Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin - it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.
~By S. J. Perelman ~
The beautiful spring came; and when Nature resumes her loveliness, the human soul is apt to revive also.
~By Harriet Ann Jacobs ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
The flowers anew, returning seasons bring; but beauty faded has no second spring.
~By Ambrose Philips ~
Love, work, and knowledge are the wellsprings of our lives, they should also govern it.
~By Wilhelm Reich ~
No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of spring.
~By Samuel Johnson ~
Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, you will vainly look for fruit on it in autumn.
~By Walter Scott ~
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 ~
People who write about spring training not being necessary have never tried to throw a baseball.
~By Sandy Koufax ~
I do hope that our spring will be starting shortly and we will all be able to enjoy some sunshine again.
~By Lesley Garrett ~
Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.
~By Henry Ward Beecher ~
My friends are Peter Gabriel, Bruce Springsteen, and we're singing about mortality, getting older. It's an interesting time.
~By Sting ~
Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings.
~By Gustave Flaubert ~
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 ~
The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.
~By Joan Didion ~
I also like to look at the dynamic that takes place between religion and science because, in a way, both are asking the same questions: Who are we? Where do we come from? Why are we here? Where are we going? The methodologies are diametrically opposed, but their motivation is the same; the wellspring is the same in both cases.
~By J. Michael Straczynski ~
Our senses are indeed our doors and windows on this world, in a very real sense the key to the unlocking of meaning and the wellspring of creativity.
~By Jean Houston ~
The greatest gift that Oxford gives her sons is, I truly believe, a genial irreverence toward learning, and from that irreverence love may spring.
~By Robertson Davies ~
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 ~
The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us.
~By Paul Valery ~
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 ~
Winter lingered so long in the lap of Spring that it occasioned a great deal of talk.
~By Bill Nye ~
If those who are the enemies of innocent amusements had the direction of the world, they would take away the spring, and youth, the former from the year, the latter from human life.
~By Honore de Balzac ~
I always wanted to be a dentist from the time I was in high school, and I was accepted to dental school in the spring of 1972. I was planning to go, but after the Olympics there were other opportunities.
~By Mark Spitz ~
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 ~
We moved over to Silver Spring, actually near University Park.
~By Jim Fowler ~
Springfield has always had a place in my heart.
~By Buffalo Bill ~
And God help Bruce Springsteen when they decide he's no longer God... They'll turn on him, and I hope he survives it.
~By John Lennon ~
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 ~
I hate the cursed Oriole fundamentals... I've been doing them since 1964. I do them in my sleep. I hate spring training.
~By Jim Palmer ~
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 ~
It has been well said that tea is suggestive of a thousand wants, from which spring the decencies and luxuries of civilization.
~By Agnes Repplier ~
Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May; but at length the season of summer does come.
~By Thomas Carlyle ~
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 ~
My art springs from my desire to have things in the world which would otherwise never be there.
~By Carl Andre ~
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 ~
Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.
~By Nathaniel Hawthorne ~
Hope springs eternal, even in politics.
~By Gwen Ifill ~
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 ~
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 ~
It is our less conscious thoughts and our less conscious actions which mainly mould our lives and the lives of those who spring from us.
~By Samuel Butler ~
From heav'nly thoughts all true delight doth spring.
~By Thomas Campion ~
They say it's better to bury your sadness in a graveyard or garden that waits for the spring to wake from its sleep and burst into green.
~By Conor Oberst ~
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 ~
Fantastic! Right in the middle of that long stretch between Christmas and Spring Break, your coats are getting dirty, everything's dark, dingy - what a great time for a movie!
~By John Hughes ~
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 ~
Falsehood is a perennial spring.
~By Edmund Burke ~
Out of need springs desire, and out of desire springs the energy and the will to win.
~By Denis Waitley ~
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 ~
Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people.
~By Arthur Schopenhauer ~
One swallow does not make a summer, but one skein of geese, cleaving the murk of March thaw, is the Spring.
~By Aldo Leopold ~
Idealism springs from deep feelings, but feelings are nothing without the formulated idea that keeps them whole.
~By Jacques Barzun ~
The tiger springs in the new year. Us he devours.
~By T. S. Eliot ~
As sure as the spring will follow the winter, prosperity and economic growth will follow recession.
~By Bo Bennett ~
I'm showing some of my sculptures in Holland in the spring, so we'll see.
~By Alan Vega ~
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 ~
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 ~
Italy, and the spring and first love all together should suffice to make the gloomiest person happy.
~By Bertrand Russell ~
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 ~
The way to make coaches think you're in shape in the spring is to get a tan.
~By Whitey Ford ~
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 ~
My heart is in a world of water and crystal, My clothes are damp in this time of spring rains.
~By Du Fu ~
Before I pitch any game, from spring training to Game 7 of the World Series, I'm scared to death.
~By Curt Schilling ~
My experience with Buffalo Springfield was that they did not rehearse.
~By Jim Messina ~
It is so small a thing to have enjoyed the sun, to have lived light in the spring, to have loved, to have thought, to have done.
~By Matthew Arnold ~
Sweet spring, full of sweet days and roses, a box where sweets compacted lie.
~By George Herbert ~
This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector.
~By Plato ~
I don't want to mix the identities. Noah Drake isn't Rick Springfield.
~By Rick Springfield ~
The true harbinger of spring is not crocuses or swallows returning to Capistrano, but the sound of the bat on the ball.
~By Bill Veeck ~
A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.
~By Alexander Pope ~
The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in good education.
~By Plutarch ~
In spring they lie flat at the first warmth, they ruin my summer and in autumn they smell of women.
~By Hugo Claus ~
What springs from earth dissolves to earth again, and heaven-born things fly to their native seat.
~By Marcus Aurelius ~
What happened? The Country got sick of it and said, Enough is enough. And all over the Country we saw springing up community organizations determined to do something about this terrible menace of drugs.
~By Barry McCaffrey ~
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