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 ~
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 ~
I was away from the front lines for a while this spring, living with other troops, and considerable fighting took place while I was gone. When I got ready to return to my old friends at the front I wondered if I would sense any change in them.
~By Ernie Pyle ~
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 ~
The temptations to wrong are many; they spring out of a corrupt nature.
~By Matthew Simpson ~
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 ~
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 ~
You mean guys don't get injured in spring training? Guys get hurt walking down the street.
~By Bud Selig ~
Thine eyes are springs in whose serene And silent waters heaven is seen. Their lashes are the herbs that look On their young figures in the brook.
~By William C. Bryant ~
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 ~
In the Spring, I have counted 136 different kinds of weather inside of 24 hours.
~By Mark Twain ~
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 ~
More than in any other performing arts the lack of respect for acting seems to spring from the fact that every layman considers himself a valid critic.
~By Simone Weil ~
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 ~
Sweet as sweetest Grecian honey will my song be when I sing, O Beloved, in the season of the Spring!
~By Ruben Dario ~
But, also, before I even go on the Medicare prescription drug debate, I always tell the folks in rural Illinois, and I represent 30 counties south of Springfield down to Indiana and Kentucky, that in this bill is the best rural package for hospitals ever passed.
~By John Shimkus ~
In Palm Springs, they think homelessness is caused by bad divorce lawyers.
~By G. B. Trudeau ~
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 ~
Earth teach me to forget myself as melted snow forgets its life. Earth teach me resignation as the leaves which die in the fall. Earth teach me courage as the tree which stands all alone. Earth teach me regeneration as the seed which rises in the spring.
~By William Alexander ~
I'm an old rock and roll buff. I love Bruce Springsteen and Tom Petty.
~By Nick Carter ~
No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn.
~By Hal Borland ~
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 ~
To whom it may concern: It is springtime. It is late afternoon.
~By Kurt Vonnegut ~
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 ~
All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions.
~By Albert Einstein ~
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 ~
Sweet April showers do spring May flowers.
~By Thomas Tusser ~
With the advent of spring and beginning of the new harvest season the creators of abundance, our peasants, come out to the fields to sow with good aspirations and hopes.
~By Islom Karimov ~
It is disturbing to discover in oneself these curious revelations of the validity of the Darwinian theory. If it is true that we have sprung from the ape, there are occasions when my own spring appears not to have been very far.
~By Cornelia Otis Skinner ~
Mathematical discoveries, like springtime violets in the woods, have their season which no man can hasten or retard.
~By Janos Bolyai ~
Right now I'm working on the back handspring.
~By Ashley Scott ~
My heart is in a world of water and crystal, My clothes are damp in this time of spring rains.
~By Du Fu ~
It is not from reason that justice springs, but goodness is born of wisdom.
~By Maurice Maeterlinck ~
Love, work, and knowledge are the wellsprings of our lives, they should also govern it.
~By Wilhelm Reich ~
Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.
~By Henry Ward Beecher ~
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 ~
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 ~
Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people.
~By Arthur Schopenhauer ~
The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.
~By Joan Didion ~
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 ~
We met The Cult and were talking to them for a while. We went a few places with Offspring.
~By Daniel Johns ~
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 am often reminded that the wellspring of Vermont liberty flows from Main Street, not State Street.
~By James H. Douglas ~
Spring has many American faces. There are cities where it will come and go in a day and counties where it hangs around and never quite gets there. Summer is drawn blinds in Louisiana, long winds in Wyoming, shade of elms and maples in New England.
~By Archibald MacLeish ~
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 truth is that our way of celebrating the Christmas season does spring from myriad cultures and sources, from St. Nicholas to Coca-Cola advertising campaigns.
~By Richard Roeper ~
Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.
~By Albert Camus ~
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 ~
I'm a big fan of Bruce Springsteen and Tom Petty, they're my two favorites.
~By Andrew Shue ~
To underestimate one's thirst, to pass a given landmark to the right or left, to find a dry spring where one looked for running water - there is no help for any of these things.
~By Mary Austin ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in good education.
~By Plutarch ~
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 ~
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 ~
If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?
~By Percy Bysshe Shelley ~
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 ~
My rights all spring front an infinitely nobler source - from favor and grace of God.
~By Gerrit Smith ~
I repeat... that all power is a trust; that we are accountable for its exercise; that from the people and for the people all springs, and all must exist.
~By Benjamin Disraeli ~
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 ~
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 ~
I want to do to you what spring does with the cherry trees.
~By Pablo Neruda ~
For peace is not mere absence of war, but is a virtue that springs from, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.
~By Baruch Spinoza ~
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 ~
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 will always desire to play with Bruce Springsteen. He's the most inspirational, most dedicated, most committed and most focused artist I've ever seen. I like to be around people like that.
~By Max Weinberg ~
From labour health, from health contentment spring; contentment opes the source of every joy.
~By James Beattie ~
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 ~
Incongruity is the mainspring of laughter.
~By Max Beerbohm ~
Here was a fragment of Goddess myth that, through all its permutations, had somehow escaped being turned on its head. It was the perfect springboard for the sort of novel I wanted to write.
~By Joan D. Vinge ~
In every tyrant's heart there springs in the end this poison, that he cannot trust a friend.
~By Aeschylus ~
Evil events from evil causes spring.
~By Aristophanes ~
All cruelty springs from weakness.
~By Lucius Annaeus Seneca ~
History is, in its essentials, the science of change. It knows and it teaches that it is impossible to find two events that are ever exactly alike, because the conditions from which they spring are never identical.
~By Marc Bloch ~
Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin - it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.
~By S. J. Perelman ~
Spring is nature's way of saying, "Let's party!"
~By Robin Williams ~
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 ~
Virtue is the fount whence honour springs.
~By Christopher Marlowe ~
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 ~
Nothing ever begins. There is no first moment; no single word or place from which this or any other story springs.
~By Clive Barker ~
Idealism springs from deep feelings, but feelings are nothing without the formulated idea that keeps them whole.
~By Jacques Barzun ~
The earth is yet the place of the domicile of man and all the offspring of the first man.
~By Joseph Franklin Rutherford ~
To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.
~By George Santayana ~
What springs from earth dissolves to earth again, and heaven-born things fly to their native seat.
~By Marcus Aurelius ~
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 ~
Great effort springs naturally from great attitude.
~By Pat Riley ~
In California in the early Spring, There are pale yellow mornings, when the mist burns slowly into day, The air stings like Autumn, clarifies like pain - Well, I have dreamed this coast myself.
~By Robert Hass ~
Poor, dear, silly Spring, preparing her annual surprise!
~By Wallace Stevens ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time. Never make your most important decisions when you are in your worst moods. Wait. Be patient. The storm will pass. The spring will come.
~By Robert H. Schuller ~
All my ambition is, I own, to profit and to please unknown; like streams supplied from springs below, which scatter blessings as they go.
~By Charles Cotton ~
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.
~By Kenneth Grahame ~
Good laws are the offspring of bad actions.
~By Charles Macklin ~
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 ~
So stick up ivy and the bays, and then restore the heathen ways, green will remind you of the Spring, though this great day denies the thing, and mortifies the earth, and all, but your wild revels, and loose hall.
~By Henry Vaughan ~
My experience with Buffalo Springfield was that they did not rehearse.
~By Jim Messina ~
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 ~
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