My friends are Peter Gabriel, Bruce Springsteen, and we're singing about mortality, getting older. It's an interesting time.
~By Sting ~
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 ~
Trouble springs from idleness, and grievous toil from needless ease.
~By Benjamin Franklin ~
The beautiful spring came; and when Nature resumes her loveliness, the human soul is apt to revive also.
~By Harriet Ann Jacobs ~
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 ~
Capital is money, capital is commodities. By virtue of it being value, it has acquired the occult ability to add value to itself. It brings forth living offspring, or, at the least, lays golden eggs.
~By Karl Marx ~
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 ~
I drank the silence of God from a spring in the woods.
~By Georg Trakl ~
The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.
~By Joan Didion ~
All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions.
~By Albert Einstein ~
I wanted to pay tribute to my musical influences: Buffalo Springfield, Lightfoot, the Beatles, the Hollies.
~By Dan Fogelberg ~
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 ~
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 ~
I am often reminded that the wellspring of Vermont liberty flows from Main Street, not State Street.
~By James H. Douglas ~
The natural term of the affection of the human animal for its offspring is six years.
~By George Bernard Shaw ~
Mischief springs from the power which the moneyed interest derives from a paper currency which they are able to control, from the multitude of corporations with exclusive privileges... which are employed altogether for their benefit.
~By Andrew Jackson ~
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 ~
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 ~
That is one good thing about this world... there are always sure to be more springs.
~By Lucy Maud Montgomery ~
Love, work, and knowledge are the wellsprings of our lives, they should also govern it.
~By Wilhelm Reich ~
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 ~
Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization.
~By Ambrose Bierce ~
I'm a big fan of Bruce Springsteen and Tom Petty, they're my two favorites.
~By Andrew Shue ~
For happiness one needs security, but joy can spring like a flower even from the cliffs of despair.
~By Anne Morrow Lindbergh ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
Every spring is the only spring, a perpetual astonishment.
~By Ellis Peters ~
Spring is God's way of saying, 'One more time!'
~By Robert Orben ~
Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always To be Blest.
~By Alexander Pope ~
There are some good songs, but not the kind of song-writing that I remember, that I like. Springsteen still does it. Paul Simon, and there are also good writers, but that doesn't dominate the charts.
~By Jackie DeShannon ~
Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.
~By Nathaniel Hawthorne ~
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 ~
Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings.
~By Gustave Flaubert ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 will to do springs from the knowledge that we can do.
~By James Allen ~
Wars spring from unseen and generally insignificant causes, the first outbreak being often but an explosion of anger.
~By Thucydides ~
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 ~
This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector.
~By Plato ~
No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face.
~By John Donne ~
We met The Cult and were talking to them for a while. We went a few places with Offspring.
~By Daniel Johns ~
From heav'nly thoughts all true delight doth spring.
~By Thomas Campion ~
I'm very confident my health isn't going to allow me to be a good player, especially in the spring.
~By Steve Yzerman ~
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 ~
Truth springs from argument amongst friends.
~By David Hume ~
If you allow one single germ, one single seed of slavery to remain in the soil of America... that germ will spring up, that noxious weed will thrive, and again stifle the growth, wither the leaves, blast the flowers and poison the fair fruits of freedom.
~By Ernestine L. Rose ~
For nine years, till the spring of 1881, we lived in Oxford, in a little house north of the Parks, in what was then the newest quarter of the University town.
~By Mary A. Ward ~
Right now I'm working on the back handspring.
~By Ashley Scott ~
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 a wise tune that knows its own father, and I like my music to be the legitimate offspring of respectable parents.
~By Samuel Butler ~
War springs from the love and loyalty which should be offered to God being applied to some God substitute, one of the most dangerous being nationalism.
~By Robert Runcie ~
When you think about great teams, The Beatles and the Pythons immediately spring to mind. The Pythons were as much a part of their time as The Beatles.
~By Robyn Hitchcock ~
The flowers anew, returning seasons bring; but beauty faded has no second spring.
~By Ambrose Philips ~
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 ~
My experience with Buffalo Springfield was that they did not rehearse.
~By Jim Messina ~
The tiger springs in the new year. Us he devours.
~By T. S. Eliot ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
Evil events from evil causes spring.
~By Aristophanes ~
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 ~
This nation is like a spring freshet; it overruns its banks and destroys all who are in its path.
~By Sitting Bull ~
The cool wind blew in my face and all at once I felt as if I had shed dullness from myself. Before me lay a long gray line with a black mark down the center. The birds were singing. It was spring.
~By Burl Ives ~
Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
~By G. M. Trevelyan ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
Welcome, wild harbinger of spring! To this small nook of earth; Feeling and fancy fondly cling, Round thoughts which owe their birth, To thee, and to the humble spot, Where chance has fixed thy lowly lot.
~By Bernard Barton ~
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 ~
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 ~
I'm showing some of my sculptures in Holland in the spring, so we'll see.
~By Alan Vega ~
That U.N. Security Council resolution requires getting Syrian troops and intelligence officials out of Lebanon so that the Lebanese can have elections here this spring that are free and fair and free of outside influence.
~By Stephen Hadley ~
The earth is yet the place of the domicile of man and all the offspring of the first man.
~By Joseph Franklin Rutherford ~
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 ~
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 ~
Creatures whose mainspring is curiosity enjoy the accumulating of facts far more than the pausing at times to reflect on those facts.
~By Clarence Day ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 the Spring, I have counted 136 different kinds of weather inside of 24 hours.
~By Mark Twain ~
Spring is a true reconstructionist.
~By Henry Timrod ~
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 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 ~
In the end we're all Jerry Springer Show guests, really, we just haven't been on the show.
~By Marilyn Manson ~
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 ~
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 ~
Chicago is an October sort of city even in spring.
~By Nelson Algren ~
The spring of love becomes hidden and soon filled up.
~By Max Muller ~
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