Spring Quotes - Page 13

• Drive my dead thoughts over the universe Like withered leaves to quicken a new birth! And, by the incantation of this verse, Scatter, as from an unextinguished hearth Ashes and sparks, my words among mankind! Be through my lips to unawakened earth The trumpet of a prophecy! O, wind, If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Winter, Wind, Ashes

  'Ode to the West Wind' (1819) l. 65

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• Secrecy can spring from the best motives; but as it grows it begins to exist only for itself, only for its own sake, only to cover its own abuses.

  Christopher Dodd

  Abuse, Sake, Secrecy

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• I got that nickname my first spring training camp with the Expos in 1974. Tim Foli, Ken Singleton and Mike Jorgensen started calling me 'Kid' because I was trying to win every sprint. I was trying to hit every pitch out of the park.

  Gary Carter

  Kids, Winning, Training

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• I think it's a good idea to take samples and live with them a little. So far I'm liking Creed's Spring Flower. I think I'm going to make it my regular scent.

  Isabelle Fuhrman

  Flower, Thinking, Ideas

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• Heliotrope. To be sowed in the spring. A delicious flower, but I suspect it must be planted in boxes and kept in the house in the winter. The smell rewards the care.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Flower, Winter, Smell

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• Any game is important to me. At Boston College, when I went out for the spring games, I wanted to win. Maybe it is more important than other preseason games. It's just that everyone is expecting a lot from me in my first week of professional football. I want to confirm my expectations.

  Doug Flutie

  Football, Winning, College

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• Once something has outlived its usefulness in one area of life, its purpose for being in existence is no longer the same. The leaf that captures a stream of sunlight, and then transfers its energy to the tree, serves one purpose in the spring and summer, and another completely different one through the fall and winter.

  Guy Finley

  Summer, Fall, Winter

  "The Dark Night of the Soul" by Guy Finley, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 5, 2012.

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• The language of Mexicans springs from abysmal extremes of power and impotence, domination and resentment.

  Carlos Fuentes

  Resentment, Language, Domination

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• Joy is everywhere; it is in the earth's green covering of grass: in the blue serenity of the sky: in the reckless exuberance of spring: in the severe abstinence of grey winter: in the living flesh that animates our bodily frame: in the perfect poise of the human figure, noble and upright: in living, in the exercise of all our powers: in the acquisition of knowledge. . . Joy is there everywhere.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Winter, Exercise, Blue

  Rabindranath Tagore (2016). “SĀDHANĀ - The Realisation of life”, p.64, Rabindranath Tagore

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• Prayer is not a vain attempt to change God's will; it is a filial desire to learn God's will and to share it. Prayer is not a substitute for work: it is the secret spring and indispensable ally of all true work.

  George Arthur Buttrick

  Prayer, Secret, Desire

  George Arthur Buttrick (1934). “The Christian Fact and Modern Doubt: A Preface to a Restatement of Christian Faith”

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• Thanksgiving is every day because in this physical body you can spring into eternal paradise.

  Roger Delano Hinkins

  Attitude, Body, Paradise

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• Tulips come up in spring for no reason. Of course, you planted bulbs and now in April the earth warms up. But why? For no reason except gravity. Why gravity? For no reason. And why did you plant red tulip bulbs to begin with? For beauty, which is itself and has no reason. So the world is empty. Things rise and fall for no reason. And what a great opportunity that is! You can start writing again at any minute. Let go of all your failures and sit down and write something great. Or write something terrible and feel great about it.

  Natalie Goldberg

  Letting Go, Fall, Writing

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• If not for you, winter wouldn't hold no spring, couldn't hear a robin sing. I just wouldn't have a clue, if not for you.

  Bob Dylan

  Friendship, Winter, Robins

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• I like the fog that creeps over the whole city every night about five, and the warm protective feeling it gives...and lights of San Francisco at night, the fog horn, the bay at dusk and the little flower stands where spring flowers appear before anywhere else in the country...But, most of all, I like the view of the ocean from the Cliff House.

  Irene Dunne

  Country, Ocean, Flower

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• Like leaves on trees the race of man is found,- Now green in youth, now withering on the ground; Another race the following spring supplies: They fall successive, and successive rise.

  Homer

  Fall, Men, Race

  Homer (1822). “The Iliad of Homer”, p.170

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• In spring a young mans fancy turns to a fancy young man.

  Mart Crowley

  Men, Fancy, Young

  Mart Crowley (2003). “The Band Plays: The Boys in the Band [and Its Sequel] The Men from the Boys”, p.115, Taylor & Francis

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• Since sorrow follows joy As autumn does the spring Man must transcend the joys Of earth, which sorrows bring.

  Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib

  Autumn, Men, Joy

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• 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.

  Russ Carnahan

  Country, Home, Winter

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• You'll see a lot more blood in 'Saw' movies or something like that than you will in either of the 'Last House' movies. I kind of think it owes more to 'The Virgin Spring' which is the original source material, the Bergman movie.

  Garret Dillahunt

  Thinking, Blood, House

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Look at what has occurred in history. When the Berlin Wall fell, it was not surprising, but it was unexpected. Who predicted the Arab Spring? Nobody expected it, but all the ingredients were there. I think all the ingredients are also there for Quebec to become a country. But when? That's another question.

  Gilles Duceppe

  Country, Wall, Thinking

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• 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.

  Mary Hunter Austin

  Running, Water, Dry

  Mary Hunter Austin, Reuben J. Ellis (1996). “Beyond Borders: The Selected Essays of Mary Austin”, p.34, SIU Press

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• We tiptoed the tops of beaver dams, hopped hummocks, went wading, looked at spring flowers, tried to catcha snake, got lost and found. How fine it was to move at a meandery, child's pace.

  David Sobel

  Nature, Children, Flower

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• That there is a Spring, or Elastical power in the Air we live in. By which ελατνρ [elater] or Spring of the Air, that which I mean is this: That our Air either consists of, or at least abounds with, parts of such a nature, that in case they be bent or compress'd by the weight of the incumbent part of the Atmosphere, or by any other Body, they do endeavour, as much as in them lies, to free themselves from that pressure, by bearing against the contiguous Bodies that keep them bent.

  Robert Boyle

  Lying, Mean, Science

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• The spring wakes us, nurtures us and revitalizes us. How often does your spring come? If you are a prisoner of the calendar, it comes once a year. If you are creating authentic power, it comes frequently, or very frequently.

  Gary Zukav

  Years, Creating, Calendars

  "Gary Zukav On Spiritual Spring Cleaning" by Gary Zukav, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 18, 2012.

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• Spring, when the earth tilts closer to the sun, runs a strict timetable of flowers.

  Alice Oswald

  Running, Flower, Earth

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