Spring Quotes - Page 19

• If the parks be "the lungs of London" we wonder what Greenwich Fair is--a periodical breaking out, we suppose--a sort of spring rash.

  Charles Dickens

  London, Parks, Wonder

  Charles Dickens (1850). “Sketches by Boz [i.e. Charles Dickens] ... With a frontispiece by George Cruikshank”, p.67

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• It is a hopeless endeavour to unite the contrarieties of spring and winter; it is unjust to claim the privileges of age, and retain the play-things of childhood.

  Samuel Johnson

  Winter, Play, Childhood

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1837). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: With an Essay on His Life and Genius /c by Arthur Murphy, Esq”, p.88

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• A Fourth Estate, of Able Editors, springs up.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Editors, Able, Journalism

  Thomas Carlyle (1871). “The French Revolution: A History”, p.205

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• Contentions fierce, Ardent, and dire, spring from no petty cause.

  Walter Scott

  Causes, Fierce, Contention

  Walter Scott, Sir Walter Scott (1841). “The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott, Bart”, p.700

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• Welcome, maids of honor, You doe bring In the spring, And wait upon her.

  Robert Herrick

  Waiting, Honor, Doe

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• We began as mineral. We emerged into plant life, and into the animal state, and then into being human, and always we have forgotten our former states, except in early spring when we slightly recall being green again.

  Rumi

  Animal, Plant Life, Green

  Rumi (2015). “Selected Poems”, p.155, Penguin UK

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• Corruption springs from light: 'tis one same power Creates, preserves, destroys; matter whereon It works, on e'er self-transmutative form, Common to now the living, now the dead.

  Philip James Bailey

  Light, Self, Matter

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• Spring was running in a thin green flame over the valley.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Running, Flames, Valleys

  Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow (1938). “Works”

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• Spring goeth all in white, / Crowned with milk-white may: / In fleecy flocks of light / O'er heaven the white clouds stray.

  Robert Bridges

  Clouds, Light, White

  Robert Bridges (1912). “Poetical Works Of Robert Brides Excluding The Eight Dramas”

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• In spring, nature is like a thrifty housewife ... taking up the white carpets and putting down the green ones.

  Mary Baker Eddy

  Nature, White, Green

  Mary Baker Eddy (1916). “Miscellaneous Writings: 1883-1896”

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• Nature intended you to be the fountain-spring of cheerfulness and social life, and not the mountain of despair and melancholy.

  Arthur Helps

  Despair, Mountain, Melancholy

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• Old age is the fourth stage. By the time one reaches this stage of his journey, he must have discovered that the joys available in this world are trivial and fleeting. He must be equipped with the higher knowledge of spiritual joy, available through delving into the inner spring of Bliss. Through his experiences, his heart must have softened and be filled with compassion. He has to be engrossed in promoting the progress of all beings without distinction. And he must be eager to share with others the knowledge he has accumulated and the benefit of his experiences.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Spiritual, Heart, Journey

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• Now Spring restores the balmy heat, now Zephyr's sweet breezes calm the rage of the equinoctial sky.

  Catullus

  Sweet, Sky, Zephyr

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• Affections injured by tyranny, or rigor of compulsion, like tempest-threatened trees, unfirmly rooted, never spring to timely growth

  John Ford

  Tree, Growth, Affection

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• God dropped a spark down into everyone, And if we find and fan it to a blaze, It'll spring up and glow, like--like the sun, And light the wandering out of stony ways.

  John Masefield

  Light, Sun, Fans

  John Masefield (1923). “The Collected Poems”

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• A moment of complete happiness never occurs in the creation of a work of art. The promise of it is felt in the act of creation but disappears towards the completion of the work. For it is then the painter realises that it is only a picture he is painting. Until then he had almost dared to hope the picture might spring to life.

  Lucian Freud

  Art, Promise, Might

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• Order is the disposition of things in which each gives to the other its room, its own proper place. That's the external aspect. The other is that order that springs from love: there's no other way of establishing order except through love.

  David Steindl-Rast

  Order, Giving, Way

  "Become What You Are". Interview with John Loudon, gratefulness.org. 1982.

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• March is the month of expectation,
  The things we do not know,
  The Persons of Prognostication
  Are coming now.
  We try to sham becoming firmness,
  But pompous joy
  Betrays us, as his first betrothal
  Betrays a boy.

  Emily Dickinson

  Boys, Expectations, Joy

  Emily Dickinson (1915). “The Single Hound: Poems of a Lifetime”

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• 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.

  Robyn Hitchcock

  Team, Thinking, Python

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• When spring is here the sketcher begins to look over his equipment and relishes in anticipation the soothing hours he will spend in the open, warmed by the sun, fanned by the breeze, charmed by the manifold delights of nature.

  Walter J. Phillips

  Looks, Delight, Sun

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• The soft mellow warble of the bluebird, heard at its best throughout spring and early summer, is one of the sweetest, most confiding and loving sounds in nature.

  Thomas Roberts

  Summer, Sound, Mellow

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• Four ducks on a pond, / A grass-bank beyond, / A blue sky of spring, / White clouds on the wing: / What a little thing / To remember for years - / To remember with tears!.

  William Allingham

  Sky, Wings, Ducks

  'A Memory'

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• Snowstorms may yet whiten fields and gardens, high winds may howl about the trees and chimneys, but the little blue heralds persistently proclaim from the orchard and the garden that the spring procession has begun to move.

  Neltje Blanchan

  Moving, Garden, Blue

  Neltje Blanchan (1922). “Bird Neighbors: An Introductory Acquaintance with One Hundred and Fifty Birds Commonly Found in the Gardens, Meadows, and Woods about Our Homes”

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• Writing is done by someone. It is not, like some mythical goddess, a skill that springs forth, full grown from the genes of inspiration.

  Leonard Bishop

  Inspiration, Writing, Skills

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• 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.

  Anna Brackett

  Real, Exercise, Effort

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