Spring Quotes - Page 24

• I met my wife on Spring break when I was in college. I was at the University of Notre Dame. She was at the University of New Hampshire. I bumped into her in Florida and told her the next day that I was going to marry her and 20 or something years later here we are.

  Nicholas Sparks

  College, Next Day, Florida

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• All projects are different, but you have to treat each one of them with care. Sometimes you get to build a luxury yacht;
  other times, it'll be a rowboat. You still have to make sure the thing doesn't spring a leak.

  Stefan G. Bucher

  Luxury, Different, Care

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• As this world becomes increasingly ugly, callous and materialistic it needs to be reminded that the old fairy stories are rooted in truth, that imagination is of value, that happy endings do, in fact, occur, and that the blue spring mist that make an ugly street look beautiful is just as real a thing as the street itself.

  Elizabeth Goudge

  Beautiful, Real, Blue

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• For those that endure until spring, existence is reduced to its elegant essentials.

  Bernd Heinrich

  Essentials, Existence, Endure

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• Fairy folk a-listening Hear the seed sprout in the spring, And for music to their dance Hear the hedgerows wake from trance, Sap that trembles into buds Sending little rhythmic floods Of fairy sound in fairy ears. Thus all beauty that appears Has birth as sound to finer sense And lighter-clad intelligence.

  George Eliot

  Listening, Sound, Bud

  George Eliot (2006). “Daniel Deronda: Easyread Edition”, p.346, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The purifying influence of public confession springs from the fact, that by it the hope in lies is forever swept away, and the soul recovers the noble attitude of simplicity.

  George Eliot

  Honesty, Attitude, Lying

  George Eliot (1863). “Romola”, p.112

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• In the chequered area of human experience the seasons are all mingled as in the golden age: fruit and blossom hang together; in the same moment the sickle is reaping and the seed is sprinkled; one tends the green cluster and another treads the wine-press. Nay, in each of our lives harvest and spring-time are continually one, until Death himself gathers us and sows us anew in his invisible fields.

  George Eliot

  Life, Wine, Age

  George Eliot (2009). “Daniel Deronda”, p.693, Oxford Paperbacks

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• In our spring-time every day has its hidden growths in the mind, as it has in the earth when the little folded blades are getting ready to pierce the ground.

  George Eliot

  Mind, Growth, Littles

  George Eliot (1866). “Felix Holt: The Radical”, p.80

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• I might mention all the divine charms of a bright spring day, but if you had never in your life utterly forgotten yourself in straining your eyes after the mounting lark, or in wandering through the still lanes when the fresh-opened blossoms fill them with a sacred silent beauty like that of fretted aisles, where would be the use of my descriptive catalogue?

  George Eliot

  Eye, Would Be, Use

  George Eliot (1862). “Adam Bede ... Tenth edition”, p.71

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• It cuts one sadly to see the grief of old people; they've no way o' working it off; and the new spring brings no new shoots out on the withered tree.

  George Eliot

  Grief, Cutting, People

  George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.122, Wordsworth Editions

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• Sing, my tongue, the Saviour's glory, Of His Flesh, the mystery sing; Of the Blood, all price exceeding, Shed by our Immortal King, Destined, for the world's redemption, From a noble Womb to spring.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Jesus, Kings, Blood

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• Spring is noticed, if at all By people sitting in railway trains.

  Bertolt Brecht

  People, Sitting, Train

  Bertolt Brecht, Ralph Manheim (1987). “Poems, 1913-1956”, p.158, Taylor & Francis

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• A jargon form'd from the lost language, wit, Confounded in that Babel of the pit; Form'd by diseased conceptions, weak and wild, Sick lust of souls, and an abortive child; Born between whores and fops, by lewd compacts, Before the play, or else between the acts; Nor wonder, if from such polluted minds Should spring such short and transitory kinds.

  Jonathan Swift

  Children, Play, Sick

  Jonathan Swift (1801). “The Works of of the Rev. Jonathan Swift”, p.411

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• Our hearts seemed safe in our breasts and sang to the Light The marrow in the bone We dreamed was safe. . . the blood in the veins, the sap in the tree Were springs of Deity.

  Edith Sitwell

  Heart, Light, Blood

  Dame Edith Sitwell (1952). “Selected Poems”

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• the streams buck like rams in a tent / whips crack and from the hills come the crookedly combed /shadows of the shepherds. /black eggs and fools' bells fall from the trees. / thunder drums and kettledrums beat upon the ears of the donkeys. / wings brush against flowers. / fountains spring up in the eyes of the wild boar.

  Hans Arp

  Flower, Fall, Eye

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• Unfruitful emotion is to be suspected. Feeling acts as an impulse, as a spur, as a spring, and when feelings are excited, and they put nothing forward, they are sometimes even dangerous to a man.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Men, Feelings, Spurs

  Henry Ward Beecher, Truman Jeremiah Ellinwood (1871). “The original Plymouth pulpit”, p.349

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• Earthly love is a brief and penurious stream, which only flows in spring, with a long summer drought. The change from a burning desert, treeless, springless, drear, to green fields and blooming orchards in June, is slight in comparison with that from the desert of this world's affection to the garden of God, where there is perpetual, tropical luxuriance of blessed love.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Love, Summer, Blessed

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.24

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• A practical, matter-of-fact man is like a wagon without springs: every single pebble on the road jolts him; but a man with imagination has springs that break the jar and jolt.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Men, Imagination, Wagons

  Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

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• As long as society is absolutely divided as milk is, the cream being at the top and the impoverished milk at the bottom, so long will society be unbalanced, and liable to be thrown into convulsions out of which will spring wars. A circulation throughout keeps it in health.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  War, Long, Milk

  Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

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• Sphere Music - Some sounds seem to reverberate along the plain, and then settle to earth again like dust; such are Noise, Discord, Jargon. But such only as spring heavenward, and I may catch from steeples and hilltops in their upward course, which are the more refined parts of the former, are the true sphere music - pure, unmixed music - in which no wail mingles.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Dust, Sound, Earth

  Henry David Thoreau, Odell Shepard (1961). “The Heart of Thoreau's Journals”, p.6, Courier Corporation

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• Even the alleged benefits of war, so far as more than alleged, spring from the fact that conflict of peoples at least enforces intercourse between them and thus accidentally enables them to learn from one another, and thereby to expand their horizons. Travel, economic and commercial tendencies, have at present gone far to break down external barriers; to bring peoples and classes into closer and more perceptible connection with one another.

  John Dewey

  War, Class, Connections

  John Dewey (2012). “Democracy and Education”, p.82, Courier Corporation

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• We have now in our possession three instruments of civilization, unknown to antiquity. These are the art of printing; free representative government; and, lastly, a pure and spiritual religion, the deep fountain of generous enthusiasm, the mighty spring of bold and lofty designs, the great sanctuary of moral power.

  Edward Everett

  Spiritual, Art, Government

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, 1895.

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• Home I would go But that my doors are hateful to my eyes, Fill'd and damm'd up with gaping creditors, Watchful as fowlers when their game will spring.

  Thomas Otway

  Home, Eye, Doors

  1682 Venice Preserved, or a Plot Discovered, act1, sc.1.

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• Oh the grave!--the grave!--It buries every error--covers every defect--extinguishes every resentment! From its peaceful bosom spring none but fond regrets and tender recollections. Who can look down upon the grave even of an enemy, and not feel a compunctious throb, that he should ever have warred with the poor handful of earth that lies mouldering before him!

  Washington Irving

  Death, Regret, Lying

  Washington Irving (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Washington Irving (Illustrated)”, p.136, Delphi Classics

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• The entire spring and summer line from Marc Jacobs was stolen on the way to the fashion show in Paris. The thief is considered armed and fabulous.

  Jay Leno

  Summer, Fashion, Paris

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