Spring Quotes - Page 27

• The most beautiful springs are those that come after the most horrible winters!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Beautiful, Winter, Horrible

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• Without the power of intelligence there is no capacity for spiritual knowledge; and without spiritual knowledge we cannot have the faith from which springs that hope whereby we grasp things of the future as though they were present. Without the power of desire there is no longing, and so no love, which is the issue of longing; for the property of desire is to love something. And without the incensive power, intensifying the desire for union with what is loved, there can be no peace, for peace is truly the complete and undisturbed possession of what is desired.

  Maximus the Confessor

  Christian, Spiritual, Issues

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• I think that my ideas of the world are that it's random and cruel but kind of quite comical really, and therefore the humour, in a sense, springs from that.

  Alexei Sayle

  Thinking, Ideas, World

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• I come to spring training and just try to do my job, try to do the best I can. That's all any player can do.

  Danny Bautista

  Jobs, Player, Training

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• Great food, like all art, enhances and reflects a community’s vitality, growth and solidarity. Yet history bears witness that great cuisines spring only from healthy local agriculture.

  Rick Bayless

  Art, Agriculture, Community

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• Military weapons are the means used by the Sage to punish violence and cruelty, to give peace to troublous times, to remove difficulties and dangers, and to succor those who are in peril. Every animal with blood in its veins and horns on its head will fight when it is attacked. How much more so will man, who carries in his breast the faculties of love and hatred, joy and anger! When he is pleased, a feeling of affection springs up within him; when angry, his poisoned sting is brought into play. That is the natural law which governs his being

  Sima Qian

  Military, War, Mean

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• The Internet has exceeded our collective expectations as a revolutionary spring of information, news, and ideas. It is essential that we keep that spring flowing. We must not thwart the Internet's availability by taxing access to it.

  Chris Cannon

  Ideas, Availability, Expectations

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• Whither away, Bluebird, Whither away? The blast is chill, yet in the upper sky Thou still canst find the color of thy wing, The hue of May. Warbler, why speed, thy southern flight? ah, why, Thou, too, whose song first told us of the Spring? Whither away?

  Edmund Clarence Stedman

  Song, Sky, Wings

  Edmund Clarence Stedman (1891). “Poetical Works”

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• When thou cam'st first, Thou strok'st me and made much of me; wouldst give me Water with berries in't; and teach me how To name the bigger light, and how the less, That burn by day and night; and then I loved thee And showed thee all the qualities o' th' isle, The fresh springs, brine-pits, barren place and fertile.

  William Shakespeare

  Night, Light, Names

  William Shakespeare (1998). “Four Late Plays”, p.357, Wordsworth Editions

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• There is a beauty bestowed in some degree on all God's saints who pray much which is of the same nature and is the most precious of all answers to prayer. Character flows from the well-spring of prayer.

  James Stalker

  Prayer, Character, Degrees

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• I think if we all gardened more, they and all of the other birds that fly in the air above and light in my garden below would be better off. I know that God values them no less than I do. So when I plant in spring I also hope to taste of God in fruit of summer sun and sight of feathered friends.

  Vigen Guroian

  Summer, Garden, Thinking

  Vigen Guroian (2001). “Inheriting Paradise: Meditations on Gardening”, p.106, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• HIBERNATE, v. i. To pass the winter season in domestic seclusion. There have been many singular popular notions about the hibernation of various animals. Many believe that the bear hibernates during the whole winter and subsists by mechanically sucking its paws. It is admitted that it comes out of its retirement in the spring so lean that it has to try twice before it can cast a shadow.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Retirement, Believe, Winter

  Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.2418, Delphi Classics

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• Judge not of actions by their mere effect; Dive to the center, and the cause detect. Great deeds from meanest springs may take their course, And smallest virtues from a mighty source.

  Alexander Pope

  Judging, Deeds, May

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• I enjoy going to Palm Springs when I'm living in Los Angeles.

  Kristin Chenoweth

  Los Angeles, Enjoy, Palms

  "Actress dreams of Rome — and eating at Sonic". Interview with Jae-Ha Kim, www.chicagotribune.com. September 6, 2011.

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• Wit is an intermittent fountain; kindness is a perennial spring.

  Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

  Kindness, Fountain, Humour

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• If I were a maker of perfumes, I would make one and call it 'Spring,' and it would smell like this cool, sweet, early-morning air.

  Ann Petry

  Sweet, Morning, Air

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• Inasmuch as ill-deeds spring up as a spontaneous crop, they are easy to learn.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Evil, Deeds, Spontaneous

  "Coloquio de los Perros". Book by Miguel de Cervantes, 1613.

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• Pride of origin, whether high or low, springs from the same principle in human nature; one is but the positive, the other the negative, pole of a single weakness.

  James Russell Lowell

  Pride, Weakness, Principles

  James Russell Lowell (2016). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)”, p.1818, Delphi Classics

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• The weak are not a noble breed. Their sublime deeds of faith, daring, and self-sacrifice usually spring from questionable motives. The weak hate not wickedness but weakness; and one instance of their hatred of weakness is hatred of self. All the passionate pursuits of the weak are in some degree a striving to escape, blur, or disguise an unwanted self. It is a striving shot through with malice, envy, self-deception, and a host of petty impulses; yet it often culminates in superb achievements.

  Eric Hoffer

  Hate, Sacrifice, Self

  Eric Hoffer (1963). “The Ordeal of Change”

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• Incessant falls teach men to reform, and distress rouses their strength. Life springs from calamity, and death from ease.

  Mencius

  Fall, Men, Reform

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• 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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• 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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• 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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