Spring Quotes - Page 30

• Ah, passing few are they who speak,
  Wild, stormy month! in praise of thee;
  Yet though thy winds are loud and bleak,
  Thou art a welcome month to me.
  For thou, to northern lands, again
  The glad and glorious sun dost bring,
  And thou hast joined the gentle train
  And wear'st the gentle name of Spring.

  William C. Bryant

  Art, Wind, Land

  William Cullen Bryant, “March”

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• Still sweet with blossoms is the year's fresh prime.

  William C. Bryant

  Sweet, Years, Prime

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• The breath of springtime at this twilight hour
  Comes through the gathering glooms,
  And bears the stolen sweets of many a flower
  Into my silent rooms.

  William C. Bryant

  Sweet, Flower, Twilight

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• Oh! if you could only hear Intemperance with drunkards' bones drumming on the top of the wine cask the Dead March of immortal souls, you would go home and kneel down and pray God that rather than your children should ever become the victims of this evil habit, you might carry them out to Greenwood and put them down in the last slumber, waiting for the flowers of spring to come over the grave-sweet prophecies of the resurrection. God hath a balm for such a Wound, but what flower of comfort ever grew on the blasted heath of a drunkard's sepulcher?

  Thomas De Witt Talmage

  Sweet, Children, Flower

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• O fresh-lit dawn! immortal life!
  O Earth's betrothal, sweet and true!

  Edmund Clarence Stedman

  Sweet, Dawn, Earth

  Edmund Clarence Stedman (1869). “The Blameless Prince: And Other Poems”, p.164

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• life is the greatest gift that could ever be conceived ... A daffodil pushing up through the dark earth to the spring, knowing somehow deep in its roots that spring and light and sunshine will come, has more courage and more knowledge of the value of life than any human being I've met.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Life, Sunshine, Dark

  Madeleine L'Engle (1981). “Camilla”, Doubleday

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• We need the rock of the past under our feet in order to spring forward into the future.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Past, Rocks, Order

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• The night is made for tenderness,--so still that the low whisper, scarcely audible, is heard like music,--and so deeply pure that the fond thought is chastened as it springs and on the lip made holy.

  Nathaniel Parker Willis

  Night, Lips, Holy

  Nathaniel Parker Willis, Henry Llewellyn Williams (1832). “Poems of Nathaniel Parker Willis ...”, p.339

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• Spring is a beautiful piece of work; and not to be in the country to see it done is the not realizing what glorious masters we are, and how cheerfully, minutely, and unflaggingly the fair fingers of the season broider the world for us.

  Nathaniel Parker Willis

  Beautiful, Country, Done

  Nathaniel Parker Willis (1860). “Out-doors at Idlewild: Or, The Shaping of a Home on the Banks of the Hudson”, p.62

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• O rose! the sweetest blossom,
  Of spring the fairest flower,
  O rose! the joy of heaven.
  The god of love, with roses
  His yellow locks adorning,
  Dances with the hours and graces.

  James Gates Percival

  Flower, Yellow, Rose

  James Gates Percival, Erasmus Darwin North (1866). “The Poetical Works of James Gates Percival: With a Biographical Sketch”, p.494

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• Sneering springs out of the wish to deny; and wretched must that state of mind be that wishes to take refuge in doubt.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Doubt, Mind, Wish

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• I am of the opinion that all the finer speculations in the realm of science spring from a deep religious feeling, and that without such feeling they would not be fruitful.

  Albert Einstein

  Religious, Feelings, Religion

  "Einstein and Religion: Physics and Theology". Book by Max Jammer, p. 68, 1999.

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• O thou, whose days are yet all spring,
  Faith, blighted once, is past retrieving;
  Experience is a dumb, dead thing;
  The victory's in believing.

  James Russell Lowell

  Believe, Past, Dumb

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.98

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• God's love gives in such a way that it flows from a Father's heart, the well-spring of all good. The heart of the giver makes the gift dear and precious; as among ourselves we say of even a trifling gift, "It comes from a hand we love," and look not so much at the gift as at the heart.

  Martin Luther

  Father, Heart, Hands

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• When every brake hath found its note, and sunshine smiles in every flower.

  Edward Everett

  Flower, Sunshine, Found

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• Fresh spring the herald of love's mighty king.

  Edmund Spenser

  Love, Kings, Heart

  'Amoretti' (1595) sonnet 70

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• The glow of inspiration warms us; this holy rapture springs from the seeds of the Divine mind sown in man.

  Ovid

  Inspiration, Men, Mind

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• What avails it that indulgent Heaven
  From mortal eyes has wrapt the woes to come,
  If we, ingenious to torment ourselves,
  Grow pale at hideous fictions of our own?
  Enjoy the present; nor which needless cares
  Of what may spring from blind misfortune's womb,
  Appal the surest hour that life bestows.
  Serence, and master of yourself, prepare
  For what may come; and leave the rest to Heaven.

  John Armstrong

  Eye, Heaven, Fiction

  John Armstrong (2011). “John Armstrong's The Art of Preserving Health: Eighteenth-century Sensibility in Practice”, p.116, Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

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• The leafy blossoming present time springs from the whole past, remembered and unrememberable.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Past, Remembrance, Blossoming

  Oliver Cromwell, Thomas Carlyle (1859). “Oliver Cromwell's Letters and Speeches: Including the Supplement to the Past Edition : with Elucidations”, p.9

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• The life of the earth comes up with a rush in the springtime. All the wild seeds of weed and thistle, the sprouts of vine and bush and tree, are trying to take the fields. Farmers must fight them with harrow and plow and hoe; they must plant the good seeds quickly.

  Laura Ingalls Wilder

  Weed, Fighting, Hoe

  Laura Ingalls Wilder (1933). “Farmer Boy”

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• From its peaceful bosom spring none but fond regrets and tender recollections.

  Washington Irving

  Regret, Peaceful, Graves

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

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• One of the springs of poetry is joy.

  May Sarton

  Joy, Poetry Is

  May Sarton (2015). “Writings on Writing”, p.6, Open Road Media

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• The golden line is drawn between winter and summer. Behind all is blackness and darkness and dissolution. Before is hope, and soft airs, and the flowers, and the sweet season of hay; and people will cross the fields, reading or walking with one another; and instead of the rain that soaks death into the heart of green things, will be the rain which they drink with delight; and there will be sleep on the grass at midday, and early rising in the morning, and long moonlight evenings.

  Leigh Hunt

  Summer, Sweet, Morning

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• In the journey of the year, the autumn is Venice, spring is Naples, certainly, and the majestic maturity of summer is Rome.

  George William Curtis

  Summer, Autumn, Maturity

  George William Curtis (1856). “Works: Lotus-eating”, p.185

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• Middle age is the way you would feel about summer if you knew there would never be another spring.

  Clare Boothe Luce

  Summer, Age, Way

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