Spring Quotes - Page 32

• Color is, in brief terms, the type of love. Hence it is especially connected with the blossoming of the earth; and again, with its fruits; also, with the spring and fall of the leaf, and with the morning and evening of the day, in order to show the waiting of love about the birth and death of man.

  John Ruskin

  Morning, Fall, Men

  John Ruskin (1868). “pt. VI: Of leaf beauty. pt. VII: Of cloud beauty. pts. VIII-IX: Of ideas of relation”, p.338

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• 1. Always wait between books for the springs to fill up and flow over. 2. Always preserve within a wild sanctuary, an inaccessible valley of reveries. 3. Always, and as far as it is possible, endeavor to touch life on every side; but keep the central vision of the mind, the inmost light, untouched and untouchable.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Book, Light, Waiting

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• There is a terrible loneliness in the spring.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Loneliness, Terrible

  Ellen Glasgow (2016). “The Miller of Old Church”, p.207, The Floating Press

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• Fearlessness at twenty springs from not knowing challenges lie ahead. Fearlessness at fifty comes from having wrestled with life's challenges and learned from them.

  Kathleen Turner

  Courage, Lying, Knowing

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• The more we sink into the infirmities of age, the nearer we are to immortal youth. All people are young in the other world. That state is an eternal spring, ever fresh and flourishing. Now, to pass from midnight into noon on the sudden, to be decrepit one minute and all spirit and activity the next, must be a desirable change. To call this dying is an abuse of language.

  Jeremy Collier

  Death, Other Worlds, People

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• autumn days have a holiness that spring lacks ... They are like old serene saints for whom death has lost its terror.

  Elizabeth Goudge

  Autumn, Saint, Holiness

  Elizabeth Goudge (1948). “Pilgrim's Inn”

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• Dogwoods are great optimists. Daffodils wait and see, crouching firmly underground just in case spring doesn't come this year, but dogwoods have faith.

  Barbara Holland

  Years, Waiting, Have Faith

  Barbara Holland (1997). “Bingo Night at the Fire Hall: The Case for Cows, Orchards, Bake Sales, & Fairs”, Harcourt

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• The sober comfort, all the peace which springs from the large aggregate of little things.

  Hannah More

  Comfort, Littles, Sober

  Hannah More (1840). “The Miscellaneous Works of Hannah More”, p.205

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• The mischief springs from the power which the monied interest derives from a paper currency which they are able to control, from the multitude of corporations with exclusive privileges which they have succeeded in obtaining, and unless you become more watchful in your states and check this spirit of monopoly and thirst for exclusive privileges you will in the end find that the most important powers of government have been given or bartered away.

  Andrew Jackson

  Government, Important, Paper

  John Stilwell Jenkins, Andrew Jackson (2011). “Life and Public Services of Gen. Andrew Jackson, Seventh President of the United States: Including the Most Important of His State Papers”, p.366, New Leaf Publishing Group

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• Only the refined and delicate pleasures that spring from research and education can build up barriers between different ranks.

  Madame de Stael

  Education, Research, Different

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• Shut up the door: who loves me must not look / Upon the withered world, but haste to bring / His lighted candle, and his story-book, / And live with me the poetry of spring.

  Alice Cary

  Book, Autumn, Doors

  Alice Cary (1876). “The Last Poems: Of Alice and Phoebe Cary”, p.136

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• The world of men has forgotten the joys of silence, the peace of solitude, which is necessary, to some extent, for the fullness of human living. Man cannot be happy for long unless he is in contact with the springs of spiritual life which are hidden in the depths of his own soul. If man is exiled constantly from his own home, locked out of his spiritual solitude, he ceases to be a true person.

  Thomas Merton

  Happy, Spiritual, Peace

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• The source of each accordant strain
  Lies deeper than the Poet's brain.
  First from the people's heart must spring
  The passions which he learns to sing;
  They are the wind, the harp is he,
  To voice their fitful melody,--
  The language of their varying fate,
  Their pride, grief, love, ambition, hate,--
  The talisman which holds inwrought
  The touchstone of the listener's thought;
  That penetrates each vain disguise,
  And brings his secret to his eyes.

  Bayard Taylor

  Lying, Hate, Grief

  Bayard Taylor (1866). “The Poems”, p.111

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• I cannot worship the abstractions of virtue: she only charms me when she addresses herself to my heart, speaks through the love from which she springs.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Heart, Addresses, Worship

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• God's truth is literal truth. The illumined mind has more operative cells. In reclaiming the mystical, we take back our whole selves. Formerly barren mental lands spring to new life through the planting of spiritual seeds.

  Marianne Williamson

  Spiritual, Self, Cells

  Marianne Williamson (1994). “Illuminata: A Return to Prayer”, Riverhead Trade (Paperbacks)

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• Blest be the gracious Power, who taught mankind
  To stamp a lasting image of the mind!
  Beasts may convey, and tuneful birds may sing,
  Their mutual feelings, in the opening spring;
  But Man alone has skill and power to send
  The heart's warm dictates to the distant friend;
  'Tis his alone to please, instruct, advise
  Ages remote, and nations yet to rise.

  George Crabbe

  Heart, Men, Skills

  George Crabbe (1858). “The Poetical Works of George Crabbe”, p.60

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• When winter stern, his gloomy front uprears,
  A sable void the barren earth appears;
  The meads no more their former verdure boast,
  Fast-bound their streams, and all their beauty lost;
  The herds, the flocks, in icy garments mourn, and wildly murmur for the Spring's return;
  From snow-topp'd hills the whirlwinds keenly blow,
  Howl through the woods, and pierce the vales below,
  Through the sharp air a flaky torrent flies,
  Mocks the slow sight, and hides the gloomy skies.

  George Crabbe

  Winter, Blow, Sight

  George Crabbe (1861). “The Life and Poetical Works of the Rev. George Crabbe”, p.8

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• Enslave a man and you destroy his ambition, his enterprise, his capacity. In the constitution of human nature, the desire of bettering one's condition is the mainspring of effort. The first touch of slavery snaps this spring.

  Horace Mann

  Ambition, Men, Effort

  Horace Mann (2008). “Slavery”, p.33, Applewood Books

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• When you fall in love, it is spring no matter when. Leaves falling make no difference, they are from another season.

  Edna O'Brien

  Falling In Love, Differences, Matter

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• I wish, and I wish that the spring would go faster,
  Nor long summer bide so late;
  And I could grow on like the foxglove and aster,
  For some things are ill to wait.

  Jean Ingelow

  Summer, Long, Waiting

  Jean Ingelow (1874). “The Poetical Works of Jean Ingelow”, p.57

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• What change has made the pastures sweet
  And reached the daisies at my feet,
  And cloud that wears a golden hem?
  This lovely world, the hills, the sward--
  They all look fresh, as if our Lord
  But yesterday had finished them.

  Jean Ingelow

  Sweet, Past, Feet

  Jean Ingelow (1874). “The Poetical Works of Jean Ingelow”, p.39

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• The virtuous to those mansions go
  Where pleasures unembitter'd flow,
  Where, leading up a jocund band,
  Vigor and Youth dance hand in hand,
  Whilst Zephyr, with harmonious gales,
  Pipes softest music through the vales,
  And Spring and Flora, gaily crown'd,
  With velvet carpet spread the ground;
  With livelier blush where roses bloom,
  And every shrub expires perfume.

  Charles Churchill

  Hands, Rose, Velvet

  Charles Churchill (1762). “The Ghost”, p.38

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• The sun is all about the world we see, the breath and strength of every spring.

  Algernon Charles Swinburne

  World, Sun, Breaths

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• Spring is my sweetheart.

  Mary Baker Eddy

  Sweetheart, My Sweetheart

  Mary Baker Eddy (1949). “Christian Science Sentinel”

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• When Father smiled, it was like the sun coming out, and spring and summer in your heart.

  Gladys Taber

  Summer, Father, Heart

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