Spring Quotes - Page 33

• The stones and trees, insensible to time, / Nor age nor wrinkle on their front are seen; / If Winter come, and greenness then do fade / A Spring returns, and they more youthful made; / But man grows old, lies down, remains where once he's laid.

  Anne Bradstreet

  Death, Lying, Winter

  Anne Bradstreet, Jeannine Hensley (1967). “The Works of Anne Bradstreet”, p.209, Harvard University Press

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• Spring ... made fair false promises which summer was called upon to keep.

  Edna Ferber

  Summer, Promise, Made

  Edna Ferber (2014). “American Beauty”, p.111, Vintage

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• You wonder why your government's completely broken? We lurch from deadline to deadline, and it's on purpose really. We do deadline to deadline because ... 'we've got to go. It's spring break, we're going to be late for spring break, and we've got to go, so we've got to finish this up before we go.'

  Rand Paul

  Government, Nsa, Broken

  "Rand Paul's NSA Filibuster: His Notable Quotes" by Andrew Desiderio, www.realclearpolitics.com. May 21, 2015.

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• I've always been a fan of the band setting. I've always been a believer in bands, and I've always been in bands. That's where my comfort zone is. So to stand outside of that, that was never my intention or goal. I never had the dream of, 'I'm gonna go into all these bands as a spring board for my solo work.' But life takes you on different journeys sometimes. I ended up playing a bunch of songs and some of them I really liked.

  Frank Iero

  Dream, Song, Journey

  Source: www.alterthepress.com

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• watch out fer these fellers around here. It ain't safe fer a pretty girl. Why, I had one just now tell me I looked like a breath of spring. Well, he didn't use them words, exactly. He said I looked like the end of a hard winter.

  Minnie Pearl

  Girl, Winter, Watches

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• Children are monsters of unbridled egotism and will, for they spring directly from nature, hostile intimations of immorality.

  Camille Paglia

  Children, Monsters, Egotism

  Camille Paglia (2018). “Free Women, Free Men: Sex, Gender, Feminism”, p.30, Canongate Books

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• Spring and autumn are inconsiderable events in a landscape compared with the shadows of a cloud.

  Alice Meynell

  Autumn, Clouds, Shadow

  Alice Meynell (2013). “The Essential Alice Meynell Collection”, p.122, eBookIt.com

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• Rich meanings of the prophet-Spring adorn, / Unseen, this colorless sky of folded showers, / And folded winds...

  Alice Meynell

  Wind, Sky, Unseen

  Alice Meynell (1913). “Poems”

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• O spring, I know thee! Seek for sweet surprise / In the young children's eyes. / But I have learnt the years, and know the yet / Leaf-folded violet.

  Alice Meynell

  Sweet, Children, Eye

  Alice Meynell, Wilfrid Meynell (1931). “Selected Poems of Alice Meynell”, London, Nonesuch

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• It is not merely the multiplicity of tints, the gladness of tone, or the balminess of the air which delight in the spring; it is the still consecrated spirit of hope, the prophecy of happy days yet to come; the endless variety of nature, with presentiments of eternal flowers which never shall fade, and sympathy with the blessedness of the ever-developing world.

  Novalis

  Flower, Air, Tone

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• The insect-youth are on the wing,
  Eager to taste the honied spring,
  And float amid the liquid noon!

  Thomas Gray

  Wings, Taste, Liquid

  1748 Ode on the Spring, l.25-30.

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• All ills spring from some vice, either in ourselves or others; and even many of our diseases proceed from the same origin. Remove the vices; and the ills follow. You must only take care to remove all the vices. If you remove part, you may render the matter worse. By banishing vicious luxury, without curing sloth and an indifference to others, you only diminish industry in the state, and add nothing to men's charity or their generosity.

  David Hume

  Men, Luxury, Generosity

  David Hume (1809). “Essays, moral, political, and literary”, p.297

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• While it is undeniable that many have been driven to immorality and crime by the need to survive, it is equally evident that the possession of a significant surplus of material goods has never been a guarantee against covetousness, rapacity and the infinite variety of vice and pain which spring from such passions. Indeed, it could be argued that the unrelenting compulsion of those who already have much to acquire even more has generated greater injustice, immorality and wretchedness than the cumulative effect of the struggles of the severely underprivileged to better their lot.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Pain, Struggle, Passion

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• the smell of lilacs crept poignantly into the room like a remembered spring.

  Margaret Millar

  Smell, Rooms, Lilac

  Margaret Millar (2015). “Vanish in an Instant”, p.33, Soho Press

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• The smell of moist earth and lilacs hung in the air like wisps of the past and hints of the future.

  Margaret Millar

  Past, Air, Smell

  Margaret Millar (1947). “Experiment in Springtime: A Novel”, New York : Random House

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• O what a flowery track lies spread before me, henceforth! What dust clouds shall spring up behind me as I speed on my reckless way! What carts I shall fling carelessly into the ditch in the wake of my magnificent onset!

  Kenneth Grahame

  Lying, Clouds, Dust

  Kenneth Grahame, Seth Lerer (2009). “The Wind in the Willows: An Annotated Edition”, p.75, Harvard University Press

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• June marked the end of spring on California's central coast and the beginning of five months of dormancy that often erupted in fire. Mustard's yellow robes had long since turned red, then brown. Fog and sun mixed to create haze. The land had rusted. The mountains, once blue-hued with young oaks and blooming ceanosis, were tan and gray. I walked across the fallen blossoms of five yucca plants: only the bare poles of their stems remained to mark where their lights had shone the way.

  Gretel Ehrlich

  Nature, California, Yellow

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• I wonder how often not the intention but the desire springs up in a doctor's mind: 'Can I let this human being out of the trap of Life?

  Phyllis Bottome

  Doctors, Mind, Desire

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• Good manners spring from just one thing - kind impulses.

  Elsa Maxwell

  Good Man, Kind, Manners

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• Christ is redemption only as He actually redeems and delivers our nature from sin. If He is not the law and spring of a new spirit of life, He is nothing. "As many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God," as many, no more.

  Horace Bushnell

  Son, Law, Redemption

  Horace Bushnell (1858). “Sermons for the new life”, p.344

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• Spring is strictly sentimental, self-regarding; but I burn more careless in the autumn bonfire.

  Sylvia Townsend Warner

  Autumn, Self, Sentimental

  Sylvia Townsend Warner, Claire Harman (1994). “The diaries of Sylvia Townsend Warner”, Virago Pr

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• When we are not too anxious about happiness and unhappiness, but devote ourselves to the strict and unsparing performance of duty, then happiness comes of itself - nay, even springs from the midst of a life of troubles and anxieties and privations.

  Wilhelm von Humboldt

  Happiness, Anxiety, Trouble

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• Spring had come. Despite the many wet and gusty days which April had thrust in rude challenge upon reluctant May, in the glory of the triumphant sun which flooded the concave blue of heaven and the myriad shaded green of earth, the whole world knew to-day, the whole world proclaimed that spring had come. The yearly miracle had been performed.

  Ralph Connor

  Book, Blue, Rude

  Ralph Connor (2009). “The Major”, p.1, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Trouble is a thing that will come without our call, but true joy will not spring up without ourselves.

  Simon Patrick

  True Joy, Joy, Trouble

  Simon Patrick (1858). “The works of Symon Patrick: including his autobiography”, p.633

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• A sincere acquaintance with ourselves teaches us humility; and from humility springs that benevolence which compassionates the transgressors we condemn, and prevents the punishments we inflict from themselves partaking of crime, in being rather the wreakings of revenge than the chastisements of virtue.

  Jane Porter

  Revenge, Humility, Punishment

  Sir Philip Sidney, Jane Porter (1807). “Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks”

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