Spring Quotes - Page 34

• Up to forty a woman has only forty springs in her heart. After that age she has only forty winters.

  Arsene Houssaye

  Heart, Winter, Age

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• I know there will be spring, as surely as the birds know it when they see above the snow two tiny, quivering green leaves. Spring cannot fail us.

  Olive Schreiner

  Two, Snow, Bird

  Olive Schreiner (2003). “Dreams”, p.56, A&C Black

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• Spring cold is like the poverty of a poor man who has had a fortune left him - better days are coming.

  Margaret Oliphant

  Men, Poverty, Cold

  Margaret Oliphant (1873). “Innocent: A Tale of Modern Life : in 2 Volumes”, p.34

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• Horror itself in that fair scene looks gay,
  And joy springs up e'en in the midst of fear.
  [It., Bello in si bella vista anco e l'orrore,
  E di mezzo la tema esce il diletto.]

  Torquato Tasso

  Fear, Gay, Joy

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• Be a Gardener. Dig a ditch. Toil and sweat. And turn the earth upside down. And seek the deepness. And water plants in time. Continue this labor. And make sweet floods to run, and noble and abundant fruits to spring. Take this food and drink, and carry it to God as your true worship.

  Julian of Norwich

  Running, Sweet, Sweat

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• It is always difficult to escape from youth; its hopefulness, its optimistic belief in the privileges of desire, its despair, and its sense of outrage and injustice at disappointment, all these spring on a man inflicting indelicate agony when he is no longer prepared.

  Margery Allingham

  Disappointment, Optimistic, Agony

  Margery Allingham (1943). “The Galantrys”

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• O, Winter! Put away thy snowy pride;
  O, Spring! Neglect the cowslip and the bell;
  O, Summer! Throw thy pears and plums aside;
  O, Autumn! Bid the grape with poison swell.

  Thomas Chatterton

  Summer, Autumn, Pride

  Thomas Chatterton, George Gregory (1803). “The Works of Thomas Chatterton ...: Life of Chatterton, by G. Gregory. Miscellaneous poems”, p.31

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• Literature must spring from the deep and submerged humus of our life.

  Meridel Le Sueur

  Literature, Our Lives, Submerged

  Meridel Le Sueur, Elaine Hedges (1990). “Ripening: Selected Work”, p.31, Feminist Press at CUNY

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• Lie in the sun with the child in your flesh shining like a jewel. Dream and sing, pagan, wise in your vitals. Stand still like a fat budding tree, like a stalk of corn athrob and aglisten in the heat. Lie like a mare panting with the dancing feet of colts against her sides. Sleep at night as the spring earth. Walk heavily as a wheat stalk at its full time bending towards the earth waiting for the reaper. Let your life swell downward so you become like a vase, a vessel. Let the unknown child knock and knock against you and rise like a dolphin within.

  Meridel Le Sueur

  Wise, Dream, Children

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• Spring is the usual period for house-cleaning and removing the dust and dirt which, notwithstanding all precautions, will accumulate during the winter months from dust, smoke, gas, etc.

  Isabella Beeton

  Winter, Dust, House

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• The Spring is generally fertile in new acquaintances.

  Fanny Burney

  Acquaintance, New Acquaintances, Fertile

  Fanny Burney (1907). “The Early diary of Frances Burney, 1768-1778: with a selection from her correspondence, and from the journals of her sisters Susan and Charlotte Burney”

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• Heaven's Virginia when the year's at its Spring.

  Anne Spencer

  Virginia, Years, Heaven

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• Gentle feelings produce profoundly beneficial effects upon stern natures. It is the spring rain which melts the ice-covering of the earth, and causes it to open to the beams of heaven.

  Fredrika Bremer

  Kindness, Rain, Ice

  Fredrika Bremer (1856). “Hertha”, p.143

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• Maybe love is like rain. Sometimes gentle, sometimes torrential, flooding, eroding, joyful, steady, filling the earth, collecting in underground springs. When it rains, when we love, life grows.

  Carol Gilligan

  Rain, Love Life, Love Is

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• Springtime is a season we tend to forget as we grow older, and yet far back in our memories, like the landscape of a country visited long ago, it's always there.

  Kay Boyle

  Country, Memories, Long Ago

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• A freshet in the autumn does not compensate for a drought in the spring.

  Mary Boykin Chesnut

  Autumn, Doe, Timing

  Mary Boykin Chesnut (2011). “Mary Chesnut's Diary”, p.69, Penguin

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• From every ruin, life springs up again and everything that dies is born again.

  Isabelle Eberhardt

  Ruins, Rebirth, Born Again

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• In old age the secret springs of human nature are apt to come out.

  Esther Forbes

  Secret, Age, Human Nature

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• Your private relationship with yourself is a spring that will feed every other factor.

  Ashley Judd

  Self, Factors

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• One ought to have the right to have a secret and to spring it as a surprise. But if you live inside a family you have neither.

  Tove Jansson

  Family, Secret, Surprise

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• Borscht is more than a soup, it's a weather vane. When my family says they want hot borscht I know winter is coming, and when they want cold borscht I know how far can spring be behind?

  Gertrude Berg

  Food, Winter, Weather

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• Truly, a command of gall cannot be obeyed like one of sugar. A man must require just and reasonable things; if he would see the scales of obedience properly trimmed. From orders which are improper, springs resistance, which is not easily overcome.

  Giambattista Basile

  Men, Order, Overcoming

  Giambattista Basile, John Edward Taylor, George Cruikshank (1850). “The Pentamerone, Or the Story of Stories Fun for the Little Ones Translated from the Neapolitan by John Edward Taylor”, p.168

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• The impulse to perform a worthy action often springs from our best nature, but is afterwards tainted by the spur of selfishness or sinister interest.

  Emile Souvestre

  Selfishness, Spurs, Action

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• Idleness, simon-pure, from which all manner of good springs like seed from a fallow soil, is sure to be misnamed and misconstrued.

  Louise Imogen Guiney

  Soil, Misconstrued, Seeds

  Louise Imogen Guiney (1885). “Goose-quill Papers”

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• The prayers you perform, the duties you do, the charity and love you give is equal to just one drop. But if you use that one drop, continue to do your duty, and keep digging within, then the spring of Allah's grace and His qualities will flow in abundance.

  Muhammad Raheem Bawa Muhaiyaddeen

  Prayer, Love You, Giving

  "Sheikh and Disciple". Book by Muhammad Raheem Bawa Muhaiyaddeen, 1983.

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