Spring Quotes - Page 35

• Man is saved by love and duty, and by the hope that springs from duty, or rather from the moral facts of consciousness, as a flower springs from the soil.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Flower, Men, Soil

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• The child's grief throbs against the round of its little heart as heavily as the man's sorrow, and the one finds as much delight in his kite or drum as the other in striking the springs of enterprise or soaring on the wings of fame.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Children, Grief, Heart

  "Humanity in the city". Book by Edwin Hubbell Chapin, 1854.

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• Man gains wider dominion by his intellect than by his right arm. The mustard-seed of thought is a pregnant treasury of vast results. Like the germ in the Egyptian tombs its vitality never perishes; and its fruit will spring up after it has been buried for long ages.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Men, Long, Age

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• [On art:] I believe that it not only enriches the spiritual life, but that it makes one more sane and sympathetic, more observant and understanding, regardless of whatever age it springs from, whatever subjects it represents.

  Abby Aldrich Rockefeller

  Spiritual, Art, Believe

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• While it is February one can taste the full joys of anticipation. Spring stands at the gate with her finger on the latch.

  Patience Strong

  Joy, Taste, Anticipation

  Patience Strong (1951). “The Glory of the Garden”

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• Love has seven names, / Which, as you know, are appropriate to her; / Chain, light, live coal, and fire - / ... dew, living spring, and hell.

  Hadewijch

  Fire, Light, Names

  Hadewijch, Columba Hart (1980). “Hadewijch (CWS)”, p.352, Paulist Press

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• coming to the end of spring / my grandmother kicks off her shoes / steps out of her faltering body.

  Betsy Sholl

  Death, Grandmother, Shoes

  Betsy Sholl (1986). “Rooms overhead”, Alice James Books

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• The birth and rebirth of all nature, / The passing of winter and spring, / We share with the life universal, / Rejoice in the magical ring.

  Doreen Valiente

  Loss, Winter, Oneness

  Doreen Valiente (2018). “Witchcraft for Tomorrow”, p.165, The Crowood Press

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• Much earnest philosphical thought is born of the life which springs from close association with nature.

  Laura Gilpin

  Nature, Association, Born

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• Lily Brown writes with and against things in poems that are coiled up tight as springs (or snakes). A believer in the power of the line, she writes, 'I think the plastics/and sink them' then 'Where is the sand/man hiding the dirt.' These terse, biting poems will make you look around and wonder.

  Rae Armantrout

  Writing, Men, Thinking

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• As far as preference between fall and spring collections, I have none that I prefer to design. With fall you have a lot more items, but of course I am from the Dominican Republic, so I love the warm weather.

  Oscar de la Renta

  Fall, Weather, Design

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• I was always attracted to the type of cinema hero as an adolescent growing up in Ireland. Robert Mitchum springs to mind. Later on, it was Steve McQueen to a certain extent and Charles Bronson. They're these types of grizzled characters who had one foot on the side of law and order and the other foot in the bad guy's camp.

  Liam Neeson

  Growing Up, Hero, Character

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• I was playing golf in Palm Springs and after a round I asked the waitress in a restaurant to bring me a glass of iced tea and lemonade. A lady sitting nearby heard me and asked the waitress to bring her a "Palmer," too. The name caught on and the beverage quickly spread around the country.

  Arnold Palmer

  Country, Golf, Glasses

  "Arizona 20 Years: Arnold Palmer" by Miguel Enamorado, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 11, 2012.

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• True poetry, like the religious prompting itself, springs from the emotional side of a man's complex nature, and is ever in harmony with his highest intuitions and aspirations.

  Epes Sargent

  Religious, Men, Emotional

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• The finest teaching touches in a student a spring neither teacher nor student could possibly have preconceived.

  Anne Truitt

  Education, Teacher, Teaching

  Anne Truitt (1996). “PROSPECT: The Journal of an Artist”, Scribner

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• Timing. We give it many names: Destiny, Fate, Kismet, the will of God. Whatever we call it, lives are changed and molded by it, in small or drastic ways beyond our control. The precise, exquisite influence of timing moves people into new positions as surely as a spring flood rearranges the landscape. It is as unavoidable as life.

  Helen Van Slyke

  Moving, Fate, Destiny

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• The spring in Boston is like being in love: bad days slip in among the good ones, and the whole world is at a standstill, then the sun shines, the tears dry up, and we forget that yesterday was stormy.

  Louise Closser Hale

  Bad Day, Being In Love, Boston

  Louise Closser Hale (1912). “Her Soul and Her Body”

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• Spring blossoms are fairy tales, autumn leaves are tragic dramas.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Drama, Autumn, Fairy Tale

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• So far this spring, 59 American communities have been flattened by tornadoes. Nobody has helped.

  John Gordon Sinclair

  Community, Tornadoes, Has Beens

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• Winter is on the road to spring. Some think it a surly road. I do not. A primrose road to spring were not as engaging to my heart as a frozen icicled craggy way angered over by strong winds that never take the iron trumpets from their lips.

  William Alfred Quayle

  Strong, Heart, Winter

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• You, faulty men! Not only got lost on the way of charlatains, but contravened against the divine nature. Weren't settled for the wealthy, clear air, you bewitched it with smoke and burnt smell, you weren't settled for the best spring water, you filled up yourself with several kinds of hard drinks, the sun shined for you in vain, you didn't behold it...

  Tivadar Kosztka Csontvary

  Men, Air, Filled Up

  "The Positivum". Pamphlet by Tivadar Kosztka Csontvary, written between 1910-1920.

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• The concept of absolute, hence (or whence) springs, in the moral field, the moral laws or norms, represent, in the field of knowledge, the principle of identity, which is the fundamental law of the thought; norms of logic springs from it, that govern the thought (or mind) in the field of science." ("Le concept de l'absolu, d'où découlent, dans le domaine moral, les lois ou normes morales, constitue, le principe d'identité, qui est la loi fondamentale de la pensée; il en découle les normes logiques qui régissent la pensée dans le domaine de la science.")

  African Spir

  Law, Mind, Identity

  "Paroles d'un sage: Choix de pensées d'African Spir" ("Words of a Sage : Selected thoughts of African Spir") by Hélène Claparède-Spir, (p. 59), 1937.

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• I think that the Almighty gave springtime to a tired world so that its peoples might know rest. I think that He gave it to a troubled world so that the world's inhabitants might find peace. I think He gave it to a discouraged world so that hope and faith might be reborn!

  Margaret Elizabeth Sangster

  Tired, Thinking, World

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• Spring is the shortest season.

  Linda Pastan

  Seasons

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• All errors spring up in the neighborhood of some truth; they grow round about it, and, for the most part, derive their strength from such contiguity.

  Thomas Binney

  Errors, Neighborhood, Grows

  Thomas Binney (1865). “Money: A Popular Exposition in Rough Notes”, p.7

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