Spring Quotes - Page 36

• I do not believe there is any one study that can be taken up that will broaden the imagination, that will be the source from which will spring more deep thinking and sincere research than the study of astronomy.

  Gene Stratton-Porter

  Believe, Taken, Science

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• The sense of ownership is one reason why abuse tends to get worse as relationships get more serious. The more history and commitment that develop in the couple, the more the abuser comes to think of his partner as a prized object. Possessiveness is at the core of the abuser's mindset, the spring from which all the other streams spout; on some level he feels that he owns you and therefore has the right to treat you as he sees fit.

  Lundy Bancroft

  Couple, Commitment, Thinking

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• Spring is worth the wait. Life is worth the death.

  N.D. Wilson

  Waiting, Life Is, Worth The Wait

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• Out of my deeper heart a bird rose and flew skywards.
  Higher and higher did it rise, yet larger and larger did it grow.
  At first it was but like a swallow, then a lark, then an eagle, then as vast as a spring cloud, and then it filled the starry heavens.
  Out of my heart a bird flew skywards. And it waxed larger as it flew. Yet it left not my heart.

  Khalil Gibran

  Heart, Eagles, Clouds

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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• Our virtues and view spring from one root.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Views, Roots, Virtue

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• All things with which we deal preach to us. What is a farm but a mute gospel? The chaff and the wheat, weeds and plants, blight, rain, insects, sun,--it is a sacred emblem from the first furrow of spring to the last stack which the snow of winter overtakes in the fields.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Weed, Rain, Winter

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.157

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• Simplicity is the character of the spring of life, costliness becomes its autumn; but a neatness and purity, like that of the snow-drop or lily of the valley, is the peculiar fascination of beauty, to which it lends enchantment, and gives what amiability is to the mind.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Character, Autumn, Snow

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• What child has a heart to sing in this capricious clime of ours, when spring comes sailing in from the sea, with wet and heavy cloud-sails and the misty pennon of the east-wind nailed to the mast.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Children, Heart, Clouds

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1851). “The prose works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow”, p.46

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• Winter does adversely affect [the roads] and our roads have been let go, so they're more and more porous. We're going to have to put more and more emphasis on permanent patch and maintenance, so I expect a great deal of roads breaking up in the spring.

  Bill Vaughan

  Letting Go, Adversity, Winter

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• Rivers neede a spring.

  George Herbert

  Rivers

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.345

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• Self-love, the spring of motion, acts the soul;
  Reason's comparing balance rules the whole.
  Man, but for that no action could attend,
  And, but for this, were active to no end:
  Fix'd like a plant on his peculiar spot,
  To draw nutrition, propagate, and rot;
  Or, meteor-like, flame lawless thro' the void,
  Destroying others, by himself destroy'd.

  Alexander Pope

  Men, Self, Flames

  Alexander Pope (2012). “Essay on Man and Other Poems”, p.55, Courier Corporation

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• As flower blooms in spring, compassion grows in mindfulness.

  Amit Ray

  Flower, Compassion, Mindfulness

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• Lordy, lordy, lordy do I love money. It is a character flaw, no doubt, one that springs from a panicked childhood in which I always felt as if our family was only a couple missed child support payments from being tossed onto the pitiless streets of our suburban New Jersey town.

  Michael Ian Black

  Couple, Children, Character

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• There is a graveyard in my poor heart - dark, heaped-up graves, from which no flowers spring.

  Adah Isaacs Menken

  Grief, Flower, Heart

  Adah Isaacs Menken (1868). “Infelicia [poems].”, p.72

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• Go to the family where darkness and suspicion and jealousy and disorder reign, and if they will but receive Christ, mark how light and confidence and order and peace spring up. Go to the regions of superstition and idolatry, and see what transformations are effected by Jesus.

  Edward Thomson

  Jesus, Light, Order

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• One doesn't love any of the things of Summer as much as one does the things of Spring.

  Anne Douglas Sedgwick

  Summer, Doe

  Anne Douglas Sedgwick (1924). “The Little French Girl”, Boston : Houghton Mifflin Company

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• We do not take much warning of our own mortality in seeing others die, nor of our own weakness in seeing others break down: we think we feel the springs of life stronger in us.

  Julia McNair Wright

  Thinking, Stronger, Weakness

  Julia McNair Wright (1879). “The Complete Home: an Encyclopædia of Domestic Life and Affairs: The Household in Its Foundation, Order, Economy ... A Volume of Practical Experiences Popularly Illustrated”

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• California, where the spring comes in the fall and the fall comes in the summer and the summer comes in the winter and the winter never comes at all.

  Inez Haynes Irwin

  Summer, Fall, Winter

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• A flower is a daisy chain, a graduation, a valentine; a flower is New Year's Eve and an orchid in your hair; a flower is a single geranium blooming in a tin can on a murky city fire-escape; an acre of roses at the Botanical Gardens; and the first gold crocus of spring! ... a flower is a birth, a wedding, a leaving of this life.

  Jean Hersey

  New Year, Valentine, Flower

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• When you plant early, you bring spring early.

  Jean Hersey

  Gardening, Plant

  Jean Hersey (1967). “The Shape of a Year”

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• In March winter is holding back and spring is pulling forward. Something holds and something pulls inside of us too.

  Jean Hersey

  Winter, March, Holding Back

  Jean Hersey (1967). “The Shape of a Year”

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• Some sins have no season. We are as likely to be angry in November as to lose our rag in March ... There is, though, something autumnal about greed, apple-cheeked and wheat-crowned, purpled knee-high in grapes; something summery in sloth, as the hammock creaks in the fly-drowsy heat; and more than a tickle of spring in lust, as birds pair and the sap rises. Among these, ingratitude is winter, the worst of seasons.

  Ann Wroe

  Gratitude, Winter, Apples

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• even as human vitality is at its lowest ebb in the early morning, so it is with plant life in the early spring.

  Mabel Osgood Wright

  Morning, Plant Life, Vitality

  Mabel Osgood Wright (1901). “The garden of a commuter's wife”

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• Shipwreck in youth is sorrowful enough, but one looks for storms at the spring equinox. Yet it is the September equinox that drowns.

  Helen Waddell

  Storm, Looks, September

  Helen Waddell (1965). “Peter Abelard”

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• Those who go forth ministering to the wants and necessities of their fellow beings experience a rich return, their souls being as a watered garden, and a spring that faileth not

  Lucretia Mott

  Garden, Soul, Want

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