Spring Quotes - Page 39

• 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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• I look forward to the spring vegetables because the season is so short. Mushrooms, edible foraged herbs, wild leeks, early season asparagus.

  David Chang

  Vegetables, Mushrooms, Asparagus

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• The spring rains woke the dormant tillers, and bright green shoots sprang from the moist earth and rose like sleepers stretching after a long nap. As spring gave way to summer, the bright green stalks darkened, became tan, turned golden brown. The days grew long and hot. Thick towers of swirling black clouds brought rain, and the brown stems glistened in the perpetual twilight that dwelled beneath the canopy. The wheat rose and the ripening heads bent in the prairie wind, a rippling curtain, an endless, undulating sea that stretched to the horizon.

  Rick Yancey

  Summer, Rain, Twilight

  Rick Yancey (2014). “The Infinite Sea: The Second Book of the 5th Wave”, p.11, Penguin

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• This will be Great Mam's last spring. Her last June apples. Her last fresh roasting ears from the garden.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Garden, June, Apples

  Barbara Kingsolver (2011). “Homeland”, p.8, Faber & Faber

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• Our virtues and view spring from one root.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Views, Roots, Virtue

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• Where I lived - winter and hard earth.I sat in my cold stone roomchoosing tough words, granite, flint,to break the ice. My broken heart -I tried that, but it skimmed,flat, over the frozen lake.She came from a long, long way,but I saw her at last, walking,my daughter, my girl, across the fields,In bare feet, bringing all spring's flowersto her mother's house. I swearthe air softened and warmed as she moved,the blue sky smiling, none too soon,with the small shy mouth of a new moon.

  Carol Ann Duffy

  Girl, Mother, Daughter

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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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• You know, the usual story. Once upon a time I was playing my harp by a spring when a fairy appeared out of nowhere, handed me a Beretta Model 92, and told me to shoot the white rabbit over there for target practice.

  Haruki Murakami

  Practice, White, Once Upon A Time

  Haruki Murakami (2011). “1Q84: Books 1 and 2”, p.99, Random House

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• As far as sleeping goes, you're up and ready to go at six in the morning. Spring training was always a combination of relaxing and working, and I missed that quite a bit. I missed being around the ball field. A baseball. A bat. The smell of the uniform, you might say. Talking baseball. Seeing opponents as well as the Cubs.

  Lou Boudreau

  Baseball, Morning, Sleep

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• Aestheticism and radicalism must lead us to jettison reason, and to replace it by a desperate hope for political miracles. This irrational attitude which springs from intoxication with dreams of a beautiful world is what I call Romanticism. It may seek its heavenly city in the past or in the future; it may preach 'back to nature' or 'forward to a world of love and beauty'; but its appeal is always to our emotions rather than to reason. Even with the best intentions of making heaven on earth it only succeeds in making it a hell - that hell which man alone prepares for his fellow-men.

  Karl Popper

  Beautiful, Dream, Attitude

  Karl Raimund Popper (1950). “The Open Society and Its Enemies”

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• The human body is a machine that winds up its own springs: it is a living image of the perpetual motion.

  Julien Offray de La Mettrie

  Wind, Machines, Body

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• You came to tell us that the great cities are in favour of the gold standard; we reply that the great cities rest upon our broad and fertile plains. Burn down your cities and leave our farms, and your cities will spring up again as if by magic. But destroy out farms and the grass will grow in the city...You shall not press down upon the brow of labour this crown of thorns. You shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold.

  William Jennings Bryan

  Cities, Magic, Gold

  Speech at the Democratic National Convention, Chicago, 1896, in 'The First Battle. A Story of the Campaign of 1896' (1896) vol. 1, ch. 10

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• All coaches religiously carry fungo bats in the spring to ward off suggestions that they are not working.

  Jim Brosnan

  Bats, Suggestions, Coaches

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• The visual impact of a United States battleship springs from its ability to put Soviet ships on the bottom of the sea and to put devastating firepower ashore - nothing else.

  John Lehman

  Peace, War, Sea

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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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• I love going to London for a couple of days but I need to be in the country. I like the silence, the smell and the seasonal changes, especially in spring and summer. I really feel that I belong there.

  Philippa Gregory

  Summer, Country, Couple

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• I cherish the memory of being a friend of Frank Sinatra on a friendship level to the point where we really hung out. We worked in Vegas, wed talk on the phone, and if I wasnt doing anything, Id fly out, and I spent time in Palm Springs at his house - on a level the way friends would be, not with a whole crowd of people.

  Frankie Valli

  Memories, Vegas, Phones

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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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• I believe democracy will succeed in Tunisia, but I also believe that it will succeed in the other Arab Spring countries.

  Rashid al-Ghannushi

  Country, Believe, Democracy

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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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• I've kind of looked at my whole career as a spring training invite.

  Jamie Moyer

  Careers, Training, Kind

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• From compassion springs humility. The ego is verily a gateway to hell. The person who is egoistic is far from being religious.

  Dada Vaswani

  Religious, Humility, Compassion

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• I could buy myself paper, a pen, a pencil and a brush and could create pictures whenever and wherever I wanted. ... That evening, in the spring of 1947, on the embankment of the Seine in Paris, at the age of thirty, I saw that it was possible to live and work in the world, and that I could participate in the exchange of ideas that was taking place all around, bound to no country.

  Peter Weiss

  Country, Ideas, Paris

  Peter Weiss (1966). “Leavetaking: And , Vanishing Point”

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• Love is...like a spring coming up out of the ground of our own depths. "I am gift." All that I am is something that's given, and given freely. Being doesn't cost anything. There's no price tag, no strings attached.

  Thomas Merton

  Love, Price Tag, Strings Attached

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• We can bring brilliant flowers of victory to bloom in our lives when we weather the hardships of winter and emerge triumphant based on our practice of the Mystic Law. The key to victories lies in how hard we struggle when we are in winter, how wisely we use this time and how meaningful we live each day confident that spring will definitely come.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Meaningful, Lying, Struggle

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