Spring Quotes

It is perhaps both a blessing and a curse that fictional worlds spring into my mind nearly fully formed and it takes quite a while to sift through everything to find the story.

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

Fantasy is no good unless the seed it springs from is a truth, a truth about human beings.

Children are sweet as the buds in spring, But I've noticed that those who have them Have nothing but trouble all their lives.

There's so much spring in the air- there's so much lazy sweetness in your heart.

The spring is already here with her hands full of flowers.

Special qualities are required of the essayist. A poem or a novel may spring from the inner consciousness of an author. Reasoning poers must be brought to reinforce imagination.

But you the pathways of the sky Found first, and tasted heavenly springs, Unfettered as the lark that sings, And knew strange raptures, - though we sigh, "Poor Iccarus!"

Go to bed when summers ends, what a good idea; wake up bright and early when birds announce its spring.

In the human heart one generation of passions follows another; from the ashes of one springs the spark of the next.

A good critic is the sorcerer who makes some hidden spring gush forth unexpectedly under our feet.

There'll be spring every year without you. England still will be here without you.

The kundalini energy is often compared to a snake that is coiled up. Because it is coiled up it can spring very quickly. It can jump and extend itself very far.

Most gladly would I give the blood-stained laurel for the first violet which March brings us, the fragrant pledge of the new-fledged year.

Faith does not, in the realist, spring from the miracle but the miracle from faith. If the realist once believes, then he is bound by his very realism to admit the miraculous also.

It was a nice day, and I don't mean that it was sunny either. It was humid and not too cool, like winter was getting annoyed with itself and wanted it to be spring just as much as everyone else.

Every intoxicating delight of early spring was in the air. The breeze that fanned her cheek was laden with subtle perfume and the crisp, fresh odor of unfolding leaves.

The course of the seasons is a piece of clockwork, with a cuckoo to call when it is spring.

Baseball begins in the spring, the season of new life. Football begins in the fall, when everything's dying.

The purifying influence of public confession springs from the fact, that by it the hope in lies is forever swept away, and the soul recovers the noble attitude of simplicity.

In our spring-time every day has its hidden growths in the mind, as it has in the earth when the little folded blades are getting ready to pierce the ground.

We reap what we sow, but nature has love over and above that justice, and gives us shadow and blossom and fruit, that spring from no planting of ours.

Rivers neede a spring.

I envy no man's nightingale or spring; Nor let them punish me with loss of rhyme, Who plainly say, My God, My King.

Spirit itself is not human; it may spring up in any life... it may exist in all animals, and who know in how many undreamt-of beings, or in the midst of what worlds?

Sadness is the matrix from which wit and irony spring; sadness is uncomfortable and creative, which is why consumer society cannot tolerate it.

Spring never is spring unless it comes too soon.

Stories first heard standing at a mother's knee, are never wholly forgotten, — a little spring that never quite dries up in our journey through scorching years.

Faith is a curious thing. It must be renewed; it has its own spring.

Where did Gabriel get a lily, In the month of March, When the green Is hardly seen On the early larch?

While strength is the natural quality of an individual seen in isolation, power springs up between men when they act together and vanishes the moment they disperse.

Democracy is not simply a political system; it is a moral movement and it springs from adventurous faith in human possibilities.

How many Sundays - how many hundreds of Sundays like this - lay ahead of me? “Quiet, peaceful, and lonely,” I said aloud to myself. On Sundays, I didn't wind my spring.

The mason asks but a narrow shelf to spring his brick from; man requires only an infinitely narrower one to spring his arch of faith from.

The foul slime stands for the sloth and vice of man, the decay of humanity; the fragrant flower that springs from it, for the purity and courage which are immortal.

As a snow-drift is formed where there is a lull in the wind, so, one would say, where there is a lull of truth, an institution springs up.

How imperceptibly the first springing takes place!

I pray that the life of this spring and summer may ever lie fair in my memory.

In a pleasant spring morning all men's sins are forgiven.

Shall a man not have his spring as well as the plants?

Where there is a lull in truth an institution springs up.

The fishermen say that the "thundering of the pond" scares the fishes and prevents their biting.

Fresh curls spring from the baldest brow. There is nothing inorganic.

When the leaves of the strongest tree fall, spring is here.

The early bees are assaulting and fumbling the flowers: They call it 'easing the Spring.'

In winter, I plot and plan. In spring, I move.

Spring and fall, those are very inspiring times of the year for me.

August brings into sharp focus and a furious boil everything I've been listening to in the late spring and summer.

Early spring is the time for vigorous change, a preparation for the heat-driven oppression that is to come.

Unfruitful emotion is to be suspected. Feeling acts as an impulse, as a spur, as a spring, and when feelings are excited, and they put nothing forward, they are sometimes even dangerous to a man.