Spring'st Quotes

Noboru Wataya,
Where are you?
Did the wind-up bird
Forget to wind your spring? — Haruki Murakami

May, and after a rainy spring
We walk streets gallant with rhododendrons. — Alicia Suskin Ostriker

When one flower blooms spring awakens everywhere — John O'Donohue

When you do enough research, the story almost writes itself. Lines of development spring loose and you'll have choices galore. — Robert McKee

Spring is God's way of saying, 'One more time!' — Robert Orben

Autumn arrives in early morning, but spring at the close of a winter day. — Elizabeth Bowen

I left Montana in Spring of 1866, for Utah, arriving at Salt Lake city during the summer. — Calamity Jane

The greatest gift that Oxford gives her sons is, I truly believe, a genial irreverence toward learning, and from that irreverence love may spring. — Robertson Davies

Odd how often blood is shed to obtain freedom from those in power. Oppressors must be the most insecure people in the world. — Neil DeGrasse Tyson

It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn. — B.C. Forbes

The grackles sing avant the spring
Most spiss oh! Yes, most spissantly.
They sing right puissantly. — Wallace Stevens

Spring, when the earth tilts closer to the sun, runs a strict timetable of flowers. — Alice Oswald

No matter how difficult the situation is, it won't last forever. What follows the night is the day. What follows the winter is the spring. — Tony Robbins

I heard the spring light whisper
Above the dancing stream,
The world is made forever
in likeness of a dream. — Bliss Carman

She is something new, something hopeful. Like spring to my deep winter. — Pierce Brown

Spring is the season of restoration of all living things. — Lailah Gifty Akita

We need spring. We need it desperately, and, usually, we need it before God is willing to give it to us. — Peter Gzowski

Happiness springs from doing good and helping others. — Plato

When my bed is empty, Makes me feel awful mean and blue. My springs are getting rusty, Living single like I do. — Bessie Smith

All good is born in prayer, and all good springs from it. — Charles Spurgeon

April hath put a spirit of youth in everything. (Sonnet XCVIII) — William Shakespeare

Even bees, the little almsmen of spring bowers, know there is richest juice in poison-flowers. — John Keats

The merry cuckow, messenger of Spring, His trumpet shrill hath thrice already sounded. — Edmund Spenser

Our virtues and view spring from one root. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Cruelty is like hope: it springs eternal. — Anthony Daniels

Autumn is my spring! — August Strindberg

Secrecy can spring from the best motives; but as it grows it begins to exist only for itself, only for its own sake, only to cover its own abuses. — Christopher Dodd

Winter, spring and summer did not accommodate themselves to one's mood as autumn did. They lacked its gentleness. — Elizabeth Goudge

Spring comes: the flowers learn their colored shapes. — Maria Konopnicka

It's spring giving way to summer, balmy air smelling of roses, hot skin meeting the cold shock of the ocean, starry nights as warm as kisses. — Sarah McCarry

All that happens is as usual and familiar as the rose in spring and the crop in summer. — Marcus Aurelius

There are an awful lot of things going on that need understanding and explanation, but - to put it mildly - the world is a mess. — Madeleine Albright

All good things spring from Self-Love — N. Sophronia Crosby

There are two cardinal sins from which all others spring: Impatience and Laziness." Franz Kafka — Jason Harvey

Do not wish an everlasting spring! Without tasting the winter, you cannot get pleasure out of the spring! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Twenty to life, she got, with time off for good behavior. You come around next spring. I'll introduce you. — Alfred Hitchcock

When you spring to an idea, and decide it is truth, without evidence, you blind yourself to other possibilities. — Robin Hobb

Until spring training in 1946, the only time I pitched was in 1945 in the GI World Series. — Leon Day

To all the revolutionaries fighting to throw off the yoke of tyranny around the world: look at British democracy. Is that what you want? — Andy Zaltzman

The wheel of seasons is broken, says the spring pattern this autumn day, and so am I. — David Mitchell

These are the living springs of great thoughts and great actions. Everything grows clear in the reflections from the Infinite. — Louis Pasteur

Spring is the ultimate genius of the existence and the utter ladder of the lovers ascending to the infinity. — Mehmet Murat Ildan

The old Chinese proverb springs to mind - No pain, no gain. — Marian Keyes

A hush is over everything, Silent as women wait for love; The world is waiting for the spring. — Sara Teasdale

I guess the feminism in "Room" springs to mind most. — Emma Donoghue

I love those tiny little onions in the spring that are so small they're almost like a little chive. — Alice Waters

You must await your thirst and allow it to become complete: otherwise you will never discover your spring, which can never be anyone else's! — Friedrich Nietzsche

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

It is dangerous to spring to obvious conclusions about baseball or, for that matter, ball players. Baseball is not an obvious game. — Roger Kahn

If I were a maker of perfumes, I would make one and call it 'Spring,' and it would smell like this cool, sweet, early-morning air. — Ann Petry

Every day, I come home with a spring in my step. We've got to work together to stop the Obama agenda and take this country back. — Ted Cruz

Trouble Springs From Idleness. — Benjamin Franklin

The world will be for the common people, and the sounds of Happiness will reach even the deepest springs. — Karl Marx

When the spring comes, we will manure the plains of Kosova with the bones of Serbs, for we Albanians have suffered too much to forget. — Isa Boletini

Ah, it is spring,
Great spring it is now,
Great, great spring -
Ah, Great - — Matsuo Basho

If you want to get rid of stuff, you can always do a good spring-cleaning. Or you can do what I do. Move. — Ellen DeGeneres

I want any excuse to come home. My dad is not a spring chicken any more. If anyone says, 'Go buy a postage stamp in London,' I'll go and do it. — Emily Mortimer

Despite the heart numbing frost, my soul is blooming like spring. — Debasish Mridha

His scent, the scent of spring, warm and hopefuly as the sunlight that filled this place, poured through me. — Andrea Cremer

The year's fruit must fall that the next year's may come, and the winter is the only way to the spring. — George MacDonald

You're like the fresh air from an orchard in spring, he shook his head, his long bangs falling over his right eye, I am darkness. — Cristiane Serruya

All altruism springs from putting yourself in the other person's place. — Harry Emerson Fosdick

At the best of times, spring hurts depressives. — Angela Carter

Nothing says spring like hand-cut flowers. — Oscar De La Renta

The British Government and the Irish Government have accepted very clearly the Mitchell Report. — Dick Spring

Language is something that springs from the biological matrix, and the neurological matrix, within us. — Terence McKenna

In snowbound, voiceless, mountain depths, to herald spring, pine trees sound in tune. — Princess Shikishi

The kind of happiness that stays with you is the happiness that springs from inward thoughts and emotions. — William Lyon Phelps

Always it's Spring)and everyone's in love and flowers pick themselves. — E. E. Cummings

I grew up reading Holocaust literature at the beach, Gulag literature on winter holidays, Vietnam memoirs on spring break. — Michael Hastings

Every spring he vowed to quit teaching school, and every summer he missed his pupils and searched for them on the streets. — Annie Dillard

That spring I decided if school didn't stop pretty soon, I'd run away again, and I didn't in the least care what they did to me. — Gene Stratton-Porter

Only to youth will spring be spring. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

The first day of spring is known as the vernal equinox. The equinox is special. It only happens twice a year, like a good night in ratings for NBC. — Craig Ferguson

A mother's love! O holy, boundless thing!
Fountain whose waters never cease to spring! — Marguerite Gardiner, Countess Of Blessington

Gratitude is the well spring of life. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Spring is always cruel, with its false promise of resurrection ... — Barbara Mertz

I was on the mathematics faculty at M.I.T. from 1951 through until I resigned in the spring of 1959. — John Forbes Nash Jr.

Clouds of the golden west between its softly dark shores. The sea moaned eerily on the sand-bar, sorrowful even in spring, but a — L.M. Montgomery

After all, when you think of it, nothing is stronger in the world...and weaker--than a word! — Ivan Turgenev

Again rejoicing Nature sees
Her robe assume its vernal hues
Her leafy locks wave in the breeze,
All freshly steep'd in the morning dews. — Robert Burns

Young foliage sweet bronze.
Most strongly scented of all wisterias.
Deep spring: overcome by my own perfume. — Tessa Rumsey

Books are expensive. So are nice houses with gardens. Has it occurred to you that someone has to pay for your peaceful life? — Lisa Kleypas

What more can you ask for than to see a ballgame in spring? — Hal Newhouser

But mostly I think two people do share a moment, and we all know that feeling, and it can put a spring in your step for the rest of the day. — Sophie Blackall

Winter always turns into Spring. Never, from ancient times on, has anyone heard or seen of winter turning back to autumn. — Nichiren

April is the cruelest month, breeding
lilacs out of the dead land, mixing
memory and desire, stirring
dull roots with spring rain. — T. S. Eliot

Is life worth living? Yes, so long
As Spring revives the year,
And hails us with the cuckoo's song,
To show that she is here; — Alfred Austin

Laziness has many disguises. Soon "winter doldrums" will become "spring fever." — Bernard Williams

In your winter you deny your spring, — Kahlil Gibran

Fasting is like spring cleaning for your body. — Jentezen Franklin

Spring won't let me stay in this house any longer! I must get out and breathe the air deeply again. — Gustav Mahler

I don't think I have dreams anymore. I think they all died the same day I did, back on that sunny afternoon in spring. — J.T. Geissinger

Spring has a way of erasing doubt. — Tom Robbins

I believe democracy will succeed in Tunisia, but I also believe that it will succeed in the other Arab Spring countries. — Rashid Al-Ghannushi

Look deeply; I arrive in every second to be a bud on a spring branch ... to be a jewel hiding itself in a stone. — Nhat Hanh

I miss the Swedish women on the first day of spring cause they all just blossom in the most incredible way. — Joel Kinnaman

People do not want war. War springs from causes wholly outside the lives, interests, and feelings of the people. — Frederic C. Howe

To what purpose, April, do you return again?
Beauty is not enough. — Edna St. Vincent Millay

SPRING In every winter's heart there is a quivering spring, and behind the veil of each night there is a smiling dawn. SP-ST-57 — Kahlil Gibran