quotes about Spring
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She turned to the sunlight     And shook her yellow head, And whispered to her neighbor:     "Winter is dead.
-- A. A. Milne -
Christ is not a reservoir but a spring. His life is continual, active and ever passing on with an outflow as necessary as its inflow. If we do not perpetually draw the fresh supply from the living Fountain, we shall either grow stagnant or empty, It is, therefore, not so much a perpetual fullness as a perpetual filling.
-- A. B. Simpson -
It breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in spring, when everything else begins again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains come, it stops and leaves you to face the fall alone.
-- A. Bartlett GiamattiSource : "The Green Fields of the Mind," Yale Alumni Magazine, Nov. 1977
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Loveliest of trees, the cherry now Is hung with bloom along the bough.
-- A. E. Housman -
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'Tis spring; come out to ramble The hilly brakes around, For under thorn and bramble About the hollow ground The primroses are found. And there's the windflower chilly With all the winds at play, And there's the Lenten lily That has not long to stay And dies on Easter day.
-- A. E. Housman -
Loveliest of trees, the cherry now Is hung with bloom along the bough, And stands about the woodland ride Wearing white for Eastertide. Now, of my threescore years and ten, Twenty will not come again, And take from seventy springs a score, It only leaves me fifty more. And since to look at things in bloom Fifty springs are little room, About the woodlands I will go To see the cherry hung with snow.
-- A. E. Housman -
A little group of thatched cottages in the middle of the village had an orchard attached; and I remember well the peculiar purity of the blue sky seen through the white clusters of apple blossom in spring. I remember being moonstruck looking at it one morning early on my way to school. It meant something for me; what, I couldn't say. It gave me such an unease at heart, some reaching out towards perfection such as impels men into religion, some sense of the transcendence of things, of the fragility of our hold on life.
-- A. L. Rowse -
[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 -
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The Arab Spring I think we will look back whether it's two years, five years, ten or fifteen. And say it's a good thing.
-- Abdallah II -
There are going to be a lot of questions, not just in my country but across the Middle East: Is Israel going to continue to be 'Fortress Israel' — or, as we all hope, become accepted into the neighborhood? Which I believe is the only way we can move forward in harmony. And no matter what's happening in the Middle East — the Arab Spring, et cetera, the economic challenges, high rates of unemployment — the emotional, critical issue is always the Israeli-Palestinian one.
-- Abdallah IISource : Source: www.slate.com
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No matter what's happening in the Middle East - the Arab Spring, et cetera, the economic challenges, high rates of unemployment - the emotional, critical issue is always the Israeli-Palestinian one.
-- Abdallah II -
At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
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I have never had a feeling politically that did not spring from the sentiments embodied in the Declaration of Independence.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
To correct the evils, great and small, which spring from want of sympathy and from positive enmity among strangers, as nations or as individuals, is one of the highest functions of civilization.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
There is a graveyard in my poor heart - dark, heaped-up graves, from which no flowers spring.
-- Adah Isaacs MenkenSource : Adah Isaacs Menken (1868). “Infelicia [poems].”, p.72
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The main difference between the Prague Spring and the Velvet Revolution was that the former was mostly the work of Communist party members and others who wanted to bring about socialism with a human face.
-- Adam Michnik -
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I drink from a small spring, / my thirst excedes the ocean.
-- Adam Zagajewski -
Hark! the hours are softly calling Bidding Spring arise To listen to the rain-drops falling From the cloudy skies To listen to Earth’s weary voices Louder every day Bidding her no longer linger On her charm’d way But hasten to her task of beauty Scarcely yet begun.
-- Adelaide Anne Procter -
Your days are short here; this is the last of your springs. And now in the serenity and quiet of this lovely place, touch the depths of truth, feel the hem of Heaven. You will go away with old, good friends. And don't forget when you leave why you came.
-- Adlai E. Stevenson -
Any violence which does not spring from a spiritual base, will be wavering and uncertain. It lacks the stability which can only rest in a fanatical outlook.
-- Adolf Hitler -
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I have been a joy to live with all spring: Upbeat, warm and tender, uncomplicated, and loving. I am no trouble at all. You could press me into dough and make sugar cookies out of me, I've been so sweet.
-- Adriana Trigiani -
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 SpirSource : "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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Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature, and is purifying only in so far as there is a natural and unschooled goodness in the human heart.
-- Agnes Repplier -
Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature.
-- Agnes Repplier -
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There is only one thing about which I shall have no regrets when my life ends. I have savored to the full all the small, daily joys. The bright sunshine on the breakfast table; the smell of the air at dusk; the sound of the clock ticking; the light rains that start gently after midnight; the hour when the family come home; Sunday-evening tea before the fire! I have never missed one moment of beauty, not even taken it for granted. Spring, summer, autumn, or winter. I wish I had failed as little in other ways.
-- Agnes Sligh TurnbullSource : Agnes Sligh Turnbull, “No Regrets”
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It seemed to happen in springs, the revealing of things.
-- Aimee Bender -
Spring being a tough act to follow, God created June.
-- Al Bernstein -
When I talk to audiences about the size and age of the cosmos, people often say, "It makes me feel so insignificant." I answer, "The bigger and more impersonal the universe is, the more meaningful you are, because this vast, impersonal place needs something significant to fill it up." We've abandoned the old belief that humanity is at the physical center of the universe but more come back to believing we are at the center of meaning.
-- Alan Dressler -
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But I've a rendezvous with Death At midnight in some flaming town, When Spring trips north again this year, And I to my pledged word am true, I shall not fail that rendezvous.
-- Alan SeegerSource : "I Have a Rendezvous with Death" l. 20 (1916)
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I was thinking recently, If the body really is the new dress, as some are saying - with women buying boobs, butts, faces - then who needs a dressmaker? So I started designing spring like a plastic surgeon - everything stretchy and nude. But after three weeks, I was so bored with myself and the world, I began adding diamond butterflies and chiffon and colors. I realized that fashion is not about second skin. It's not the perfect white shirt or camel jacket. What women need is a dream.
-- Alber Elbaz -
Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.
-- Albert Camus -
Once in the midst of a seemingly endless winter, I discovered within myself an invincible spring.
-- Albert Camus -
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I can negate everything of that part of me that lives on vague nostalgias, except this desire for unity, this longing to solve, this need for clarity and cohesion. I can refute everything in this world surrounding me that offends or enraptures me, except this chaos, this sovereign chance and this divine equivalence which springs from anarchy. I don't know whether this world has meaning that transcends it. But I know that I do not know that meaning and that it is impossible for me just now to know it. What can a meaning outside my condition mean to me? I can understand only in human terms.
-- Albert Camus -
But science can only be created by those who are thoroughly imbued with the aspiration toward truth and understanding. This source of feeling, however, springs from the sphere of religion. To this there also belongs the faith in the possibility that the regulations valid for the world of existence are rational, that is, comprehensible to reason. I cannot conceive of a genuine scientist without that profound faith. The situation may be expressed by an image: science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein -
We are all naturally seekers of wonders. We travel far to see the majesty of old ruins, the venerable forms of the hoary mountains, great waterfalls, and galleries of art. And yet the world's wonder is all around us; the wonder of setting suns, and evening stars, of the magic spring-time, the blossoming of the trees, the strange transformations of the moth..
-- Albert PikeSource : Albert Pike (2013). “Morals and Dogma”, p.214, Simon and Schuster
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He who hopes for spring with upturned eye never sees so small a thing as Draba. He who despairs of spring with downcast eye steps on it, unknowing. He who searches for spring with his knees in the mud finds it, in abundance.
-- Aldo Leopold -
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One swallow does not make a summer, but one skein of geese, cleaving the murk of March thaw, is the Spring.
-- Aldo Leopold -
In June as many as a dozen species may burst their buds on a single day. No man can heed all of these anniversaries; no man can ignore all of them.
-- Aldo Leopold -
The practice of conservation must spring from a conviction of what is ethically and aesthetically right, as well as what is economically expedient. A thing is right only when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability, and beauty of the community, and the community includes the soil, waters, fauna, and flora, as well as people.
-- Aldo Leopold -
There are degrees and kinds of solitude. ... I know of no solitude so secure as one guarded by a spring flood; nor do the geese, who have seen more kinds and degrees of aloneness than I have.
-- Aldo Leopold -
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For at least two thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity, idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religious or political idols
-- Aldous Huxley -
The most delicious sensation of all is the re-birth of healthy human love. Spring coming back to Earth!
-- Aleister Crowley -
The hopeless hope is one of the early harbingers of spring, bespeaking an innocent belief that the world might right its wrongs and reverse its curses simply because the trees are coming into leaf.
-- Aleksandar Hemon -
Early in the spring of 1750, in the village of Juffure, four days upriver from the coast of The Gambia, West Africa, a manchild was born to Omoro and Binta Kinte.
-- Alex Haley -
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All real success springs from that inward might which we exert upon society.
-- Alexander CrummellSource : Alexander Crummell, John R. Oldfield, Southern Texts Society (1995). “Civilization and Black Progress: Selected Writings of Alexander Crummell on the South”, p.146, University of Virginia Press
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The greatness of peoples springs from their ability to grasp the grand conceptions of being. It is the absorption of a people, of a nation, of a rare, in large majestic and abiding things which lifts them up to the skies.
-- Alexander Crummell -
You can crush the flowers, but you can't stop the spring.
-- Alexander Dubcek -
Spring and summer 1942 was probably the worst period of internal terror in Slovakia. It was also the time of mass deportation of Slovak Jews to the extermination camps in Poland.
-- Alexander Dubcek -
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To model our political system upon speculations of lasting tranquility, is to calculate on the weaker springs of the human character.
-- Alexander Hamilton -
God is His own motive. His love is not drawn out by our loveableness, but wells up, like an artesian spring, from the depths of His nature.
-- Alexander MacLaren -
A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.
-- Alexander Pope -
Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always To be Blest.
-- Alexander Pope -
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Judge not of actions by their mere effect; Dive to the center, and the cause detect. Great deeds from meanest springs may take their course, And smallest virtues from a mighty source.
-- Alexander Pope -
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 -
Ye flowers that drop, forsaken by the spring, Ye birds that, left by summer, cease to sing, Ye trees that fade, when Autumn heats remove, Say, is not absence death to those who love?
-- Alexander Pope -
To love all ages yield surrender; But to the young it's raptures bring A blessing bountiful and tender- As storms refresh the fields of spring.
-- Alexander Pushkin -
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All great art, and today all great artlessness, must appear extreme to the mass of men, as we know them today. It springs from the anguish of great souls. From the souls of men not formed, but deformed in factories whose inspiration is pelf.
-- Alexander TrocchiSource : Alexander Trocchi (1992). “Cain's Book”, p.224, Grove Press
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I think that my ideas of the world are that it's random and cruel but kind of quite comical really, and therefore the humour, in a sense, springs from that.
-- Alexei Sayle -
It is the individual who is not interested in his fellow men who has the greatest difficulties in life and provides the greatest injury to others. It is fro+m among such individuals that all human failures spring.
-- Alfred Adler -
It is from among such individuals that all human failures spring.
-- Alfred Adler -
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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 AustinSource : Alfred Austin, “Is Life Worth LIVIng?”
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Your God still walks in Eden, between the ancient trees, Where Youth and Love go wading through pools of primroses. And this is the sign we bring you, before the darkness fall, That Spring is risen, is risen again, That Life is risen, is risen again, That Love is risen, is risen again, and Love is Lord of all.
-- Alfred NoyesSource : Alfred Noyes (2016). “The Lord of Misrule”, Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
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Could Hamlet have been written by a committee, or the "Mona Lisa" painted by a club? Could the New Testament have been composed as a conference report? Creative ideas do not spring from groups. They spring from individuals. The divine spark leaps from the finger of God to the finger of Adam, whether it takes ultimate shape in a law of physics or a law of the land, a poem or a policy, a sonata or a mechanical computer.
-- Alfred Whitney GriswoldSource : 1957 Baccalaureate address, 9 Jun.
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Blossom by blossom the spring begins.
-- Algernon Charles SwinburneSource : Atalanta in Calydon chorus (1865)
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The sun is all about the world we see, the breath and strength of every spring.
-- Algernon Charles Swinburne -
For winter's rains and ruins are over... And in Green under wood and cover Blossum by blossom the spring begins.
-- Algernon Charles SwinburneSource : Atalanta in Calydon chorus (1865)
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We, drinking love at the furthest springs, Covered with love as a covering tree, We had grown as gods, as the gods above, Filled from the heart to the lips with love, Held fast in his hands, clothed warm with his wings, O love, my love, had you loved but me!
-- Algernon Charles Swinburne -
When the hounds of Spring are on winter's traces, The mother of months in meadow or plain Fills the shadows and windy places With lisp of leaves and ripple of rain.
-- Algernon Charles Swinburne -
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For winter's rains and ruins are over, And all the season of snows and sins; The days dividing lover and lover, The light that loses, the night that wins; And time remembered isgrief forgotten, And frosts are slain and flowers begotten, And in green underwood and cover Blossom by blossom the spring begins.
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Shut up the door: who loves me must not look / Upon the withered world, but haste to bring / His lighted candle, and his story-book, / And live with me the poetry of spring.
-- Alice CarySource : Alice Cary (1876). “The Last Poems: Of Alice and Phoebe Cary”, p.136
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I had not thought of violets of late, The wild, shy kind that springs beneath you feet In wistful April days.
-- Alice Dunbar NelsonSource : Alice Dunbar-Nelson, “Sonnet”
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O spring, I know thee! Seek for sweet surprise / In the young children's eyes. / But I have learnt the years, and know the yet / Leaf-folded violet.
-- Alice MeynellSource : Alice Meynell, Wilfrid Meynell (1931). “Selected Poems of Alice Meynell”, London, Nonesuch
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Rich meanings of the prophet-Spring adorn, / Unseen, this colorless sky of folded showers, / And folded winds ...
-- Alice Meynell -
Rich meanings of the prophet-Spring adorn, Unseen, this colourless sky of folded showers, And folded winds; no blossom in the bowers; A poet's face asleep in this grey morn. Now in the midst of the old world forlorn A mystic child is set in these still hours. I keep this time, even before the flowers, Sacred to all the young and the unborn.
-- Alice Meynell -
Spring and autumn are inconsiderable events in a landscape compared with the shadows of a cloud.
-- Alice MeynellSource : Alice Meynell (2013). “The Essential Alice Meynell Collection”, p.122, eBookIt.com
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The grape Hyacinth is the favorite spring flower of my garden - but no! I though a minute ago the Scilla was! and what place has the Violet? the Flower de Luce? I cannot decide, but this I know - it is some blue flower.
-- Alice Morse EarleSource : Alice Morse Earle (2014). “Old Time Gardens, Newly Set Forth”, p.257, Cambridge University Press
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Spring, when the earth tilts closer to the sun, runs a strict timetable of flowers.
-- Alice Oswald -
It is one of the strongest bonds, I think, that can spring up between people: sharing a passion for certain books and their authors.
-- Alice SteinbachSource : Alice Steinbach (2010). “Without Reservations: The Travels Of An Independent Woman”, p.56, Random House
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As long as the Earth can make a spring every year, I can. As long as the Earth can flower and produce nurturing fruit, I can, because I'm the Earth. I won't give up until the Earth gives up.
-- Alice Walker -
As long as the Earth can make a spring every year, I can.
-- Alice Walker -
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I love those tiny little onions in the spring that are so small they're almost like a little chive.
-- Alice Waters -
Unfortunately, preachers who distort God's Word are all too common today. Sometimes this springs from a sincere desire to soften hard hearts, but hearts aren't changed by compromise.
-- Alistair Begg -
Curiosity endows the people who have it with a generosity in argument and a serenity in their own mode of life which springs from their cheerful willingness to let life take the form it will.
-- Alistair CookeSource : "Science, Religion, and the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence". Book by David Wilkinson, p. 3, August 1, 2013.
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Red is the first color of spring. It's the real color of rebirth. Of beginning.
-- Ally Condie -
Enthusiasm springs from the imagination, and self-sacrifice from the heart. Women are, therefore, more naturally heroic than men. All nations have in their annals some of these miracles of patriotism, of which woman is the instrument in the hands of God.
-- Alphonse de Lamartine -
Racism springs from the lie that certain human beings are less than fully human. It's a self-centered falsehood that corrupts our minds into believing we are right to treat others as we would not want to be treated.
-- Alveda King -
Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
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HIBERNATE, v. i. To pass the winter season in domestic seclusion. There have been many singular popular notions about the hibernation of various animals. Many believe that the bear hibernates during the whole winter and subsists by mechanically sucking its paws. It is admitted that it comes out of its retirement in the spring so lean that it has to try twice before it can cast a shadow.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
Spring beckons! All things to the call respond; the trees are leaving and cashiers abscond.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
The flowers anew, returning seasons bring; but beauty faded has no second spring.
-- Ambrose PhilipsSource : 'The First Pastoral' (1708) 'Lobbin' l. 47
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A single act of kindness throws out roots in all directions, and the roots spring up and make new trees.
-- Amelia Earhart -
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No kind action ever stops with itself. One kind action leads to another. Good example is followed. A single act of kindness throws out roots in all directions, and the roots spring up and make new trees. The greatest work that kindness does to others is that it makes them kind themselves.
-- Amelia Earhart -
As flower blooms in spring, compassion grows in mindfulness.
-- Amit Ray -
Lilacs, False Blue, White, Purple, Colour of lilac, Your great puffs of flowers Are everywhere in this my New England ... Lilacs in dooryards Holding quiet conversation with an early moon; Lilacs watching a deserted house; ... Lilacs, wind-beaten, staggering under a lopsided shock of bloom, You are everywhere.
-- Amy LowellSource : Amy Lowell, “Lilacs”
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I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress.
-- Andre Gide -
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The need to express oneself in writing springs from a mal-adjustment to life, or from an inner conflict which the adolescent (or the grown man) cannot resolve in action. Those to whom action comes as easily as breathing rarely feel the need to break loose from the real, to rise above, and describe it... I do not mean that it is enough to be maladjusted to become a great writer, but writing is, for some, a method of resolving a conflict, provided they have the necessary talent.
-- Andre Maurois -
A library outranks any other one thing a community can do to benefit its people. It is a never failing spring in the desert.
-- Andrew Carnegie -
Mischief springs from the power which the moneyed interest derives from a paper currency which they are able to control, from the multitude of corporations with exclusive privileges... which are employed altogether for their benefit.
-- Andrew Jackson -
Fine fruit is the flower of commodities. It is the most perfect union of the useful and the beautiful that the earth knows. Trees full of soft foliage; blossoms fresh with spring bounty; and, finally, fruit, rich, bloom-dusted, melting, and luscious.
-- Andrew Jackson Downing -