Spring Quotes:

One swallow does not make a summer, but one skein of geese, cleaving the murk of March thaw, is the Spring.

topic: Spring, Eye, Despair, Unknowing

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.

topic: Summer, Spring, Doe, Spring Season, Spring Summer

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.

topic: Anniversary, Nature, Spring, March Poems, Spring Day

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.

topic: Integrity, Spring, Practice, Flora

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

topic: Spring, Solitude, Degrees

- Aldous Huxley

topic: Religious, Spring, Idols, Dogmatism, Proselytizing

The most delicious sensation of all is the re-birth of healthy human love. Spring coming back to Earth!

- Aleister Crowley

topic: Spring, Healthy, Earth, Human Love

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

topic: Spring, Tree, World, Harbinger

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

topic: Spring, Village, Four, West Africa

All real success springs from that inward might which we exert upon society.

- Alexander Crummell

source: 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

topic: Success, Spring, Real, Real Success

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

topic: Spring, Greatness, Sky

You can crush the flowers, but you can't stop the spring.

- Alexander Dubcek

topic: Love, Crush, Spring

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

topic: Summer, Spring, Deportation, Extermination, Slovakia

To model our political system upon speculations of lasting tranquility, is to calculate on the weaker springs of the human character.

- Alexander Hamilton

topic: Spring, Character, Political

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

topic: God, Christian, Spring

A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.

Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always To be Blest.

topic: Education, Spring, Learning, Knowledge And Ignorance, Knowledge Is Dangerous

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.

topic: Hope, Spring, Men, Veronica Mars

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.

topic: Spring, Judging, Causes, Spring May

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?

topic: Spring, Men, Self, Inertia

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.

topic: Summer, Goodbye, Spring, Saying Good Bye, Absence Love

- Alexander Pushkin

topic: Spring, Blessing, Yield

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 Trocchi

source: Alexander Trocchi (1992). “Cain's Book”, p.224, Grove Press

topic: Art, Spring, Inspiration, Great Souls

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

topic: Spring, Thinking, Ideas, Comical

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

topic: Spring, Men, Fellow Man

It is from among such individuals that all human failures spring.

- Alfred Adler

topic: Spring, Individual, Humans, Win Friends And Influence People

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

source: Alfred Austin, “Is Life Worth LIVIng?”

topic: Song, Spring, Years

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 Noyes

source: Alfred Noyes (2016). “The Lord of Misrule”, Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

topic: Life, Spring, Fall, Ancient Trees

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 Griswold

source: 1957 Baccalaureate address, 9 Jun.

topic: Spring, Law, Land, Mona Lisa, Laws Of Physics

Blossom by blossom the spring begins.

The sun is all about the world we see, the breath and strength of every spring.

source: Atalanta in Calydon chorus (1865)

topic: Spring, Spring Flowers, Spring May, Spring Season, Winter To Spring

For winter's rains and ruins are over... And in Green under wood and cover Blossum by blossom the spring begins.

topic: Spring, World, Sun

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!

source: Atalanta in Calydon chorus (1865)

topic: Spring, Rain, Winter, May Flowers, Spring Day

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.

topic: Life, Spring, Drinking

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.

topic: Mother, Spring, Rain, Lisp, Windy

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.

topic: Time, Spring, Flower

- Alice Cary

source: Alice Cary (1876). “The Last Poems: Of Alice and Phoebe Cary”, p.136

topic: Spring, Book, Autumn, Story Book

I had not thought of violets of late, The wild, shy kind that springs beneath you feet In wistful April days.

- Alice Dunbar Nelson

source: Alice Dunbar-Nelson, “Sonnet”

topic: Spring, Feet, Shy

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.

Rich meanings of the prophet-Spring adorn, / Unseen, this colorless sky of folded showers, / And folded winds ...

source: Alice Meynell, Wilfrid Meynell (1931). “Selected Poems of Alice Meynell”, London, Nonesuch

topic: Sweet, Children, Spring

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.

topic: Spring, Wind, Sky, Colorless

Spring and autumn are inconsiderable events in a landscape compared with the shadows of a cloud.

topic: Children, Spring, Flower

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.

source: Alice Meynell (2013). “The Essential Alice Meynell Collection”, p.122, eBookIt.com

topic: Spring, Autumn, Clouds

- Alice Morse Earle

source: Alice Morse Earle (2014). “Old Time Gardens, Newly Set Forth”, p.257, Cambridge University Press

topic: Spring, Flower, Garden, Spring Flowers, Hyacinths

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

- Alice Oswald

topic: Running, Spring, Flower, Timetables, First Day Of Spring

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 Steinbach

source: Alice Steinbach (2010). “Without Reservations: The Travels Of An Independent Woman”, p.56, Random House

topic: Spring, Book, Passion

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

topic: Giving Up, Spring, Flower, Nurturing, Won't Give Up

As long as the Earth can make a spring every year, I can.

- Alice Walker

topic: Spring, Years, Long

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

- Alice Waters

topic: Spring, Onions, Littles

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

topic: Spring, Heart, Desire

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 Cooke

source: "Science, Religion, and the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence". Book by David Wilkinson, p. 3, August 1, 2013.

topic: Spring, People, Generosity

The Spring I seek is in a new face only.

- Allen Tate

topic: Spring, Faces, Spring Poems, New Faces

Red is the first color of spring. It's the real color of rebirth. Of beginning.

- Ally Condie

topic: Spring, Real, Color

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

topic: Spring, Heart, Sacrifice

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

topic: Spring, Lying, Believe, Anti Racism

Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization.

- Ambrose Bierce

topic: Spring, Believe, Science, Ingenious, Inventions And Inventors

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

topic: Retirement, Spring, Believe, Hibernation, Seclusion

Spring beckons! All things to the call respond; the trees are leaving and cashiers abscond.

- Ambrose Bierce

topic: Spring, Tree, Leaving, Cashiers, Funny Spring

The flowers anew, returning seasons bring; but beauty faded has no second spring.

- Ambrose Philips

source: 'The First Pastoral' (1708) 'Lobbin' l. 47

topic: Beauty, Spring, Flower, Beauty Fades, Faded

A single act of kindness throws out roots in all directions, and the roots spring up and make new trees.

- Amelia Earhart

topic: Kindness, Spring, Compassion, Kindness And Compassion, Acts Of Kindness

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

topic: Spiritual, Kindness, Spring, Love And Kindness, Random Acts Of Kindness

As flower blooms in spring, compassion grows in mindfulness.

- Amit Ray

topic: Spring, Flower, Compassion, Blooming Flower

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 Lowell

source: Amy Lowell, “Lilacs”

topic: Spring, Flower, Moon, Deserted, Lilac

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

topic: Life, Spring, Real, Inspirational Adversity, Caress

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

topic: Spring, Real, Writing, Inner Conflict

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

topic: Spring, People, Community

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

topic: Spring, Historical, Benefits, Rights And Privileges

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

topic: Beautiful, Spring, Flower, Foliage, Bounty

And seemingly as winter has become spring, confusion has become insight.

- Andrew McMahon

topic: Spring, Winter, Confusion

I see nothing in the present situation that is either menacing or warrants pessimism... I have every confidence that there will be a revival of activity in the spring, and that during this coming year the country will make steady progress.

- Andrew Mellon

source: "How It Was: The Year After the Crash of 1929" by Dan Agin, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 21, 2009.

topic: Country, Spring, Years, Steady Progress, Warrants

When the long, varnished buds of beech Point out beyond their reach, And tanned by summer suns Leaves of bright bryony turn bronze, And gossamer floats bright and wet From trees that are their own sunset, Spring, summer, autumn I come here, And what is there to fear? And yet I never lose the feeling That someone else behind is stealing Or else in front has disappeared; Though nothing I have seen or heard, Makes me still walk beneath these boughs With cautious step as in a haunted house.

- Andrew Young

topic: Summer, Spring, Sunset, Bronze, Spring Summer

At the best of times, spring hurts depressives.

- Angela Carter

topic: Hurt, Spring

spring is super in the supermarkets and the strawberries prance and glow never mind that they're all kinda tart and tasteless as strawberries go meanwhile wild things are not for sale anymore than they are for show so i'll be outside, in love with the kind of beauty it takes more than eyes to know

- Ani DiFranco

topic: Spring, Eye, Mind, Tarts

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

topic: Sweet, Morning, Spring, Morning Air, Early Morning

The passions are the seeds of vices as well as of virtues, from which either may spring, accordingly as they are nurtured. Unhappy they who have never been taught the art to govern them!

- Ann Radcliffe

source: Ann Radcliffe (2015). “The Mysteries of Udolpho”, p.550, Simon and Schuster

topic: Art, Spring, Passion

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

topic: Gratitude, Spring, Winter, Hammocks, Drowsy

I have walked this south stream when to believe in spring was an act of faith. It was spitting snow and blowing, and within two days of being May ... But as if to assert the triumph of climate over weather, one ancient willow managed a few gray ***** willows, soft and barely visible against the snow-blurred gray background.

- Ann Zwinger

source: Ann Zwinger (1970). “Beyond the Aspen Grove”, p.92, Big Earth Publishing

topic: Spring, Believe, Weather

The life of the wood, meadow, and lake go on without us. Flowers bloom, set seed and die back; squirrels hide nuts in the fall and scold all year long; bobcats track the snowy lake in winter; deer browse the willow shoots in spring. Humans are but intruders who have presumed the right to be observers, and who, out of observation, find understanding.

- Ann Zwinger

source: Ann Zwinger (1970). “Beyond the Aspen Grove”, p.9, Big Earth Publishing

topic: Nature, Spring, Flower, Intruders, Blooming Flower

All real freedom springs from necessity, for it can be gained only through the exercise of the individual will, and that will can be roused to energetic action only by the force of necessity acting upon it from the outside to spur it to effort.

- Anna Brackett

topic: Spring, Real, Exercise

The first pale blossom of the unripened year.

- Anna Letitia Barbauld

topic: Spring, Years, Firsts

There is a land, where the roses are without thorns, where the flowers are not mixed with brambles. In that land, there is eternal spring, and light without any cloud. The tree of life groweth in the midst thereof; rivers of pleasures are there, and flowers that never fade. Myriads of happy spirits are there, and surround the throne of God with a perpetual hymn. The angels with their golden harps sing praises continually, and the cherubim fly on wings of fire! This country is Heaven...

- Anna Letitia Barbauld

source: Anna Letitia Barbauld (2001). “Anna Letitia Barbauld: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.310, Broadview Press

topic: Country, Spring, Flower, Never Fade, Happy Spirit

Look around at the azaleas making fuchsia star bursts in spring; look at a full moon hanging silver in a black sky on a cold night. And realize that life is glorious, and that you have no business taking it for granted.

- Anna Quindlen

source: Anna Quindlen (2002). “A Short Guide to a Happy Life”, Arrow/Children's (a Division of Random House Group)

topic: Stars, Spring, Moon, Azaleas, Cold Night

If we had not winter, the spring would not be so pleasant; if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.

If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant.

source: Anne Bradstreet, Adelaide P. Amore (1982). “A woman's inner world: selected poetry and prose of Anne Bradstreet”

topic: Life, Spring, Adversity, Spring Awakening, Spring Gardening

The stones and trees, insensible to time, / Nor age nor wrinkle on their front are seen; / If Winter come, and greenness then do fade / A Spring returns, and they more youthful made; / But man grows old, lies down, remains where once he's laid.

source: Anne Bradstreet (1867). “The Works of Anne Bradstreet in Prose and Verse”, p.51

topic: Spring, Winter, Pleasant, March Poems, Spring Awakening

The spring is a lively emblem of the Resurrection.

topic: Death, Spring, Lying, Insensible

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

source: Anne Bradstreet, Jeannine Hensley (1967). “The Works of Anne Bradstreet”, p.279, Harvard University Press

topic: Spring, Resurrection, Emblems

- Anne Douglas Sedgwick

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

topic: Summer, Spring, Doe

I am going to try to pay attention to the spring. I am going to look around at all the flowers, and look up at the hectic trees. I am going to close my eyes and listen.

- Anne Lamott

topic: Spring, Flower, Eye, Spring Flowers, Hectic

I am going to notice the lights of the earth, the sun and the moon and the stars, the lights of our candles as we march, the lights with which spring teases us, the light that is already present.

- Anne Lamott

topic: Stars, Spring, Moon

Forsythia is pure joy. There is not an ounce, not a glimmer of sadness or even knowledge in forsythia. Pure, undiluted, untouched joy.

Only when one is connected to one's inner core is one connected to others. And, for me, the core, the inner spring, can best be re-found through solitude.

topic: Spring, Sadness, Joy, Pure Joy, Flowers And Gardens

For happiness one needs security, but joy can spring like a flower even from the cliffs of despair.

source: "Gift from the Sea".

topic: Inspirational, Peace, Spring

Only with winter-patience can we bring the deep-desired, long-awaited Spring.

topic: Happiness, Spring, Flower, Joy Within, Inspirational Flower

Certain springs are tapped only when we are alone. Women need solitude in order to find again the true essence of themselves; that firm strand which will be the indispensable center of a whole web of human relationships.

topic: Spring, Winter, Long

In the spring of 1988, I returned to New Orleans, and as soon as I smelled the air, I knew I was home. It was rich, almost sweet, like the scent of jasmine and roses around our old courtyard. I walked the streets, savoring that long lost perfume.

topic: Spring, Order, Essence

- Anne Rice

topic: Sweet, Spring, Home, Vampire Movie, Savoring

Walter loves the sea, and I need it in some elemental way that I cannot even come close to verbalizing. I become dim and shriveled somehow at my very core if I am away from the sea too long. When I return to it I seem to fill up and overflow with it, soaking in the vast, sighing wetness of it like a parched vine in a long, soft spring rain.

- Anne Rivers Siddons

source: Anne Rivers Siddons (2007). “House Next Door”, p.133, Simon and Schuster

topic: Spring, Rain, Sea, Spring Rain, Wetness

Heaven's Virginia when the year's at its Spring.

- Anne Spencer

topic: Spring, Virginia, Years

The finest teaching touches in a student a spring neither teacher nor student could possibly have preconceived.

- Anne Truitt

topic: Education, Teacher, Spring

A nice definition of an awakened person: a person who no longer marches to the drums of society, a person who dances to the tune of the music that springs up from within.

- Anthony de Mello

source: Anthony De Mello (2011). “Awareness: Conversations with the Masters”, p.163, Image

topic: Nice, Spring, Definitions

I was like a clock that had exploded- my springs were hanging out, my hands were cockeyed, and my numbers were falling off.

- Anthony Kiedis

topic: Spring, Fall, Hands

I'll look as if I'm dead, and that won't be true.' I said nothing. 'You understand. It's too far. I can't take this body with me. It's too heavy.' I said nothing. 'But it'll be like an old abandoned shell. There's nothing sad about an old shell...' I said nothing. 'It'll be nice, you know. I'll be looking at the stars, too. All the stars will be wells with a rusty pulley. All the stars will pour out water for me to drink...' I said nothing. 'And it'll be fun! You'll have five-hundred million little bells; I'll have five-hundred million springs of fresh water...' And he, too, said nothing more.

- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

topic: Stars, Fun, Spring, Pulleys, Fresh Water

A pilot's business is with the wind, and with the stars, with night, with sand, with the sea. He strives to outwit the forces of nature. He stares with expectancy for the coming of the dawn the way a gardener awaits the coming of spring. He looks forward to port as a promised land, and truth for him is what lives in the stars.

- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

topic: Stars, Spring, Night

The afternoon is bright, with spring in the air, a mild March afternoon, with the breath of April stirring, I am alone in the quiet patio looking for some old untried illusion - some shadow on the whiteness of the wall some memory asleep on the stone rim of the fountain, perhaps in the air the light swish of some trailing gown.

- Antonio Machado

topic: Wall, Memories, Spring

Geology ... offers always some material for observation. ... [When] spring and summer come round, how easily may the hammer be buckled round the waist, and the student emerge from the dust of town into the joyous air of the country, for a few delightful hours among the rocks.

- Archibald Geikie

topic: Summer, Country, Spring

Spring has many American faces. There are cities where it will come and go in a day and counties where it hangs around and never quite gets there. Summer is drawn blinds in Louisiana, long winds in Wyoming, shade of elms and maples in New England.

- Archibald MacLeish

topic: Summer, Spring, June

Evil events from evil causes spring.

- Aristophanes

topic: Spring, Evil, Causes, Good Against Evil, Good Evil

Evil events from evil causes spring, And what you suffer flows from what you've done.

- Aristophanes

topic: Spring, Evil, Suffering

Civil confusions often spring from trifles but decide great issues.

- Aristotle

topic: Spring, Civilization, Issues

If there were no cherry blossoms in this world How much more tranquil our hearts would be in spring.

- Ariwara no Narihira

topic: Spring, Heart, Would Be, Cherry Blossom

Whereas Absurdism in Europe seemed a logical, almost inevitable response to the irrationality of war, the analogous elements that surfaced in American drama seemed more a response to a materialist society run amok. The American-style Absurdism seemed to spring full-blown out of television advertisements and situation comedies, which had become new myth-making machines.

- Arnold Aronson

topic: Running, Drama, Spring

The chances are that you have already come to believe that happiness is unattainable. But men have attained it. And they have attained it by realizing that happiness does not spring from the procuring of physical or mental pleasure, but from the development of reason and the adjustment of conduct to principles.

- Arnold Bennett

topic: Inspirational, Spring, Believe

I was playing golf in Palm Springs and after a round I asked the waitress in a restaurant to bring me a glass of iced tea and lemonade. A lady sitting nearby heard me and asked the waitress to bring her a "Palmer," too. The name caught on and the beverage quickly spread around the country.

- Arnold Palmer

topic: Country, Spring, Golf, Palm Springs, Lemonade

Up to forty a woman has only forty springs in her heart. After that age she has only forty winters.

- Arsene Houssaye

topic: Spring, Heart, Winter

Dull indeed would be the man that did not feel the thrill awakened by the first glimpse of brilliant color in the orchard, and the cheery warbling notes borne to our ears on the first gentle breath of spring!

- Arthur Cleveland Bent

source: Arthur Cleveland Bent (1949). “Life histories of North American thrushes, kinglets, and their allies: order Passeriformes”

topic: Spring, Men, Color

It was an ideal spring day, a light blue sky, flecked with little fleecy white clouds drifting across from west to east. The sun was shining very brightly, and yet there was an exhilarating nip in the air, which set an edge to a man's energy.

Yet birth, and lust, and illness, and death are changeless things, and when one of these harsh facts springs out upon a man at some sudden turn of the path of life, it dashes off for the moment his mask of civilization and gives a glimpse of the stranger and stronger face below.

topic: Spring, Men, White, Spring Day, Light Blue

In shape they were like horrible toads, and moved in a succession of springs, but in size they were of an incredible bulk, larger than the largest elephant. We had never before seen them save at night, and indeed they are nocturnal animals save when disturbed in their lairs, as these had been. We now stood amazed at the sight, for their blotched and warty skins were of a curious fish-like iridescence, and the sunlight struck them with an ever-varying rainbow bloom as they moved.

topic: Spring, Men, Civilization, Illness And Death

It is the sweetest spring within the memory of man. So green, so mild, so beautiful! Ah, what a contrast between nature without and my own soul so torn with doubt and terror!

topic: Spring, Animal, Night, Nocturnal

Streams may spring from one source and yet some may be clear and some be foul.

topic: Beautiful, Memories, Spring