Spring Quotes - page 3

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)
Spring is nature's way of saying, "Let's party!" View quote
Robin Williams
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. View quote
Abraham Lincoln
Religious ideas have sprung from the same need as all the other achievements of culture from the necessity for defending itself against the crushing supremacy of nature. View quote
Sigmund Freud
To find the universal elements enough; to find the air and the water exhilarating; to be refreshed by a morning walk or an evening saunter... to be thrilled by the stars at night; to be elated over a bird's nest or a wildflower in spring - these are some of the rewards of the simple life. View quote
John Burroughs
One swallow does not make a summer, but one skein of geese, cleaving the murk of a March thaw, is the spring. View quote
Aldo Leopold
Every hot spring has healing properties because it has been boiled with foreign substances, and thus acquires a new useful quality. View quote
Vitruvius
Once for all, then, a short precept is given thee: Love, and do what thou wilt: whether thou hold thy peace, through love hold thy peace; whether thou cry out, through love cry out; whether thou correct, through love correct; whether thou spare, through love do thou spare: let the root of love be within, of this root can nothing spring but what is good. View quote
Augustine of Hippo
Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time. Never make your most important decisions when you are in your worst moods. Wait. Be patient. The storm will pass. The spring will come. View quote
Robert H. Schuller
In a world where thrushes sing and willow trees are golden in the spring, boredom should have been included among the seven deadly sins. View quote
Elizabeth Goudge
Spring is when you feel like whistling even with a shoe full of slush. (Doug Larson)
Everyone has a breaking point, turning point, stress point, the game is permeated with it. The fans don't see it because we make it look so efficient. But internally, for a guy to be successful, you have to be like a clock spring, wound but not loose at the same time. View quote
Dave Winfield
The beautiful spring came; and when Nature resumes her loveliness, the human soul is apt to revive also. View quote
Harriet Ann Jacobs
After the navy, I transferred to Harvard and finished there. I was there the spring term of 1951 and I stayed through the summer term and a whole other year, so I was able to do two years in a little less than a year and a half. View quote
Harry Mathews
With the advent of spring and beginning of the new harvest season the creators of abundance, our peasants, come out to the fields to sow with good aspirations and hopes. View quote
Islom Karimov
I do hope that our spring will be starting shortly and we will all be able to enjoy some sunshine again. View quote
Lesley Garrett
As winter weather settles in around the country, millions of American families are facing skyrocketing home heating prices with even greater impact if cold temperatures persist into the spring. View quote
Russ Carnahan
Over increasingly large areas of the United States, spring now comes unheralded by the return of the birds, and the early mornings are strangely silent where once they were filled with the beauty of bird song. View quote
Rachel Carson
There are in this world blessed souls, whose sorrows all spring up into joys for others; whose earthly hopes, laid in the grave with many tears, are the seed from which spring healing flowers and balm for the desolate and the distressed. View quote
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Sadness is the matrix from which wit and irony spring; sadness is uncomfortable and creative, which is why consumer society cannot tolerate it. View quote
Germaine Greer
The very idea of true patriotism is lost, and the term has been prostituted to the very worst of purposes. A patriot, sir! Why, patriots spring up like mushrooms! (Robert Walpole)
He smote the rock of the national resources, and abundant streams of revenue gushed forth. He touched the dead corpse of Public Credit, and it sprung upon its feet. View quote
Daniel Webster
Spring passes and one remembers one's innocence Summer passes and one remembers one's exuberance Autumn passes and one remembers one's reverence Winter passes and one remembers one's perseverance. View quote
Yoko Ono
The History of our Revolution will be one continued Lye from one end to the other. The essence of the whole will be that Dr. Franklins electrical Rod, smote the Earth and out sprung General Washington. That Franklin electrified him with his rod-and thence forward these two conducted all the Policy, Negotiations, Legislatures and War. View quote
John Adams
Being sorry won't get you into heaven. Get happy, son. Get that old spring into your step and stay on your toes. View quote
Robert A. Heinlein