March Quotes - Page 7

• She died on a windy gray day in March when the sky was full of darting crows and the world lay prostrate and defeated after winter. Peter Lake was at her side and it ruined him forever. It broke him as he had not ever imagined he could have been broken. He would never again be young, or able to remember what it was like to be young. What he had once taken to be pleasures would appear to him in his defeat as hideous and deserved punishments for reckless vanity.

  Mark Helprin

  Taken, Winter, Lakes

  Mark Helprin (1989). “Winter's Tale”, Pocket Books

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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.

  Algernon Charles Swinburne

  Time, Spring, Flower

  Atalanta in Calydon chorus (1865)

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• Daffy-down-dilly came up in the cold, Through the brown mould Although the March breeze blew keen on her face, Although the white snow lay in many a place.

  Anna Bartlett Warner

  Flower, White, Snow

  Anna Bartlett Warner (1872). “Gardening by Myself”, p.38

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• This wasn’t just an attack against the Boston Marathon... It was an attack against the American public and our democratic use of the streets. We have used our public roadways for annual parades, protest marches, presidential inaugurations, marathons, and all manner of other events. The roads belong to us, and their use represents an important part of our free and democratic tradition.

  Amby Burfoot

  Boston, Presidential, Important

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• When we were in the woods beyond Gowbarrow Park we saw a few daffodils close to the waterside. But as we went along there were more and yet more and at last under the boughs of the trees, we saw that there was a long belt of them along the shore, about the breadth of a county turnpike toad. I never saw daffodils so beautiful. They grew about the mossy stones about and about them, some rested their heads upon these stones as on a pillow for weariness and the rest tossed and reeled and danced and seemed as if they verily laughed with the wind that blew upon them over the lake.

  Dorothy Wordsworth

  Beautiful, Spring, Journey

  'The Grasmere Journals' 15 April 1802.

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• In April the sweet showers fall And pierce the drought of March to the root, and all The veins are bathed in liquor of such power As brings about the engendering of the flower.

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Sweet, Spring, Flower

  Geoffrey Chaucer (1966). “The Canterbury Tales”

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• It is the 1st mild day of March. Each minute sweeter than before... there is a blessing in the air.

  William Wordsworth

  Blessing, Air, Minutes

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• Slayer of the winter, art thou here again? O welcome, thou that bring'st the summer nigh! The bitter wind makes not the victory vain. Nor will we mock thee for thy faint blue sky.

  William Morris

  Summer, Art, Winter

  William Morris, May Morris (2012). “The Collected Works of William Morris: With Introductions by His Daughter May Morris”, p.82, Cambridge University Press

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• Tony Cottee once played in all four divisions in one season. Cottee started 2000-01 at Leicester City, where he made a couple of Premiership appearances as a sub before being released to Norwich, in what was then Division One. In November the chance to be player-manager of Barnet came up and soon Cottee was playing in Division Three, but alas it did not work out. By March he was again looking for work and found it, with two sub appearances, at Millwall in Division Two.

  Phil Cornwell

  Soccer, Football, Couple

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• April fool, n. The March fool with another month added to his folly.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Fools Day, Months, April

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.13, 谷月社

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• The Nazi signs have got to stop. If you're in a peace march and the guy next to you has a sign saying that 'Bush is Hitler,' forget the peace thing for a second and beat his ass, because he is not Hitler.

  Dennis Miller

  Guy, Politics, Next

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• Lately even the harshest critics of President Bush have been forced to admit maybe he's right about freedom's march around the globe. What if we are watching an example of presidential leadership that will be taught in American schools for generations to come? It's an idea gaining more currency.

  Brian Williams

  School, Ideas, Presidential

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• The American nation, in its march onward and upward, can not publicly choke the intellectual and political activity of half its citizens by narrow statutes.

  Victoria Woodhull

  Onward And Upward, Political, Intellectual

  Victoria Claflin Woodhull (1974). “The Victoria Woodhull Reader”, Weston, Mass. : M&S Press

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• [T]he army of wrongness rampant in the world might as well march over me.

  Truman Capote

  Army, World, Might

  Truman Capote (2012). “Breakfast at Tiffany's”, p.69, Vintage

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• Because I have conducted my own operas and love sheep-dogs; because I generally dress in tweeds, and sometimes, at winter afternoon concerts, have even conducted in them; because I was a militant suffragette and seized a chance of beating time to The March of the Women from the window of my cell in Holloway Prison with a tooth-brush; because I have written books, spoken speeches, broadcast, and don't always make sure that my hat is on straight; for these and other equally pertinent reasons, in a certain sense I am well known.

  Ethel Smyth

  Dog, Book, Winter

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• God in the whizzing of a pleasant wind Shall march upon the tops of mulberry trees.

  George Peele

  God, Wind, Tree

  George Peele (1829). “The Works of George Peele: David and Bethsabe. Battle of Alcazar. Device of the pageant borne before Woolstone Dixi. Descensus Astrææ. A farewell to Sir John Norris and Sir Francis Drake, &c., and a Tale of Troy. Polyhymnia. The honour of the Garter. Misc”, p.62

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• While we may not be called to martyr our lives, we must martyr our way of life. We must put our selfish ways to death and march to a different beat. Then the world will see Jesus.

  Michael Tait

  Jesus, Selfish, Different

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• Democracy is not a static thing. It is an everlasting march.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Democracy, Static, Everlasting

  Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1938). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1935, Volume 4”, p.403, Best Books on

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• In our hearts those of us who know anything worth knowing know that in March a new year begins, and if we plan any new leaves, it will be when the rest of Nature is planning them too.

  Joseph Wood Krutch

  New Year, Heart, Years

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• Averageness is a quality we must put up with. Men march toward civilization in column formation, and by the time the van has learned to admire the masters the rear is drawing reluctantly away from the totem pole.

  Frank Moore Colby

  Men, Civilization, Drawing

  Frank Moore Colby (1926). “The pursuit of humor and other essays”

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• It is not always easy to diagnose. The simplest form of stupidity - the mumbling, nose-picking, stolid incomprehension - can be detected by anyone. But the stupidity which disguises itself as thought, and which talks so glibly and eloquently, indeed never stops talking, in every walk of life is not so easy to identify, because it marches under a formidable name, which few dare attack. It is called Popular Opinion.

  Robertson Davies

  Talking, Names, Stupidity

  Robertson Davies (1996). “The Merry Heart: Selections 1980-1995”

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• A President and his wise men can only propose; but Congress disposes. It is when President and Congress agree that American history marches forward.

  Theodore White

  Wise, Men, Democracy

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• A revolution does not march a straight line. It wanders where it can, retreats before superior forces, advances wherever it has room, attacks whenever the enemy retreats or bluffs, and above all, is possessed of enormous patience.

  Mao Zedong

  Enemy, Doe, Lines

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• My own movement of thought is not meant to be a straight point-to-point, linear line of march, but horizontal exploration from one area of interest to another. There is no ultimate destination - no finish line to cross, no final conclusion to be reached. It's the way I feel about dancing - you move around a lot, not to get somewhere, but to be somewhere in time.

  Robert Fulghum

  Moving, Dancing, Finals

  Robert Fulghum (2010). “Uh-Oh: Some Observations from Both Sides of the Refrigerator Door”, p.26, Ivy Books

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• I am a patriot. I have always sought to serve my country, in theory a Republic. Learning that secrecy was evil rather than good was my first step. From there it was a steady march toward open-source everything. Now I see all the evil that secrecy enables in a corrupt Congress, a corrupt Executive, a corrupt economy, and a corrupt society. I see that the greatest service I or any other person can render to the Republic is to march firmly, non-violently, toward open-source everything.

  Robert David Steele

  Country, Evil, Republic

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