Spring Quotes - Page 7

• I came back out here from England and I was there for a while and it was beautiful and it is just great to see London going from Spring to Summer and Autumn.

  Orlando Bloom

  Beautiful, Summer, Autumn

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• All men's misfortunes spring from their hatred of being alone.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Loneliness, Being Alone, Men

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• Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May; but at length the season of summer does come.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Summer, Nature, Winter

  Thomas Carlyle (2014). “The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.73, Lulu.com

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• There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so absolutely terrifying, that even man, the fighter, who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death, will be appalled, and so abandon war forever.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Peace, Fear, Military

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• Don't forget it's daylight savings time. You spring forward, then you fall back. It's like Robert Downey Jr. getting out of bed.

  David Letterman

  Fall, Bed, Saving

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• The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in good education.

  Plutarch

  Education, Teacher, Appreciation

  "Moralia". Book by Plutarch. Chapter "The Education of Children",

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• Before I pitch any game, from spring training to Game 7 of the World Series, I'm scared to death.

  Curt Schilling

  Sports, Games, Training

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• Aprils have never meant much to me, autumns seem that season of beginning, spring.

  Truman Capote

  Fall, Autumn, April

  Truman Capote (2012). “Breakfast at Tiffany's”, p.54, Vintage

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• Too much sun after a Syracuse winter does strange things to your head, makes you feel strong, even if you aren't.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Strong, Winter, Doe

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2011). “Speak”, p.180, Macmillan

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• The early mist had vanished and the fields lay like a silver shield under the sun. It was one of the days when the glitter of winter shines through a pale haze of spring.

  Edith Wharton

  Winter, Shining, Glitter

  Edith Wharton (2016). “Ethan Frome”, p.82, First Avenue Editions

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• More than in any other performing arts the lack of respect for acting seems to spring from the fact that every layman considers himself a valid critic.

  Simone Weil

  Inspirational, Motivational, Respect

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• 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

  Rain, Fall, Sky

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• Poor, dear, silly Spring, preparing her annual surprise!

  Wallace Stevens

  Nature, Silly, April

  Wallace Stevens, Holly Stevens (1966). “Letters of Wallace Stevens”, p.89, Univ of California Press

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• Indoors or out, no one relaxes
  In March, that month of wind and taxes,
  The wind will presently disappear,
  The taxes last us all the year.

  Ogden Nash

  Years, Wind, Relax

  "Thar She Blows". "Versus". Book by Ogden Nash, 1949.

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• I trust in nature for the stable laws of beauty and utility. Spring shall plant and autumn garner to the end of time.

  Robert Browning

  Trust, Time, Autumn

  Robert Browning, John Woolford, Daniel Karlin (1991). “The Poems of Browning: 1841-1846”, p.192, Pearson Education

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• No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of spring.

  Samuel Johnson

  Appreciation, Flower, Autumn

  Samuel Johnson (1977). “Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.119, Univ of California Press

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• If people did not love one another, I really don't see what use there would be in having any spring.

  Victor Hugo

  People, Would Be, Use

  Victor Hugo (1863). “Les misérables”

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• The first day of spring was once the time for taking the young virgins into the fields, there in dalliance to set an example in fertility for nature to follow. Now we just set the clocks an hour ahead and change the oil in the crankcase.

  E. B. White

  Oil, Fertility, Fields

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• That God once loved a garden we learn in Holy writ.
  And seeing gardens in the Spring I well can credit it.

  Winifred Mary Letts

  Garden, Credit, April

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• To all earth's creatures God has given the broad earth, the springs, the rivers and the forests, giving the air to the birds, and the waters to those who live in water, giving abundantly to all the basic needs of life, not as a private possession, not restricted by law, not divided by boundaries, but as common to all, amply and in rich measure.

  Gregory of Nazianzus

  Humility, Air, Law

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• People ask me what I do in winter when there's no baseball. I'll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring.

  Rogers Hornsby

  Sports, Baseball, Athlete

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I stare out the window and wait for spring.

  Rogers Hornsby

  Baseball, Inspirational Sports, Winter

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Chicago is an October sort of city even in spring.

  Nelson Algren

  Cities, Chicago, October

  "Chicago: City on the Make" by Nelson Algren, University of Chicago Press, Ch. 7, 1987.

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

  Ambrose Bierce

  Tree, Leaving, Cashiers

  Ambrose Bierce (2011). “Ambrose Bierce: The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, and Memoirs: The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, and Memoirs”, p.565, Library of America

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• The spring has sprung, the grass is rizz. I wonder where them birdies is?

  A. A. Milne

  Wonder, Grass, Sprung

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