Spring Quotes - Page 9

• Men are April when they woo, December when they wed. Maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.

  William Shakespeare

  Marriage, Women, Sky

  'As You Like It' (1599) act 4, sc. 1, l. [153]

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• Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  "The Artist's Way at Work: Riding the Dragon". Book by Mark A. Bryan with Julia Cameron and Catherine A. Allen, p. 160, 1999.

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• The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Change, Powerful

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• I suppose the best kind of spring morning is the best weather God has to offer.

  Dodie Smith

  Morning, Weather, Kind

  Dodie Smith (2003). “I Capture the Castle”, p.83, St. Martin's Press

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• We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers. They see things in the soft haze of a spring day or in the red fire of a long winter's evening. Some of us let these great dreams die, but others nourish and protect them; nurse them through bad days till they bring them to the sunshine and light which comes always to those who sincerely hope that their dreams will come true.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Love, Dream, Bad Day

  "By the Way" by Preston Williams, Xulon Press, Virginia (pp. 38-39), 2002.

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• I wandered lonely as a cloud That floats on high o'er vales and hills When all at once I saw a crowd A host of golden daffodils Beside the lake beneath the trees Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.

  William Wordsworth

  Lonely, Nature, Flower

  "I Wandered Lonely As a Cloud" l. 1 (1815 ed.) See DorothyWordsworth 1

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• The seasons are what a symphony ought to be: four perfect movements in harmony with each other.

  Arthur Rubinstein

  Symphony, Perfect, Four Seasons

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• May is a pious fraud of the almanac.

  James Russell Lowell

  May, Fraud, Pious

  'Under the Willows' (1869) l. 21

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• Break open
  A cherry tree
  And there are no flowers;
  But the spring breeze
  Brings forth myriad blossoms.

  Ikkyu

  Nature, Flower, Sunshine

  Ikkyū (2003). “Wild Ways: Zen Poems”, White Pine Press (NY)

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• You can't see Canada across lake Erie, but you know it's there. It's the same with spring. You have to have faith, especially in Cleveland.

  Paul Fleischman

  Lakes, Cleveland, Lake Erie

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• As sure as the spring will follow the winter, prosperity and economic growth will follow recession.

  Robert Foster Bennett

  Winter, Growth, Economic Recession

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• Spring, the sweet Spring, is the year's pleasant king;
  Then blooms each thing, then maids dance in a ring,
  Cold doth not sting, the pretty birds do sing-
  Cuckoo, jug-jug, pu-we, to-witta-woo!
  
  The palm and may make country houses gay,
  Lambs frisk and play, the shepherds pipe all day,
  And we hear aye birds tune this merry lay-
  Cuckoo, jug-jug, pu-we, to-witta-woo!
  
  The fields breathe sweet, the daisies kiss our feet,
  Young lovers meet, old wives a-sunning sit,
  In every street these tunes our ears do greet-
  Cuckoo, jug-jug, pu-we, to-witta-woo!
  Spring, the sweet Spring!

  Thomas Nashe

  Country, Sweet, Kings

  'Summer's Last Will and Testament' (1600) Song

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• It is disturbing to discover in oneself these curious revelations of the validity of the Darwinian theory. If it is true that we have sprung from the ape, there are occasions when my own spring appears not to have been very far.

  Cornelia Otis Skinner

  Apes, Curious, Revelations

  Cornelia Otis Skinner (1959). “The Ape in Me”

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• Every April God rewrites the book of Genesis.

  Austin O'Malley

  Book, April, Genesis

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• They know who keep a broken tryst, Till something from the Spring be missed We have not truly known the Spring.

  Robert Underwood Johnson

  Broken, Knows, Known

  Robert Underwood Johnson (1914). “Saint-Gaudens: an Ode, and Other Verse”

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• Spring is the Period
  Express from God.

  Emily Dickinson

  Periods

  Emily Dickinson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)”, p.1117, Delphi Classics

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• You have to be like a clock spring, wound but not loose at the same time.

  Dave Winfield

  Sports, Clock, Wounds

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

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• At the best of times, spring hurts depressives.

  Angela Carter

  Hurt

  Angela Carter (1967). “Honeybuzzard”

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• The spring sea rising and falling, rising and falling all day.

  Yosa Buson

  Fall, Sea, Rising

  Yosa Buson, “The Spring Sea Rising”

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• This spring as it comes bursts up in bonfires green,
  Wild puffing of emerald trees, and flame-filled bushes,
  Thorn-blossom lifting in wreaths of smoke between
  Where the wood fumes up and the watery, flickering rushes.
  I am amazed at this spring, this conflagration
  Of green fires lit on the soil of the earth, this blaze
  Of growing, and sparks that puff in wild gyration,
  Faces of people streaming across my gaze.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Fire, Flames, People

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.6168, Delphi Classics

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• To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.

  George Santayana

  Love, Positive, Happiness

  George Santayana (2009). “The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress”, p.1053, The Floating Press

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• I had always planned to make a large painting of the early spring, when the first leaves are at the bottom of the trees, and they seem to float in space in a wonderful way. But the arrival of spring can't be done in one picture.

  David Hockney

  Space, Tree, Done

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• I love spring anywhere, but if I could choose I would always greet in a garden.

  Ruth Stout

  Nature, Garden, Gardening

  Ruth Stout (1987). “How to Have a Green Thumb Without an Aching Back: A New Method of Mulch Gardening”, Fireside

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• The beauteous eyes of the spring's fair night With comfort are downward gazing.

  Heinrich Heine

  Eye, Night, Comfort

  Heinrich Heine (1859). “The Poems of Heine, complete: Translated in the original Metres: With a Sketch of Heine's Life. By Edgar Alfred Bowring”, p.167

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• And all the woods are alive with the murmur and sound of Spring,
  And the rose-bud breaks into pink on the climbing briar,
  And the crocus-bed is a quivering moon of fire
  Girdled round with the belt of an amethyst ring.

  Oscar Wilde

  Moon, Fire, Climbing

  Oscar Wilde (2014). “Poems”, p.37, Simon and Schuster

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