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Spring Quotes

It is so small a thing to have enjoyed the sun, to have lived light in the spring, to have loved, to have thought, to have done.

– Matthew Arnold

I thought I’d do everything on four-track, and then I’ll record every instrument myself in a studio, and then I’ll have a solo album released by spring.

– Kim Deal

I’ve kind of looked at my whole career as a spring training invite.

– Jamie Moyer

I built a baseball field in the lower part of our property and I’m always working on that. I got a wheelbarrow, a pick and a shovel, and I started to build a baseball field during writers’ strike. We have boys and girls come over and we have clinics in the spring. It’s called The Strike because it’s named for the writers’ strike.

– John C. McGinley

I started off in musical theater, yeah. It was one of my first jobs; it was in Spring Awakening in London, which was amazing.

– Jamie Blackley

The greatest good fortune of my return to Cambridge in 1946 was that there, in the spring, I met Elizabeth Fay Ringo. We were married a few months later.

– James Tobin

When all the world appears to be in a tumult, and nature itself is feeling the assault of climate change, the seasons retain their essential rhythm. Yes, fall gives us a premonition of winter, but then, winter, will be forced to relent, once again, to the new beginnings of soft greens, longer light, and the sweet air of spring.

– Madeleine M. Kunin

When I was on Broadway, my most recent Broadway show was ‘Spring Awakening,’ and every night I did a topless scene.

– Lea Michele

Everyone is the sum total of past experiences. A character doesn’t just spring to life at age thirty.

– Kelley Armstrong

In the spring and summer of 1989, a serious political disturbance took place in China.

– Li Peng

The garden of love is green without limit and yields many fruits other than sorrow or joy. Love is beyond either condition: without spring, without autumn, it is always fresh.

– Rumi

If you can visualize the whole of spring and see Paradise with the eye of belief, you may understand the utter majesty of everlasting Beauty. If you respond to that Beauty with the beauty of belief and worship, you will be a most beautiful creature.

– Said Nursi

In the spring of 1948, I was able to join the newly created Brookhaven National Laboratory, which was dedicated to finding peaceful uses for atomic energy.

– Raymond Davis, Jr.

In spring, the dead trees, roots, and animals come to life again exactly as they were, thus providing hundreds of thousands of examples, specimens, and proofs of the supreme resurrection.

– Said Nursi

Natural life, lived naturally as it is lived in the countryside, has none of that progress which is the base of happiness. Men and women in rural communities can be compared to a spring that rises out of a rock and spreads in irregular ever-widening circles. But the general principle is static.

– Patrick Kavanagh

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

– Samuel Johnson

No matter how chaotic it is, wildflowers will still spring up in the middle of nowhere.

– Sheryl Crow

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

Bass Weejuns are the Cordovan black or brown penny loafers originally called Norwegian Loafers, hence their name. Worn without socks in the spring and summer, they must be kept to a high-gloss polish and should become burnished with wax over time until they have a fine patina.

– Roger Stone

The spring of 1942 was given over to a very impassioned, strategic debate about where we should first attack in counterpunching against the Germans and Italians. The British argued very persuasively on the part of Winston Churchill, prime minister, that this was a very green American Army, green soldiers, green commanders.

– Rick Atkinson

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.

– Russ Carnahan

In the spring of 1854, some of my publications persuaded King Maximilian II of Bavaria to offer me, at the suggestion of Emanuel Geibel, a position in Munich with an annual salary of 1000 guilders, to take part in his so-called symposia, weekly soirees at which scholars and poets were gathered.

– Paul Heyse

For every person who has ever lived there has come, at last, a spring he will never see. Glory then in the springs that are yours.

– Pam Brown

Isn’t it sad to go to your grave without ever wondering why you were born? Who, with such a thought, would not spring from bed, eager to resume discovering the world and rejoicing to be part of it?

– Richard Dawkins

Life in cities is not a spring but a river, or rather, a water main. It progresses like a novel, artificially.

– Patrick Kavanagh

I discovered ‘Rite of Spring’ when I was 21. As a matter of fact, not with orchestra first, because it was still a work which was not often performed. Don’t forget that I was 19 in 1944, still the Occupation time. So it was performed slightly after the end of the war, in 1945.

– Pierre Boulez

I think in spring, we don’t want to wear makeup, we don’t want to wear a ton of clothes, we just want everything to be easier.

– Rachel Zoe

The Arab Spring is over. The days of the protesters with laptops and BlackBerrys in Tahrir Square are long gone.

– Richard Engel

I never forgot the four years I spent with the Phillies, my September call-ups and my big league Spring Trainings. I never forgot that.

– Ryne Sandberg

Revolution is as unpredictable as an earthquake and as beautiful as spring. Its coming is always a surprise, but its nature should not be.

– Rebecca Solnit

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