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Spring Quotes

You know how the best story angles often spring from that thought you have on reading an article or watching a show – that thought you have before the responsible journalist in you comes up with something boring. I usually recommend people get in touch with their deep ‘reptilian brain.’

– Nick Denton

The Arab Spring showed that people are not going to wait for an American president to make good on his big talk about democracy and human rights; they are going to fight for those rights themselves and overthrow pro-American dictators who stand in their way.

– Pankaj Mishra

I rode horseback three miles each way to get to high school, and in bad weather it was a problem sometimes to make my eight o’clock class on time. Like others, I often missed school to help on the farm, especially in the fall, until after harvest, and in the spring, during planting season.

– Ezra Taft Benson

In much of the world, there is a sense of an ultra-powerful CIA manipulating everything that happens, such as running the Arab Spring, running the Pakistani Taliban, etc. That is just nonsense.

– Noam Chomsky

I’ve tried every kind of bottled water, but Poland Spring is my go-to. I always have room-temperature bottles of it on side of stage for post-performance.

– French Montana

In the spring of 1993, I married Beverly and moved to the woods. This is something I could never have imagined myself doing.

– Floyd Skloot

Between work and the kids, I never see anyone anymore. I mean, when I first met with ABC last spring, and they asked me what I’d been doing lately, I said: ‘Gee, I have two kids. I’m usually covered with food, wrinkled and feel guilty all the time.

– Felicity Huffman

I think about my mother every day. But usually the thoughts are fleeting – she crosses my mind like a spring cardinal that flies past the edge of your eye: startling, luminous, lovely… gone.

– Meghan O’Rourke

There is this tremendous amount of arrogance and hubris, where somebody can look at something for five minutes and dismiss it. Whether you talk about gaming or 20th century classical music, you can’t do it in five minutes. You can’t listen to ‘The Rite of Spring’ once and understand what Stravinsky was all about.

– Penn Jillette

Baseball needs to put the steroids era behind it by having and enforcing tough rules against all kinds of artificial advantages, so that spring can return.

– Marvin Olasky

Occupy Wall Street didn’t just spring from the earth organically, out of thin air. This was all part of the global socialist movement.

– Monica Crowley

You talk about crying! The spring of 1988, I spent a fair length of time trying to come to grips with who I was and the habits I had and what they did to people that I truly loved. I really spent a period of time where, I suspect, I cried three or four times a week.

– Newt Gingrich

To underestimate one’s thirst, to pass a given landmark to the right or left, to find a dry spring where one looked for running water – there is no help for any of these things.

– Mary Hunter Austin

Chicago is an October sort of city even in spring.

– Nelson Algren

When I did see the story of Persephone, I was really drawn to it. Persephone, the goddess of spring, was kept from Olympus by her mother, Demeter, because Demeter was very worried that the gods of Olympus would do something terrible to her.

– Meg Cabot

My baseline function is I’m usually really happy and optimistic. I think I really genuinely like being alive, and I’ve got a spring in my step – that’s what I’ve been like all my life.

– Jenny Slate

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.

– John Burroughs

I testify that inspiration can be the spring for every person’s hope, guidance, and strength. It is one of the magnified treasures of life. It involves coming to the infinite knowledge of God.

– James E. Faust

‘Yield’ was completed in 1997 and released in 1998. In the spring of 1997, I had made a decision to stop taking medications that I had been taking daily since 1988.

– Jack Irons

The first time at Louis Vuitton was Spring 2009 season, and I remember that the colors of the clothes were very dreamy.

– Liu Wen

In the Spring, I have counted 136 different kinds of weather inside of 24 hours.

– Mark Twain

The first acting thing I ever did was my senior year I decided not to play a sport in the Spring and, in that Spring B.J. Novak who went to school with me, asked if I’d be in this show that was a parody of all the teachers in the school, ‘sure!’ That was the first acting thing I did.

– John Krasinski

Until spring training in 1946, the only time I pitched was in 1945 in the GI World Series.

– Leon Day

I hope to God that the inner strength that will vindicate my deeds will in good time spring forth from my own people. I have done as I had to on the prompting of my inner voice.

– Kurt Huber

I do hope that our spring will be starting shortly and we will all be able to enjoy some sunshine again.

– Lesley Garrett

I love spring flowers: daffodils and hyacinths are the ultimate flower for me. They are the essence of spring.

– Kirsty Gallacher

In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.

– Margaret Atwood

This we had to endure with a serious reduction in the price of goods – added to this early in the ensuing spring our glost oven fell while firing doing us considerable damage and rendering it necessary to build a new one.

– John Hawley

From labour health, from health contentment spring; contentment opes the source of every joy.

– James Beattie

Well, first of all the Dominion Bureau of Statistics made a survey in the spring of 1970, which showed that on balance the difference in the cost of living between Canadian cities and American cities was 5 % to the advantage, of course, to the Canadian cities.

– Leonard Woodcock

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