Spring Quotes - Page 50

...quite simply, I was in love with New York. I do not mean “love” in any colloquial way, I mean that I was in love with the city, the way you love the first person who ever touches you and you never love anyone quite that way again. I remember walking across Sixty-second Street one twilight that first spring, or the second spring, they were all alike for a while. I was late to meet someone but I stopped at Lexington Avenue and bought a peach and stood on the corner eating it and knew that I had come out out of the West and reached the mirage.

Fasting is like spring cleaning for your body.

The King walks. He nods. His glance is like God's touch - under it all things spring to life. A wave of his hand and a hundred musicians tear into the Handel, making a sound you've never heard before, and never will again. A sound that goes through you, through flesh and bone, and reorders the very beat of your heart.

Doubt springs from the mind; faith is the daughter of the soul.

A man has every season while a woman only has the right to spring.

That love for one, from which there doth not spring Wide love for all, is but a worthless thing.

And so it was settled. Sam Gamgee married Rose Cotton in the spring of 1420 (which was also famous for its weddings), and they came and lived at Bag End. And if Sam thought himself lucky, Frodo knew that he was more lucky himself; for there was not a hobbit in the Shire that was looked after with such care. When the labours or repair had all been planned and set going he took to a quiet life, writing a good deal and going through all his notes. He resigned the office of Deputy Mayor at the Free Fair that Midsummer, and dear old Will Whitfoot had another seven years of presiding at Banquets.

Our knowledge springs from two fundamental sources of the mind; the first is the capacity of receiving representations (receptivity for impressions), the second is the power of knowing an object through these representations (spontaneity [in the production] of concepts).

As long as society is absolutely divided as milk is, the cream being at the top and the impoverished milk at the bottom, so long will society be unbalanced, and liable to be thrown into convulsions out of which will spring wars. A circulation throughout keeps it in health.

A habit of devout fellowship with God is the spring of all our life, and the strength of it.

Spring. March fans it, April christens it, and May puts on its jacket and trousers.

If you would get exercise, go in search of the springs of life.

The opening of large tracts by the ice-cutters commonly causes a pond to break up earlier; for the water, agitated by the wind, even in cold weather, wears away the surrounding ice.

Love: woman's eternal spring and man's eternal fall.

The eyes of spring, so azure, Are peeping from the ground; They are the darling violets, That I in nosegays bound.

The pleasures of spring are available to everybody and cost nothing.

With most men, unbelief in one thing springs from blind belief in another.

Coach (Bear) Bryant wanted to see who was tough in the spring, who he could count on in the fall.

I can't feel a thing; All mournful petal storms are dancing inside the very private spring of my head.

When the clouds shake their hyssops, and the rain Like holy water falls upon the plain, 'Tis sweet to gaze upon the springing grain And see your harvest born. And sweet the little breeze of melody The blackbord puffs upon the budding tree, While the wild poppy lights upon the lea And blazes 'mid the corn.

There ought to be gardens for all months in the year, in which, severally, things of beauty may be then in season.

I learned never to empty the well of my writing, but always to stop when there was still something there in the deep part of the well, and let it refill at night from the springs that fed it.

A heresy can spring only from a system that is in full vigor.

Good manners spring from just one thing - kind impulses.

The bitter winds in February were sometimes called the First East Winds, but the longing for spring somehow made them seem more piercing.