Quotes by Spring Walking on willow tree roads by a river dappled with peach blossoms, I look for spring light, but am everywhere lost. Birds fly up and scatter floating catkins. A ponderous wave of flowers sags the branches. Wang Wei lightflowerspring Sensibility is nature's celestial spring. Walter Scott celestialsensibilityspring Round a turn of the Qin Fortress winds the Wei River, Wang Wei rainspringpast There is but one season of the year when salmon should be served hot at a choice repast; that is in the spring and early summer, and even then it is too satisfying, nut sufficiently delicate. The man who gives salmon during the winter, I care not what sauce he serves with it, does an injury to himself and his guests. Ward McAllister summerwinterspring The ocean sleeps. The ocean wakes. And the waking of the ocean is the waking of the soul. At midnight wakefulness springs from within the ocean. Wasif Ali Wasif oceansleepspring From its peaceful bosom spring none but fond regrets and tender recollections. Washington Irving peacefulregretspring Nothing is wrong with the inlet: It is the outlet that is obstructed. The water of life does not spring forth because the flow has no way through. Were the outlet cleared, the water of life would flow unceasingly. What a child of God needs is not more life but more flow of life. Watchman Nee water-of-lifespringchildren Oh the grave!--the grave!--It buries every error--covers every defect--extinguishes every resentment! From its peaceful bosom spring none but fond regrets and tender recollections. Who can look down upon the grave even of an enemy, and not feel a compunctious throb, that he should ever have warred with the poor handful of earth that lies mouldering before him! Washington Irving regretspringdeath All life requires a rhythm of rest. . . Wayne Muller summerspringmorning Emptiness is the pregnant void out of which all creation springs. But many of us fear emptiness. We prefer to remain...surrounded by things...we imagine are subject to our control. Wayne Muller voidemptinessspring Work is holy, sacred, and uplifting when it springs from who we are, when it bears a relationship to our unfolding journey. Wayne Teasdale upliftingjourneyspring Holi, the spring carnival, when members of all castes mingle and let down their hair, sprinkling one another with cascades of red powder and liquid, symbolic of the blood that was probably used in past centuries. Wendy Doniger springbloodpast One time in spring training, we had the hit-and-run on, and Carl Erskine threw me a curve and I struck out into a double play. I came back to the bench and Casey [Stengel] said, 'next time, tra-la-la.' I didn't know what tra-la-la meant, but next time up, I hit a line drive, right into a double play. When I sat down, Casey came over and said, 'Like I told you, tra-la-la.' Whitey Herzog curvesspringrunning I have never had too much trouble for creative ideas to spring up in my mind. Wilbur Smith creativespringideas A Poem does not grow by jerks. As trees in Spring produce a new ring of tissue, so does every poet put forth a fresh outlay of stuff at the same season. Wilfred Owen airspringtree Whatever does not spring from a man's free choice, or is only the result of instruction and guidance, does not enter into his very being, but still remains alien to his true nature; he does not perform it with truly human energies, but merely with mechanical exactness. Wilhelm von Humboldt choicesspringmen Love, work and knowledge are the well-springs of our life. They should also govern it. Wilhelm Reich springlovelife All political arrangements, in that they have to bring a variety of widely-discordant interests into unity and harmony, necessarily occasion manifold collisions. From these collisions spring misproportions between men's desires and their powers; and from these, transgressions. The more active the State is, the greater is the number of these. Wilhelm von Humboldt springnumbersmen Results are nothing; the energies which produce them and which again spring from them are everything. Wilhelm von Humboldt resultsenergyspring When we are not too anxious about happiness and unhappiness, but devote ourselves to the strict and unsparing performance of duty, then happiness comes of itself - nay, even springs from the midst of a life of troubles and anxieties and privations. Wilhelm von Humboldt anxietyspringhappiness«131132133134135136137138139140141»
