Quotes by Spring Original sin is in us like our beard. We are shaved today and look clean; tomorrow our beard has grown again, nor does it cease growing while we remain on earth. In like manner original sin cannot be extirpated from us; it springs up in us as long as we live. Martin Luther doespringlong Make a career of humanity. Commit yourself to the noble struggle for equal rights. You will make a greater person of yourself, a greater nation of your country, and a finer world to live in. Martin Luther King, Jr. springmencountry A freshet in the autumn does not compensate for a drought in the spring. Mary Boykin Chesnut autumndoespring But only a person in the depths of despair neglected to look beyond winter to the spring that inevitably followed, bringing back color and life and hope. Mary Balogh colorwinterspring It's spring fever. That is what the name of it is. And when you've got it, you want—oh, you don't quite know what it is you do want, but it just fairly makes your heart ache, you want it so! Mark Twain namesheartspring In spite of unseasonable wind, snow and unexpected weather of all sorts - a gardener still plants. And tends what they have planted ... believing that Spring will come. Mary Anne Radmacher springmorningbelieve Spring is my sweetheart. Mary Baker Eddy my-sweetheartsweetheartspring For 'tis green, green, green, where the ruined towers are gray, And it's green, green, green, all the happy night and day; Green of leaf and green of sod, green of ivy on the wall, And the blessed Irish shamrock with the fairest green of all. Mary Elizabeth McGrath Blake wallblessedspring In spring, nature is like a thrifty housewife ... taking up the white carpets and putting down the green ones. Mary Baker Eddy naturewhitespring In the Spring, I have counted 136 different kinds of weather inside of 24 hours. Mark Twain differentspringweather O You Who are hidden, body, soul and divinity, Under the fragile form of bread, You are my life from Whom springs an abundance of graces; And, for me, You surpass the delights of Heaven. Mary Faustina Kowalska soulspringheaven Buttercups and daisies, Mary Howitt flowerspringtree Rabbits are a foolish people. They do not fight except with their own kind, nor use their paws except for feet, and appear to have no reason for existence but to furnish meals for meat-eaters. In flight they seem to rebound from the earth of their own elasticity, but keep a sober pace going to the spring. It is the young watercress that tempts them and the pleasures of society, for they seldom drink. Mary Hunter Austin fightingfeetspring 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 springrunningwater But it is a blessed provision of nature that at times like these, as soon as a man's mercury has got down to a certain point there comes a revulsion, and he rallies. Hope springs up, and cheerfulness along with it, and then he is in good shape to do something for himself, if anything can be done. Mark Twain cheerblessedspring Now the noisy winds are still; April's coming up the hill! All the spring is in her train, Led by shining ranks of rain; Pit, pat, patter, clatter, Sudden sun and clatter patter!... All things ready with a will, April's coming up the hill! Mary Mapes Dodge rainspringwind I don't know lots of things but I know this: next year when spring flows over the starting point I'll think I'm going to drown in the shimmering miles of it. Mary Oliver springyearsthinking Come with me into the woods where spring is advancing, as it does, no matter what, not being singular or particular, but one of the forever gifts, and certainly visible. Mary Oliver doeforeverspring God's love gives in such a way that it flows from a Father's heart, the well-spring of all good. The heart of the giver makes the gift dear and precious; as among ourselves we say of even a trifling gift, "It comes from a hand we love," and look not so much at the gift as at the heart. Martin Luther heartspringfather Mine is the time of foliage, Mary Weston Fordham springsweetnight«8586878889909192939495»
