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“That is one good thing about this worldthere are always sure to be more springs.”
“People talk about the beauty of the spring, but I can't see it. The trees are brown and bare, slimy with rain. Some are crawling with new purple hairs. And the buds are bulging like tumorous acne, ...”
“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.”
“Too much sun after a Syracuse winter does strange things to your head, makes you feel strong, even if you aren't.”
“The spring of love becomes hidden and soon filled up.”
“Spring is nature's way of saying, 'Let's party!'”
“Spring is when you feel like whistling even with a shoe full of slush.”
“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.”
“The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us.”
“In the spring of 2007, Israeli intelligence brought to Washington proof that the Assad regime in Syria was building a nuclear reactor along the Euphrates - with North Korean help. This reactor was ...”
“When the woodpecker is searching for food, or laying siege to some hidden grub, the sound of his hammer is dead or muffled and is heard but a few yards. It is only upon dry, seasoned timber, freed ...”
“Look at what has occurred in history. When the Berlin Wall fell, it was not surprising, but it was unexpected. Who predicted the Arab Spring? Nobody expected it, but all the ingredients were there....”
“In the spring of 1984, I went to the northwest of France, to Normandy, to prepare an NBC documentary on the 40th anniversary of D-Day.”
“All our discontents about what we want appeared to spring from the want of thankfulness for what we have.”
“Wars spring from unseen and generally insignificant causes, the first outbreak being often but an explosion of anger.”
“When icicles hang by the wall, And Dick the shepherd blows his nail,And Tom bears logs into the hall, And milk comes frozen home in pail, When blood is nipp'd, and ways be foul,Then nightly sings t...”
“Honest Winter, snow-clad, and with the frosted beard, I can welcome not uncordially; But that long deferment of the calendar's promise, that weeping gloom of March and April, that bitter blast outr...”
“Look back upon winter with gratitude. Spring is the harvest of the darker monthseverything you know starts to grow in darkness. Don't write and tell me that winter brought you only colds or the ubi...”
“Officially it was almost spring but someone had forgotten to pass the news on to winter.”
“After the war of course it will be like the start of spring, which is always so brilliantly sudden. The leaves will burst back onto the trees and close the gaps between the branches and we shall be...”
