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It is disturbing to discover in oneself these curious revelations of the validity of the Darwinian theory. If it is true that we have sprung from the ape, there are occasions when my own spring appears not to have been very far.

Cornelia Otis Skinner
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Just able barely to mount a horse and ride about a little in the spring of 1866, my life was threatened daily, and I was forced to go heavily armed. The whole country was then full of militia, robbing, plundering and killing.
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We would load up the yellow Cutlass Supreme station wagon and pick blackberries during blackberry season or spring onions during spring onion season. For us, food was part of the fabric of our day.
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Spring beckons! All things to the call respond; the trees are leaving and cashiers abscond.
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You mean guys don't get injured in spring training? Guys get hurt walking down the street.
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Autumn arrives in early morning, but spring at the close of a winter day.
Elizabeth Bowen
This nation is like a spring freshet; it overruns its banks and destroys all who are in its path.
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Fantastic! Right in the middle of that long stretch between Christmas and Spring Break, your coats are getting dirty, everything's dark, dingy - what a great time for a movie!
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Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people.
Arthur Schopenhauer
One swallow does not make a summer, but one skein of geese, cleaving the murk of March thaw, is the Spring.
Aldo Leopold
Burn down your cities and leave our farms, and your cities will spring up again as if by magic; but destroy our farms and the grass will grow in the streets of every city in the country.
William Jennings Bryan
No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn.
Hal Borland
I drank the silence of God from a spring in the woods.
Georg Trakl
Evil events from evil causes spring.
Aristophanes
The weather here is gorgeous. It's mild and feels like it's in the eighties. The hot dog vendors got confused because of the weather and thought it was spring, so they accidentally changed the hot dog water in their carts.
David Letterman
Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, you will vainly look for fruit on it in autumn.
Walter Scott
As sure as the spring will follow the winter, prosperity and economic growth will follow recession.
Bo Bennett
People ask me what I do in winter when there's no baseball. I'll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring.
Rogers Hornsby
Many a genius has been slow of growth. Oaks that flourish for a thousand years do not spring up into beauty like a reed.
George Henry Lewes
I came back out here from England and I was there for a while and it was beautiful and it is just great to see London going from Spring to Summer and Autumn.
Orlando Bloom
Spring was moving in the air above and in the earth below and around him, penetrating even his dark and lowly little house with its spirit of divine discontent and longing.
Kenneth Grahame
The Spring I seek is in a new face only.
Allen Tate
These days baseball is different. You come to spring training, you get your legs ready, you arms loose, your agents ready, your lawyer lined up.
Dave Winfield
I went across the fields to avoid the straight highways, along the firing lines where people were shooting at a small wooded hill, which is now covered with wooden crosses and lines of graves instead of spring flowers.
Max Beckmann
All men's misfortunes spring from their hatred of being alone.
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So far this spring, 59 American communities have been flattened by tornadoes. Nobody has helped.
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Great literature must spring from an upheaval in the author's soul. If that upheaval is not present then it must come from the works of any other author which happens to be handy and easily adapted.
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The greatest good fortune of my return to Cambridge in 1946 was that there, in the spring, I met Elizabeth Fay Ringo. We were married a few months later.
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Behold, my friends, the spring is come; the earth has gladly received the embraces of the sun, and we shall soon see the results of their love!
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For nine years, till the spring of 1881, we lived in Oxford, in a little house north of the Parks, in what was then the newest quarter of the University town.
Mary A. Ward
In spring they lie flat at the first warmth, they ruin my summer and in autumn they smell of women.
Hugo Claus
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.
Paul Valery
It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn.
B. C. Forbes
Expect to have hope rekindled. Expect your prayers to be answered in wondrous ways. The dry seasons in life do not last. The spring rains will come again.
Sarah Ban Breathnach
The temptations to wrong are many; they spring out of a corrupt nature.
Matthew Simpson
Rebellion without truth is like spring in a bleak, arid desert.
Khalil Gibran
Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May; but at length the season of summer does come.
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A strangely reflective, even melancholy day. Is that because, unlike our cousins in the northern hemisphere, Easter is not associated with the energy and vitality of spring but with the more subdued spirit of autumn?
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The first day of spring is one thing, and the first spring day is another. The difference between them is sometimes as great as a month.
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The spring of love becomes hidden and soon filled up.
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