Springlike Quotes

#1. I know the colour rose, and it is lovely, But not when it ripens in a tumour; And healing greens, leaves and grass, so springlike, In limbs that fester are not springlike.

Dannie Abse

#2. A springlike autumn's balmy breeze reaches afar. The sun shines on the house of a recluse South of the river; They encourage the December apricots To burst into bloom: A simplehearted person Faces the simplehearted flowers.

Sun Bu'er

#3. Light can be gentle, dangerous, dreamlike, bare, living, dead, misty, clear, hot, dark, violet, springlike, falling, straight, sensual, limited, poisonous, calm and soft.

Sven Nykvist

#4. My mother always used to say, 'Well, if you had been born a little girl growing up in Egypt, you would go to church or go to worship Allah, but surely if those people are worshipping a God, it must be the same God' - that's what she always said. The same God with different names.

Jane Goodall

#5. Most people keep waiting on happiness, putting off happiness until they're successful or until they achieve some goal, which means we limit both happiness and success. That formula doesn't work.

Shawn Achor

#6. We make our own whiskey and our own smoke, too. Ain't too many things these ole boys can't do.

Hank Williams Jr.

#7. I'm never going to be with a guy that can't deal with my friendship with him.

Amanda Seyfried

#8. I have never developed indigestion from eating my words.

Winston Churchill

#9. Harry couldn't blame them.

J.K. Rowling

#10. Ngari-ngari - literally

Jack London

#11. The weeping of the candle is not in mourning for the moth: the dawn is at hand, and it is thinking of its own dark night.

Saib Tabrizi

#12. When I was growing up, my parents told me, 'Finish your dinner. People in China and India are starving.' I tell my daughters, 'Finish your homework. People in India and China are starving for your job.'

Thomas Friedman

#13. You have to be a lover of books without expecting more of them than they give - a little pleasure, a little insight, a moment of escape, a deepening of your own humanity. Not much else.

Anne Roiphe

#14. Because everything of value that we will know in this life comes from our relationships with those around us. Because there is nothing material that measures against the intangibles of love and friendship.

R.A. Salvatore

#15. One's truest nature is often the hardest to fight.

Vortigern Black

#16. As an economist, whenever I hear the word shortage I wait for the other shoe to drop. That other shoe is usually price control.

Thomas Sowell

#17. In this world we walk on the roof of hell gazing at flowers.

Richard Flanagan

#18. First of all there is always that artistic challenge of creating something. Or the particular experience to take slum life in that period and make something out of it in the form of a book. And then I felt some kind of responsibility to my family.

Frank McCourt