‘I want to do with you what spring does with cherry trees.’ – Pablo Neruda

‘Sweet April showers do spring May flowers.’ – Thomas Tusser

‘The garden of love is green without limit and yields many fruits other than sorrow or joy. Love is beyond either condition: without spring, without autumn, it is always fresh.’ – Rumi

‘In the Spring, I have counted 136 different kinds of weather inside of 24 hours.’ – Mark Twain

‘Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time. Never make your most important decisions when you are in your worst moods. Wait. Be patient. The storm will pass. The spring will come.’ – Robert H. Schuller

‘Spring is nature’s way of saying, ‘Let’s party!” – Robin Williams

‘Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.’ – Albert Camus

‘No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn.’ – Hal Borland

‘In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.’ – Margaret Atwood

‘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!’ – Sitting Bull

‘At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.’ – Abraham Lincoln

‘It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn.’ – B. C. Forbes

‘The beautiful spring came; and when Nature resumes her loveliness, the human soul is apt to revive also.’ – Harriet Ann Jacobs

‘O, wind, if winter comes, can spring be far behind?’ – Percy Bysshe Shelley

‘A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.’ – Alexander Pope

‘Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.’ – Rainer Maria Rilke

‘Mickey Mantle was a very good golfer, but we weren’t allowed to play golf during the season; only at spring training.’ – Yogi Berra

‘Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, you will vainly look for fruit on it in autumn.’ – Walter Scott

‘To find the universal elements enough; to find the air and the water exhilarating; to be refreshed by a morning walk or an evening saunter… to be thrilled by the stars at night; to be elated over a bird’s nest or a wildflower in spring – these are some of the rewards of the simple life.’ – John Burroughs

‘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

‘The only thing that could spoil a day was people. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.’ – Ernest Hemingway

‘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

‘Rebellion without truth is like spring in a bleak, arid desert.’ – Khalil Gibran

‘With the coming of spring, I am calm again.’ – Gustav Mahler

‘Though I do not believe that a plant will spring up where no seed has been, I have great faith in a seed… Convince me that you have a seed there, and I am prepared to expect wonders.’ – Henry David Thoreau

‘The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in good education.’ – Plutarch

‘There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so absolutely terrifying, that even man, the fighter, who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death, will be appalled, and so abandon war forever.’ – Thomas A. Edison

‘The day the Lord created hope was probably the same day he created Spring.’ – Bernard Williams

‘To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.’ – George Santayana

‘Life stands before me like an eternal spring with new and brilliant clothes.’ – Carl Friedrich Gauss

‘No matter how chaotic it is, wildflowers will still spring up in the middle of nowhere.’ – Sheryl Crow

‘In winter, I plot and plan. In spring, I move.’ – Henry Rollins

‘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

‘I had been educated in the rhythms of the mountain, rhythms in which change was never fundamental, only cyclical. The same sun appeared each morning, swept over the valley, and dropped behind the peak. The snows that fell in winter always melted in the spring.’ – Tara Westover

‘It’s the fans that need spring training. You gotta get ’em interested. Wake ’em up and let ’em know that their season is coming, the good times are gonna roll.’ – Harry Caray

‘Spring being a tough act to follow, God created June.’ – Al Bernstein

‘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.’ – Matthew Arnold

‘They say it’s better to bury your sadness in a graveyard or garden that waits for the spring to wake from its sleep and burst into green.’ – Conor Oberst

‘As sure as the spring will follow the winter, prosperity and economic growth will follow recession.’ – Bo Bennett

‘Real laughter is spontaneous. Like water from the spring it bubbles forth a creation of mingled action and spontaneity – two magic potions in themselves – the very essence of laughter – the unrestrained emotion within us!’ – Douglas Fairbanks

‘Some people plant in the spring and leave in the summer. If you’re signed up for a season, see it through. You don’t have to stay forever, but at least stay until you see it through.’ – Jim Rohn

‘I am going to try to pay attention to the spring. I am going to look around at all the flowers, and look up at the hectic trees. I am going to close my eyes and listen.’ – Anne Lamott

‘Spring is when you feel like whistling even with a shoe full of slush.’ – Doug Larson

‘No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face.’ – John Donne

‘Wars spring from unseen and generally insignificant causes, the first outbreak being often but an explosion of anger.’ – Thucydides

‘Vines will be planted, corn will spring up, a whole growth of new crops; and people will still fall in love in vintages and harvests yet to come. Life is eternal; it is a perpetual renewal of birth and growth.’ – Emile Zola

‘Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people.’ – Arthur Schopenhauer

‘Poor, dear, silly Spring, preparing her annual surprise!’ – Wallace Stevens

‘Music comes from an icicle as it melts, to live again as spring water.’ – Henry Williamson

”Spring Day’ – I wrote main lyrics based on my personal experience with old friends. It is about my sad memories with him, and it makes me sentimental whenever I listen to the song.’ – Suga

‘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

‘For happiness one needs security, but joy can spring like a flower even from the cliffs of despair.’ – Anne Morrow Lindbergh

‘Every year, our white intruders become more greedy, exacting, oppressive, and overbearing. Every year, contentions spring up between them and our people, and when blood is shed, we have to make atonement, whether right or wrong, at the cost of the lives of our greatest chiefs and the yielding up of large tracts of our lands.’ – Tecumseh

‘Autumn arrives in early morning, but spring at the close of a winter day.’ – Elizabeth Bowen

‘My activism did not spring from my being gay, or, for that matter, from my being black. Rather, it is rooted fundamentally in my Quaker upbringing and the values that were instilled in me by my grandparents who reared me.’ – Bayard Rustin

‘All our discontents about what we want appeared to spring from the want of thankfulness for what we have.’ – Daniel Defoe

‘Earth teach me to forget myself as melted snow forgets its life. Earth teach me resignation as the leaves which die in the fall. Earth teach me courage as the tree which stands all alone. Earth teach me regeneration as the seed which rises in the spring.’ – William Alexander

‘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.’ – Pam Brown

‘Purple is my favorite color. It makes me think of spring and summer. A purple dress, eating grapes, lilacs – I love purple.’ – Angela Yee

‘When I worked on a magazine, I learned that there are many, many writers writing that can’t write at all; and they keep on writing all the cliches and bromides and 1890 plots, and poems about Spring and poems about Love, and poems they think are modern because they are done in slang or staccato style, or written with all the ‘i’s’ small.’ – Charles Bukowski

‘Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius.’ – Pietro Aretino

‘One swallow does not make a summer, but one skein of geese, cleaving the murk of March thaw, is the Spring.’ – Aldo Leopold

‘I am fully committed to Hannah Montana. It’s what gave me this amazing opportunity to reach out to so many people. I’m really excited about our new season. We are making great new episodes that I can’t wait for our fans to see and I’m looking forward to the ‘Hannah Montana’ movie that will be out in the spring.’ – Miley Cyrus

‘From the end spring new beginnings.’ – Pliny the Elder

‘Designers want me to dress like Spring, in billowing things. I don’t feel like Spring. I feel like a warm red Autumn.’ – Marilyn Monroe

‘The Arab Awakening or Arab Spring has transformed the geopolitical landscape.’ – Ban Ki-moon

‘I had always planned to make a large painting of the early spring, when the first leaves are at the bottom of the trees, and they seem to float in space in a wonderful way. But the arrival of spring can’t be done in one picture.’ – David Hockney

‘In the spring of 1936, I was introduced by friends to Jean Tatlock. In the autumn, I began to court her. We were at least twice close enough to marriage to think of ourselves as engaged.’ – J. Robert Oppenheimer

‘Muslims have been subjected to so many tyrants and oppressive regimes. That’s what the Arab Spring was about, but the problem comes in trying to direct a revolution.’ – Cat Stevens

‘The challenge for a nonfiction writer is to achieve a poetic precision using the documents of truth but somehow to make people and places spring to life as if the reader was in their presence.’ – Simon Schama

‘I drank the silence of God from a spring in the woods.’ – Georg Trakl

‘The cool wind blew in my face and all at once I felt as if I had shed dullness from myself. Before me lay a long gray line with a black mark down the center. The birds were singing. It was spring.’ – Burl Ives

‘Nature is the fountain’s head, the source from whence all originality must spring.’ – John Constable

‘I have encountered on this long road an enthusiasm for an Irishness which will be built on recognising again those sources from which spring the best of our reason and curiosity.’ – Michael D. Higgins

‘Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.’ – Nathaniel Hawthorne

‘A hush is over everything, Silent as women wait for love; The world is waiting for the spring.’ – Sara Teasdale

‘Italy, and the spring and first love all together should suffice to make the gloomiest person happy.’ – Bertrand Russell

‘Adopting a really positive attitude can work wonders to adding years to your life, a spring to your step, a sparkle to your eye, and all of that.’ – Christie Brinkley

‘The revolutions of the Arab Spring happened because people realized they were the power.’ – Mohammed Morsi

‘Oh, Spring! I want to go out and feel you and get inspiration. My old things seem dead. I want fresh contacts, more vital searching.’ – Emily Carr

‘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.’ – Henry Van Dyke

‘Obstacles are like wild animals. They are cowards but they will bluff you if they can. If they see you are afraid of them… they are liable to spring upon you; but if you look them squarely in the eye, they will slink out of sight.’ – Orison Swett Marden

‘I’m no spring chicken. The same arthritis that ate up my left hip that finally got replaced hasn’t stopped there… And touring is a lot of work. I’m impressed when I see people like Eric Clapton out there. Gee whiz, Eric, give me a break! I know it’s gotta hurt somewhere.’ – Steve Perry

‘Every spring is the only spring, a perpetual astonishment.’ – Ellis Peters

‘For many, graduation marks the end of formal student life – the end of long spring breaks and of thinking that a 10 A.M. class is far too early.’ – Alexa Von Tobel

‘Ring Kuot, a 15-year-old Sudanese boy, was rumored to be eight feet three. And until Leonid’s emergence at eight feet four inches last spring, people generally assumed that Radhouane Charbib of Tunisia, at seven feet nine, was the tallest documented man in the world.’ – Michael Paterniti

‘Digital activism did not spring immaculately out of Twitter and Facebook. It’s been going on ever since blogs existed.’ – Rebecca MacKinnon

‘Spring is God’s way of saying, ‘One more time!” – Robert Orben

‘Once something has outlived its usefulness in one area of life, its purpose for being in existence is no longer the same. The leaf that captures a stream of sunlight, and then transfers its energy to the tree, serves one purpose in the spring and summer, and another completely different one through the fall and winter.’ – Guy Finley

‘As the hart desires the spring of living water, so my soul desires to leave the prison of this dark body and see You in truth.’ – Catherine of Siena

‘I salute all the nations of the Arab Spring and I salute the heroic people of Syria who are striving for freedom, democracy and reform.’ – Ismail Haniyeh

‘I trust in nature for the stable laws of beauty and utility. Spring shall plant and autumn garner to the end of time.’ – Robert Browning

‘Revolution is a phase, a mood, like spring, and just as spring has its buds and showers, so revolution has its ebullience, its bravery, its hope, and its solidarity. Some of these things pass.’ – Rebecca Solnit

‘I met Pierre Curie for the first time in the spring of the year 1894… A Polish physicist whom I knew, and who was a great admirer of Pierre Curie, one day invited us together to spend the evening with himself and his wife.’ – Marie Curie

‘Crimes spring from fixed ideas.’ – Max Stirner

‘Spring is a true reconstructionist.’ – Henry Timrod

‘I’ve kind of fashioned my life after a Slinky. Bend me in a million shapes, and eventually I’ll spring back to what I originally was.’ – Sylvester Stallone

‘I love playing this game and every spring training feels like the first.’ – Rickey Henderson

‘Let peace, descending from her native heaven, bid her olives spring amidst the joyful nations; and plenty, in league with commerce, scatter blessings from her copious hand!’ – Daniel Boone

‘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

‘Nothing is so beautiful as spring – when weeds, in wheels, shoot long and lovely and lush; Thrush’s eggs look little low heavens, and thrush through the echoing timber does so rinse and wring the ear, it strikes like lightning to hear him sing.’ – Gerard Manley Hopkins

‘Politically, we have seen the impact of social media organizing people through the Arab Spring.’ – Sharan Burrow

‘The classic Italian green sauce, salsa verde, is easy to make and especially nice in the spring when bunches of fresh herbs start appearing in the farmers market or in your garden.’ – Tom Douglas

‘But your questions, which are unanswerable without exception, all spring from the same erroneous thinking.’ – Hermann Hesse

‘Kindle Singles is publishing on skates. It prints like lightning; our book meets readers in hours. I’ve spent so many years waiting for publishers to consider whether they wanted to print a book of mine, making contracts, taking months to fit it into the Fall list or the Spring list, fitting it into an advertising plan.’ – Richard Bach

‘I’m very confident my health isn’t going to allow me to be a good player, especially in the spring.’ – Steve Yzerman

‘Secretary Clinton and I have worked well together, but the Arab Spring is a different question… This administration, collectively, made some very bad decisions, and they now have to climb out of a deep hole.’ – Jim Webb

‘Isn’t it sad to go to your grave without ever wondering why you were born? Who, with such a thought, would not spring from bed, eager to resume discovering the world and rejoicing to be part of it?’ – Richard Dawkins

‘I remember disassembling and putting an old analog alarm clock together. It was a lot of fun figuring out why it still worked with that one spring missing.’ – Markus Persson

‘From heav’nly thoughts all true delight doth spring.’ – Thomas Campion

‘Early spring is the time for vigorous change, a preparation for the heat-driven oppression that is to come.’ – Henry Rollins

‘From the streets of Cairo and the Arab Spring, to Occupy Wall Street, from the busy political calendar to the aftermath of the tsunami in Japan, social media was not only sharing the news but driving it.’ – Dan Rather

‘Don’t forget it’s daylight savings time. You spring forward, then you fall back. It’s like Robert Downey Jr. getting out of bed.’ – David Letterman

‘Now I want to make it plain that ‘The Virgin Spring’ must be regarded as an aberration. It’s touristic, a lousy imitation of Kurosawa.’ – Ingmar Bergman

‘I love better to count time from spring to spring; it seems to me far more cheerful to reckon the year by blossoms than by blight.’ – Donald G. Mitchell

‘You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming.’ – Pablo Neruda

‘I saw Ronnie Hawkins play near my hometown, Port Dover, Ontario, and I saw him play there on New Year’s Eve and the following spring I booked myself to be his opening act on maybe five shows, and he hired me after the first night.’ – Rick Danko

‘The madness of spring is so enticing. I love it when things are opening up and emerging from the ground. I also love the middle of summer when fruit is bursting forth, but I even love the garden in the winter when everything is resting.’ – Ross Gay

‘No religion makes more use of color than Hinduism, with its blue-skinned gods and peony-lipped goddesses, and even the spring festival of Holi is focused on color: Boys squirt arcs of dyed water on passersby or dump powder, all violently hued, on their marks.’ – Hanya Yanagihara

‘I started traveling in the Arctic in 1991, so I experienced the ice in winter and spring. The seasonal sea ice, it has a long season. It starts in September and ends in June.’ – Gretel Ehrlich

‘I once joked in a book that there are three things you can’t do in life. You can’t beat the phone company, you can’t make a waiter see you until he is ready to see you, and you can’t go home again. Since the spring of 1995, I have been quietly, even gamely, reassessing point number three.’ – Bill Bryson

‘I went to Rosemary Beach, Florida, for the first time in the spring of 2012.’ – Abbi Glines

‘My heart is in a world of water and crystal, My clothes are damp in this time of spring rains.’ – Du Fu

‘A heresy can spring only from a system that is in full vigor.’ – Eric Hoffer

‘Life in cities is not a spring but a river, or rather, a water main. It progresses like a novel, artificially.’ – Patrick Kavanagh

‘I left Montana in Spring of 1866, for Utah, arriving at Salt Lake city during the summer.’ – Calamity Jane

‘I built a baseball field in the lower part of our property and I’m always working on that. I got a wheelbarrow, a pick and a shovel, and I started to build a baseball field during writers’ strike. We have boys and girls come over and we have clinics in the spring. It’s called The Strike because it’s named for the writers’ strike.’ – John C. McGinley

‘Spring won’t let me stay in this house any longer! I must get out and breathe the air deeply again.’ – Gustav Mahler

‘All birds are incipient or would-be songsters in the spring. I find corroborative evidence of this even in the crowing of the cock.’ – John Burroughs

‘I always appreciated the ex-players. Being a Yankee, you get spoiled. Old-Timers Day, all these guys coming back, spring training, being around them, you get a chance to get to know them. So I always think you learn a lot by listening.’ – Derek Jeter

‘History is, in its essentials, the science of change. It knows and it teaches that it is impossible to find two events that are ever exactly alike, because the conditions from which they spring are never identical.’ – Marc Bloch

‘If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?’ – Percy Bysshe Shelley

‘In the spring of 1929, I returned to the United States. I was homesick for this country. I had learned in my student days a great deal about the new physics. I wanted to pursue this myself, to explain it, and to foster its cultivation.’ – J. Robert Oppenheimer

‘I always wanted to be a dentist from the time I was in high school, and I was accepted to dental school in the spring of 1972. I was planning to go, but after the Olympics there were other opportunities.’ – Mark Spitz

‘I am going to notice the lights of the earth, the sun and the moon and the stars, the lights of our candles as we march, the lights with which spring teases us, the light that is already present.’ – Anne Lamott

‘The main difference between the Prague Spring and the Velvet Revolution was that the former was mostly the work of Communist party members and others who wanted to bring about ‘socialism with a human face.” – Adam Michnik

‘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

‘This nation is like a spring freshet; it overruns its banks and destroys all who are in its path.’ – Sitting Bull

‘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

‘People who write about spring training not being necessary have never tried to throw a baseball.’ – Sandy Koufax

‘We’ve found that patterns of site looting have increased between 500 and 1000 percent since the start of the Arab Spring. Now this is a problem as old as human beings. People were looting tombs 5,000 years ago in Egypt as soon as people were buried, but the problem is only getting worse and worse.’ – Sarah Parcak

‘Stability cannot occur without a Palestinian Spring through the full implementation of the Palestinians’ right to self-determination on their land.’ – Najib Mikati

‘Of all wonders, this is among the greatest, that some fresh waters close by the sea spring forth as out of pipes: for the nature of the waters also ceaseth not from miraculous properties.’ – Pliny the Elder

‘The motions which the planets now have could not spring from any natural cause alone, but were impressed by an intelligent Agent.’ – Isaac Newton

‘In spring, the dead trees, roots, and animals come to life again exactly as they were, thus providing hundreds of thousands of examples, specimens, and proofs of the supreme resurrection.’ – Said Nursi

‘Analysis I take to be a scientific procedure. What I do is creative. It doesn’t spring from the same part of the mind.’ – Harold Pinter

‘I was away from the front lines for a while this spring, living with other troops, and considerable fighting took place while I was gone. When I got ready to return to my old friends at the front I wondered if I would sense any change in them.’ – Ernie Pyle

‘Stravinsky influenced film music in general – those stabbing chords and rhythms from ‘The Rite of Spring.” – Henry Mancini

‘Everyone is the sum total of past experiences. A character doesn’t just spring to life at age thirty.’ – Kelley Armstrong

‘I believe in process. I believe in four seasons. I believe that winter’s tough, but spring’s coming. I believe that there’s a growing season. And I think that you realize that in life, you grow. You get better.’ – Steve Southerland

‘Falsehood is a perennial spring.’ – Edmund Burke

‘When all the world appears to be in a tumult, and nature itself is feeling the assault of climate change, the seasons retain their essential rhythm. Yes, fall gives us a premonition of winter, but then, winter, will be forced to relent, once again, to the new beginnings of soft greens, longer light, and the sweet air of spring.’ – Madeleine M. Kunin

‘Would that I were a dry well, and that the people tossed stones into me, for that would be easier than to be a spring of flowing water that the thirsty pass by, and from which they avoid drinking.’ – Khalil Gibran

‘Spring beckons! All things to the call respond; the trees are leaving and cashiers abscond.’ – Ambrose Bierce

‘To be amused at what you read – that is the great spring of quotation.’ – Charles Edward Montague

‘She had already allowed her delectable lover to pluck that flower which, so different from the rose to which it is nevertheless sometimes compared, has not the same faculty of being reborn each spring.’ – Marquis de Sade

‘The Arab Spring, with all of its failings and failures, exposed the lie that if we are to live, then we must live as slaves. It was an attempt to undermine not only the orthodoxy of dictatorship but also an international political orthodoxy where every activity must be approved by the profit logic of the ‘ledger.” – Hisham Matar

‘The Arab Spring showed that people are not going to wait for an American president to make good on his big talk about democracy and human rights; they are going to fight for those rights themselves and overthrow pro-American dictators who stand in their way.’ – Pankaj Mishra

‘If you allow one single germ, one single seed of slavery to remain in the soil of America… that germ will spring up, that noxious weed will thrive, and again stifle the growth, wither the leaves, blast the flowers and poison the fair fruits of freedom.’ – Ernestine Rose

‘For some reason, I wrote about the bed we slept in when I was a kid. It was a half-acre of misery, that bed, sagging in the middle, red hair sticking out of the mattress, the spring gone and the fleas leaping all over the place.’ – Frank McCourt

‘Revolution is as unpredictable as an earthquake and as beautiful as spring. Its coming is always a surprise, but its nature should not be.’ – Rebecca Solnit

‘The human animal originally came from out-of-doors. When spring begins to move in his bones, he just must get out again. Moreover, as civilization, cement pavements, office buildings, radios have overwhelmed us, the need for regeneration has increased, and the impulses are even stronger.’ – Herbert Hoover

‘In the spring of 1994 I decided not to seek reelection to the Senate. I had made the decision 12 years earlier, Christmas Day of 1982, just after I had been first elected to a full term, that I would do the best I could for a limited time.’ – George J. Mitchell

‘I use New York to talk about home, but the ideas in ‘Colossus’ could be transferred to other cities. The story about Central Park is really about the first day of spring in any park. The Coney Island chapter is really about beaches and summer and heat waves.’ – Colson Whitehead

‘Israel no longer has allies in Egypt and in Tunisia, we are saying to the Zionist enemies that times have changed and that the time of the Arab Spring, the time of the revolution, of dignity and of pride has arrived.’ – Ismail Haniyeh

‘I have never known what it feels like to wake up in the morning full of the joys of spring, and wander through the day feeling capable of coping.’ – Sarah Lancashire

‘It’s so cliche to say florals for spring. I really like a vintage-like dress that’s floral. You can belt it; I like belts. I like wearing pretty dresses that are really comfortable, that you can spend the day in but also feel girly.’ – Brittany Snow

‘Half the U.S. population owns barely 2 percent of its wealth, putting the United States near Rwanda and Uganda and below such nations as pre-Arab Spring Tunisia and Egypt when measured by degrees of income inequality.’ – Eric Alterman

‘It was easy being healthy when I was young. I was full of energy, so sports and physical challenges were fun. But as I got older and the spring left my step, exercise became harder, and eating, drinking and watching TV became easier. By the time I was 50, I’d put on 50 pounds.’ – Robert Kiyosaki

‘The true harbinger of spring is not crocuses or swallows returning to Capistrano, but the sound of the bat on the ball.’ – Bill Veeck

‘Most people think of January 1st as the start of a new year. To people who espouse to Catholicism and Christianity, they might correlate that with the birth of Christ. Us in football, the start of spring practice and the first day of summer training camp are what you look at as the New Year with fireworks going off, it’s your birthday.’ – Jim Harbaugh

‘Countries with lots of unmarried young men are the most vulnerable to sudden upheavals – this is what fueled the Arab Spring.’ – Tyler Cowen

‘I would like to stress this point undoubtedly: France sees the Arab Spring as auspicious. The Arab Spring holds out tremendous hope – hope for democracy and the rule of law, hope for peace and stability, hope for better future in which every person can pursue goals commensurate with his or her needs, talents and ambitions.’ – Alain Juppe

‘I’m not the spring chicken anymore.’ – Kevin Harvick

‘If those who are the enemies of innocent amusements had the direction of the world, they would take away the spring, and youth, the former from the year, the latter from human life.’ – Honore de Balzac

‘The first time I fantasized about early retirement, I was 22 years old. It was a rainy spring morning in Paris, and as I waited for the Metro to take me to my new paralegal job, it occurred to me that I’d rather be sleeping in, or playing hooky at the movies, or sailing around the world.’ – Suleika Jaouad

‘A man has every season while a woman only has the right to spring.’ – Jane Fonda

‘I like to express certain things that happen in my life, the joy of spring, the birds singing and young babies coming into the world. You know, the whole thing as well as the part I’m not happy with, the sad part.’ – Roy Haynes

‘At home I have a copy of the April 21, 1986, issue of ‘Sports Illustrated.’ I’m on the cover with the blurb, ‘Can Lou Do It?’ I’d just arrived at Notre Dame, and with spring football underway, I was the focal point of that week’s coverage.’ – Lou Holtz

‘Natural life, lived naturally as it is lived in the countryside, has none of that progress which is the base of happiness. Men and women in rural communities can be compared to a spring that rises out of a rock and spreads in irregular ever-widening circles. But the general principle is static.’ – Patrick Kavanagh

‘More than in any other performing arts the lack of respect for acting seems to spring from the fact that every layman considers himself a valid critic.’ – Simone Weil

‘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

‘Diseases happen in acidic environments, so it’s very important to keep your body alkaline. Keeping a diet high in leafy greens, spring water, fresh air, raw almonds, lemons, grapefruits, and warm water with juice from half a lemon helps lower acidity levels.’ – Valentina Zelyaeva

‘All the big revolutions, whether it’s the Industrial Revolution, the Arab Spring, those changes happened by economic and social shifts brought about by the people’s voices, and those things weren’t voted for. Most of our changes today are brought about through technology, not by voting.’ – Lupe Fiasco

‘Pretty much any day is a good day to go to the ballpark, but that first day of the season is special. It’s spring. The grass is green. Pessimism is impossible – at least, until the other team scores.’ – Ben Fountain

‘It all comes down to when spring training comes. Do you want to go or don’t you? If you want to go, you go.’ – Chili Davis

‘Spring and summer 1942 was probably the worst period of internal terror in Slovakia. It was also the time of mass deportation of Slovak Jews to the extermination camps in Poland.’ – Alexander Dubcek

‘I think about my mother every day. But usually the thoughts are fleeting – she crosses my mind like a spring cardinal that flies past the edge of your eye: startling, luminous, lovely… gone.’ – Meghan O’Rourke

‘To me, the way I look at every spring training and every time I’m out there, I’m trying to earn a job.’ – Ronald Acuna Jr.

‘I’m showing some of my sculptures in Holland in the spring, so we’ll see.’ – Alan Vega

‘I go out and take oysters, clams and mussels every 2 weeks or so during late fall, winter and early spring. I particularly like to go out when there is a below-average ebb tide because that exposes clamming grounds and oysters that are usually under water.’ – Jim Himes

‘I feel a physical happiness when spring is coming.’ – Halldor Laxness

‘I am never at my best in the early morning, especially a cold morning in the Yorkshire spring with a piercing March wind sweeping down from the fells, finding its way inside my clothing, nipping at my nose and ears.’ – James Herriot

‘Chicago is an October sort of city even in spring.’ – Nelson Algren

‘Spring has many American faces. There are cities where it will come and go in a day and counties where it hangs around and never quite gets there. Summer is drawn blinds in Louisiana, long winds in Wyoming, shade of elms and maples in New England.’ – Archibald MacLeish

‘No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of spring.’ – Samuel Johnson

‘The way to make coaches think you’re in shape in the spring is to get a tan.’ – Whitey Ford

‘A young ballplayer looks on his first spring training trip as a stage struck young woman regards the theater.’ – Christy Mathewson

‘Everyone has a breaking point, turning point, stress point, the game is permeated with it. The fans don’t see it because we make it look so efficient. But internally, for a guy to be successful, you have to be like a clock spring, wound but not loose at the same time.’ – Dave Winfield

‘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

‘All men’s misfortunes spring from their hatred of being alone.’ – Jean de la Bruyere

‘The greatest gift that Oxford gives her sons is, I truly believe, a genial irreverence toward learning, and from that irreverence love may spring.’ – Robertson Davies

‘We may not all break the Ten Commandments, but we are certainly all capable of it. Within us lurks the breaker of all laws, ready to spring out at the first real opportunity.’ – Isadora Duncan

‘So stick up ivy and the bays, and then restore the heathen ways, green will remind you of the Spring, though this great day denies the thing, and mortifies the earth, and all, but your wild revels, and loose hall.’ – Henry Vaughan

‘It is our less conscious thoughts and our less conscious actions which mainly mould our lives and the lives of those who spring from us.’ – Samuel Butler

‘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

‘From labour health, from health contentment spring; contentment opes the source of every joy.’ – James Beattie

‘With the advent of spring and beginning of the new harvest season the creators of abundance, our peasants, come out to the fields to sow with good aspirations and hopes.’ – Islom Karimov

‘The Internet has exceeded our collective expectations as a revolutionary spring of information, news, and ideas. It is essential that we keep that spring flowing. We must not thwart the Internet’s availability by taxing access to it.’ – Chris Cannon

‘I hate the cursed Oriole fundamentals… I’ve been doing them since 1964. I do them in my sleep. I hate spring training.’ – Jim Palmer

‘The little windflower, whose just opened eye is blue as the spring heaven it gazes at.’ – William Cullen Bryant

‘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!’ – John Hughes

‘I was on the mathematics faculty at M.I.T. from 1951 through until I resigned in the spring of 1959.’ – John Forbes Nash, Jr.

‘Before I pitch any game, from spring training to Game 7 of the World Series, I’m scared to death.’ – Curt Schilling

‘I played a heap of snow in a school play. I was under a sheet, and crawled out when spring came. I often say I’ll never reach the same artistic level again.’ – Stellan Skarsgard

‘I do hope that our spring will be starting shortly and we will all be able to enjoy some sunshine again.’ – Lesley Garrett

‘No, Queer Eye has a book coming out before mine, in the Spring of 2004, in which each of us has a section and we do a brief overview of our subject area.’ – Ted Allen

‘In California in the early Spring, There are pale yellow mornings, when the mist burns slowly into day, The air stings like Autumn, clarifies like pain – Well, I have dreamed this coast myself.’ – Robert Hass

‘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.’ – Mario Batali

‘They urged me to take up winter quarters at the forks of the Platt, stating that if I attempted to advance further until spring, I would endanger the lives of my whole party.’ – William Henry Ashley

‘Welcome, wild harbinger of spring! To this small nook of earth; Feeling and fancy fondly cling, Round thoughts which owe their birth, To thee, and to the humble spot, Where chance has fixed thy lowly lot.’ – Bernard Barton

‘When we finished the tour we had been writing together for a year. We moved forward from there and have just now finished our record. We’re having a new record out in the Spring.’ – Kathy Valentine

‘That U.N. Security Council resolution requires getting Syrian troops and intelligence officials out of Lebanon so that the Lebanese can have elections here this spring that are free and fair and free of outside influence.’ – Stephen Hadley

‘In spring they lie flat at the first warmth, they ruin my summer and in autumn they smell of women.’ – Hugo Claus

‘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?’ – Hugh Mackay

‘The temptations to wrong are many; they spring out of a corrupt nature.’ – Matthew Simpson

‘In the spring and summer of 1989, a serious political disturbance took place in China.’ – Li Peng

‘Lucas attended a conference on rational expectations at the University of Minnesota in the spring of 1973. The day after the conference, I received a call from Pittsburgh.’ – Thomas J. Sargent

‘Sweet as sweetest Grecian honey will my song be when I sing, O Beloved, in the season of the Spring!’ – Ruben Dario

”Yield’ was completed in 1997 and released in 1998. In the spring of 1997, I had made a decision to stop taking medications that I had been taking daily since 1988.’ – Jack Irons

‘I thought I’d do everything on four-track, and then I’ll record every instrument myself in a studio, and then I’ll have a solo album released by spring.’ – Kim Deal

‘My rights all spring front an infinitely nobler source – from favor and grace of God.’ – Gerrit Smith

‘We moved over to Silver Spring, actually near University Park.’ – Jim Fowler

‘We’ve been working on a new album, which is going to come out next spring, which is very different, a change of style for us – it’s going to be almost like rock music.’ – Neil Tennant

‘When you think about great teams, The Beatles and the Pythons immediately spring to mind. The Pythons were as much a part of their time as The Beatles.’ – Robyn Hitchcock

‘Baseball needs to put the steroids era behind it by having and enforcing tough rules against all kinds of artificial advantages, so that spring can return.’ – Marvin Olasky

‘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 Augusta Ward

‘I had only played five games in my senior year in high school. I was not large enough. Hell, when I graduated, I was about five foot four and weighed 120 pounds. I didn’t go with the Dodgers until spring training of 1940 and I weighed all of 155 pounds soaking wet.’ – Pee Wee Reese

‘I raised frogs every spring in our house from tadpoles and by end of summer our house was overrun with frogs.’ – William Joyce

‘Democracy can only spring from practising it early, and democratic action was not to expected from young people brought up under a close authoritarian system.’ – Dora Russell

‘When we finish this tour we are going to begin writing and go into the studio to hopefully have a brand new Foreigner album out in early spring next year. This will be the first Foreigner album out in about ten years.’ – Lou Gramm

‘The truth is that our way of celebrating the Christmas season does spring from myriad cultures and sources, from St. Nicholas to Coca-Cola advertising campaigns.’ – Richard Roeper

‘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.’ – Jesse James

‘The soy-bean, in particular, has proved sufficiently resistant to cold in spring and to adverse weather during summer to warrant heavy planting, especially throughout the South.’ – David F. Houston

‘So far this spring, 59 American communities have been flattened by tornadoes. Nobody has helped.’ – Gordon Sinclair

‘It Might As Well Be Spring… I used to sing that as a young girl in my voice lessons. Then I picked it up again and it spoke to me in a whole new way.’ – Bernadette Peters

‘The Florida State League was considered the top A-league back then. You played in the spring training parks of major league teams, traveled throughout some great cities in Florida, and the pay was the best in A-ball.’ – Jim Evans

‘The four walls of paper are like a prison because every idea wants to spring out in all directions – everything is connected with everything else, sometimes more than others.’ – Ted Nelson

‘The attacks of which I have been the object have broken the spring of life in me… People don’t realize what it feels like to be constantly insulted.’ – Edouard Manet

‘We are all treading the vanishing road of a song in the air, the vanishing road of the spring flowers and the winter snows, the vanishing roads of the winds and the streams, the vanishing road of beloved faces.’ – Richard Le Gallienne

‘So the ideology was that: use sounds as instruments, as sounds on tape, without the causality. It was no longer a clarinet or a spring or a piano, but a sound with a form, a development, a life of its own.’ – Luc Ferrari

‘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.’ – James Tobin

‘Then in 1969, I spent the spring term at Cornell University in New York. The invasion of August 1968 had already happened, but the hardline regime took several months to crack down on dissidents.’ – Vaclav Klaus

‘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

‘The spring of love becomes hidden and soon filled up.’ – Max Muller

‘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

‘After the navy, I transferred to Harvard and finished there. I was there the spring term of 1951 and I stayed through the summer term and a whole other year, so I was able to do two years in a little less than a year and a half.’ – Harry Mathews

‘For some reason in Spring Training, everything just clicked. You don’t try to do anything in Spring Training but get ready, but things fell into place.’ – Bobby Bonilla

‘As winter weather settles in around the country, millions of American families are facing skyrocketing home heating prices with even greater impact if cold temperatures persist into the spring.’ – Russ Carnahan

‘The very idea of true patriotism is lost, and the term has been prostituted to the very worst of purposes. A patriot, sir! Why, patriots spring up like mushrooms!’ – Robert Walpole

‘We expect to keep our writing sessions going until late spring, then to play some new material in a few secret club dates. The record will likely take a long time and may not surface until 1999!’ – Adrian Belew

‘I hope to God that the inner strength that will vindicate my deeds will in good time spring forth from my own people. I have done as I had to on the prompting of my inner voice.’ – Kurt Huber

‘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

‘I have some shorter stories coming out in other books early next year. I might be pitching a re-vamp of Ghost Rider in the spring. We’ll see.’ – Patton Oswalt

‘You have to be like a clock spring, wound but not loose at the same time.’ – Dave Winfield

‘No one is immune from the larger events of his or her time – the Depression, World War II, civil rights, Vietnam, the spring of 1989 in China. These events intrude upon our lives and radically affect our directions.’ – Paul Tsongas

‘When we’re at the end of The Rite of Spring or of a Bruckner symphony, I want people to feel the music physically.’ – Esa-Pekka Salonen

‘The Barks of Trees are best gathered in the Spring, if it be of great Trees, as Oaks or the like, because then they come easiest off, and so you may dry them if you please, but indeed your best way is to gather all Barks only for present use.’ – Nicholas Culpeper

‘Evil events from evil causes spring.’ – Aristophanes

‘Sweet spring, full of sweet days and roses, a box where sweets compacted lie.’ – George Herbert

‘It has been well said that tea is suggestive of a thousand wants, from which spring the decencies and luxuries of civilization.’ – Agnes Repplier

‘Winter lingered so long in the lap of Spring that it occasioned a great deal of talk.’ – Bill Nye

‘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.’ – Robert Benchley

‘The Spring I seek is in a new face only.’ – Allen Tate

‘You mean guys don’t get injured in spring training? Guys get hurt walking down the street.’ – Bud Selig

‘I love feeling the crispness of fall and the sensuality of spring.’ – Christopher Meloni

‘No matter what’s happening in the Middle East – the Arab Spring, et cetera, the economic challenges, high rates of unemployment – the emotional, critical issue is always the Israeli-Palestinian one.’ – Abdullah II of Jordan

‘I’ve always been a fan of melody and emotional melancholy, whether it was Rites of Spring or Tears for Fears or Neil Young. If I hear a song that has a sweet melody, I’m a sucker for it, whether it’s Linkin Park or Little Richard.’ – Dave Grohl

‘I just did an interview where I was asked whether I drink beer or whisky, and I was sad to reveal that I’m pounding spring water.’ – Brad Delson

‘The last two times I went to spring training, I had to win a job, and if I didn’t get off to a blazing start, I’m on the bench. Now, I’ve proven myself, so it’s not essential that I get off to a real good start.’ – Eric Davis

‘If I don’t make the team out of spring training, I’ll keep a good attitude. I’ll just go polish up the parts of my game that made me not stay in the big leagues.’ – Cory Lidle

‘I got that nickname my first spring training camp with the Expos in 1974. Tim Foli, Ken Singleton and Mike Jorgensen started calling me ‘Kid’ because I was trying to win every sprint. I was trying to hit every pitch out of the park.’ – Gary Carter

‘Between work and the kids, I never see anyone anymore. I mean, when I first met with ABC last spring, and they asked me what I’d been doing lately, I said: ‘Gee, I have two kids. I’m usually covered with food, wrinkled and feel guilty all the time.’ – Felicity Huffman

‘I miss the Swedish women on the first day of spring cause they all just blossom in the most incredible way.’ – Joel Kinnaman

‘I love spring flowers: daffodils and hyacinths are the ultimate flower for me. They are the essence of spring.’ – Kirsty Gallacher

‘None of the teams that actually probably were offering me a job from the getgo, actually in spring training, are in the playoffs right now.’ – Pedro Martinez

‘I come to spring training and just try to do my job, try to do the best I can. That’s all any player can do.’ – Danny Bautista

‘But, you know, I just did a big trip in the spring to Vietnam and Cambodia and Thailand, and that’s when I bought a Kindle. I have like 15 books on this one little gizmo. But when I came home, the first night I picked up the book that was on my nightstand and I went right back to that.’ – Lisa See

‘The first acting thing I ever did was my senior year I decided not to play a sport in the Spring and, in that Spring B.J. Novak who went to school with me, asked if I’d be in this show that was a parody of all the teachers in the school, ‘sure!’ That was the first acting thing I did.’ – John Krasinski

‘Every day, I come home with a spring in my step. We’ve got to work together to stop the Obama agenda and take this country back.’ – Ted Cruz

‘None of us is certain about the outcome of the Arab Spring.’ – Kelly Ayotte

‘The Arab Spring I think we will look back whether it’s two years, five years, ten or fifteen. And say it’s a good thing.’ – Abdullah II of Jordan

‘My family moved – first to Washington, D.C., and then, in the spring of 1975, to Lebanon, where my father worked as a diplomat at the American embassy. My parents were enthusiastic about the move, so my older brother and I felt like we were off to some place kind of cool.’ – Greg Kinnear

‘I’ve kind of looked at my whole career as a spring training invite.’ – Jamie Moyer

‘I’ve always approached spring training as I have something to prove.’ – Jamie Moyer

‘I think some of this fascination with the ‘Arab Spring’ is just a grand experiment with Israel’s survival.’ – John Bolton

‘The most striking thing is that even before Osama bin Laden was killed, he seemed largely irrelevant to the Arab Spring.’ – Paul Wolfowitz

‘If you wait until your children are high school seniors to spring it on them that there’s not a whole lot of money for school, they won’t have too many options.’ – Suze Orman

‘Spring is very energising to me.’ – David Hockney

‘It is perhaps both a blessing and a curse that fictional worlds spring into my mind nearly fully formed and it takes quite a while to sift through everything to find the story.’ – Erin Morgenstern

‘President Obama’s reelection started the countdown for lawmakers to address the fiscal cliff and the statutory debt limit. Unless the President and House Republicans can agree on changes to current law, the U.S. economy will be in recession by spring.’ – Mark Zandi

‘I want any excuse to come home. My dad is not a spring chicken any more. If anyone says, ‘Go buy a postage stamp in London,’ I’ll go and do it.’ – Emily Mortimer

‘Sugaring season is the season when you tap the trees for sugar that turns into maple syrup. I’ve married someone from Vermont, so it’s an expression I kept hearing, and I’m like, ‘What is that? That’s just so beautiful.’ I like the idea it’s the very, very first murmurings of spring.’ – Beth Orton

‘Any game is important to me. At Boston College, when I went out for the spring games, I wanted to win. Maybe it is more important than other preseason games. It’s just that everyone is expecting a lot from me in my first week of professional football. I want to confirm my expectations.’ – Doug Flutie

‘One of my favorite things about ‘Spring Awakening’ is that it is enjoyable and important for both kids and adults to see.’ – Lea Michele

‘I worked consistently on Broadway from when I was 8 years old through ‘Spring Awakening,’ which I left in 2008.’ – Lea Michele

‘I have been involved with ‘Spring Awakening’ for six years. I am 20 now – I just turned 20 in August – and I originally auditioned when I was 14 years old. I auditioned for Michael Mayer, Duncan Sheik and Steven Sater.’ – Lea Michele

‘I’ve known since day one of working on ‘Spring Awakening’ – back in 1999 – that it was special.’ – Lea Michele

‘When I was on Broadway, my most recent Broadway show was ‘Spring Awakening,’ and every night I did a topless scene.’ – Lea Michele

‘I think it’s a good idea to take samples and live with them a little. So far I’m liking Creed’s Spring Flower. I think I’m going to make it my regular scent.’ – Isabelle Fuhrman

‘I’m hoping to do more with my music. I did the stage musical ‘Spring Awakening’ recently and it reignited the love I have for singing.’ – Janel Parrish

‘I might have missed my calling as an editor. In the spring, the sight of my empty garden beds gives me the horticultural equivalent of writers’ block: So much space! So many plants to choose among, and yet none of them seem quite right!’ – Susan Orlean

‘I like New York in the spring and in the fall. It’s one of the best cities to walk that I’ve ever been in.’ – Terry O’Quinn

‘A friend of mine has a son who became deaf through meningitis. He called me one spring and asked me to keep a week out of my schedule because he wanted to start a school for deaf kids. I wanted to help.’ – Stan Mikita

‘No one will remember that President Obama supported the Arab Spring if it eventually fails and the region collapses back into the political Dark Ages. If we actively engage these movements with advice, with money, and, when necessary, with military force, then we get a vote in how it all turns out.’ – Sebastian Junger

‘You’ll see a lot more blood in ‘Saw’ movies or something like that than you will in either of the ‘Last House’ movies. I kind of think it owes more to ‘The Virgin Spring’ which is the original source material, the Bergman movie.’ – Garret Dillahunt

‘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. I think all the ingredients are also there for Quebec to become a country. But when? That’s another question.’ – Gilles Duceppe

‘I have never had too much trouble for creative ideas to spring up in my mind.’ – Wilbur Smith

‘The whole structure of African government, as far back as we know, was based on tyranny. One guy ran the show. Chiefs like Chaka and Mzilikazi committed terrible atrocities. That is the tradition from which modern African rulers spring. It won’t change easily overnight.’ – Wilbur Smith

‘The first time at Louis Vuitton was Spring 2009 season, and I remember that the colors of the clothes were very dreamy.’ – Liu Wen

‘Within us – the heart of us, really – is a ‘ground’ that is to our thoughts and feelings, our relationships with others and ourselves, as is the Earth to the leaves that first race across her and then, no longer able to run, give themselves up to nourish her body so that she may give birth again come the spring.’ – Guy Finley

‘I love going to London for a couple of days but I need to be in the country. I like the silence, the smell and the seasonal changes, especially in spring and summer. I really feel that I belong there.’ – Philippa Gregory

‘Every spring, this country will be reminded of the Lady from Texas. As trees bloom and flowers carpet our nation’s capital, Lady Bird Johnson will be remembered. Only Lady Bird Johnson could, with her vision of a beautiful America, lay claim to spring as her memorial.’ – David Mixner

‘Well, you’ve got to be known for something. The danger of extreme versatility is that you don’t spring to mind for anything.’ – Julian Fellowes

‘It is true that I am a writer, and I was married to a composer, and I have lived in a small village in New England, but my children are not named Heracles and Persephone, and my daughter doesn’t disappear underground every six months and emerge in the spring.’ – Jamaica Kincaid

‘Actions, such as the designation of National Childhood Obesity Awareness Month, spring from First Lady Michelle Obama’s leadership of efforts to end childhood obesity within this generation.’ – Richard Carmona

‘We cannot stop the winter or the summer from coming. We cannot stop the spring or the fall or make them other than they are. They are gifts from the universe that we cannot refuse. But we can choose what we will contribute to life when each arrives.’ – Gary Zukav

‘If you look not just at the Arab Spring, but at what I call the ‘Youth Spring’ that has started in Europe, young people are starting to find a voice, and they are not looking to the traditional media to reflect that.’ – Shane Smith

‘I look forward to spring cleaning and putting things in their place. It’s therapeutic for me.’ – Kimora Lee Simmons

‘You know how the best story angles often spring from that thought you have on reading an article or watching a show – that thought you have before the responsible journalist in you comes up with something boring. I usually recommend people get in touch with their deep ‘reptilian brain.” – Nick Denton

‘When I did see the story of Persephone, I was really drawn to it. Persephone, the goddess of spring, was kept from Olympus by her mother, Demeter, because Demeter was very worried that the gods of Olympus would do something terrible to her.’ – Meg Cabot

‘I think in spring, we don’t want to wear makeup, we don’t want to wear a ton of clothes, we just want everything to be easier.’ – Rachel Zoe

‘I like that ‘Pitch Perfect’ is one of my first forays into film and just being seen in that kind of light, aside from some people who know me from ‘Spring Awakening’ or the other things that I’ve done. I think in so many ways it’s kind of like my own ‘Glee’ or ‘Smash’.’ – Skylar Astin

‘I used the stormy gray and heather brown shadows from the Lilac Rose Eye Palette to create a soft smokey eye for Veronica Beard’s Spring 2013 show. The look was dramatic but delicate.’ – Bobbi Brown

‘I never forgot the four years I spent with the Phillies, my September call-ups and my big league Spring Trainings. I never forgot that.’ – Ryne Sandberg

”Memorial Day’ is about ‘spring break’ girls-gone-wild culture which is the seedy underbelly of our American Puritanism, the inverse side of the coin. It’s also about how we forcefully exported that culture and then pretended to not know what we were doing.’ – Josh Fox

‘I love baseball. I’ll probably end up one of those old farts who go to spring training in Florida every year and drive from game to game all day.’ – Steve Earle

‘I rode horseback three miles each way to get to high school, and in bad weather it was a problem sometimes to make my eight o’clock class on time. Like others, I often missed school to help on the farm, especially in the fall, until after harvest, and in the spring, during planting season.’ – Ezra Taft Benson

‘One of my favorite films is ‘Late Spring’ by Yasujiro Ozu. To me, it represents film as art.’ – Michael Arndt

‘I live between Barcelona and Berlin. Staying in Spain over the winter and Berlin for spring and summer is an ideal combination.’ – Daniel Bruhl

‘When I was young, it was fun being in the locker room and shagging balls in the outfield in spring training. But I couldn’t keep my attention on the games for more than 30 minutes. I would sit there with my Game Boy the whole game.’ – Shane Larkin

‘We evolved living in more sunlight than today. We make our own vitamin D when sunlight hits our skin cells. Many people living in the northern hemisphere, however, suffer from lower levels of vitamin D during the fall, winter and spring.’ – Paul Stamets

‘My dad played for a coal-mining team in eastern Ohio; he was a very good pitcher. If he hadn’t hurt his arm, he probably would have got a shot somewhere. He hurt his arm one spring, didn’t warm up good enough, couldn’t throw a fastball anymore. Another coal miner taught him how to throw the knuckleball.’ – Phil Niekro

‘The spring of 1942 was given over to a very impassioned, strategic debate about where we should first attack in counterpunching against the Germans and Italians. The British argued very persuasively on the part of Winston Churchill, prime minister, that this was a very green American Army, green soldiers, green commanders.’ – Rick Atkinson

‘As far as sleeping goes, you’re up and ready to go at six in the morning. Spring training was always a combination of relaxing and working, and I missed that quite a bit. I missed being around the ball field. A baseball. A bat. The smell of the uniform, you might say. Talking baseball. Seeing opponents as well as the Cubs.’ – Lou Boudreau

‘At the high school level, the coaches get these kids in revenue-driven sports and take them away from baseball. There’s so much pressure on these kids to even play spring football. We need to get the African-American players back in the game, which I think would make it not only a better game, but more exciting and entertaining for everyone.’ – Pat Gillick

‘I think the Internet and technology in general has changed everything. We can see it overseas even more with the Arab Spring and so forth.’ – Jane Fonda

‘There is this tremendous amount of arrogance and hubris, where somebody can look at something for five minutes and dismiss it. Whether you talk about gaming or 20th century classical music, you can’t do it in five minutes. You can’t listen to ‘The Rite of Spring’ once and understand what Stravinsky was all about.’ – Penn Jillette

‘I think, in spring, we don’t want to wear makeup, we don’t want to wear a ton of clothes, we just want everything to be easier.’ – Rachel Zoe

‘The spring, summer, is quite a hectic time for people in their lives, but then it comes to autumn, and to winter, and you can’t but help think back to the year that was, and then hopefully looking forward to the year that is approaching.’ – Enya

‘The ‘New York Honk,’ as it was called, was the most fashionable accent an American male could have at that time, namely, the spring of 1963. One achieved it by forcing all words out through the nostrils rather than the mouth. It was at once virile… and utterly affected. Nelson Rockefeller had a New York Honk.’ – Tom Wolfe

‘My favorite role ever was Alien in ‘Spring Breakers’.’ – James Franco

‘Here at the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, we have genetically rearranged various viruses and bacteria as part of our medical research. In fact, we have been able to create entirely new types of DNA molecules by splicing together the genetic information from different organisms – recombinant DNA.’ – James D. Watson

‘I’ve tried every kind of bottled water, but Poland Spring is my go-to. I always have room-temperature bottles of it on side of stage for post-performance.’ – French Montana

‘When I went to San Francisco in that cold late spring of 1967, I did not even know what I wanted to find out, and so I just stayed around a while and made a few friends.’ – Joan Didion

‘One of the first drawings I did in Paris – I wasn’t thinking of doing drawings, but somehow or other, I kept drawing – I bought a hyacinth flower with a lot of leaves, just to make me feel like spring.’ – Ellsworth Kelly

‘Salbitxada is a sharp and lightly sweet Catalan sauce that’s traditionally served with calcots – spring or salad onions, grilled whole, make a good substitute.’ – Yotam Ottolenghi

‘A great fig should look like it’s just about to burst its skin. When squeezed lightly it should give a little and not spring back. It must be almost unctuously sweet, soft and wet.’ – Yotam Ottolenghi

‘Mom and I often talked about the trip we’d someday take together to the ‘city of eternal spring’ where she was born. In Kunming, she said, the fruits are sweeter, the mountains look like Chinese paintings, and the weather is always perfect.’ – Tess Gerritsen

‘Occupy Wall Street didn’t just spring from the earth organically, out of thin air. This was all part of the global socialist movement.’ – Monica Crowley

‘We’ve got a very difficult situation created by this embrace of the so-called Arab Spring. And that’s not getting better. It’s getting worse. The carnage for the people of Syria is horrific, and it’s quite frankly too little, too late to reverse a lot of that.’ – Oliver North

‘Art doesn’t spring from the muses alone, but from hard work.’ – Tom Rachman

‘Spring and fall, those are very inspiring times of the year for me.’ – Henry Rollins

‘August brings into sharp focus and a furious boil everything I’ve been listening to in the late spring and summer.’ – Henry Rollins

‘Spring, when the earth tilts closer to the sun, runs a strict timetable of flowers.’ – Alice Oswald

‘I testify that inspiration can be the spring for every person’s hope, guidance, and strength. It is one of the magnified treasures of life. It involves coming to the infinite knowledge of God.’ – James E. Faust

‘Until spring training in 1946, the only time I pitched was in 1945 in the GI World Series.’ – Leon Day

‘I was a sports nut. I stayed after school probably three hours every day – from fall, to winter, to spring. I went from football to basketball to track, and it started all over again. I loved all of it. I just loved being an athlete and all that it entailed. It really accounts for who I am today and even how I think today.’ – Terry Crews

‘I look forward to the spring vegetables because the season is so short. Mushrooms, edible foraged herbs, wild leeks, early season asparagus.’ – David Chang

‘I love those tiny little onions in the spring that are so small they’re almost like a little chive.’ – Alice Waters

‘In the spring of 1957, Mickey Mantle was the king of New York. He had the Triple Crown to prove it, having become only the 12th player in history to earn baseball’s gaudiest jewel. In 1956, he had finally fulfilled the promise of his promise, batting .353, with 52 homers and 130 RBIs. Everybody loved Mickey.’ – Jane Leavy

‘When I graduated from college in the spring of 1970, I decided to hitchhike around Europe with my guitar and my backpack. I was gone for about four months.’ – John Oates

‘The Arab Spring has heightened the ideological tension between Ankara and Tehran, and Turkey’s model seems to be winning.’ – Mustafa Akyol

‘I’ve never conspired to overthrow the government; all I did was report on the Arab Spring and suggest that something similar might happen in Ethiopia if the authoritarian regime didn’t reform.’ – Eskinder Nega

‘I believe democracy will succeed in Tunisia, but I also believe that it will succeed in the other Arab Spring countries.’ – Rashid al-Ghannushi

‘It’s absolutely critical, you know, to train young men and women not just to find sites, but also to protect sites, especially in the wake of the Arab Spring. There’s been significant site-looting in Egypt and elsewhere across the Middle East.’ – Sarah Parcak

‘One morning every spring, for exactly two minutes, Israel comes to a stop. Pedestrians stand in place, drivers pull over to the side of the road, and nobody speaks, sings, eats, or drinks as the nation pays respect to the victims of the Nazi genocide. From the Mediterranean to the Dead Sea, the only sounds one hears are sirens.’ – Michael Specter

‘The bottom line is, like, one in five stars has at least one planet where life might spring up. That’s a fantastically large percentage. That means in our galaxy, there’s on the order of tens of billions of Earth-like worlds.’ – Seth Shostak

‘In much of the world, there is a sense of an ultra-powerful CIA manipulating everything that happens, such as running the Arab Spring, running the Pakistani Taliban, etc. That is just nonsense.’ – Noam Chomsky

‘Spring Training is a fun time for me.’ – Joe Torre

‘We see people in the Middle East begin to have dreams of new Ottoman Empire where everyone will be subjected to some of what we’ve seen happen in those countries where we helped bring about an Arab Spring that’s turned into a Winter Nightmare.’ – Louie Gohmert

‘The spring wakes us, nurtures us and revitalizes us. How often does your spring come? If you are a prisoner of the calendar, it comes once a year. If you are creating authentic power, it comes frequently, or very frequently.’ – Gary Zukav

‘Working on ‘Lonely, I’m Not’ – I love the material so much, and it’s spring in New York, so I’m walking home whistling every day.’ – Topher Grace

‘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 a copy of the Yongbyon reactor the North Koreans had built, and was part of a Syrian nuclear weapons program.’ – Elliott Abrams

‘The Arab spring that began in 2010 was driven by the educated youth who were connected to the outside world. They had visions of liberal politics derived from social networks. They used innovative means to spread awareness and to network among activists.’ – Wadah Khanfar

‘The Arab spring was not as radical as the French or Iranian revolutions. It did not pull out the deeply entrenched roots of the state. Instead, it was satisfied to replace the top of the pyramid with newly elected, but inexperienced, leaders.’ – Wadah Khanfar

‘The Arab spring confirmed that peaceful change is possible and so reinforced the vision of political Islam. The impact of this went beyond the Brotherhood to include the Salafist tendency in Tunisia, Egypt, Yemen and Libya that had questioned the democratic path.’ – Wadah Khanfar

‘When I address admitted students each spring, I ask them to consider two questions: Why would Harvard be the right place for the person I am? Why would it be the right place for the person that I want to become? These questions, in my mind, get at the heart of any admissions process.’ – Drew Gilpin Faust

‘As you know with the Arab Spring, there were no dividends.’ – Najib Razak

‘There’s a reason why anger, fear, and hatred are paths to the dark side: they all spring from a single source – the same source as a certain flavor of love. A dangerously sweet, addictive flavor.’ – Matthew Stover

‘Spring and summer in Pittsburgh mean outdoor festivals.’ – Bill Dedman

‘Spring and fall in New York are the best seasons here to get out and about. I like the little park in Dumbo between the Manhattan and Brooklyn bridge. I like Prospect Park.’ – Paul Dano

‘The only reason I felt like I could sing a song like ‘Blown Away’ is because I have definitely lived through my fair share of trips to the cellar in the spring. We were no stranger to that. I still ask my mom, ‘Is the cellar cleaned out now? Is everything OK?’ Even in my new house, I had something built in it that’s like a storm shelter.’ – Carrie Underwood

‘The government of Sudan, employing a back channel direct from its president to the Central Intelligence Agency, offered in the early spring of 1996 to arrest Osama bin Laden and place him in Saudi custody, according to officials and former officials in all three countries.’ – Barton Gellman

‘Just as I was turning fifteen, in the spring of 1946, my parents took me to see ‘The Glass Menagerie,’ well into its year-long run. I had seen a number of shows on Broadway by then, but nothing like this – because there was nothing like this on Broadway.’ – Robert Gottlieb

‘Ballet in September used to be dead as a dodo. Now, with City Ballet’s ingenious decision to give us four weeks of repertory in the early fall, having cut down on the relentlessly long spring season when dancers, critics and audiences droop on the vine, we wake up after the dog days of August with something to look at.’ – Robert Gottlieb

‘I started out in pre-law. I was going to go to law school. And I saw a production of ‘Tally’s Folly’ that spring term. I took a theater class that term and auditioned for ‘Harvey’ at the end of the summer, and I was in a play every semester after that.’ – Kevin Rahm

‘The Arab Spring is over. The days of the protesters with laptops and BlackBerrys in Tahrir Square are long gone.’ – Richard Engel

‘Hamas has long been Israel’s enemy, but in the wake of the Arab Spring, the group is empowered like never before.’ – Richard Engel

‘It is ironic that American women now need to be fortified by the inspiration of the women of the Arab Spring, who risked so much to win basic human rights.’ – Tina Brown

‘I remember in the spring of 1971, a hundred thousand people converged on the Pentagon in June of 1971. They threw blood; I guess it was goat’s blood or something, on the steps to the Pentagon. People were being accused of being murderers and baby killers. You just can’t imagine the civic outrage.’ – Wesley Clark

‘When you’re doing Sebring in the back straight at 185 or 187, and the car’s moving, you gotta know what to do with it, how to read it. Just the science of understanding shocks – forget spring rates – is mind-boggling.’ – Craig T. Nelson

‘When I began visiting Bordeaux in 1979, only a handful of writers were there to taste the wines in the spring (and nearly all were British).’ – Robert M. Parker, Jr.

‘I started off in musical theater, yeah. It was one of my first jobs; it was in Spring Awakening in London, which was amazing.’ – Jamie Blackley

‘How you treat the quiet, shy types is the most important. If you leave them to sit in a corner, they will be noticed, and it will affect everyone’s time. I instantly spring on them and treat them as royalty, showing them around and introducing them to everyone so they seem special.’ – Geoffrey Zakarian

‘I’ve spent a lot on clothes. I’m not kidding when I say I could have bought several country homes with the money. I’ve also given a lot away over time. I had a lovely Yves Saint Laurent jacket that I’d only worn once or twice, but I’m one for spring cleaning rather than storing my clothes.’ – Donna Air

‘For those of us imprisoned in Poland, the Prague Spring was a harbinger of hope.’ – Adam Michnik

‘The Polish freedom movement of 1968 lost its confrontation with police violence; the Prague Spring was crushed by the armies of five Warsaw Pact members. But in both countries, 1968 gave birth to a new political consciousness.’ – Adam Michnik

‘Mars is much closer to the characteristics of Earth. It has a fall, winter, summer and spring. North Pole, South Pole, mountains and lots of ice. No one is going to live on Venus; no one is going to live on Jupiter.’ – Buzz Aldrin

‘If you can visualize the whole of spring and see Paradise with the eye of belief, you may understand the utter majesty of everlasting Beauty. If you respond to that Beauty with the beauty of belief and worship, you will be a most beautiful creature.’ – Said Nursi

‘I was born and grew up in Phoenix, and I left there when I was 17 to go to Interlochen Arts Academy – a boarding school in Michigan – for a year, and then I went to college for a year at The Boston Conservatory and landed the ‘Spring Awakening’ tour midway through my freshman year, which was pretty cool.’ – Kimiko Glenn

‘Spring Break is very strange. I grew up in France, so I don’t know Spring Break. That doesn’t exist in Europe.’ – Alexandre Aja

‘I’ve been told that N.Y. in the spring is pretty special.’ – Natalie Dormer

‘In the spring of 1968, The Beatles and I were invited by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi to travel to Riskikesh, India. Riskikesh has been an important spiritual place to many millions of people over the years. It is situated where the Ganges River flows out of the Himalayas, and to be in that atmosphere was something incredibly special.’ – Mike Love

‘I actually know the moment I became known. It was at the Cannes Film Festival, when they showed ‘The Virgin Spring.’ I walked into that theater as one person, and I walked out as another.’ – Max von Sydow

‘The so-called Arab Spring has proved that the fall of a Mubarak-like presidency does not mean the immediate rise of democracy. In spite of this, I am confident that Egypt will not return to an authoritarian governing system again, and that, with some time, it will achieve its democratic goals.’ – Ahmed Zewail

‘I did a 20-minute selection of scenes from the play ‘Spring Awakening’ in college, well before the musical came around, so when the musical was becoming a hot thing, and I was reading interviews with Duncan Sheik about how he came to do the music, I think it’s interesting.’ – Allison Tolman

‘I used to build lofts in SoHo back when there was nothing there. I had a stoop on West Broadway between Prince and Spring. My partner and I would sit there, eat dinner, and watch the world go by.’ – Tim Daly

‘To me, steampunk and urban fantasy are naturally hinged together. And I think that’s because I love the early gothic Victorian literature, and both things spring from that movement.’ – Gail Carriger

‘The ‘Arab Spring’ is the most spectacular example of the dispersal of power.’ – Douglas Alexander

‘I want a future where my children feel safe and appreciated and proud to be who they are. My heart is one with all the Arab Spring heroes, no matter how small they think their role is. I know they believe, like me, that we are working for a world whereby an Arab can live with the other in a respectful and dignified way.’ – Tawakkol Karman

‘Being able to walk out of the studio after a week of intense recording and jump into a cold sea and sit in a hot spring and soak for a few hours completely resets the whole system. Really refreshing. For me, it’s all about stepping out of the ordinary. Even psychically.’ – Damien Rice

‘I literally went straight to New York City from Iraq, which was bizarre and complicated. I was walking down Madison Avenue, and it was spring, and people were smartly dressed, and it was so strange because there was no sense that we were at war. It was something to grapple with.’ – Phil Klay

‘Here’s the thing: I left Ion Storm and Eidos in the spring of 2004 frankly because I felt out of place at that company.’ – Warren Spector

‘No cowboy songs, no hoedowns. It’s a more serious piece. Yet every bar of ‘Appalachian Spring’ is clear, clean, tonal, intelligible – great music that anyone can grasp at first hearing.’ – Terry Teachout

‘You don’t have to know anything about the Shakers to appreciate Mr. Copland’s score for ‘Appalachian Spring’ any more than you have to know who William Randolph Hearst was to understand ‘Citizen Kane.” – Terry Teachout

‘If the ‘Athens Spring’ – when the Greek people courageously rejected the catastrophic austerity conditions of the previous bailouts – has one lesson to teach, it is that Greece will recover only when the European Union makes the transition from ‘We the states’ to ‘We the European people.” – Yanis Varoufakis

‘I plan to concentrate on helping set up a Pan-European political movement, inspired by the Athens Spring, that will work toward Europe’s democratization.’ – Yanis Varoufakis

‘Every year, I travel extensively in the autumn and the spring. I set most of the winter and summer aside for my family and my own tribal relatives. But during that traveling time, I often find myself visiting other native communities around the continent – perhaps a dozen or more each year.’ – Joseph Bruchac

‘When an author creates a town in her novels, she spends a great deal of time visualizing the streets and buildings, landmarks and topography. And while the town becomes real in her imagination, it’s rare for an author to see the place she’s created actually spring to life.’ – Lori Wilde

‘During the Arab Spring, I learned all sorts of things from Twitter. I wouldn’t necessarily trust that information, but it gave me ideas about questions to ask. You can really learn things from the wisdom of crowds.’ – Nicholas Kristof

‘I was promoted associate professor in early 1970 and full professor in October of the same year. I spent the two spring semesters of 1972 and 1974 as visiting professor at Harvard University, giving lectures and directing a research project.’ – Jean-Marie Lehn

‘Designer Marc Jacobs ended his sixteen-year tenure at Louis Vuitton with a spring 2014 collection that celebrated fashion in its purest and least complicated form – as majestic, superficial beauty.’ – Robin Givhan

‘Spring 2010 is the second season that I’m showing the double-breasted suit. I think the right double-breasted suit is young again.’ – Simon Spurr

‘As a boy, I had two small aquaria in our backyard in which I watched, each spring, the nest building and other fascinating behaviours of sticklebacks.’ – Nikolaas Tinbergen

‘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.’ – Tom Brokaw

‘I watched the first episode of ‘Survivor’ in the spring of 2000, thinking I would hate it. My natural inclination steers me toward the indoors not only in my actual life but also in the settings of the entertainment I read and watch.’ – Andrea Seigel

‘I finished my Ph.D. at Berkeley in November 1987 and took a position as an independent fellow at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in January 1988.’ – Carol W. Greider

‘In the spring of 1959, I received an offer of a professorship at Harvard, which I accepted with alacrity since I wanted to be near my family and since the chemistry department at Harvard was unsurpassed.’ – Elias James Corey

‘Every spring, this happens: People discover hockey when daylight lasts longer and men grow beards and tie games do not end in shootouts but rather continue until a goal is scored. The seventh game only heightens the mood for players and fans alike.’ – George Vecsey

‘Because of Kipling, I’ve sometimes wondered about keeping a mongoose about the house. But given the cobra population in Silver Spring, Maryland – zero, when last I checked – we hardly need a Rikki-Tikki-Tavi.’ – Michael Dirda

‘In the spring of 1854, some of my publications persuaded King Maximilian II of Bavaria to offer me, at the suggestion of Emanuel Geibel, a position in Munich with an annual salary of 1000 guilders, to take part in his so-called symposia, weekly soirees at which scholars and poets were gathered.’ – Paul Heyse

‘I was 8 years old in the spring of 1945 when my family fled Silesia to escape the Russian army. On our way, we passed through Dresden. A few days later, it was firebombed. The fire was so bright that night that one could read a newspaper from the light, though we were many kilometers away.’ – Gunter Blobel

‘In the spring of 1993, I married Beverly and moved to the woods. This is something I could never have imagined myself doing.’ – Floyd Skloot

‘In 1987, I had no idea who Steven Isserlis was. We met at the Spoleto Festival in Charleston, South Carolina. It was originally just an Italian summer festival, but for the past 14 years, there’s also been a spring festival in America.’ – Joshua Bell

‘I discovered ‘Rite of Spring’ when I was 21. As a matter of fact, not with orchestra first, because it was still a work which was not often performed. Don’t forget that I was 19 in 1944, still the Occupation time. So it was performed slightly after the end of the war, in 1945.’ – Pierre Boulez

‘In many countries in the Middle East – and this is changing in the wake of the Arab Spring – but for a long time, censorship of books and film was a very big deal. There were books you couldn’t buy; things with political content would be censored, but there were some genres of books and film that the censors just didn’t understand.’ – G. Willow Wilson

‘Each year in early spring, during the season of Lent, which begins on Ash Wednesday and concludes on Easter, a plenitude of books, magazine articles, and television shows about Jesus appear.’ – Jay Parini

‘The United States of America, justifiably and proudly, went to war in Afghanistan in early winter of 2001. The United States invaded Iraq on a false premise in the spring of 2003.’ – Mike Barnicle

‘You talk about crying! The spring of 1988, I spent a fair length of time trying to come to grips with who I was and the habits I had and what they did to people that I truly loved. I really spent a period of time where, I suspect, I cried three or four times a week.’ – Newt Gingrich

‘My baseline function is I’m usually really happy and optimistic. I think I really genuinely like being alive, and I’ve got a spring in my step – that’s what I’ve been like all my life.’ – Jenny Slate

‘My family never took vacations; we never traveled together. We never did anything. My spring breaks were going home to help my dad at the restaurant.’ – Pete Gallego

‘Standing at a Christian music festival in Asbury, Ky., in the spring of 1978, I gave my life to Jesus Christ, and that’s changed everything.’ – Mike Pence

‘One of the most graceful of warriors is the robin. I know few prettier sights than two males challenging and curveting about each other upon the grass in early spring. Their attentions to each other are so courteous and restrained.’ – John Burroughs

‘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 of its bark, that he beats his reveille to spring and wooes his mate.’ – John Burroughs

‘The U.S. is friends with dictatorial regimes, then invades places like Iraq and Afghanistan, and what happens afterwards is a catastrophe. In the place of their leaders, fundamentalist movements that use the name of Islam spring up, and all that’s left is terror and bloodshed.’ – Ayman Odeh

‘We don’t just say this every spring training – ‘Playoffs, World Series.’ You’ve got to do it.’ – Giancarlo Stanton

‘There was certain points shooting ‘Spring Breakers’ where I wasn’t uncomfortable at all, and that let me be free. It allowed me to play with what I love, so that’s what I wanted to do with my music.’ – Selena Gomez

‘Soon after the inauguration, the Obamas gave Big Food a case of heartburn when, in the spring of 2009, Michelle Obama planted an organic vegetable garden on the White House lawn, a symbolic but nevertheless powerful act that thrilled the food movement.’ – Michael Pollan

‘In the spring of 1948, I was able to join the newly created Brookhaven National Laboratory, which was dedicated to finding peaceful uses for atomic energy.’ – Raymond Davis, Jr.

‘I like to go super blonde early in the spring because the sun’s out and it helps keep that tone.’ – Jillian Hervey

‘The raising to life of all animate beings at the resurrection of the dead can be no more difficult for Divine Power than restoring to life a fly in the spring, heavy with the death-stained sleep of winter.’ – Said Nursi

‘It’s hard for a shortstop to play with a guy you don’t know in the middle of the season. If you know a guy early in spring training, you’re working with them.’ – Asdrubal Cabrera

‘I approach spring training the same way every year.’ – Steve Clevenger

‘The Arab Spring is kind of a perfect model for how people are going to use technology to act collectively in their own interest in the future. There’s never been a revolution that was coordinated by social media to the degree that the Arab Spring was.’ – Palmer Luckey

‘In many… cases, of course, the Arab Spring has brought about instability rather than greater stability. And rather than bringing about government that is more representative and more responsive to the people, you’re seeing, frankly, the opposite, or you’re seeing all-out war.’ – David Petraeus

‘In the spring of 1988, my wife, Joan Didion, and I were approached about writing a screenplay based on a book by Alanna Nash called ‘Golden Girl,’ a biography of the late network correspondent and anchorwoman Jessica Savitch.’ – John Gregory Dunne

‘There’s a problem with narratives. Most that spring to mind are fictional.’ – Howard Jacobson

‘Is it too late to institute a leap year and mandate that the holidays fall on regular, convenient dates – so that Id al-Fitr will come, say, in the spring and Id al-Adha in early summer?’ – Sayed Kashua

‘Bass Weejuns are the Cordovan black or brown penny loafers originally called Norwegian Loafers, hence their name. Worn without socks in the spring and summer, they must be kept to a high-gloss polish and should become burnished with wax over time until they have a fine patina.’ – Roger Stone

‘The Arab Spring, nobody’s in the streets demonstrating for radical Islam; they’re in the streets with a window of democracy. They want our political reform, our social justice, and our economic opportunity.’ – Jack Keane

‘Pubs would be number one. And black cabs and cabbies – moody cabbies always crack me up. And the other thing I love is the parks: the parks around London don’t get enough airtime – I think they’re sensational, and when spring hits, the first thing I’ll do is go to the park.’ – Poppy Delevingne

‘In the process of the Arab Spring, we have unfortunately seen a development in Syria where the regime has been oppressing its people.’ – Recep Tayyip Erdogan

‘Growing up, there were TV shows that were very funny but very traditional. Classic things like ‘Fawlty Towers,’ obviously, and ‘Blackadder’ were pretty traditionally shot. And then there were the ones that start to break the mold or be really ambitious. The ones that spring particularly to mind would be ‘The Young Ones.” – Edgar Wright

‘Whatever they did for democracy, the U.S. interventions in the Middle East and the vaunted Arab Spring have proved to be pure hell for Arab Christians.’ – Pat Buchanan

‘Bush II’s democracy crusade and Obama’s embrace of the Arab Spring have unleashed and empowered forces less receptive to America’s wishes and will than the despots and dictators deposed with our approval.’ – Pat Buchanan

‘Get your work in, do what you need do, and get back up top. I’m a little bit behind the curve as far as not really having a spring training, so you’re trying to get your work in, trying to work on things, and at the same time, you’re also going out there trying to be competitive.’ – Ryan Howard

‘My mom named me Pom because she said it sounded like a combination of Korean words that mean ‘spring’ and ‘tiger.’ So, it’s very unique!’ – Pom Klementieff

‘If the Arab Spring was a large nail in the coffin of al-Qaeda’s ideology, the death of bin Laden was an equally large nail in the coffin of al-Qaeda the organization.’ – Peter Bergen

‘One of the themes of ‘The Longest War,’ my book, which came out before the Arab spring happened, was how al-Qaida and bin Laden was losing the war of ideas in the Muslim world, not because the United States was winning them, but because al-Qaida was simply losing them.’ – Peter Bergen

‘The special reverence that al Qaeda had for Sheikh Rahman was underlined by a two-hour propaganda videotape that the group’s media division released in the spring of 2001, when the 9/11 attacks were in their final planning phase.’ – Peter Bergen

‘Whenever it was spring break, someone would always have a guitar down at the beach, and they’d play a random song, and I’d sing. Eventually, hearing compliments from people saying I sounded pretty good stuck with me.’ – Cole Swindell

‘I got to the big leagues when I was 20. I thought I had it all figured out. Went to spring training that next year and started off well, got sent down, and I pouted pretty much all of 2000. And it wasn’t the right way to handle it.’ – Vernon Wells

‘The beautiful thing about the NFL season is to see a team come together after they get to know each other in the spring and summer. You then go through adversity together and see how you respond. The teams that can respond in a positive way are the teams that are going to be there in the end.’ – Aaron Rodgers

‘Greer is Missouri’s second-largest spring. It is a place of pounding, frothing waters and of greeny-cool moss-covered rock, a place of fern and cliffy splendor.’ – Sue Hubbell

‘Spring starts in January in the Ozarks, lurches on in a complicated way, with spurts and setbacks, until May. Then, early in May, there is a cold spell known as blackberry winter because it comes when blackberries bloom. It is a worrisome week for anyone who farms.’ – Sue Hubbell

‘Every spring, I begin cutting my firewood for the upcoming winter. It should be cut months ahead of time so it will dry and cure.’ – Sue Hubbell

‘Our quarterbacks were getting hurt; a couple got kicked out of school. The coach asked who wanted to try out for QB. I went and tried out, and from there on, I was a quarterback. I was ineligible in 10th grade until spring, so I did baseball. I started in left field and pitched.’ – Quavo

‘Eight was about the age I was when I realized that people actually produced books, they didn’t just spring out of the library shelves.’ – Diana Gabaldon

‘Show-wise, I love ‘Little Shop’ and ‘Big River’, ‘Avenue Q,’ and ‘Spring Awakening’.’ – Eric McCormack

‘In days of yore, Opening Day of the baseball season was special, signifying that spring had come at last. Today, however, Opening Day sort of dribbles into existence, and the spiritual start of spring now belongs to the Masters golf tournament, where the azaleas and magnolias and dogwood bloom.’ – Frank Deford

‘My first night in Austin was at SXSW in 1994 when I was a senior in high school. I came here for spring break and just fell in love with Austin. It’s my home.’ – Keith Maitland

‘The essence of a thoughtful spring menu is bringing the table to life with flavorful color! – Sherry Yard’ – Sherry Yard

‘Dr. King’s last campaign was a labor struggle. Many people are aware that King was assassinated in Memphis in the spring of 1968. Less well-known is what drew him there: solidarity with city sanitation workers, who, without the benefit of union representation, were rising up to protest humiliating pay and deplorable working conditions.’ – Tom Perez

‘I lived in San Francisco and did the Stegner fellowship for two years, and it was amazing. From fall 2008 to spring 2010, I was there.’ – Jesmyn Ward

‘I left my job as an editorial assistant with Katie Couric at CBS to start our company. I think Katie has said being at CBS was the worst time in her career. They were cutting back their news and interactive budget. I just had this very distinct feeling that I wasn’t in the spring of something: I was in the late fall.’ – Alexa Hirschfeld

‘Left ear, I wear four earrings. The four is symbolic of the four seasons, spring, winter, summer and fall, the four directions, north, east, south and west, the four gospel writers, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.’ – Mr. T

‘We did a play in the third grade all about Winter not wanting to give over his throne to Spring. That was my first title role, and I took full advantage of it. I felt like there was no one else on that stage but Ms. Spring.’ – Lynn Whitfield

‘Right before I left ESPN, someone suggested doing a NFL story in the spring. The person was laughed out of the room.’ – Rich Eisen

‘Instead of going to spring training, I went to basic training.’ – Jesse White

‘For our Spring 2015 collection, I was inspired by the spirit of the artist Francoise Gilot.’ – Tory Burch

‘At first glance, The Color Run does look a lot like Holi. Its website is populated by photos of people throwing coloured powder at each other and in the air, outdoors, at the start of spring. The only difference, it seemed, was that there was a 5 km. run added in. And that it cost $54.99 to participate.’ – Elizabeth Flock

‘I loved traditional musical comedy. That was my passion. Then ‘Spring Awakening’ happened, and it took that rock n’ roll and pop music to change gears for me.’ – Jonathan Groff

‘After ‘Spring Awakening,’ I wanted to do things that are really challenging and outside my comfort zone: things that scare me a little and make me grow.’ – Jonathan Groff

‘My first film that I got right after ‘Spring Awakening’ was called ‘Taking Woodstock,’ and Ang Lee was the director.’ – Jonathan Groff

‘As a kid growing up in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, all I wanted to do was be on Broadway in a musical. ‘Spring Awakening’ kind of answered all of my questions and fulfilled all of my dreams – beyond my wildest dreams.’ – Jonathan Groff

‘When I was doing ‘Spring Awakening’ the first couple of years I was living in New York, I was gay, and I was living with my ‘roommate,’ who was my boyfriend but was my roommate to everyone else.’ – Jonathan Groff

‘I got cast for ‘Spring Awakening’ when I was 20. Every dream I had came true in that moment.’ – Jonathan Groff

‘When I was 20 years old, I got cast in ‘Spring Awakening’ and got swept up in this experience where it was kind of tunnel vision. We were working – it was nonstop.’ – Jonathan Groff

‘I left ‘Spring Awakening,’ and within a month of leaving the show, I came out to my parents and to my friends and broke up with my boyfriend and moved into an apartment of my own and completely changed my life.’ – Jonathan Groff

‘I was playing this character, Melchior Gabor, who was a rebel and who was a person who didn’t let the world define him, and who stood up to authority and was this kind of revolutionary… And when I left ‘Spring Awakening,’ I came out of that experience feeling like… I had cultivated this side of my personality that hadn’t existed before.’ – Jonathan Groff

‘I would say ‘Looking’ and ‘Spring Awakening’ are the most important and personal projects I’ve ever been apart of.’ – Jonathan Groff

‘I taught a class about the Tony Awards at a summer theater camp the year after I graduated from high school. So, the first time I was nominated for ‘Spring Awakening,’ it felt like a surreal dream: it was every childhood dream I had come true. It felt like a fairy tale.’ – Jonathan Groff

”Spring Awakening’ was a discovery for all involved. None of us will ever have that specific sense of revelation in the same way – that is probably the thing I miss the most.’ – Jonathan Groff

‘I did ‘Spring Awakening’ on Broadway for about three years, and I did over 500 performances.’ – Jonathan Groff

‘I first met Rhoda Morgenstern in the spring of 1970.’ – Valerie Harper

‘The Arab Spring is a powerful and compelling response not only to an age of tyranny but also to the remnant chains of imperial influence.’ – Hisham Matar

‘My parents would drive us to Florida every spring in this big old, rusy Suburban, and we’d collect stuff on the beach for our aquarium back in Ohio; we had this big saltwater aquarium back in Ohio. Every time we found anything, any mollusk, my mom would bring out the guidebook and quiz us on what it was, so that stuff was built in early.’ – Anthony Doerr

‘I participated in every spring musical my school did while attending: ‘Pippin,’ ‘Little Shop of Horrors,’ ‘Once on This Island,’ and ‘Hair.’ The great thing about those projects was that I was able to work with my peers who were allowed to work professionally and gained some insight as to what it might be like to work with pros.’ – Amanda Warren

‘One of the causes of the Arab Spring was high unemployment.’ – Alain Dehaze

‘It is no coincidence that in the wake of the Arab Spring, investment in youth-related initiatives, especially related to employment, has increased sharply.’ – Arancha Gonzalez

‘At worst, spring break in Daytona Beach feels feral – like everybody is trying to re-create scenes from the movie ‘The Hangover.” – W. Kamau Bell

‘I first met Susan Sontag in spring 1976 when she was recovering from cancer surgery and needed someone to help type her correspondence. I had been recommended by the editors of ‘The New York Review of Books,’ where I’d worked as an editorial assistant.’ – Sigrid Nunez

‘I think Tunisia has a specific place in the Arab world and in Africa because it is a tiny Muslim country, but it’s very open minded. It’s the first country to start the Arab Spring, for example.’ – Kenza Fourati

‘I encourage everyone to read James Baldwin and Malcom X and Aldous Huxley. To read Primo Levi. To read ‘Silent Spring.’ To read Toni Morrison. To read Zora Neale Hurston.’ – Zoe Kazan

‘When I began designing my Spring ’13 collection, it wasn’t even Spring ’12 yet. Snow was actually still on the ground in New York, but I knew I wanted this particular spring season to be freer, more colorful, easier, more about feeling good, and I wanted there to be a sexier feeling than we’ve been known for in the past.’ – Michael Bastian

‘I came to believe the green fuse that drives spring and summer through the world is essentially a literary energy. That the world was more than a place. Life was more than an event. It was all one thing – and that thing was story.’ – Luis Alberto Urrea

‘The first place I went in America was Boca Raton, and I thought it was awesome. It was spring break, and there were tons of young people and cute Americans in Speedos.’ – Nina Agdal

‘The musicals on Broadway have not necessarily been true musical theater. I’m speaking generally, of course: I saw ‘Spring Awakening,’ and I was completely inspired by that.’ – Alice Ripley

‘In ‘Night Court,’ my name is still Harry, and I’m – my best friends are still three-card monte workers, and I still have spring snakes hidden everywhere and joy buzzers, but I’m the judge.’ – Harry Anderson

‘I have never seen a more hopeful, optimistic, and excited place on earth than Iraq in the spring of 2003. The oppressed people of a regime we toppled shared America’s dream of freedom, and opportunity called them to a future brighter than they had ever known.’ – Seth Moulton

‘It’s mountains. The air is crisp. It’s peaceful. You don’t get spring break in Guanajuato.’ – Tanya Saracho

‘Musicals spring forth from minstrelsy, vaudeville, melodramas; it was all these things combined to create the form.’ – George C. Wolfe

‘At its core, ‘Spring Awakening’ is about the perils of miscommunication and what happens when people are denied a voice.’ – Michael Arden

‘Shane Johnson and I coincidently went to Whitman College. This is notable because Whitman is teeny-tiny, with only 1,200 students. He graduated the spring before I started, so we didn’t know each other.’ – Lela Loren

‘I’m huge on spring and summer gardening. I’m really proud of my perennial beds. That’s a passion of mine.’ – Steve Zahn

‘I’ll be the first to admit it: I love fluff. Whether it’s watching ‘America’s Next Top Model’ or listening to dance pop like Rihanna’s ‘Where Have You Been,’ I like to keep it light and fun, especially during the spring and summer months.’ – Phoebe Robinson

‘It’s interesting to me that the Arab Spring started in Tunisia, and in the marches, people were singing ‘Get up, stand up, stand up for your rights.” – Kevin Macdonald

‘New York in spring and autumn is absolutely beautiful, but the winter is absolutely depressing.’ – Joel Robuchon

‘The Arab Spring reminds me a bit of the decolonisation process where one country gets independence, and everybody else wants it.’ – Kofi Annan

‘Sound sounds are terrible in the city, but it’s great to listen and to walk and listen to people talk to each other. There are birds. You hear spring. I like listening to the city.’ – James Murphy

‘Many of us actively working to interrupt racism continually hear complaints about the ‘gotcha’ culture of white anti-racism. There is a stereotype that we are looking for every incident we can find so we can spring out, point our fingers, and shout, ‘You’re a racist!” – Robin DiAngelo

‘As a kid in the projects, I always looked forward to spring break. We’d either have cousins visiting us for the week from up north, and we’d all play sports together, or sometimes I’d go to Vero Beach and hang with my cousins there.’ – Flo Rida

‘In the Arab Spring, that obviously came to a head in Syria. I found myself arguing for intervention, mainly just because I wanted things to get better, and I had this germ of liberal humanitarian interventionism.’ – Ben Rhodes

‘Trump did not spring out of nowhere, and I was struck by how prescient writers like Alexis de Tocqueville and George Orwell and Hannah Arendt were about how those in power get to define what the truth is.’ – Michiko Kakutani

‘I went to a music academy in Los Angeles, and some friends started playing me Ravel and Prokofiev, who I liked, but what really blew me away was ‘The Rite of Spring.’ That’s what made me get interested in classical music for real and want to study it.’ – Kamasi Washington

”Spring One’ probably has only four bars of Vivaldi in it, but it feels like it’s all Vivaldi. It’s odd. It’s a bit like walking around a sculpture, you just sort of see it from a different angle.’ – Max Richter

‘I’ve always loved the song ‘It Might as Well Be Spring’.’ – Jessie Mueller

‘In spring training, I just try to spread everything out so I can be 100 percent before the season starts. I don’t want to start feeling like I don’t get it once the season starts. I want to be 100 percent on Opening Day.’ – Jose Altuve

‘Trying to change before you’re ready isn’t likely to be productive. For example, most New Year’s resolutions don’t last because people spring into action without being prepared for the work it’s going to take. Forcing change based on a date on the calendar, rather than a true readiness to transform, can be a setup for failure.’ – Amy Morin

‘Songs seem to always spring from improvisation.’ – Lee Ranaldo

‘In the spring of 1978, when my parents were 23, my mother gave birth to me on their friend Robert’s farm in Oregon with the help of two midwives. The labor and delivery took three hours, start to finish.’ – Lisa Brennan-Jobs

‘It is hard to know exactly when the Arab Spring, a phrase used to describe the beginning of the Arab peoples’ demand for democracy and human-rights reform, started.’ – Richard Grenell

‘When I was a kid in the ’60s, I went shopping in downtown Silver Spring. Hecht’s, JCPenney, the little retailers – they sponsored all my sports teams.’ – George Pelecanos

‘I love ‘Heathers.’ I love ‘Spring Breakers.” – Hari Nef

‘I don’t know how old I was when I first started going to shows, maybe 14 or 15, but very quickly, I discovered Dischord Records in D.C. and loved all the music on that catalog. I was a big Rites of Spring fan, Minor Threat, of course.’ – Beto O’Rourke

‘Fighting for a job – that’s been my mindset every Spring Training.’ – Aaron Judge

‘You can never come into the spring feeling like you’ve got a guaranteed spot. Once you do that, you kind of get stagnant, and someone’s going to pass you up.’ – Aaron Judge

‘In spring 2011, I was arrested for allowing my son, then 4, to wait in a car with the windows open for a few minutes.’ – Kim Brooks

‘When I earned my diploma from the University of Virginia in the spring of 2000, it never occurred to me before my senior year to worry too seriously about my post-graduation prospects. Indeed, most of my professors, advisors, and mentors reinforced this complacency.’ – Kim Brooks

‘In the late spring of 2008, my wealthy entrepreneurial husband, Elon Musk, the father of my five young sons, filed for divorce. Six weeks later, he texted me to say he was engaged to a gorgeous British actress in her early 20s who had moved to Los Angeles to be with him.’ – Justine Musk

‘I know what kind of books I read on vacation, and it is not necessarily ‘Diplomacy’ by Henry Kissinger. No disrespect to that book; I have read that book. But not on spring break.’ – Meghan McCain

‘The fact that I tour religiously in the spring, religiously in the fall, and do 125 shows – you can set your watch to that. And you could have set your watch to that in 2000 or 1999, and you can set your watch to it in 2012.’ – Joe Bonamassa

‘Basically, 2011 was the hardest year on the road for me because I did a spring tour and a fall tour plus nine weeks in the summer, and I was pretty worse for wear by the time I got home in December. I know I was only 34, but that was a tough lap.’ – Joe Bonamassa

‘At Real Madrid, I did heading drills with Cristiano Ronaldo. You see him go up for headers, that spring and power – he is a real beast. At Juventus, I saw Fernando Llorente, how he finds space and directs his headers.’ – Alvaro Morata

‘In the spring of 1996, I was working for Nickelodeon on a show called ‘Rocko’s Modern Life,’ and I was interested at the time in doing a show about the ocean, an undersea show.’ – Stephen Hillenburg

‘I either do really well in spring training, or I suck. I either hit .350 or .150.’ – Christian Yelich

‘Between the summer of 2015 and spring 2016, Austria became one of the European countries most affected by the migration and refugee crisis.’ – Sebastian Kurz

‘It’s easy to hide your body from the chest down if you really want to. But it’s not as easy, especially in the summer and spring, to hide your arms. So I think that’s something you always have to make sure you work on.’ – Brie Bella

‘The Arab world was ripe with hope during the spring of 2011. Journalists, academics, and the general population were brimming with expectations of a bright and free Arab society within their respective countries.’ – Jamal Khashoggi

‘The death of Yemeni strongman Ali Abdullah Saleh shows that Saudi Arabia is paying for its betrayal of the Arab spring in Yemen in 2011.’ – Jamal Khashoggi

‘Everyone knew that Saleh and the Houthis were a marriage of convenience. He was a dictator; the Houthis are ideologues who want to impose their fundamentalist vision. Neither cared for the core values of the Arab Spring – representative, accountable governance.’ – Jamal Khashoggi

‘I strongly supported the war against Houthi rebels because I saw them as the antithesis of the Arab Spring that my government, unlike me, fiercely opposed.’ – Jamal Khashoggi

‘The Arab Spring is a true phenomenon. Embrace Arab Spring; embrace the aspiration for freedom of the people of Egypt, Syria, and Yemen.’ – Jamal Khashoggi

‘We are not a failed Arab republic, so we should not fear Arab Spring. We should embrace Arab Spring. That’s what I hope Saudi Arabia will do.’ – Jamal Khashoggi

‘I want to give Irish kids something to be proud of back home. I want to bring out a stronger image of Ireland instead of ‘Irish Spring’ and ‘Lucky Charms’ and all that rubbish.’ – Sheamus

‘At first, after my freshman year, it was kind of a joke, going into my sophomore year like, ‘Hey, I wanna graduate in three years, two-and-a-half.’ And we were just kind of playing with it, added some extra classes in, and then once I finished that following spring going into that next summer, it was just like, ‘Hey, I can actually do it.” – Deshaun Watson

‘I’m so excited for readers to get their hands on ‘The Spring Girls.” – Anna Todd

‘Outside you get credit and praise and it makes you feel good, puts a spring in your step, but really the ceiling was the manager. If I was playing at Old Trafford and felt as though I was contributing and winning things, that was enough for me.’ – Michael Carrick

‘In spring, you can have a little bit more fun with color and be out there.’ – Jeannie Mai

‘Spring is all about looser garments.’ – Jeannie Mai

‘When you think of the great eight-wicket bowling figures in Test history, the names of Michael Holding, Shane Warne and Stuart Broad spring to mind.’ – Jonathan Agnew

‘I’ve called the spring game for Big Ten Network for Michigan State. It’s a great opportunity to still stay around the game, to be able to feel like you’re close to the action. I’m very analytical, so I think it fits the way I think.’ – Kirk Cousins

‘A great pair of tweezers should feel like they are vibrating as if they have a spring. If the tweezers don’t do that, they won’t work well at all.’ – Anastasia Soare

‘I think women were gradually becoming more independent – the feminist movement of the Sixties didn’t just spring out of nowhere.’ – Chris Chibnall

‘When I’m desperate for spring produce but nothing has hit the farmstand yet, frozen green peas are a godsend.’ – Claire Saffitz

‘A well-written character is one where you don’t know in which direction it’s going; the character could spring a surprise any moment.’ – Rasika Dugal

‘So, we know that when the going gets tough, the tough get going. I still believe that is the good thing about Nigerian players. We can always spring up so many surprises.’ – Jay-Jay Okocha

‘In the spring of 2012, I moved to the San Francisco bay area with my wife and two young sons.’ – Steve Hilton

‘Since I was a little girl, my family has taken a holiday to Cornwall every spring half-term.’ – Kate Garraway

‘These guidelines are extraordinarily important. It’s about social distancing, it’s about washing your hands. It’s about ensuring that you’re protecting yourself and protecting others. It’s not about partying on beaches during spring break.’ – Deborah Birx

‘I was spotted in Glasgow and asked to enter a competition to find the Highland Spring Face of 1995 by the Storm agency. I won the Edinburgh heat, then I won the title in London and moved there aged 16.’ – Pollyanna McIntosh

‘I’m usually rough during Spring Training. My Spring Training numbers aren’t very good, but I never expect them to be.’ – J. D. Martinez

‘Just kind of finding it, that’s what Spring Training is for, to work on stuff and get ready.’ – J. D. Martinez

‘That’s why, to me, Spring Training is so hard, because every time you go up there, there’s a new pitcher, and you have to come up with a new plan.’ – J. D. Martinez

‘I’m not the spring chicken everyone wants. I’ve got a debilitating illness. The brave face is ‘I’m busy with work’ but I’ve sort of chucked myself on the scrapheap. That’s why I’m single. I’ve resigned myself to being a difficult woman.’ – Jack Monroe

‘The idea is to freeze the water in the winter and use it in late spring. The conical tower shape ensures that the surface exposed to the sun is minimal, so premature melting is avoided.’ – Sonam Wangchuk

‘You’re just trying to work on things in Spring Training, try to put the barrel on the ball and not peak too early.’ – Anthony Rendon

‘We like to be involved vaguely in the creative process so we know what’s going on and we have some input, but actually, ‘Top Gear’ is at its best when the producers spring something on you and we respond naturally to it. The more you know, the less realistic your reactions.’ – Chris Harris

‘Gordon Brown doesn’t often spring surprises. He’s usually far too cautious to deliver the unexpected.’ – Grant Shapps

‘The goal is to be at the top in the spring.’ – Leonardo Bonucci

‘Few, if any, political analysts predicted the Arab Spring. The raw energy of millions of protestors in the streets of Tunis and Cairo came as a surprise to many who believed that Arabs were essentially reconciled to their governments and non-democratic rule.’ – Munira Mirza

‘I think holiday spirit can mean many things and I think holiday spirit is just sort of your state of happiness during the holidays. You could say the same thing about spring spirit or summer spirit.’ – Noah Galvin

‘Once I got old enough to start making my own bread for real, hustling and doing everything I was doing, I was coming to Atlanta for spring and summer breaks.’ – Westside Gunn

‘Shatner will spin lines in ways you don’t see coming – he winds the audience down like a spring and hits the line so hard, they erupt. It’s amazing to watch actually.’ – Will Sasso

‘A decade ago, I lived in Saudi Arabia, in Riyadh, as the treasury attache to our embassy there, and I was, of course, on the ground in the Middle East whenever the Arab Spring started, and it’s fast-forward a decade later, nine years later. It’s hard to believe that I am still working on this issue. You know, here in the State Department.’ – Morgan Ortagus

‘I went to Brighton College, Shoreham College for one year, then to Spring Valley High School in Las Vegas for a couple of years.’ – Chris Eubank Jr.

‘It once seemed that the most profound feats stemming from DNA-based science would spring from our ability to read and detect genes, which we call the science of genomics. But the real opportunities lie in our ability to write DNA, to synthesize new gene sequences and insert them into organisms, resulting in brand-new biological functions.’ – Scott Gottlieb

‘I was embarrassed this spring when corona came. Everything in life had been so fast and seemed so important and then I realised the kind of stress that I allowed myself to be under, and I was embarrassed.’ – Sofia Helin

‘Everything I do – whether it be the podcast, the wine, scrunchies, my live spring break tour – I always want it to be about empowerment and bringing women together and feeling strong.’ – Kaitlyn Bristowe

”Jigarthanda’ will be the first in the Kannada industry to do this type of an experiment. All these days we use to do our recordings in Mumbai, Hyderabad, or in Chennai. But this time we have recorded in three different countries: Spain, Italy and the U.S. We have used around 50 foreign spring orchestra including violins, etc.’ – Arjun Janya

‘I never had a spring break. I’ve always been on the road. I’ve always been traveling.’ – Marcus Smart

‘My spring game was the day of the prom. I didn’t go to prom.’ – Davis Webb

‘People who say spring training’s too long, I absolutely disagree. I think it’s the perfect length of time.’ – Joe Maddon

‘With the Capital One Bowl, the average fan might think whoopty do. But if you are a team member, you win that game and you see how much momentum that gives people going into winter conditioning, recruiting, and spring football.’ – Kirk Herbstreit

‘True story: In the spring, my first in K.C., I’d written a series of columns in the Star demanding the Royals front office give fans discounted prices at concession stands as an apology for the 1994 strike. The Royals acquiesced.’ – Jason Whitlock

‘My main issue is trying to create shape, because I am like an upturned spring onion. I am bulbous at the top, then I sort of whittle away, and my feet are like the green bits. I try to create – with clever use of a skirt and tucked-in top – a waist and hips.’ – Sara Cox

‘Look at Julie Etchingham and Katie Derham, none of us are spring chickens frankly, I don’t think people want to watch someone who’s wet behind the ears, you have to look like you understand what you are reading about.’ – Mary Nightingale

‘I do a lot of Olympic training to keep muscle density but it’s hard because I ride on the shoulder seasons of spring and fall and maybe take a trip somewhere to ride in winter.’ – Yannick Bisson

‘I like to have fish and salad – mackerel, Dover sole or gurnard, and I usually pan-fry it or use the barbecue. I make salad with avocados, tomato, lettuce and spring onions, with an olive oil and red wine dressing.’ – Rick Stein

‘Spring training is kind of my offseason. I’m preparing for the season, but the workload that I experience in spring is much lower than any other time of year. And so, I enjoy it.’ – Trevor Bauer

‘Programmes are like weeds – they spring up, grow quickly, and then should be allowed to die quickly.’ – David Starkey

‘I was shocked when four Arlington girls at a track meet this spring asked me for my autograph. I told them, ‘Don’t think I’m dumb for asking this, but are you serious?” – Jordan Larson

‘Nebraska would like me to graduate in December and start college second semester so I can go through spring practice with them. But I want to stay around and be in high school. Your senior year is a once-in-a-lifetime thing, and I don’t want to cut that experience short.’ – Jordan Larson

‘Shows I would love to do one day are definitely In the Heights’ and Spring Awakening,’ with Nina and Wendla, respectively, as my top dream roles.’ – Isa Briones

‘I think the players set the tone right away in spring training.’ – Gabe Kapler

‘The almond, the first fruit to flower round the Mediterranean, heralds the arrival of spring. It is also an early nectar for the honey bees.’ – Carol Drinkwater

‘I love winter fashion like woolly coats, hats and boots and being cosy by the fire. Autumn and early spring walks in the park are lovely, but rainy walks with our dog Potato every morning are just too much.’ – Dawn O’Porter

‘Stir-fried spring vegetables over miso polenta is the meal equivalent of wanting it so badly to be spring yet recognizing it is 40 degrees outside with a brisk headwind no matter which way you are facing.’ – Chris Morocco

‘We have to try to convince everybody in America, that if you eat you’re involved in agriculture. That the shirts don’t just spring up at Kmart on the rack. They’re made from cotton.’ – Mike Espy

‘I have the most beautiful memories of ‘New Gold Dream.’ It was made in a time between spring and summer, and everything we tried worked. There were no arguments. We were in love with what we were doing, playing it, listening to it.’ – Jim Kerr

‘There is a certain subset of African American sports announcers, anchors and analysts who are always ready to spring into action and give a Black face to ‘sports’ opinions held by racist white fans.’ – Jason Johnson

‘The way it is now, 75% of teams leave spring training with no chance to win, and no desire to win so they can build for the future.’ – John Smoltz

‘You need to understand what’s padding your walls, especially if you live in an older home and renovating the attic is on your spring to-do list. Not only is it key to keeping your house warm in the winter and cool in the summer, it’ll prevent mould from growing and can drastically reduce your energy bills.’ – Bryan Baeumler

‘Just as the spring is the worst time to get your lawnmower service, the fall is the worst time to get your furnace service.’ – Bryan Baeumler

‘I finished high school and started college, but I had auditioned for ‘So You Think You Can Dance’ and ended up on the show for their first Fall season, so I deferred from college and went back Spring Semester to Western Carolina University in the mountains. I lasted for two and a half months I think, and it wasn’t for me.’ – Ariana DeBose

‘Spring training entails trying to get individuals ready.’ – Aaron Boone

‘I don’t really prepare things necessarily. I have some ideas that I want to make sure I get across to our guys. But then when I stand up in front of our guys, whenever I do that – whether it’s at different times during the season, or certainly at the start of spring training – I want it to be from the heart, and unscripted.’ – Aaron Boone

‘The first day of spring training is like the first day of school.’ – Chipper Jones

‘It’s good to square the ball up in Spring Training.’ – Tommy Pham

‘Everybody’s in the best shape of their life when they come to spring training.’ – Alex Cora