Quotes 61 till 80 of 115.
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Our loyalties are to the species and the planet. We speak for Earth. Our obligation to survive and flourish is owed not just to ourselves, but also to that Cosmos, ancient and vast, from which we spring.
Source: Cosmos: A Personal Voyage (1990) 54 min 25 sec -
Passion, though a bad regulator, is a powerful spring.
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Perseverance gives power to weakness, and opens to poverty the world's wealth. It spreads fertility over the barren landscape, and buds the choicest flowers and fruits spring up and flourish in the desert abode of thorns and briars.
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Poor, dear, silly Spring, preparing her annual surprise!
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Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Spring being a tough act to follow, God created June.
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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.
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Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.
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Spring is nature's way of saying, 'Let's party!'
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Spring is the time of year when it is summer in the sun and winter in the shade.
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Spring is when you feel like whistling even with a shoe full of slush.
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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.
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The Arab Awakening or Arab Spring has transformed the geopolitical landscape.
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The first day of spring is one thing, and the first spring day is another. The difference between them is sometimes as great as a month.
Source: Fisherman's Luck (1899) , ch. 5 -
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.
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The generations of men run on in the tide of time, but leave their destined lineaments permanent for ever and ever.
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The greatest gift that Oxford gives her sons is, I truly believe, a genial irreverence toward learning, and from that irreverence love may spring.
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