#spring

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

#been #idea #like #lost #mushrooms

Sweet spring, full of sweet days and roses, a box where sweets compacted lie. ↗

— George Herbert

#days #full #lie #roses #spring

Loki in 'Thor' is the most incredible springboard into a sort of excavation of the darker aspects of human nature. So that was thrilling, coming back knowing that I'd built the boat and now I could set sail into choppier waters. ↗

— Tom Hiddleston

#back #boat #built #coming #could

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

#beatles #great #immediately #mind #much

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

#cold #during #especially #heavy #particular

Our senses are indeed our doors and windows on this world, in a very real sense the key to the unlocking of meaning and the wellspring of creativity. ↗

— Jean Houston

#doors #indeed #key #meaning #our

Incongruity is the mainspring of laughter. ↗

— Max Beerbohm

#laughter #mainspring

Back 20 years ago, I was recording with Bruce Springsteen, and his producer called me and said I had to be in the studio the next day to finish the sessions, and I couldn't. I had to be in court, in California. All this took like 10 years out of my life. ↗

— Ronnie Spector

#back #bruce #bruce springsteen #california #called

Autumn arrives in early morning, but spring at the close of a winter day. ↗

— Elizabeth Bowen

#autumn #close #day #early #early morning

Thine eyes are springs in whose serene And silent waters heaven is seen. Their lashes are the herbs that look On their young figures in the brook. ↗

— William C. Bryant

#eyes #figures #heaven #herbs #lashes