Best spring & fruit Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I think if we all gardened more, they and all of the other birds that fly in the air above and light in my garden below would be better off. I know that God values them no less than I do. So when I plant in spring I also hope to taste of God in fruit of summer sun and sight of feathered friends.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Light Would Be Values Sun Air Taste Summer Spring Bird Garden Sight Plant Fruit Better Off Summer Sun

Book:Inheriting Paradise: Meditations on Gardening

Source: Inheriting Paradise: Meditations on Gardening

“I am a thing not new, I am as old As human nature. I am that which lurks, Ready to spring whenever a bar is loosed; The ancient trait which fights incessantly Against restraint, balks at the upward climb; The weight forever seeking to obey The law of downward pull; and I am more: The bitter fruit am I of planted seed; The resultant, the inevitable end Of evil forces and the powers of wrong.”

Humans Ends Law Fighting Evil Force Forever Human Nature Ready Spring Weight Fruit Ancient Seeking Seeds Bars Bitter Inevitable Climbs Traits Restraint Incessantly

Author:James Weldon Johnson

“In the chequered area of human experience the seasons are all mingled as in the golden age: fruit and blossom hang together; in the same moment the sickle is reaping and the seed is sprinkled; one tends the green cluster and another treads the wine-press. Nay, in each of our lives harvest and spring-time are continually one, until Death himself gathers us and sows us anew in his invisible fields.”

Life Humans Moments Age Together Our Lives Fields Spring Areas Seasons Green Wine Presses Fruit Seeds Invisible Golden Harvest Human Experience Golden Age Clusters Spring Time

Book:Daniel Deronda

Source: Daniel Deronda

“T'was Spring, t'was Summer, all was gay Now Autumn bears a cloud brow The flowers of Spring are swept way And Summer fruits desert the bough”

Way Flower Bears Gay Summer Spring Fruit Clouds Desert Autumn Brows

Author:Thomas Gray

“No good water comes from a muddy spring. No sweet fruit comes from a bitter seed.”

Water Sweet Spring Fruit Seeds Bitter Muddy Sweet Fruit

Author:Jose Rizal

“For, owners of their deeds (karma) are the beings, heirs of their deeds; their deeds are the womb from which they sprang; with their deeds they are bound up; their deeds are their refuge. Whatever deeds they do-good or evil-of such they will be the heirs. And wherever the beings spring into existence, there their deeds will ripen; and wherever their deeds ripen, there they will earn the fruits of those deeds, be it in this life, or be it in the next life, or be it in any other future life.”

Evil Next Existence Spring Fruit Bounds Deeds Karma This Life Owners Refuge Womb Heirs Future Life Next Life

Author:Gautama Buddha

“[On John Brown:] The poor wretch is hanged, but from his grave a root of bitterness will spring, the fruit of which at no distant day may be disunion and civil war.”

May War Poor Spring Roots Fruit Graves Civil War Brown Bitterness John Brown

Author:Fanny Kemble

“We reap what we sow, but nature has love over and above that justice, and gives us shadow and blossom and fruit, that spring from no planting of ours.”

Giving Justice Spring Shadow Fruit Abundance Reap

Book:Complete Works Of George Eliot

Source: Complete Works Of George Eliot

“The great secret of social alchemy is to profit best from each stage in our lives, to gather all its leaves in spring, all its flowers in summer, and all its fruits in autumn.”

Social Secret Our Lives Society Stage Flower Summer Spring Fruit Profit Autumn Alchemy

Author:Honore de Balzac

“Color is, in brief terms, the type of love. Hence it is especially connected with the blossoming of the earth; and again, with its fruits; also, with the spring and fall of the leaf, and with the morning and evening of the day, in order to show the waiting of love about the birth and death of man.”

Source: pt. VI: Of leaf beauty. pt. VII: Of cloud beauty. pts. VIII-IX: Of ideas of relation

“Be a Gardener. Dig a ditch. Toil and sweat. And turn the earth upside down. And seek the deepness. And water plants in time. Continue this labor. And make sweet floods to run, and noble and abundant fruits to spring. Take this food and drink, and carry it to God as your true worship.”

Running Earth Turns Water Sweet Drink Worship Spring Labor Down And Plant Fruit Noble Sweat Flood Toil Gardener Upside Down Food And Drink True Worship Deepness

Author:Julian of Norwich

“Man gains wider dominion by his intellect than by his right arm. The mustard-seed of thought is a pregnant treasury of vast results. Like the germ in the Egyptian tombs its vitality never perishes; and its fruit will spring up after it has been buried for long ages.”

Men Long Has Beens Age Results Arms Spring Gains Fruit Intellect Seeds Buried Pregnant Vitality Dominion Tombs Germs Treasury Egyptian Mustard Mustard Seed

Author:Edwin Hubbel Chapin

“Life is the blossoming of flowers in the spring, the ripening of fruit in the fall, the rhythm of the earth and of nature. Life is the cry of cicadas signalling the end of summer, migratory birds winging south in a transparent autumn sky, fish frolicking in a stream. Life is the joy beautiful music installs in us, the thrilling sight of a mountain peak reddened by the rising sun, the myriad combinations and permutations of visible and invisible phenomena. Life is all things.”

“Youth is like spring, an over praised season more remarkable for biting winds than genial breezes. Autumn is the mellower season, and what we lose in flowers we more than gain in fruits.”

“The raw fruits of the earth were made for human sustenance. Even the white tails of rabbits, according to some theologians, have a purpose, namely to make it easier for sportsmen to shoot them. There are, it is true, some inconveniences: lions and tigers are too fierce, the summer is too hot, and the winter too cold. But these things only began after Adam ate the apple; I before that, all animals were vegetarians, and the season was always spring. If only Adam had been content with peaches and nectarines, grapes and pears and pineapples, these blessings would still be ours.”

“No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of spring.”

Men Flower Taste Spring Fruit Appreciation Autumn Scent Fall Season Spring Flowers Autumn Season Spring Day First Day Of Spring

Book:Selected poetry and prose

Source: Selected poetry and prose

“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.”

Source: Love is a Stranger

“Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, you will vainly look for fruit on it in autumn.”

Looks Growth Tree Spring Fruit Autumn April Springtime Plant A Tree Autumn Season Bearing Fruit

Author:Walter Scott

“The thorns which I have reap'd are of the tree I planted; they have torn me, and I bleed. I should have known what fruit would spring from such a seed.”

Should Responsibility Known Tree Spring Should Have Fruit Seeds Torn Reap Thorns Should Have Known

Book:CHILDE HAROLD'S PILGRIMAGE

Source: CHILDE HAROLD'S PILGRIMAGE

“What is more cheerful, now, in the fall of the year, than an open-wood-fire? Do you hear those little chirps and twitters coming out of that piece of apple-wood? Those are the ghosts of the robins and blue-birds that sang upon the bough when it was in blossom last Spring. In Summer whole flocks of them come fluttering about the fruit-trees under the window: so I have singing birds all the year round.”

Source: Marjorie Daw and Other People

“Of the blessings set before you make your choice, and be content. No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of the spring: no man can, at the same time, fill his cup from the source and from the mouth of the Nile.”

Men Choices Flower Source Taste Blessing Spring Mouths Fruit Cups Autumn Scent Nile

Book:Selected poetry and prose

Source: Selected poetry and prose

“I've seen spring come to the orchard every year as far back as I can remember and I've never grown tired of it. Oh, the wonder of it! The outrageous beauty! God didn't have to give us cherry blossoms you know. He didn't have to make apple trees and peach trees burst into flower and fragrance. But God just loves to splurge. He gives us all this magnificence and then, if that isn't enough, He provides fruit from such extravagance.”

Source: Hidden Places: A Novel

“Well then," Roen said briskly, "are you sleeping?" "Yes." "Come now. A mother can tell when her son lies. Are you eating?" "No," Brigan said gravely. "I've not eaten in two months. It's a hunger strike to protest the spring flooding in the south." "Gracious," Roen said, reaching for the fruit bowl. "Have an apple, dear.”

Wells Said Two Lying Mother Sleep Son Months Eating Spring South Fruit Dear Hunger Strikes Apples Reaching Protest Bowls Gracious Two Months Flooding Hunger Strike

Book:Fire

Source: Fire

“Those ancients who in poetry presented the golden age, who sang its happy state, perhaps, in their Parnassus, dreamt this place. Here, mankind's root was innocent; and here were every fruit and never-ending spring; these streams--the nectar of which poets sing.”

States Age Mankind Poet Spring Roots Fruit Innocent Golden Streams Never Ending Golden Age Garden Of Eden Nectar

Book:Purgatorio: Introduction, Italian test & translation, and thirty-four drawings

Source: Purgatorio: Introduction, Italian test & translation, and thirty-four drawings

“I know I am but summer to your heart, And not the full four seasons of the year; And you must welcome from another part Such noble moods as are not mine, my dear. No gracious weight of golden fruits to sell Have I, nor any wise and wintry thing; And I have loved you all too long and well To carry still the high sweet breast of Spring. Wherefore I say: O love, as summer goes, I must be gone, steal forth with silent drums, That you may hail anew the bird and rose When I come back to you, as summer comes. Else will you seek, at some not distant time, Even your summer in another clime.”

Knows Years Wells Heart May Long Stills Gone Wise Four Mines Sweet Summer Spring Bird Seasons Weight Sells Rose Silent Fruit Dear Noble Mood Stealing Golden Welcome Breasts Gracious Hail Four Seasons

Book:Millay: Poems

Source: Millay: Poems

“There is continual spring, and harvest there Continual, both meeting at one time: For both the boughs do laughing blossoms bear, And with fresh colours deck the wanton prime, And eke attonce the heavy trees they climb, Which seem to labour under their fruits load: The whiles the joyous birds make their pastime Amongst the shady leaves, their sweet above, And their true loves without suspicion tell abroad.”

Seems Time Laughing Tree Sweet Bears Spring Bird Meetings Fruit Heavy Colour Climbs Labour Prime One Time Load Suspicion Harvest Joyous Deck Pastime Shady Wanton

Author:Edmund Spenser

“There is a cropping-time in the races of men, as in the fruits of the field; and sometimes, if the stock be good, there springs up for a time a succession of splendid men; and then comes a period of barrenness.”

Ifs Men Life Sometimes Race Fields Periods Spring Fruit Be Good Splendid Succession

Author:Aristotle

“Our judgment ripens; our imagination decays. We cannot at once enjoy the flowers of the Spring of life and the fruits of its Autumn.”

Life Fall Enjoy Imagination Flower Judgment Spring Fruit Autumn Decay Fall Autumn Fall Season Autumn Season

Author:Thomas B. Macaulay

“So Spring comes merry towards me here, but earns No answering smile from me, whose life is twin'd With the dead boughs that winter still must bind, And whom today the Spring no more concerns. Behold, this crocus is a withering flame; This snowdrop, snow; this apple-blossom's part To breed the fruit that breeds the serpent's art. Nay, for these Spring-flowers, turn thy face from them, Nor stay till on the year's last lily-stem The white cup shrivels round the golden heart.”

Source: Dante Gabriel Rossetti: An Anthology

“Beneath these fruit-tree boughs that shed Their snow-white blossoms on my head, With brightest sunshine round me spread Of spring's unclouded weather, In this sequestered nook how sweet To sit upon my orchard-seat! And birds and flowers once more to greet, My last year's friends together.”

Source: The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth, In: 1801-1805

“Lord of the springtime, Father of flower, field and fruit, smile on us in these earnest days when the work is heavy and the toil wearisome; lift up our hearts, O God, to the things worthwhile-sunshine and night, the dripping rain, the song of the birds, books and music, and the voices of our friends. Lift up our hearts to these this night and grant us Thy peace. Amen.”

Heart Book Night Song Father Voice Christianity Lord Fields Flower Spring Bird Rain Fruit Heavy Lifts Sunshine Grants Worthwhile Toil Earnest Springtime Amen Dripping Books And Music

Book:Prayers for Dark People

Source: Prayers for Dark People

“One of the greatest virtues of gardening is this perpetual renewal of youth and spring, of promise of flower and fruit that can always be read in the open book of the garden, by those with an eye to see, and a mind to understand.”

Mind Book Eye Virtue Youth Flower Promise Spring Garden Fruit Gardening Perpetual Renewal Open Book

Author:Edward Augustus Bowles

“The month of May was come, when every lusty heart beginneth to blossom, and to bring forth fruit; for like as herbs and trees bring forth fruit and flourish in May, in likewise every lusty heart that is in any manner a lover, springeth and flourisheth in lusty deeds. For it giveth unto all lovers courage, that lusty month of May.”

Heart May Tree Months Lovers Spring Fruit Deeds Herbs Spring Poems April And Spring

Author:Thomas Malory

“Strawberries that in gardens grow Are plump and juicy fine, But sweeter far as wise men know Spring from the woodland vine. No need for bowl or silver spoon, Sugar or spice or cream, Has the wild berry plucked in June Beside the trickling stream. One such to melt at the tongue's root, Confounding taste with scent, Beats a full peck of garden fruit: Which points my argument.”

Source: Country Sentiment

“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.”

World Giving Wealth Poverty Flower Spring Weakness Fruit Perseverance Spread Desert Landscape Thorns Bud Barren Fertility Abode Briars

Author:Samuel Griswold Goodrich

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