Pastoral Resources

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.

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.

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.

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.

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!

'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.

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.

The beautiful spring came; and when Nature resumes her loveliness, the human soul is apt to revive also.

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.

I left Montana in Spring of 1866, for Utah, arriving at Salt Lake city during the summer.

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

I raised frogs every spring in our house from tadpoles and by end of summer our house was overrun with frogs.

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.

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.

People who write about spring training not being necessary have never tried to throw a baseball.

Spring is when you feel like whistling even with a shoe full of slush.

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

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.

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.

Many a genius has been slow of growth. Oaks that flourish for a thousand years do not spring up into beauty like a reed.