Pastoral Resources

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.

Spring is God's way of saying, 'One more time!'

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.

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.

I hate the cursed Oriole fundamentals... I've been doing them since 1964. I do them in my sleep. I hate spring training.

In the spring and summer of 1989, a serious political disturbance took place in China.

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.

Every spring is the only spring, a perpetual astonishment.

The flowers anew, returning seasons bring; but beauty faded has no second spring.

The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in good education.

A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.

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.

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.

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

Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.

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.

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.

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.

Italy, and the spring and first love all together should suffice to make the gloomiest person happy.

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.