Springtime New Beginnings Quotes & Sayings

I'd call my work 'instinctual design.' I like to find the spirit of a piece that defies time, age, and occasion. My clothes give the wearer the chance to develop their own voice within a wardrobe, and I think of them as curators of their personal style. — Chris Benz

For, what is a family without a steward, a ship without a pilot, a flock without a shepherd, a body without a head, the same, I think, is a kingdom without the health and safety of a good monarch. — Elizabeth I

We found that when we accepted our children's feelings they were more able to accept the limits we set for them. — Adele Faber

Warfare against civilians must never be answered in kind. Terror must never be answered with terror. — Caleb Carr

Everyone has a bad hair day; the trick is not to have one on picture day. — Mark R. Woodward

It seemed a tragedy to want nothing - and yet he wanted something, something. He knew in flashes what it was - some path of hope to lead him toward what he thought was an imminent and ominous old age. — F Scott Fitzgerald

The fourteen conscious robots contemplated their cosmic loneliness for several milliseconds. — Ken MacLeod

I brushed my hand through his blond hair. "You're a fool, Your Furriness."
Tiny gold sparks flared in his irises. "You're in my rooms in my bathtub naked and you're still mouthing off."
Did he expect something different? "Hey, I didn't kick you or punch you in the throat. I consider this progress. And you haven't choked me again, which is some sort of record for you . . ."
He grabbed me with a growl. "That's it. You're in for it."
"Very scary. I'm shaking in my - "
He locked his mouth on mine and I decided it was a good incentive to shut up. — Ilona Andrews

From the end spring new beginnings. — Pliny The Elder

Part of me wants justice for this. Part of me wants to never cause harm to another. — Ken Scholes

When a vacuum forms, someting has to come along to fill it. Because that's what everybody does. — Haruki Murakami

Little Montenegro! He lifted up the words and nodded at them-with his smile. The smile comprehended Montenegro's troubled history and sympathized with the brave struggles of the Montenegrin people. It appreciated fully the chain of national circumstances, which had elicited this tribute from Montenegro's warm little heart. My incredulity was submerged in fascination now; it was like skimming hastily through a dozen magazines. — F Scott Fitzgerald

But are not some whole that we must make sick? — William Shakespeare

Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
Who supervises the supervisors themselves? — Juvenal

I go on stage with what God gave me - and that's a natural high. I don't need nothing to perk me up. The audience picks me up enough. That's the total God's truth. — Barbara Lynn

They always say they didn't. I never heard of one who said, 'You know, I deserve this.' Never happens. — Michael Crichton

When a tree is polled, it will sprout new shoots nearer its roots. A soul that is ruined in the bud will frequently return to the springtime of its beginnings and its promise-filled childhood, as though it could discover new hopes there and retie the broken threads of life. The shoots grow rapidly and eagerly, but it is only a sham life that will never be a genuine tree. — Hermann Hesse

But there could be no new beginning, nor would one be important. We are not aware when new beginnings arrive; we only discover them later when they have already engulfed us, when everything merely continues. Then we believe that everything could have been different, but it could not have, and so we rush into springtime, so as not to think about nonexistent beginnings or unpleasant continuations. — Mesa Selimovic

Life stands before me like an eternal spring with new and brilliant clothes. — Carl Friedrich Gauss