"If there comes a little thaw, Still the air is chill and raw, Here and there a patch of snow, Dirtier than the ground below, Dribbles down a marshy flood; Ankle-deep you stick in mud In the meadows while you sing, This is Spring."

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Source : Christopher Pearse Cranch (1875). “The Bird and the Bell: With Other Poems”, p.199

Christopher Pearse Cranch

#Spring Quotes #Air Quotes #Snow Quotes

“Between certainty and the real, an ancient enmity.”
“It's also a question of finding good material and interesting roles. I'm not the only actress out there, and good parts just don't fall into your lap that easily. But I like most of the films I've made recently and so I'm pretty positive about the future.”
“While I recognize the necessity for a basis of observed reality... true art lies in a reality that is felt.”
“Many things in life inspire philanthropy, such as your faith in humanity and your belief in the human spirit to overcome.”
“One of the most depressing features of the ethical side of the matter is that instead of such methods arousing contempt they are more or less openly admired. And this is logical. Canonise 'business success,' and men who made a success like that of the Standard Oil Trust become national heroes!”

Source : Ida M. Tarbell (2012). “The History of the Standard Oil Company: Briefer Version”, p.224, Courier Corporation
“There is a calmness to a life lived in gratitude, a quiet joy.”
“Instead of our petulant, fretful, irritable human hastiness we should cultivate in our souls the patience which has learned to wait on God.”
“Maybe happiness is this: not feeling like you should be elsewhere, doing something else, being someone else.”

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