Willa Cather Quotes

There was only - spring itself, the throb of it, the light restlessness, the vital essence of it everywhere; in the sky, in the swift clouds, in the pale sunshine, and in the warm high wind - rising suddenly, sinking suddenly, impulsive ... If I had been tossed down blindfold on that red prairie, I should have known that it was spring.

Willa Cather

• Spring
• Sunshine
• Restlessness
• Impulsive

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• I got to the big leagues when I was 20. I thought I had it all figured out. Went to spring training that next year and started off well, got sent down, and I pouted pretty much all of 2000. And it wasn't the right way to handle it.

  

  Vernon Wells
  • Pretty
  • Training
  • Thought

• Let peace, descending from her native heaven, bid her olives spring amidst the joyful nations; and plenty, in league with commerce, scatter blessings from her copious hand!

  

  Daniel Boone
  • Peace
  • Hand
  • Heaven

• All the teaching I had ever received had failed to make me apply such intelligence as I was possessed of, directly and vividly: there had never been any sunshine, as regards language, in the earlier grey days of learning, for the sky had always pelted with gerunds and optatives.

  

  E. F. Benson
  • Learning
  • Sky
  • Intelligence

• For those of us imprisoned in Poland, the Prague Spring was a harbinger of hope.

  

  Adam Michnik
  • Hope
  • Spring
  • Poland

• I went to Rosemary Beach, Florida, for the first time in the spring of 2012.

  

  Abbi Glines
  • Time
  • Spring
  • Beach

• Between work and the kids, I never see anyone anymore. I mean, when I first met with ABC last spring, and they asked me what I'd been doing lately, I said: 'Gee, I have two kids. I'm usually covered with food, wrinkled and feel guilty all the time.

  

  Felicity Huffman
  • Time
  • Work
  • Kids

• The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Art
  • Light
  • Simplicity

• There's that old journalism rule that sunshine is the great disinfectant - which is how reporters bust their way into meetings and such all the time. In sports, I really think winning is the great disinfectant.

  

  J. R. Moehringer
  • Time
  • Great
  • Sports

• To me, steampunk and urban fantasy are naturally hinged together. And I think that's because I love the early gothic Victorian literature, and both things spring from that movement.

  

  Gail Carriger
  • Literature
  • Movement
  • Fantasy

• The main difference between the Prague Spring and the Velvet Revolution was that the former was mostly the work of Communist party members and others who wanted to bring about 'socialism with a human face.'

  

  Adam Michnik
  • Work
  • Party
  • Revolution

• Every day, I come home with a spring in my step. We've got to work together to stop the Obama agenda and take this country back.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Work
  • Country
  • Home

• It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn.

  

  B. C. Forbes
  • Spring
  • Autumn
  • Farmer

• Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Fall
  • inspirational
  • Sunshine

• Salbitxada is a sharp and lightly sweet Catalan sauce that's traditionally served with calcots - spring or salad onions, grilled whole, make a good substitute.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Good
  • Sweet
  • Spring

• The Arab Spring is kind of a perfect model for how people are going to use technology to act collectively in their own interest in the future. There's never been a revolution that was coordinated by social media to the degree that the Arab Spring was.

  

  Palmer Luckey
  • People
  • Future
  • Perfect

• I've been told that N.Y. in the spring is pretty special.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Pretty
  • Spring
  • Special

• The attacks of which I have been the object have broken the spring of life in me... People don't realize what it feels like to be constantly insulted.

  

  Edouard Manet
  • People
  • Life
  • Broken

• From the streets of Cairo and the Arab Spring, to Occupy Wall Street, from the busy political calendar to the aftermath of the tsunami in Japan, social media was not only sharing the news but driving it.

  

  Dan Rather
  • Political
  • Wall
  • Driving

• When lilacs last in the dooryard bloom'd / And the great star early droop'd in the western sky in the night, / I mourn'd, and yet shall mourn with ever-returning spring.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Night
  • Sky
  • Spring

• The heavy is the root of the light. The tranquil is the ruler of the hasty.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Light
  • Ruler
  • Hasty

• From drug companies to health insurers to Wall Street banks, big corporations are spending millions to buy influence in Washington and drown out the voices of regular people.

  

  Ayanna Pressley
  • Influence
  • Companies
  • Voices

• I was never good at painting. The great turning point came when I had a block of wood and I carved a shape into the wood and put a small piece of timber into that space - like a negative - and so it made an endless column, only inward.

  

  Carl Andre
  • Good
  • Great
  • Small

• I’m not interested in truths, like drawing an accurate picture of the real world. I’m interested in exploring the verities of the human condition.

  

  Jim Crace
  • World
  • Real
  • Picture

• There was only - spring itself, the throb of it, the light restlessness, the vital essence of it everywhere; in the sky, in the swift clouds, in the pale sunshine, and in the warm high wind - rising suddenly, sinking suddenly, impulsive ... If I had been tossed down blindfold on that red prairie, I should have known that it was spring.

  

  Willa Cather
  • Spring
  • Sunshine
  • Restlessness