Weatherwax Spring Quotes

When spring came, even the false spring, there were no problems except where to be happiest. ~ Ernest Hemingway,

Esme Weatherwax hadn't done nice. She'd done what was needed. ~ Terry Pratchett

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

I suppose the best kind of spring morning is the best weather God has to offer. ~ Dodie Smith

Spring won't let me stay in this house any longer! I must get out and breathe the air deeply again. ~ Gustav Mahler

Spring unlocks the flowers to paint the laughing soil. ~ Reginald Heber

Well, you know Esme. She wasn't one for that kind of thing - never one to push herself forward*
* She hadn't ever needed to. Granny Weatherwax was like the prow of a ship. Seas parted when she turned up. ~ Terry Pratchett

Humans take. They plough with iron. They ravage the land.'
'Some do, I'll grant you that. Others put back more'n they take. They put back love. They've got soil in their bones. ~ Terry Pratchett

Spring brings warmth and blossom of flowers. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Mrs. Earwig (pronounced Ar-wige, at least by Mrs. Earwig) believed in shiny wands, and magical amulets and mystic runes and the power of the stars, while Granny Weatherwax in cups of tea, dry biscuits, washing every morning in cold water and, well ... mostly she believed in Granny Weatherwax. ~ Terry Pratchett

For winter's rains and ruins are over, And all the season of snows and sins; The days dividing lover and lover, The light that loses, the night that wins; And time remembered is grief forgotten, And frosts are slain and flowers begotten, And in green underwood and cover Blossom by blossom the spring begins. ~ Algernon Charles Swinburne

Spring comes: the flowers learn their colored shapes. ~ Maria Konopnicka

Every year, back comes Spring, with nasty little birds yapping their fool heads off and the ground all mucked up with plants. ~ Dorothy Parker

On a million hillsides the girl ran, on a million bridges the girl chose, on a million paths the woman stood...
All different, all one.
All she could do for all of them was be herself, here and now, as hard as she could. ~ Terry Pratchett

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

Spring is when life's alive in everything. ~ Christina Rossetti

May is a pious fraud of the almanac. ~ James Russell Lowell

You can be an atheist three seasons out of the year, but not during spring. Spring makes it mandatory to believe in a Divine Creator. ~ Toni Sorenson

Do not wish an everlasting spring! Without tasting the winter, you cannot get pleasure out of the spring! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

They wanted spring, of course they wanted it, more than anything. They longed for sun with every pore of their skin. But spring hurts. If spring can come, if things can be different, how can you bear what your existence has been? ~ Helen Dunmore

Hee that is in a towne in May loseth his spring. ~ George Herbert

That is one good thing about this world ... there are always sure to be more springs. ~ Lucy Maud Montgomery

Everything is new in the spring. Springs themselves are always so new, too. No spring is ever just like any other spring. It always has something of its own to be its own peculiar sweetness. ~ Lucy Maud Montgomery

Nostalgia in reverse, the longing for yet another strange land, grew especially strong in spring. ~ Vladimir Nabokov

After winter, spring never forgets to come. ~ Debasish Mridha

In the spring rain, The pond and the river Have become one. ~ Yosa Buson

Spring is spring. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

I've known since day one of working on 'Spring Awakening' - back in 1999 - that it was special. ~ Lea Michele

Life breathed spring (haiku)
spring awakening
dance of lovers
delicately wrapped in cherry blossoms ~ Kristian Goldmund Aumann

I recommend SILENT SPRING above all other books. ~ N.J. Berrill

Love's gentle spring doth always fresh remain. ~ William Shakespeare

I can still bring into my body the joy I felt at seeing the first trillium of spring, which seemed to be telling me, Never give up hope, spring will come. ~ Jessica Stern

Expect to have hope rekindled. Expect your prayers to be answered in wondrous ways. The dry seasons in life do not last. The spring rains will come again. ~ Sarah Ban Breathnach

Spring is childhood, summer is youth, autumn is maturity, and winter is weariness and waiting. But with spring youth returns, no matter how old we are. ~ Toni Sorenson

Mistress Weatherwax, you are a natural disputant." "No I ain't! ~ Terry Pratchett

Granny Weatherwax looked out at the multi-layered, silvery world.

"Where am I?"

INSIDE THE MIRROR.

"Am I dead?"

THE ANSWER TO THAT, said Death, IS SOMEWHERE BETWEEN NO AND YES.

Esme turned, and a billion figures turned with her.

"When can I get out?"

WHEN YOU FIND THE ONE THAT'S REAL.

"Is this a trick question?"

NO.

Granny looked down at herself.

"This one," she said. ~ Terry Pratchett

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

What's to be afraid of?' she managed. 'Us,' said Granny Weatherwax, smugly. The ~ Terry Pratchett

If these poems repeat themselves, then so does Spring. ~ Rumi

Break open
A cherry tree
And there are no flowers;
But the spring breeze
Brings forth myriad blossoms. ~ Ikkyu

I've kind of looked at my whole career as a spring training invite. ~ Jamie Moyer

An Ashinabe "spring poem" translated by Gerald Vizenor:

as my eyes
look across the prairie
i feel the summer
in the spring ~ Howard Zinn

I feel as good now as I have any other spring training, ~ Roy Halladay

Spring and Autumn
Every season hath its pleasures;
Spring may boast her flowery prime,
Yet the vineyard's ruby treasures
Brighten Autumn's sob'rer time. ~ Thomas Moore

The Spring I seek is in a new face only. ~ Allen Tate

T'was Spring, t'was Summer, all was gay Now Autumn bears a cloud brow The flowers of Spring are swept way And Summer fruits desert the bough ~ Thomas Gray

Here at CBS, spring also means March Madness. I love the name March Madness. I'm glad the PC police haven't made us change March Madness to early spring psychosis. ~ Craig Ferguson

Spring is beautiful, and smells sweet. Spring is when you shake the curtains, and pound on the rugs, and take off your long underwear, and wash in all the corners. ~ Virginia Cary Hudson

Every April God rewrites the book of Genesis. ~ Austin O'Malley

In the Spring a livelier iris changes on the burnish'd dove;
In the Spring a young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love. ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson

At least two of those present tonight were wearing Granny Weatherwax's famous goose-grease-and-sage chest liniment. ~ Terry Pratchett

Spring Break is very strange. I grew up in France, so I don't know Spring Break. That doesn't exist in Europe. ~ Alexandre Aja

Meanwhile spring arrived. My old dejection passed away and gave place to the unrest which spring brings with it, full of dreams and vague hopes and desires. ~ Leo Tolstoy

The peace and beauty of a spring day had descended upon the earth like a benediction. ~ Kate Chopin

I love better to count time from spring to spring; it seems to me far more cheerful to reckon the year by blossoms than by blight. ~ Donald G. Mitchell

I think some of this fascination with the 'Arab Spring' is just a grand experiment with Israel's survival. ~ John Bolton

I stuck my head out the window this morning and spring kissed me bang in the face. ~ Langston Hughes

The mason asks but a narrow shelf to spring his brick from; man requires only an infinitely narrower one to spring his arch of faith from. ~ Henry David Thoreau

Hillary Clinton is now driving from New York to Iowa. It's been called the least-exciting spring break trip in history. ~ Conan O'Brien

Spring time is nature at its best. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Ever notice how baby shampoo smells like spring? ~ Toni Sorenson

Every spring is the only spring, a perpetual astonishment! ~ Ellis Peters

Despite the forecast, live like it's spring. ~ Lilly Pulitzer

Where the laws are not supreme, there demagogues spring up. ~ Aristotle.

Spring shows what God can do with a drab and dirty world. ~ Victor Kraft

Be as peaceful as a dancing spring flower. ~ Debasish Mridha

Don't forget to enjoy the winter, but never give up hopes for the spring. ~ Debasish Mridha

Poets and songwriters speak highly of spring as one of the great joys of life in the temperate zone, but in the real world most of spring is disappointing. We looked forward to it too long, and the spring we had in mind in February was warmer and dryer than the actual spring when it finally arrives. We'd expected it to be a whole season, like winter, instead of a handful of separate moments and single afternoons. ~ Barbara Holland

Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius. ~ Pietro Aretino

Magrat knew she had lost. You always lost against Granny Weatherwax, the only interest was in seeing exactly how. ~ Terry Pratchett

If you want to get rid of stuff, you can always do a good spring-cleaning. Or you can do what I do. Move. ~ Ellen DeGeneres

SPRING In every winter's heart there is a quivering spring, and behind the veil of each night there is a smiling dawn. SP-ST-57 ~ Kahlil Gibran

Your private relationship with yourself is a spring that will feed every other factor. ~ Ashley Judd

Have you not heard? Dark elves are psychopaths. ~ Anglia Spring

Spring is the time of plans and projects. ~ Leo Tolstoy

You look like the first breath of spring, ~ Iris Johansen

Ella turned to the fireplace where a blackened kettle hung over what Granny Weatherwax always called an optimist's fire: two logs and hope. ~ Terry Pratchett

It is always a joyful spring when your heart can dance and your soul can sing. ~ Debasish Mridha

Spring Training is a fun time for me. ~ Joe Torre

Spring, the sweet spring, is the year's pleasant king;
Then blooms each thing, then maids dance in a ring,
Cold doth not sting, the pretty birds do sing.
Cuckoo, jug-jug, pu-we, to-witta-woo! ~ Thomas Nash

There are no ordinary feelings. Just as there are no ordinary spring days or kicked over cans of paint. ~ Dean Young

Spring appears and we are once more children. ~ Stendhal

Winter is the reason for the spring; he who loves the spring must also love its reason! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

The wealthy man is not he who has money, but he who has the means to live in the luxurious state of early spring. ~ Anton Chekhov

If people did not love one another, I really don't see what use there would be in having any spring. ~ Victor Hugo

I worked consistently on Broadway from when I was 8 years old through 'Spring Awakening,' which I left in 2008. ~ Lea Michele

How long have the planets been circling the sun? Are they getting anywhere, and do they go faster and faster in order to arrive? How often has the spring returned to the earth? Does it come faster and fancier every year, to be sure to be better than last spring, and to hurry on its way to the spring that shall out-spring all springs? ~ Alan W. Watts

August brings into sharp focus and a furious boil everything I've been listening to in the late spring and summer. ~ Henry Rollins

Every year it seems to me I hear complaints about spring. It is either "late" or "unusually cold," "abnormally dry" or "fantastically wet," for no one is ever willing to admit that there is no such thing as a normal spring. ~ Thalassa Cruso

If anyone locked me in a dungeon, there'd be screams. ~ Terry Pratchett

Wind and rain escorted Spring's departure,
Flying snow welcomes Spring's return.
On the ice-clad rock rising high and sheer
A flower blooms sweet and fair.
Sweet and fair, she craves not Spring for herself alone,
To be the harbinger of Spring she is content.
When the mountain flowers are in full bloom
She will smile mingling in their midst. ~ Mao Zedong

Spring is the shortest season. ~ Linda Pastan

Be a person who can dream about spring in the dead of winter. ~ Debasish Mridha

You cannot force things to happen before their time. The Spring Will come and the flowers will blossom, but you cannot force the Spring. The Rain will come, the clouds will cover the sky, the whole thirst of the earth will be gone- but you cannot force it. And this is the beauty ... that the more patient you are, the quicker is the coming of Spring. ~ Rajneesh

There is a cleansing from winter darkness the moment we sink our fingers into spring's fresh earth. ~ Toni Sorenson

Spring is the sound of birds chirping, the taste of cherry juice, the feel of grass on bare feet, the sight of pink roses and blue skies, and the feel of dandelion fuzz. Spring, in other words, is a welcome, wondrous sensory overload. ~ Toni Sorenson

To enjoy and appreciate the beauty of a dazzling spring, I save winter in my warm heart. ~ Debasish Mridha

I know there will be spring, as surely as the birds know it when they see above the snow two tiny, quivering green leaves. Spring cannot fail us. ~ Olive Schreiner

In my day, if a guy came to spring training 20 pounds heavier than what he left, he was considered out of shape and was probably in trouble. ~ Ryne Sandberg

In Winter the bare boughs that seem to sleep Work covertly, preparing for their Spring. ~ Rumi