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Folk music was out there. Clubs were springing up and they were hot with the college kids. -- Dick Smothers
Some minds seem almost to create themselves, springing up under every disadvantage and working their solitary but irresistible way through a thousand obstacles. -- Washington Irving
Rachel Cusk's books are like pop-up volumes for grown-ups, the prose springing out of the page to bop you neatly between the eyes with its insights. -- Julie Burchill
Darwin gives courage to the rest of science that we shall end up understanding literally everything, springing from almost nothing - a thought extremely hard to comprehend and believe. -- Richard Dawkins
Because I write prose, when I sat down to write a comic, it feels like my brain's working differently. It actually feels like different bits of my head are springing into action. -- Denise Mina
What happened? The Country got sick of it and said, Enough is enough. And all over the Country we saw springing up community organizations determined to do something about this terrible menace of drugs. -- Barry McCaffrey
Folk music is music that everyday people can play, and it inspired a lot of people to make their own music. That trailed into making your own pop music, and that's why garage bands started springing up everywhere. -- Arlo Guthrie
The 1920s and 1930s were a period of sensational productivity growth: new products were springing up all over the place, and most of those new products and new methods were developed by people who started their own companies. -- Edmund Phelps
Queen Victoria did not regard art, letters, or music as in any way springing from national character: they were something quite apart, elegant decorations resembling a scarf or a bracelet, and in no way expressive of the soul of the country. -- E. F. Benson
If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy, if a blade of grass springing up in the fields has power to move you, if the simple things of nature have a message that you understand, rejoice, for your soul is alive. -- Eleonora Duse
How imperceptibly the first springing takes place! -- Henry David Thoreau
The public can have no rights springing from injustice to others. -- Frederick Romilly
I shall eat anyone who tries to steal my singing, springing lark! -- Jacob Grimm
The term "?reconciliation' describes the atonement as springing from the initiative of God Himself. -- Geerhardus Vos
The source is within you. And this whole world is springing up from it. -- Rumi
There is something in the Olympics, indefinable, springing from the soul, that must be preserved. -- Chris Brasher
I heard an Angel singing; When the day was springing, Mercy, Pity, Peace; Is the world's release. -- William Blake
Just like moons and suns, With certainty of tides, Just like hopes springing high, Still I'll rise. -- Maya Angelou
The march of humanity, springing as it does from an infinite multitude of individual wills, is continuous. -- Leo Tolstoy
Just like moons and suns,With certainty of tides,Just like hopes springing high,Still I'll rise." -- Maya Angelou
The young pines springing up in the corn-fields from year to year are to me a refreshing fact. -- Henry David Thoreau
I have seen the Lady April bringing the daffodils, Bringing the springing grass and the soft warm April rain. -- John Masefield
Consideration is the soil in which wisdom may be expected to grow, and strength be given to every up-springing plant of duty. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Festival of the impassioned efforts and manifold ambitions of all forms of youthful activity of every generation springing from the threshold of life. -- Pierre de Coubertin
We live in a world where knowledge is developing at an ever-accelerating rate. Drink deeply from this ever-springing well of wisdom and human experience. -- Gordon B. Hinckley
Until people see poetry as springing from all of life, they will isolate it in a creativity corner and treat it like a mascot. -- Phillip Lopate
His tenderness in the springing grass, His beauty in the flowers, His living love in the sun above- All here, and near, and ours! -- Samuel Gilman
Fawcett could never take the final leap of a modern anthropologist and accept that complex civilizations were capable of springing up independently of each other. -- David Grann
What has been presented as Christianity during these nineteen centuries is only a beginning, full of mistakes, not full blown Christianity springing from the spirit of Jesus. -- Albert Schweitzer
O lovely lily clean, O lily springing green, O lily bursting white, Dear lily of delight, Spring in my heart agen That I may flower to men. -- John Masefield
With faith and love God's given, springing from the hope we know. We will pray the joy you'll live in, is the strength that now you show. -- Michael W. Smith
If you think you can grasp me, think again: my story flows in more than one direction, a delta springing from the river bed with its five fingers spread. -- Adrienne Rich
our finest writing will certainly come from what is unregenerate in ourselves. It will come from the part that is obdurate, unbanishable, immune to education, springing up like grass. -- Bonnie Friedman
In the desert a fountain is springing, In the wide waste there still is a tree, And a bird in the solitude singing, Which speaks to my spirit of thee -- Lord Byron
Like so many substantial citizens of America, he had married young and kept on marrying, springing from blonde to blonde like the chamois of the Alps leaping from crag to crag. -- P. G. Wodehouse
The sun meets not the springing bud that stretches towards him with half the certainty that God, the source of all good, communicates himself to the soul that longs to partake of him. -- William Law
The first lights of the evening were springing into pale existence. The Ferris wheel, pricked out now in lights, revolved leisurely through the dusk; a few empty cars of the roller coaster rattled overhead. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
I believe that true identity is found . . . in creative activity springing from within. It is found, paradoxically, when one loses oneself. Woman can best refind herself in some kind of creative activity of her own. -- Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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