“Musical ideas sprang to my mind like a flight of butterflies, and all I had to do was to stretch out my hand to catch them.”
Charles Gounod
“Where are the flowers, the fair young flowers, that lately sprang and stoodIn brighter light and softer airs, a beauteous sisterhood?”
William Cullen Bryant
“Near the turn of the century, the destitute of Europe sprang on the city with tenacious claws and an honest and solid dream. The city devoured them. They swelled its belly until it burst into a thousand furnaces and sewing machines, a thousand butcher shops and bakers' ovens, a thousand churches and hospitals and funeral parlors and money lenders. The city grew. It nourished itself and offered each man a partnership limited only by his talent, his guile and his willingness and capacity for hard work. For the immigrants of Europe, a dream dared and won true.”
August Wilson
“And some fell among thorns; and the thorns sprang up with it, and choked it.”
Bible
“And other fell on good ground, and did yield fruit that sprang up and increased; and brought forth, some thirty, and some sixty, and some an hundred.”
“I sprang to the stirrup, and Joris, and he; / I galloped, Dirck galloped, we galloped all three.”
Robert Browning
“For it is evident that our Lord sprang out of Juda; of which tribe Moses spake nothing concerning priesthood.”
