The Arab Spring I think we will look back whether it's two years, five years, ten or fifteen. And say it's a good thing.
Abdullah II of Jordan
GoodSpringThinkLookBackSay
Though I do not believe that a plant will spring up where no seed has been, I have great faith in a seed... Convince me that you have a seed there, and I am prepared to expect wonders.
Henry David Thoreau
FaithGreatI AmSpringMeBelieve
More than in any other performing arts the lack of respect for acting seems to spring from the fact that every layman considers himself a valid critic.
Simone Weil
RespectSpringActingMoreCritic
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
Social MediaSpringBusyPolitical
My family moved - first to Washington, D.C., and then, in the spring of 1975, to Lebanon, where my father worked as a diplomat at the American embassy. My parents were enthusiastic about the move, so my older brother and I felt like we were off to some place kind of cool.
Greg Kinnear
FamilyFatherBrotherSpringParents
Great literature must spring from an upheaval in the author's soul. If that upheaval is not present then it must come from the works of any other author which happens to be handy and easily adapted.
Robert Benchley
GreatSoulSpringPresentLiterature
The Arab Awakening or Arab Spring has transformed the geopolitical landscape.
Ban Ki-moon
SpringLandscapeAwakeningArab
If you allow one single germ, one single seed of slavery to remain in the soil of America... that germ will spring up, that noxious weed will thrive, and again stifle the growth, wither the leaves, blast the flowers and poison the fair fruits of freedom.
Ernestine Rose
GrowthFreedomSpringFlowersSeed
The very idea of true patriotism is lost, and the term has been prostituted to the very worst of purposes. A patriot, sir! Why, patriots spring up like mushrooms!
Robert Walpole
PatriotismSpringLostTrueWhyUp
I rode horseback three miles each way to get to high school, and in bad weather it was a problem sometimes to make my eight o'clock class on time. Like others, I often missed school to help on the farm, especially in the fall, until after harvest, and in the spring, during planting season.
Ezra Taft Benson
TimeSchoolSpringWeatherHelpBad
Standing at a Christian music festival in Asbury, Ky., in the spring of 1978, I gave my life to Jesus Christ, and that's changed everything.
Mike Pence
LifeMusicSpringMy LifeChristian
One of the first drawings I did in Paris - I wasn't thinking of doing drawings, but somehow or other, I kept drawing - I bought a hyacinth flower with a lot of leaves, just to make me feel like spring.
Ellsworth Kelly
FlowerSpringMeThinkingDrawing
The revolutions of the Arab Spring happened because people realized they were the power.
Mohammed Morsi
PowerSpringPeopleBecauseHappened
Spring is very energising to me.
David Hockney
SpringMeVery
We see people in the Middle East begin to have dreams of new Ottoman Empire where everyone will be subjected to some of what we've seen happen in those countries where we helped bring about an Arab Spring that's turned into a Winter Nightmare.
Louie Gohmert
WinterDreamsSpringPeopleNewSee
You have to be like a clock spring, wound but not loose at the same time.
Dave Winfield
TimeSpringYouClockSameLike
When I was doing 'Spring Awakening' the first couple of years I was living in New York, I was gay, and I was living with my 'roommate,' who was my boyfriend but was my roommate to everyone else.
Jonathan Groff
New YorkSpringDoingGayLiving
You mean guys don't get injured in spring training? Guys get hurt walking down the street.
Bud Selig
TrainingSpringHurtWalkingYou
I left 'Spring Awakening,' and within a month of leaving the show, I came out to my parents and to my friends and broke up with my boyfriend and moved into an apartment of my own and completely changed my life.
LifeSpringParentsMy LifeFriends
The day the Lord created hope was probably the same day he created Spring.
Bernard Williams
HopeDaySpringSameLordHe
Democracy can only spring from practising it early, and democratic action was not to expected from young people brought up under a close authoritarian system.
Dora Russell
SpringPeopleDemocracyActionEarly
Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.
Albert Camus
NatureFlowerSpringLeafAutumn
A young ballplayer looks on his first spring training trip as a stage struck young woman regards the theater.
Christy Mathewson
WomanTrainingSpringLooksYoung
The whole structure of African government, as far back as we know, was based on tyranny. One guy ran the show. Chiefs like Chaka and Mzilikazi committed terrible atrocities. That is the tradition from which modern African rulers spring. It won't change easily overnight.
Wilbur Smith
ChangeGovernmentSpringTradition
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