The Ducklings of Spring
Wednesday, 12 April 2017
There is an old saying that no matter how long the winter lasts the spring is sure to follow. With the spring comes new life – a new generation takes its first tentative steps in to the world. Although people associate spring with many animals there is surely something about the sight of ducklings which lifts the heart and puts a hopeful smile on the face. So here they come, the ducklings of spring! And yes, perhaps it is just a reason for a cute fest!
Spring is nature's way of saying, Let's party! ~Robin Williams
Young people are in a condition like permanent intoxication, because youth is sweet and they are growing. ~ Aristotle
April prepares her green traffic light and the world thinks Go. ~Christopher Morley, John Mistletoe
You can only be young once. But you can always be immature. ~ Dave Barry
I'm youth, I'm joy, I'm a little bird that has broken out of the egg. ~James M. Barrie
It's spring fever. That is what the name of it is. And when you've got it, you want - oh, you don't quite know what it is you do want, but it just fairly makes your heart ache, you want it so! ~Mark Twain
We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future. ~Franklin D. Roosevelt
Science has never drummed up quite as effective a tranquilizing agent as a sunny spring day. ~W. Earl Hall
Youth, which is forgiven everything, forgives itself nothing: age, which forgives itself everything, is forgiven nothing. ~George Bernard Shaw
April is a promise that May is bound to keep. ~Hal Borland
Don't laugh at a youth for his affectations; he is only trying on one face after another to find his own. ~Logan Pearsall Smith
In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt. ~Margaret Atwood
We are none of us infallible--not even the youngest of us. ~W. H. Thompson
Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems. ~Rainer Maria Rilke
There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age. ~Sophia Loren
April hath put a spirit of youth in everything. ~William Shakespeare
Youth is easily deceived, because it is quick to hope. ~Aristotle
Poor, dear, silly Spring, preparing her annual surprise! ~Wallace Stevens
You're never too old to become younger ~Mae West
Tis a month before the month of May, and the spring comes slowly up this way. ~Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Young people need models, not critics ~John Wooden
Spring hangs her infant blossoms on the trees,
Rock'd in the cradle of the western breeze. ~ William Cowper,
First image Credit Flickr User CzechR
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