Some articles on springs, spring:
... Western Springs Stadium is an entertainment venue in Auckland, New Zealand, that consists of a natural amphitheatre ... Western Springs Stadium has a crowd capacity of 30,000 for sports and upwards of 50,000 for concerts ... It is located four kilometres west of the city centre in the suburb of Western Springs ...
... Dripping Springs can refer to Dripping Springs, Grand Canyon, Arizona Dripping Springs, Oklahoma (disambiguation) Dripping Springs, Texas Dripping Springs Trail ...
... Springs should be tested and proved in advance in the following ways ... strong, their complexions fresh, legs sound, and eyes clear, the springs deserve complete approval ... If it is a spring just dug out, its water is excellent if it can be sprinkled into a Corinthian vase or into any other sort made of good bronze without leaving a spot on it ...
... There were 1,924 households out of which 29.7% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 51.2% were married couples living together, 8.9% had a female householder with no husband present, and 34.9% were non-families. 26.1% of all households were made up of individuals and 9.6% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older ...
... The town is known for its greenhouses, which are heated by hot water from volcanic hot springs ... These springs are the site of occurrence of certain extremophile micro-organisms, that are capable of surviving in extremely hot environments.(C.Michael Hogan ... Close to the church is a hot spring called Sandhólshver, formed during the violent South Iceland earthquake of 1896 ...
Famous quotes containing the word springs:
“...many men choose a wife amid the deft-fingered clerks in preference to the society misses. The woman clerk has studied the value of concentration, learned the lesson that incites to work when a burden bears heavily upon her strength. She knows the word of self- reliance, and the fine courage that springs from the consciousness that a good result has been accomplished by a well-directed effort.”
—Clara (Marquise)
“A human action becomes genuinely important when it springs from the soil of a clear-sighted awareness of the temporality and the ephemerality of everything human. It is only this awareness that can breathe any greatness into an action.”
—Václav Havel (b. 1936)
“In short, as a snow-drift is formed where there is a lull in the wind, so, one would say, where there is a lull of truth, an institution springs up. But the truth blows right on over it, nevertheless, and at length blows it down.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)