Spring Quotations

  • "Is it so small a thing To have enjoy'd the sun, To have lived light in the spring, To have loved, to have thought, to have done..."
    -- Matthew Arnold

  • "In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt."
    -- Margaret Atwood

  • "Spring being a tough act to follow, God created June."
    -- Al Bernstein

  • "An optimist is the human personification of spring."
    -- Susan J. Bissonette

  • "Can words describe the fragrance of the very breath of spring? "
    -- Neltje Blanchan

  • "Autumn arrives in early morning, but spring at the close of a winter day."
    -- Elizabeth Bowen

  • "If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant; if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome."
    -- Anne Bradstreet

  • "Happiness is like a sunbeam, which the least shadow intercepts, while adversity is often as the rain of spring."
    -- Chinese Proverb

  • "When spring comes the grass grows by itself. "
    -- Tao Te Ching

  • "Sweet springtime is my time is your time is our time for springtime is love time and viva sweet love. "
    -- e.e. cummings

  • "A little Madness in the spring Is wholesome even for the King."
    -- Emily Dickinson

  • "We are reformers in the spring and summer, but in autumn we stand by the old. Reformers in the morning, and conservers at night."
    -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

  • "Oh, give us pleasure in the flowers today; And give us not to think so far away As the uncertain harvest; keep us here All simply in the springing of the year."
    -- Robert Frost

  • "Spring sprang suddenly onto the land. "
    -- Jean Giono

  • "Science has never drummed up quite as effective a tranquilizing agent as a sunny spring day."
    -- W. Earl Hall

  • "I stuck my head out the window this morning and spring kissed me bang in the face. "
    -- Langston Hughes

  • "Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart."
    -- Victor Hugo

  • "Spring shows what God can do with a drab and dirty world."
    -- Virgil A. Kraft

  • "Spring is when you feel like whistling even with a shoe full of slush."
    -- Doug Larson

  • "One swallow does not make a summer, but one skein of geese, cleaving the murk of March thaw, is the spring."
    -- Aldo Leopold

  • "If spring came but once a century instead of once a year, or burst forth with the sound of an earthquake and not in silence, what wonder and expectation there would be in all hearts to behold the miraculous change. "
    -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  • "Indoors or out, no one relaxes in March, that month of wind and taxes, the wind will presently disappear, the taxes last us all the year."
    -- Ogden Nash

  • "The difference between a gun and a tree is a difference of tempo. The tree explodes every spring. "
    -- Ezra Pound

  • "Spring has returned. The earth is like a child that knows poems. "
    -- Rainer Maria Rilke

  • "Spring is when life's alive in everything."
    -- Christina Rossetti

  • "If I had my life to live over, I would start barefoot earlier in the spring and stay that way later in the fall."
    -- Nadine Stair

  • "The world's favorite season is the spring. All things seem possible in May."
    -- Edwin Way Teale

  • "Spring An experience in immortality. "
    -- Henry David Thoreau

  • "Spring is a true reconstructionist."
    -- Henry Timrod

  • "Spring is a heart full of hope and a shoe full of rain."
    -- Unknown

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