Spring Quotations
- "Earth teach me to forget myself as melted snow forgets its life. Earth teach me resignation as the leaves which die in the fall. Earth teach me courage as the tree which stands all alone. Earth teach me regeneration as the seed which rises in the spring. "
-- William Alexander - "Chicago is an October sort of city even in spring. "
-- Nelson Algren - "A souvenir of those years is a small cottage on the cliffs of Cornwall, where Joyce and I spend a spring month every year, hiking and seeing friends. "
-- Philip Warren Anderson - "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 - "Welcome, wild harbinger of spring! To this small nook of earth; Feeling and fancy fondly cling, Round thoughts which owe their birth, To thee, and to the humble spot, Where chance has fixed thy lowly lot. "
-- Bernard Barton - "Spring rain conveyed under the trees in drops."
-- Matsuo Basho - "Spring with its wavin' green grass and heaps of sweet-smellin' flowers on every hill and in every dale. "
-- Roy Bean - "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 - "No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn. "
-- Hal Borland - "For every person who has ever lived there has come, at last, a spring he will never see. Glory then in the springs that are yours. "
-- Pam Brown - "I trust in nature for the stable laws of beauty and utility. Spring shall plant and autumn garner to the end of time. "
-- Robert Browning - "Spring would not be spring without bird songs."
-- Francis M. Chapman - "Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, you will vainly look for fruit on it in autumn."
-- Hare Charles - "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 - "The peace and beauty of a spring day had descended upon the earth like a benediction. "
-- Kate Chopin - "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 - "No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face. "
-- John Donne - "From the end spring new beginnings. "
-- Pliny the Elder - "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 - "A man has every season while a woman only has the right to spring. "
-- Jane Fonda - "It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn. "
-- B. C. Forbes - "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 - "I do hope that our spring will be starting shortly and we will all be able to enjoy some sunshine again. "
-- Lesley Garrett - "It breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in the spring when everything else begins again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains come, it stops and leaves you to face the fall alone. "
-- A. Bartlett Giamatti - "Keep your faith in all beautiful things; in the sun when it is hidden, in the spring when it is gone."
-- Roy R. Gilson - "Spring sprang suddenly onto the land. "
-- Jean Giono - "Spring was moving in the air above and in the earth below and around him, penetrating even his dark and lowly little house with its spirit of divine discontent and longing. "
-- Kenneth Grahame - "Science has never drummed up quite as effective a tranquilizing agent as a sunny spring day."
-- W. Earl Hall - "In California in the early Spring, There are pale yellow mornings, when the mist burns slowly into day, The air stings like Autumn, clarifies like pain - Well, I have dreamed this coast myself. "
-- Robert Hass - "All through the long winter, I dream of my garden. On the first day of spring, I dig my fingers deep into the soft earth. I can feel its energy, and my spirits soar."
-- Helen Hayes - "Sweet spring, full of sweet days and roses, a box where sweets compacted lie. "
-- George Herbert - "Nothing is so beautiful as spring - when weeds, in wheels, shoot long and lovely and lush; Thrush's eggs look little low heavens, and thrush through the echoing timber does so rinse and wring the ear, it strikes like lightning to hear him sing. "
-- Gerard Manley Hopkins - "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 - "The cool wind blew in my face and all at once I felt as if I had shed dullness from myself. Before me lay a long gray line with a black mark down the center. The birds were singing. It was spring. "
-- Burl Ives - "The beautiful spring came; and when Nature resumes her loveliness, the human soul is apt to revive also. "
-- Harriet Ann Jacobs - "No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of spring. "
-- Samuel Johnson - "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 - "Spring has many American faces. There are cities where it will come and go in a day and counties where it hangs around and never quite gets there. Summer is drawn blinds in Louisiana, long winds in Wyoming, shade of elms and maples in New England. "
-- Archibald MacLeish - "Spring won't let me stay in this house any longer! I must get out and breathe the air deeply again. "
-- Gustav Mahler - "With the coming of spring, I am calm again. "
-- Gustav Mahler - "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 - "I want to do to you what spring does with the cherry trees. "
-- Pablo Neruda - "You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming. "
-- Pablo Neruda - "Spring is God's way of saying, 'One more time!' "
-- Robert Orben - "It Might As Well Be Spring... I used to sing that as a young girl in my voice lessons. Then I picked it up again and it spoke to me in a whole new way. "
-- Bernadette Peters - "Every spring is the only spring, a perpetual astonishment. "
-- Ellis Peters - "The flowers anew, returning seasons bring! But beauty faded has no second spring."
-- Ambrose Philips - "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 - "A boy shows how much he wants to play in the spring, when it's tough, and during two a days, when it's hot and tough. "
-- Darrell Royal - "Think of a field of daisies: they bloom, they wither, and in the spring they grow again. Who wants to see the same stupid daisy year after year, especially with a bunch of crappy iron-lung-type equipment bolted to it? "
-- Rudy Rucker - "Italy, and the spring and first love all together should suffice to make the gloomiest person happy."
-- Bertrand Russell - "To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring."
-- George Santayana - "Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, you will vainly look for fruit on it in autumn."
-- Walter Scott - "Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May."
-- William Shakespeare - "April comes like an idiot, babbling and strewing flowers."
-- Edna St. Vincent Millay - "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 - "One attraction in coming to the woods to live was that I should have leisure and opportunity to see the spring come in."
-- Henry David Thoreau - "Spring is a true reconstructionist."
-- Henry Timrod - "Sweet April showers do spring May flowers. "
-- Thomas Tusser - "In the Spring, I have counted 136 different kinds of weather inside of 24 hours. "
-- Mark Twain - "Spring is a heart full of hope and a shoe full of rain."
-- Unknown - "The first day of spring is one thing, and the first spring day is another. The difference between them is sometimes as great as a month. "
-- Henry Van Dyke - "The true harbinger of spring is not crocuses or swallows returning to Capistrano, but the sound of the bat on the ball. "
-- Bill Veeck - "The day the Lord created hope was probably the same day he created Spring. "
-- Bern Williams
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