Friday, April 8, 2011

Spring Quotes








Springtime is the land awakening. The March winds are the morning yawn. ~Quoted by Lewis Grizzard in Kathy Sue Loudermilk, I Love You


Spring is nature's way of saying, "Let's party!" ~Robin Williams


Spring makes its own statement, so loud and clear that the gardener seems to be only one of the instruments, not the composer. ~Geoffrey B. Charlesworth


April prepares her green traffic light and the world thinks Go. ~Christopher Morley, John Mistletoe



It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade. ~Charles Dickens


Everything is blooming most recklessly; if it were voices instead of colors, there would be an unbelievable shrieking into the heart of the night. ~Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters of Rainer Maria Rilke


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


Hoe while it is spring, and enjoy the best anticipations. It is not much matter if things do not turn out well. ~Charles Dudley Warner




I love spring anywhere, but if I could choose I would always greet it in a garden. ~Ruth Stout


No matter how long the winter, spring is sure to follow. ~Proverb


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


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


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


The year's at the spring
And day's at the morn;
Morning's at seven;
The hillside's dew-pearled;
The lark's on the wing;
The snail's on the thorn;
God's in His heaven -
All's right with the world!
~Robert Browning


No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn. ~Hal Borland


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


April is a promise that May is bound to keep. ~Hal Borland


Where man sees but withered leaves,
God sees sweet flowers growing.
~Albert Laighton


That God once loved a garden we learn in Holy writ.
And seeing gardens in the Spring I well can credit it.
~Winifred Mary Letts


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



And Spring arose on the garden fair,
Like the Spirit of Love felt everywhere;
And each flower and herb on Earth's dark breast
rose from the dreams of its wintry rest.
~Percy Bysshe Shelley, "The Sensitive Plant"


Every spring is the only spring - a perpetual astonishment. ~Ellis Peters


Spring is sooner recognized by plants than by men. ~Chinese Proverb


The naked earth is warm with Spring,
And with green grass and bursting trees
Leans to the sun's kiss glorying,
And quivers in the sunny breeze.
~Julian Grenfell


In the spring I have counted one hundred and thirty-six different kinds of weather inside of four and twenty hours. ~Mark Twain


O, wind, if winter comes, can spring be far behind? ~Percy Bysshe Shelley


I think that no matter how old or infirm I may become, I will always plant a large garden in the spring. Who can resist the feelings of hope and joy that one gets from participating in nature's rebirth? ~Edward Giobbi


Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems. ~Rainer Maria Rilke


The sun was warm but the wind was chill.
You know how it is with an April day.
~Robert Frost



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


If you've never been thrilled to the very edges of your soul by a flower in spring bloom, maybe your soul has never been in bloom. ~Terri Guillemets


April hath put a spirit of youth in everything. ~William Shakespeare


Out with the cold, in with the woo. ~E. Marshall, "Spring Thought"


The day the Lord created hope was probably the same day he created Spring. ~Bern Williams


Yesterday the twig was brown and bare;
To-day the glint of green is there;
Tomorrow will be leaflets spare;
I know no thing so wondrous fair,
No miracle so strangely rare.
I wonder what will next be there!
~L.H. Bailey


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


Poor, dear, silly Spring, preparing her annual surprise! ~Wallace Stevens


Now every field is clothed with grass, and every tree with leaves; now the woods put forth their blossoms, and the year assumes its gay attire. ~Virgil


First a howling blizzard woke us,
Then the rain came down to soak us,
And now before the eye can focus -
Crocus. ~Lilja Rogers


You can't see Canada across lake Erie, but you know it's there. It's the same with spring. You have to have faith, especially in Cleveland. ~Paul Fleischman


People ask me what I do in winter when there's no baseball. I'll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring. ~Rogers Hornsby


The seasons are what a symphony ought to be: four perfect movements in harmony with each other. ~Arthur Rubenstein

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