The 100 Greatest Quotes About Spring
1.
Spring is nature’s way of saying, ‘Let’s party!’
—Robin Williams
—Robin Williams
2.
Spring: the music of open windows.
—Terri Guillemets
—Terri Guillemets
3.
The world’s favorite season is the spring.
All things seem possible in May.
—Edwin Way Teale
All things seem possible in May.
—Edwin Way Teale
4.
Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.
—Rainer Maria Rilke
—Rainer Maria Rilke
5.
Spring won’t let me stay in this house any longer! I must get out and breathe the air deeply again.
—Gustav Mahler
—Gustav Mahler
6.
Sit quietly, doing nothing, spring comes, and the grass grows by itself.
—Zen saying
—Zen saying
7.
April hath put a spirit of youth in everything.
—William Shakespeare
—William Shakespeare
8.
You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming.
—Pablo Neruda
—Pablo Neruda
9.
May and June. Soft syllables, gentle names for the two best months in the garden year: cool, misty mornings gently burned away with a warming spring sun, followed by breezy afternoons and chilly nights. The discussion of philosophy is over; it’s time for work to begin.
—Peter Loewer
—Peter Loewer
10.
The force of Spring –
mysterious,
fecund,
powerful beyond measure.
—Michael Garofalo
mysterious,
fecund,
powerful beyond measure.
—Michael Garofalo
11.
No matter how long the winter, spring is sure to follow.
—Proverb from Guinea
—Proverb from Guinea
12.
It’s May! It’s May!
The lusty month of May!
Those dreary vows that ev’ryone makes,
Ev’ryone breaks.
Ev’ryone makes divine mistakes!
The lusty month of May!
—Lerner and Lowe
The lusty month of May!
Those dreary vows that ev’ryone makes,
Ev’ryone breaks.
Ev’ryone makes divine mistakes!
The lusty month of May!
—Lerner and Lowe
13.
I love spring anywhere, but if I could choose I would always greet it in a garden.
—Ruth Stout
—Ruth Stout
14.
No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn.
—Hal Borland
—Hal Borland
15
There is no season such delight can bring,
As summer, autumn, winter and the spring.
—William Browne
As summer, autumn, winter and the spring.
—William Browne
16.
The cuckoo comes in April,
Sings a song in May:
Then in June another tune,
And then she flies away.
—English Rhyme
Sings a song in May:
Then in June another tune,
And then she flies away.
—English Rhyme
17.
I believe in process. I believe in four seasons. I believe that winter’s tough, but spring’s coming. I believe that there’s a growing season. And I think that you realize that in life, you grow. You get better.
—Steve Southerland
—Steve Southerland
18.
In the scenery of spring,
nothing is better, nothing worse;
The flowering branches are
of themselves, some short, some long.
—Ryokan
nothing is better, nothing worse;
The flowering branches are
of themselves, some short, some long.
—Ryokan
19.
Spring comes: the flowers learn their colored shapes.
—Maria Konopnicka
—Maria Konopnicka
20.
Spring is when you feel like whistling even with a shoe full of slush.
—Doug Larson
—Doug Larson
21.
Only in dreams of spring
Shall I ever see again
The flowering of my cherry trees.
—Frances Hodgson Burnett
Shall I ever see again
The flowering of my cherry trees.
—Frances Hodgson Burnett
22.
Come, gentle Spring! Ethereal Mildness! Come.
—James Thomson
—James Thomson
23.
In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.
—Margaret Atwood
—Margaret Atwood
24.
Science has never drummed up quite as effective a tranquilizing agent as a sunny spring day.
—W. Earl Hall
—W. Earl Hall
25.
I am going to try to pay attention to the spring. I am going to look around at all the flowers, and look up at the hectic trees. I am going to close my eyes and listen.
—Anne Lamott
—Anne Lamott
26.
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
—Julian Grenfell
27.
A little madness in the Spring
Is wholesome even for the King.
—Emily Dickinson
Is wholesome even for the King.
—Emily Dickinson
28.
Despite the forecast, live like it’s spring.
—Lilly Pulitzer
—Lilly Pulitzer
29.
The beautiful spring came; and when Nature resumes her loveliness, the human soul is apt to revive also.
—Harriet Ann Jacobs
—Harriet Ann Jacobs
30.
The beautiful spring came; and when Nature resumes her loveliness, the human soul is apt to revive also.
—Harriet Ann Jacobs
—Harriet Ann Jacobs
31.
Spring’s greatest joy beyond a doubt is when it brings the children out.
—Edgar Guest
—Edgar Guest
32.
Spring won’t let me stay in this house any longer! I must get out and breathe the air deeply again.
—Gustav Mahler
—Gustav Mahler
33.
Behold, my friends, the spring is come; the earth has gladly received the embraces of the sun, and we shall soon see the results of their love!
—Sitting Bull
—Sitting Bull
34.
Spring—an experience in immortality.
—Henry D. Thoreau
—Henry D. Thoreau
35.
If people did not love one another, I really don’t see what use there would be in having any spring.
—Victor Hugo
—Victor Hugo
36.
Spring is beautiful, and smells sweet. Spring is when you shake the curtains, and pound on the rugs, and take off your long underwear, and wash in all the corners.
—Virginia Cary Hudson
—Virginia Cary Hudson
37.
The promise of spring’s arrival is enough to get anyone through the bitter winter.
—Jen Slelinsky
—Jen Slelinsky
38.
The first real day of spring is like the first time a boy holds your hand. A flood of skin-tingling warmth consumes you, and everything shines with a fresh, colorful glow, making you forget that anything as cold and harsh as winter ever existed.
—Richelle E. Goodrich
—Richelle E. Goodrich
39.
She turned to the sunlight and shook her yellow head, and whispered to her neighbor: ‘Winter is dead’.
—A. A. Milne
—A. A. Milne
40.
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
—Helen Hayes
41.
The day the Lord created hope was probably the same day he created Spring.
—Bernard Williams
—Bernard Williams
42.
April comes like an idiot, babbling and strewing flowers.
—Edna St. Vincent Millay
—Edna St. Vincent Millay
43.
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
—Virgil
44.
Lord of the springtime, Father of flower, field and fruit, smile on us in these earnest days when the work is heavy and the toil wearisome; lift up our hearts, O God, to the things worthwhile–sunshine and night, the dripping rain, the song of the birds, books and music, and the voices of our friends. Lift up our hearts to these this night and grant us Thy peace. Amen.
—W. E. B. DuBois
—W. E. B. DuBois
45.
The spring wakes us, nurtures us and revitalizes us.
How often does your spring come?
If you are a prisoner of the calendar, it comes once a year. If you are creating authentic power, it comes frequently, or very frequently.
How often does your spring come?
If you are a prisoner of the calendar, it comes once a year. If you are creating authentic power, it comes frequently, or very frequently.
—Gary Zukav
46.
For winter’s rains and ruins are over, And all the season of snows and sins; The days dividing lover and lover, The light that loses, the night that wins; And time remembered isgrief forgotten, And frosts are slain and flowers begotten, And in green underwood and cover Blossom by blossom the spring begins.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne
—Algernon Charles Swinburne
47.
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
—Edward Giobbi
48.
The sun has come out…and the air is vivid with spring light.
—Byron Caldwell Smith, letter to Kate Stephens
—Byron Caldwell Smith, letter to Kate Stephens
49.
Every spring is the only spring, a perpetual astonishment.
—Ellis Peters
—Ellis Peters
50.
Every April, God rewrites the Book of Genesis.
—Author Unknown
—Author Unknown
51.
Never yet was a springtime, when the buds forgot to bloom.
—Margaret Elizabeth Sangster
—Margaret Elizabeth Sangster
52.
An optimist is the human personification of spring.
—Susan J. Bissonette
—Susan J. Bissonette
53.
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
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
54.
April is a promise that May is bound to keep.
—Hal Borland
—Hal Borland
55.
Spring is when life’s alive in everything.
—Christina Rossetti
—Christina Rossetti
56.
With the coming of spring, I am calm again.
—Gustav Mahler
—Gustav Mahler
57.
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
—Rainer Maria Rilke
58.
In springtime, love is carried on the breeze. Watch out for flying passion or kisses whizzing by your head.
—Emma Racine de Fleur
—Emma Racine de Fleur
59.
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
—Henry Van Dyke
60.
Spring is God’s way of saying, ‘One more time!’
—Robert Orben
—Robert Orben
61.
Sweet spring, full of sweet days and roses, a box where sweets compacted lie.
—George Herbert
—George Herbert
62.
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
—Geoffrey B. Charlesworth
63.
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
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
64.
Sweet April showers do spring May flowers.
—Thomas Tusser
—Thomas Tusser
65.
Spring is God’s way of saying, ‘One more time!’
—Robert Orben
—Robert Orben
66.
Springtime is the land awakening. The March winds are the morning yawn.
—Lewis Grizzard
—Lewis Grizzard
67.
Spring is when life’s alive in everything.
—Christina Rossetti
—Christina Rossetti
68.
Spring being a tough act to follow, God created June.
—Al Bernstein
—Al Bernstein
69.
Spring, when the earth tilts closer to the sun, runs a strict timetable of flowers.
—Alice Oswald
—Alice Oswald
70.
The deep roots never doubt spring will come.
—Marty Rubin
—Marty Rubin
71.
Sweet spring, full of sweet days and roses, a box where sweets compacted lie.
—George Herbert
—George Herbert
72.
Can words describe the fragrance of the very breath of spring
—Neltje Blanchan
—Neltje Blanchan
73.
Oh, Spring! I want to go out and feel you and get inspiration. My old things seem dead. I want fresh contacts, more vital searching.
—Emily Carr
—Emily Carr
74.
Spring shows what God can do with a drab and dirty world.
—Virgil Kraft
—Virgil Kraft
75.
I love spring flowers: daffodils and hyacinths are the ultimate flower for me. They are the essence of spring.
—Kirsty Gallacher
—Kirsty Gallacher
76.
Always it’s Spring)and everyone’s in love and flowers pick themselves.
—e. e. cummings
—e. e. cummings
77.
Sweet as sweetest Grecian honey will my song be when I sing, O Beloved, in the season of the Spring!
—Ruben Dario
—Ruben Dario
78.
That is one good thing about this world…there are always sure to be more springs.
—L.M. Montgomery
—L.M. Montgomery
79.
Poor, dear, silly Spring, preparing her annual surprise!
—Wallace Stevens
—Wallace Stevens
80.
I suppose the best kind of spring morning is the best weather God has to offer.
—Dodie Smith
—Dodie Smith
81.
I had always planned to make a large painting of the early spring, when the first leaves are at the bottom of the trees, and they seem to float in space in a wonderful way. But the arrival of spring can’t be done in one picture.
—David Hockney
—David Hockney
82.
I enjoy the spring more than the autumn now. One does, I think, as one gets older.
—Virginia Woolf
—Virginia Woolf
83.
A hush is over everything, Silent as women wait for love; The world is waiting for the spring.
—Sara Teasdale
—Sara Teasdale
84.
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
—Mark Twain
85.
It’s easy to understand why the most beautiful poems about England in the spring were written by poets living in Italy at the time.
—Philip Dunne
—Philip Dunne
86.
Nostalgia in reverse, the longing for yet another strange land, grew especially strong in spring.
—Vladimir Nabokov
—Vladimir Nabokov
87.
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
—Bernard Barton
88.
If people did not love one another, I really don’t see what use there would be in having any spring.
—Victor Hugo
—Victor Hugo
89.
I think, in spring, we don’t want to wear makeup, we don’t want to wear a ton of clothes, we just want everything to be easier.
—Rachel Zoe
—Rachel Zoe
90.
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
—Anne Bradstreet
91.
Where flowers bloom, so does hope.
—Lady Bird Johnson
—Lady Bird Johnson
92.
It is spring again. The earth is like a child that knows poems by heart.
—Rainer Maria Rilke
—Rainer Maria Rilke
93.
Spring beckons! All things to the call respond; the trees are leaving and cashiers abscond.
—Ambrose Bierce
—Ambrose Bierce
94.
Is the spring coming
he said. What is it like…
It is the sun shining on the rain and the rain falling on the sunshine…
—Frances Hodgson Burnett
he said. What is it like…
It is the sun shining on the rain and the rain falling on the sunshine…
—Frances Hodgson Burnett
95.
I love those tiny little onions in the spring that are so small they’re almost like a little chive.
—Alice Waters
—Alice Waters
96.
What a strange thing!
to be alive
beneath cherry blossoms.
—Kobayashi Issa
to be alive
beneath cherry blossoms.
—Kobayashi Issa
97.
The Spring I seek is in a new face only.
—Allen Tate
—Allen Tate
98.
In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.
—Margaret Atwood
—Margaret Atwood
99.
Spring is the time of plans and projects.
—Leo Tolstoy
—Leo Tolstoy
100.
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
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
