Spring Quotes and Sayings
Spring is nature's way of saying, "Let's party!"
Robin Williams
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
April comes like an idiot, babbling and strewing flowers.
Edna St. Vincent Millay
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
In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.
Margaret Atwood
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
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 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
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
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
Spring shows what God can do with a drab and dirty world.
Virgil A. Kraft
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
The first day of spring was once the time for taking the young virgins into the fields, there in dalliance to set an example in fertility for nature to follow. Now we just set the clocks an hour ahead and change the oil in the crankcase.
E.B. White, "Hot Weather", One Man's Meat, 1944
A little Madness in the Spring
Is wholesome even for the King.
Emily Dickinson, No. 1333
For, lo, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone;
The flowers appear on the earth; the time of the singing of birds is come, and the voice of the turtle is heard in our land;
The fig tree putteth forth her green figs, and the vines with the tender grape, give a good smell. Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away.
Bible, Song of Solomon (ch. II, v. 11-12)