Ellis Peters
"Every year , back comes Spring , with nasty bird yapping their fool heads off and the ground all mucked up with plants ."
Dorothy Parker
"Spring is nature's way of saying, "Let's party!" "
Robin Williams
"The seasons are what a symphony ought to be: four perfect movements in harmony with each other."
Arthur Rubenstein
"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
"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
"April prepares her green traffic light and the world thinks Go." Christopher Morley
"May is a pious fraud of the almanac."
James R. Lowell
"Hee that is in a towne in May loseth his spring. "
George Herbert
"In springtime, love is carried on the breeze. Watch out for flying passion or kisses whizzing by your head."
Emma Racine deFleur
"The spring's already at the gate With looks my care beguiling; The country round appeareth straight A flower-garden smiling. "
Heinrich Heine
"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
"The splendor of the rose and the whitness of the lily do not rob the little violet of it's scent nor the daisy of its simple charm.If every tiny flower wanted to be a rose , spring would lose its lovliness."
Therese of Lisieux
"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. "
"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
"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
"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
"Poor, dear, silly Spring, preparing her annual surprise! "
Wallace Stevens
"Spring is sooner recognized by plants than by men."
Chinese Proverb
"Autumn is a second spring where every leaf is a flower."
Albert Camus
"If you do not sow in the spring you will not reap in the autumn. "
Irish Proverb
"I love spring anywhere, but if I could choose I would always greet it in a garden.'
Ruth Stout
"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
"Spring passes and one remembers one's innocence. Summer passes and one remembers one's exuberance. Autumn passes and one remembers one's reverence. Winter passes and one remembers one's perseverance."
Yoko Ono
"Spring is when you feel like whistling even with a shoe full of slush."
Doug Larson
"The day the Lord created hope was probably the same day he created Spring. "
Bern Williams
"Science has never drummed up quite as effective a tranquilizing agent as a sunny spring day."
W. Earl Hall
"April hath put a spirit of youth in everything."
William Shakespeare
"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
"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."
Audra Foveo
"April is the cruelest month , breeding lilacs out of dead land , mixing memory and desire , stirring dull roots with spring rain.'
T.S.Elliot
"No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn. "
Hal Borland
"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
"Spring shows what God can do with a drab and dirty world. "
Virgil A. Kraft
"To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring."
George Santayana
"April is a promise that May is bound to keep. "
Hal Borland
"The sun was warm but the wind was chill.
You know how it is with an April day."
Robert Frost
"In June as many as a dozen species may burst their buds on a single day. No man can heed all of these anniversaries; no man can ignore all of them."
Aldo Leopold
An optimist is the human personification of spring.
Susan J.Bissonette
"Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems. "
Rainer Maria Rilke
"In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt. "
Margaret Atwood
"In the spring I have counted one hundred and thirty-six different kinds of weather inside of four and twenty hours. " Mark Twain
"Sitting quietly , doing nothing , spring comes , and the grass grows by itself."
Zen Proverb
Ogden Nash
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