Spring Quotes

• 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

  Friends, Earth, Sun

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• I am thankful that in a troubled world no calamity can prevent the return of spring.

  Helen Keller

  World, Return, I Am Thankful

  Helen Keller (2000). “To Love this Life: Quotations”, p.52, American Foundation for the Blind

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• Daffodils,
  That come before the swallow dares, and take
  The winds of March with beauty.

  William Shakespeare

  Flower, Wind, March

  'The Winter's Tale' (1610-1) act 4, sc. 3, l. 116

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• It was Rachel Carson's famous book 'Silent Spring' that got me involved with the environment. I read it in The New Yorker, in installments. Up to then, I'd thought the main job to do is help the meek inherit the Earth. And I still, that's a job that's got to be done. But I realized if we didn't do something soon, what the meek would inherit would be a pretty poisonous place to live.

  Pete Seeger

  Jobs, Book, Would Be

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• Spring is the time of year when it is summer in the sun and winter in the shade.

  Charles Dickens

  Summer, Winter, Years

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  You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming.

  Pablo Neruda

  Inspiring, Hope, Flower

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• 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

  Inspirational, Dream, Nature

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley (Illustrated)”, p.416, Delphi Classics

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• Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin.

  Willa Cather

  Art, Roots, Religion

  Commonweal, 17 Apr. 1936

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• ... we might say that the earth has a spirit of growth; that its flesh is the soil, its bones the arrangement and connection of the rocks of which the mountains are composed, its cartilage the tufa, and its blood the springs of water.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Nature, Travel, Rocks

  Leonardo Da Vinci (2011). “Da Vinci Notebooks”, p.153, Profile Books

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• For still there are so many things that I have never seen: in every wood in every spring there is a different green.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Different, Green, Woods

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Fellowship of the Ring: Being the First Part of The Lord of the Rings”, p.199, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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  Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time. Never make your most important decisions when you are in your worst moods. Wait. Be patient. The storm will pass. The spring will come.

  Robert H. Schuller

  Inspirational, Encouraging, Patience

  Robert H. Schuller (1993). “Robert H Schuller: The Inspirational Writings : Tough Times Never Last, But Tough People Do/Tough Minded Faith for Tender Hearted People”, Bbs Publishing Corporation

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• Blossom by blossom the spring begins.

  Algernon Charles Swinburne

  Flower Blossom, April And Spring, Spring May

  Atalanta in Calydon chorus (1865)

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• I stuck my head out the window this morning and spring kissed me bang in the face.

  Langston Hughes

  Morning, Bangs, Faces

  Langston Hughes, Donna Sullivan Harper (2002). “The Early Simple Stories”, p.110, University of Missouri Press

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• Joy springs from a life lived with eternity's values in view.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Life, Views, Joy

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• Can words describe the fragrance of the very breath of spring?

  Neltje Blanchan

  April, Fragrance, Breaths

  Neltje Blanchan (1901). “Wild Flowers: An Aid to Knowledge of Nature's Garden ..”

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• The beautiful spring came; and when Nature resumes her loveliness, the human soul is apt to revive also.

  Harriet Ann Jacobs

  Beautiful, Soul, Resumes

  Harriet Ann Jacobs (1861). “Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl”, p.126

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• Spring is when life's alive in everything.

  Christina Rossetti

  Alive, Spring Break, Springtime

  Christina Rossetti (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Christina Rossetti (Illustrated)”, p.83, Delphi Classics

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• No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn.

  Hal Borland

  Inspirational, Change, Meaningful

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• When spring came, even the false spring, there were no problems except where to be happiest.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Problem, Moveable Feast, April And Spring

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition”, p.50, Simon and Schuster

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• 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

  Summer, Nature, Autumn

  Charles Dickens (2015). “Great Expectations: Classic English Literature”, p.394, 谷月社

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• If we had not winter, the spring would not be so pleasant; if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.

  Anne Bradstreet

  Inspirational, Life, Appreciation

  Anne Bradstreet, Adelaide P. Amore (1982). “A woman's inner world: selected poetry and prose of Anne Bradstreet”

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• Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Children, Earth Day, April

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• Spring unlocks the flowers to paint the laughing soil.

  Reginald Heber

  Happiness, Laughter, Flower

  Reginald Heber (1858). “The poetical works of Reginald Heber”, p.252

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• 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

  Flower, Eye, Tree

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• Spring is nature's way of saying, 'Let's party!'

  Robin Williams

  Funny, Motivational, Easter

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