Springtime Inspirational Quotes

• 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!

  Liberty Hyde Bailey

  Spring, Yesterday, Miracle

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• Every spring is the only spring, a perpetual astonishment.

  Ellis Peters

  Nature, Spring, Contentment

  Ellis Peters (2014). “The Summer Of The Danes”, p.115, Head of Zeus

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• April is a promise that May is bound to keep.

  Hal Borland

  Spring, Keeping Promises, May

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• No Winter lasts forever, no Spring skips its turn. April is a promise that May is bound to keep, and we know it.

  Hal Borland

  Spring, Winter, Garden

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• 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

  Spring, Hoe, Matter

  Charles Dudley Warner (1870). “My Summer in a Garden”, p.20

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• 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

  Spring, Garden, Credit

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• 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, Differences, Months

  Henry Van Dyke (2007). “Fisherman's Luck”, p.95, Wildside Press LLC

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• O, wind, if winter comes, can spring be far behind?

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Spring, Winter, Clouds

  "Ode to the West Wind" l. 70 (1819)

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• Spring is when you feel like whistling even with a shoe full of slush.

  Doug Larson

  Nature, Spring, Groundhog Day

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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, Spring

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

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• April ... hath put a spirit of youth in everything.

  William Shakespeare

  Nature, Spring, Garden

  Sonnet 98

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• The day the Lord created hope was probably the same day he created Spring.

  Bernard Williams

  Spring, Lord, April And Spring

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

  Robin Williams

  Funny, Motivational, Easter

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• Science has never drummed up quite as effective a tranquilizing agent as a sunny spring day.

  Wilton E. Hall

  Spring, Agents, April

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• 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

  Spring, Kissing, Tree

  The Times 28 May 1915 "Into Battle"

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• 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

  Spring, Heart, Names

  Mark Twain (2008). “10 Books in 1”, p.193, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

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• God is in his Heaven, all's right with the world.

  Robert Browning

  Spring, Heaven, Larks

  Pippa Passes pt. 1 (1841)

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

  Hal Borland

  Inspirational, Change, Meaningful

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• April prepares her green traffic light and the world thinks Go.

  Christopher Morley

  Easter, Spring, Thinking

  Christopher Morley (1931). “John Mistletoe”, Doubleday, Doran

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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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• I love spring anywhere, but if I could choose I would always greet in a garden.

  Ruth Stout

  Nature, Spring, Garden

  Ruth Stout (1987). “How to Have a Green Thumb Without an Aching Back: A New Method of Mulch Gardening”, Fireside

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• She turned to the sunlight     And shook her yellow head, And whispered to her neighbor:     "Winter is dead.

  A. A. Milne

  Spring, Winter, Yellow

  A.A. Milne (1950). “When We Were Very Young”, GoodBook Classics

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• 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

  Sports, Baseball, Spring

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I stare out the window and wait for spring.

  Rogers Hornsby

  Baseball, Inspirational Sports, Spring

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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