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

topic: Spring, Yesterday, Miracle, Twigs, Springtime Inspirational

Every spring is the only spring, a perpetual astonishment.

- Ellis Peters

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

topic: Nature, Spring, Contentment, March Poems, Spring Inspirational

April is a promise that May is bound to keep.

- Hal Borland

topic: Spring, Promise, May, Spring Day, Spring Garden

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

topic: Spring, Winter, Forever, Spring Garden, Spring Inspirational

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

topic: Spring, Hoe, Matter, March Poems, May Day

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

topic: Spring, Garden, Credit, March Poems, Spring Garden

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

topic: Spring, Differences, Firsts, March Poems, Spring Day

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

- Percy Bysshe Shelley

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

topic: Spring, Winter, Air, March Poems, Spring Inspirational

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

- Doug Larson

topic: Spring, Shoes, Whistling, March Poems, Spring Cleaning

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

topic: Summer, Nature, Spring, March Poems, Spring Day

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

- William Shakespeare

topic: Nature, Youth, Spirit, March Poems, Spring Awakening

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

- Bernard Williams

topic: Spring, Lord, Spring Day, Spring Inspirational, Spring Season

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

- Robin Williams

topic: Funny, Motivational, Easter, March Poems, Spring Day

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

- Wilton E. Hall

topic: Spring, Agents, Sunny, March Poems, Spring Day

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

source: The Times 28 May 1915 "Into Battle"

topic: Spring, Kissing, Tree, March Poems, Spring Inspirational

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

topic: Spring, Heart, Names, Spring Break, Spring Flowers

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

- Robert Browning

topic: Heaven, World, March Poems, Spring Inspirational, Spring Is Here

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

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

topic: Dream, Spring, Flower, March Poems, Spring Day

No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn.

- Hal Borland

topic: Inspirational, Meaningful, Hope, March Poems, Spring Garden

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

- Christopher Morley

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

topic: Spring, Thinking, Light, Spring Inspirational, Spring Time

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

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

topic: Life, Spring, Adversity, Spring Awakening, Spring Gardening

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

- Ruth Stout

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

topic: Nature, Spring, Garden, March Poems, Inspirational Gardening

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

- A. A. Milne

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

topic: Springtime Inspirational

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

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

topic: Sports, Baseball, Spring, Baseball Games, Great Sports

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

topic: Nature, Spring, Heart, March Poems, May Day

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

- Rainer Maria Rilke

topic: Children, Spring, Earth, March Poems, Spring Awakening

If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant.

- Anne Bradstreet

source: Anne Bradstreet (1867). “The Works of Anne Bradstreet in Prose and Verse”, p.51

topic: Spring, Winter, Pleasant, March Poems, Spring Awakening

Pippa's Song The year's at the spring The day's at the morn Morning's at seven, The Hill side'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

topic: Song, Morning, Spring, March Poems, Spring Day

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

topic: Spring, Garden, Thinking, March Poems, May Flowers

In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.

- Margaret Atwood

source: Margaret Atwood (2012). “Bluebeard's Egg”, p.277, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

topic: Nature, Spring, Garden, March Poems, Spring Day