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Quotes About Spring

Groundhog found fog. New snows and blue toes. Fine and dandy for Valentine candy. Snow spittin'; if you're not mitten-smitten, you'll be frostbitten! By jing-y feels spring-y.
~ The Old Farmer's Almanac
It was spring, the part of spring where the bursting is done, the held-in pressures of desiccated sap-veins and gum-sealed buds are gone, and all the world's in a rush to be beautiful.
~ Theodore Sturgeon
Awake, thou wintry earth - Fling off thy sadness! Fair vernal flowers, laugh forth Your ancient gladness!
~ Thomas Blackburn
Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May but at length the season of summer does come.
~ Thomas Carlyle
Ava was obviously observant, an enthusiast of spring: she'd seen the white frog and the two baby flies killed by the bus driver. And she was a better reader and speller than the others. I told her she could get a book to read, but she didn't want to do that, either. Instead, she got out her poetry notebook. Poor thing: she was already fed up with being asked to do inane worksheets and she was only in kindergarten. Twelve more years to go.
~ Nicholson Baker
Love should have no alternatives; love should be the sole reason for loving; love should spring of itself.
~ Nick Joaquín
once a snowflake fell on my brow and i loved it so much and i kissed it and it was happy and called its cousins and brothers and a web of snow engulfed me then i reached to love them all and i squeezed them and they became a spring rain and i stood perfectly still and was a flower Winter Poem
~ Nikki Giovanni
Flowers that had bloomed brilliant from spring through autumn blackened under the killing frost.
~ Nora Roberts
Right now, me getting killed would be redundant. ... You could stab a knife right through my heart and you'd be too late. ... Right now, getting killed would be a breath of spring.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Every garden looks beautiful in May.' Meaning: Everyone is somewhat attractive when she's young.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
it rained as if the gods were disconsolate, as if spring were a sorrow
~ Claire Messud
Spring, if it lingers more than a week beyond its span, starts to hunger for summer to end the days of perpetual promise
~ Clive Barker
Influenza. Remember, Elizabeth, I had it back in the spring? A lot of other people did, too. It wasn't too bad, although I do hate to be sick, but it's back now, with a vengeance.
~ Victoria Thompson
Maia genitum
~ Virgil
Yes, I deserve a spring–I owe nobody nothing.
~ Virginia Woolf
I enjoy the spring more than the autumn now. One does, I think, as one gets older.
~ Virginia Woolf
The spring without a leaf to toss, bare and bright like a virgin fierce in her chastity, scornful in her purity, was laid out on fields wide-eyed and watchful and entirely careless of what was done or thought by the beholders.
~ Virginia Woolf
Immediately, Mrs. Ramsay seemed to fold herself together, one petal closed in another, and the whole fabric fell in exhaustion upon itself, so that she had only strength enough to move her finger, in exquisite abandonment to exhaustion, across the page of Grimm's fairy story, while there throbbed through her, like the pulse in a spring which has expanded to its full width and now gently ceases to beat, the rapture of successful creation.
~ Virginia Woolf
All was dim, yet intense too, as if the scarf which the dusk had flung over the garden were torn asunder by star or sword - the flash of some terrible reality leaping, as its way is, out of the heart of the spring. For youth -
~ Virginia Woolf
He remembered that, after digging for a little, the water oozes round your finger-tips; the hole then becomes a moat; a well; a spring; a secret channel to the sea.
~ Virginia Woolf
It's cold today, but in a spring way, and I love you.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
They were contemplating moving into another house or, more exactly, loudly saying to each other, so as to be overheard by anyone who might be listening, that they were contemplating moving, when all at once the fiend was gone, as happens with the moskovett , that bitter blast, that colossus of cold air that blows on our eastern shores throughout March, and then one morning you hear the birds, and the flags hang flaccid, and the outlines of the world are again in place.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
The spring is not so beautiful there– But dream ships sail away To where the spring is wondrous rare And life is gay. The spring is not so beautiful there– But lads put out to sea Who carry beauties in their hearts And dreams, like me.
~ Langston Hughes
Spring is when you feel like whistling even with a shoe full of slush.
~ larson doug