As the birds sing a new song and the flowers bloom brightly, we invite you to be inspired by our collection of over 80 Spring-centric quotes! Start your students’ day on a cheery note by sharing a quote during the first period. Alternatively, pop these sentiments onto your classroom walls to inspire growth and change all year long!
1. “Spring is nature’s way of saying, Let’s party!” – Robin Williams
2. “In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.” – Margaret Atwood
3. “Spring is the time of plans and projects.” – Leo Tolstoy
4. “With the coming of spring, I am calm again.” – Gustav Mahler
5. “April hath put a spirit of youth in everything.” – William Shakespeare
6. “Despite the forecast, live like it’s spring.” – Lilly Pulitzer
7. “It is spring again. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.” – Rainer Maria Rilke
8. “In the spring, I have counted 136 different kinds of weather inside of 24 hours.” – Mark Twain
9. “The day the Lord created hope was probably the same day he created spring.” – Bern Williams
10. “Spring is when you feel like whistling, even with a shoe full of slush.” – Doug Larson
11. “You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming.” – Pablo Neruda
12. “The first day of spring is one thing, and the first spring day is another.” – Henry Van Dyke
13. “Spring is the fountain of love for thirsty winter.” – Munia Khan
14. “Spring is nature’s way of saying, ‘Up yours, winter!'” – Robin Williams
15. “Spring is painted in daffodil yellows, robin egg blues, new grass green and the brightness of hope for a better life.” – Toni Sorenson
16. “The beautiful spring came; and when Nature resumes her loveliness, the human soul is apt to revive also.” – Harriet Ann Jacobs
17. “Spring is when life’s alive in everything.” – Christina Rossetti
18. “If people did not love one another, I really don’t see what use there would be in having any spring.” – Victor Hugo
19. “The magic in new beginnings is truly the most powerful of them all.” – Josiyah Martin
20. “Every spring is the only spring, a perpetual astonishment.” – Ellis Peters
21. “The Spring wakes us, nurtures us, and revitalizes us. How often does your Spring come? If you are a prisoner of the calendar, it comes once a year. If you are creating authentic power, it comes frequently, or very frequently.” – Gary Zukav
22. “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
23. “Spring will come and so will happiness. Hold on. Life will get warmer.” – Anita Krizzan
24. “To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow.” – Audrey Hepburn
25. “An optimist is the human personification of spring.” – Susan J. Bissonette
26. “Blossom by blossom the spring begins.” – Algernon Charles Swinburne
27. “Spring unlocks the flowers to paint the laughing soil.” – Bishop Reginald Heber
28. “No matter how chaotic it is, wildflowers will still spring up in the middle of nowhere.” – Sheryl Crow
29. “Spring is a time to find out where you are, who you are, and move toward where you are going.” – Penelope Trunk
30. “If winter comes, can spring be far behind?” – Percy Bysshe Shelley
31. “I suppose the best kind of spring morning is the best weather God has to offer.” – Dodie Smith
32. “Spring adds new life and new joy to all that is.” – Jessica Harrelson
33. “Spring is the time of year when it is summer in the sun and winter in the shade.” – Charles Dickens
34. “April prepares her green traffic light and the world thinks Go.” – Christopher Morley
35. “Spring won’t let me stay in this house any longer! I must get out and breathe the air deeply again.” – Gustav Mahler
36. “From the end spring new beginnings.” – Pliny the Elder
37. “It was such a spring day as breathes into a man an ineffable yearning, a painful sweetness, a longing that makes him stand motionless, looking at the leaves or grass, and fling out his arms to embrace he knows not what.” – John Galsworthy
38. “It’s spring; we are in a skip-around mood. Forecast: giddy with occasional bouts of the frisky.” – Amy Severson
39. “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.” – Virgil
40. “Spring – an experience in immortality.” – Henry D. Thoreau
41. “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
42. “You can never hold back spring.” – Tom Waits
43. “In springtime, love is carried on the breeze. Watch out for flying passion and kisses whizzing by your head.” – Emma Racine Defleur
44. “To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.” – George Santayana
45. “April hath put a spirit of youth in everything.” – William Shakespeare
46. “It is the sun shining on the rain and the rain falling on the sunshine…” – Frances Hodgson Burnett
47. “The first blooms of spring always make my heart sing.” – S. Brown
48. “When spring came, even the false spring, there were no problems except where to be happiest.” – Ernest Hemingway
49. “The spring came suddenly, bursting upon the world as a child bursts into a room, with a laugh and a shout and hands full of flowers.” – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
50. “I love spring anywhere, but if I could choose I would always greet it in a garden.” – Ruth Stout
51. “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
52. “Can words describe the fragrance of the very breath of spring?” – Neltje Blanchan
53. “Despite the heart-numbing frost, my soul is blooming like spring.” – Debasish Mridha
54. “It is Spring again. The earth is like a child that knows poems by heart.” – Rainer Maria Rilke
55. “Never yet was a springtime, when the buds forgot to bloom.” – Margaret Elizabeth Sangster
56. “In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.” – Margaret Atwood
57. “With the coming of spring, I am calm again.” – Gustav Mahler
58. “Science has never drummed up quite as effective a tranquilizing agent as a sunny spring day.” – W. Earl Hall
59. “April hath put a spirit of youth in everything.” – William Shakespeare
60. “Nostalgia in reverse, the longing for yet another strange land, grew especially strong in spring.” – Vladimir Nabokov
61. “Spring is when life’s alive in everything.” – Christina Rossetti
62. “In Spring, everything is full of promise… The child sporting upon the lawn, and the season, sympathize together, and nature rejoices in her virgin loveliness.” – Charles Lanman
63. “Is the spring coming?” he said. “What is it like?”… “It is the sun shining on the rain and the rain falling on the sunshine…” – Frances Hodgson Burnett
64. “Spring is when you feel like whistling even with a shoe full of slush.” – Doug Larson
65. “No matter how long the winter, spring is sure to follow.” – Proverb from Guinea
66. “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
67. “Spring work is going on with joyful enthusiasm.” – John Muir
68. “I glanced out the window at the signs of spring. The sky was almost blue, the trees were almost budding, the sun was almost bright.” – Millard Kaufman
69. “The first real day of spring is like the first time a boy holds your hand. A flood of skin-tingling warmth consumes you, and everything shines with a fresh, colorful glow, making you forget that anything as cold and harsh as winter ever existed.” – Richelle E. Goodrich
70. “A flower blossoms for its own joy.” – Oscar Wilde
71. “In the spring, I have counted 136 different kinds of weather inside of 24 hours.” – Mark Twain
72. “Blossom by blossom the spring begins.” – Algernon Charles Swinburne
73. “I suppose the best kind of spring morning is the best weather God has to offer.” – Dodie Smith
74. “Always it’s Spring and everyone’s in love and flowers pick themselves.” – E.E. Cummings
75. “The promise of spring’s arrival is enough to get anyone through the bitter winter!” – Jen Selinsky
76. “I love better to count time from spring to spring; it seems to me far more cheerful to reckon the year by blossoms than by blight.” – Donald G. Mitchell
77. “A little flower that blooms in May. A lovely sunset at the end of a day. Someone helping a stranger along the way. That’s heaven to me.” – Sam Cooke
78. “Spring won’t let me stay in this house any longer! I must get out and breathe the air deeply again.” – Gustav Mahler
79. “Spring: the music of open windows.” – Terri Guillemets
80. “Sweet April showers do spring May flowers.” – Thomas Tusser
81. “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
82. “No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn.” – Hal Borland
83. “Spring: A lovely reminder of how beautiful change can truly be.” – Anonymous
