1. "Is it so small a thing To have enjoy'd the sun, To have lived light in the spring, To have loved, to have thought, to have done..."
   -- Matthew Arnold

2. "In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt."
   -- Margaret Atwood

3. "Spring being a tough act to follow, God created June."
   -- Al Bernstein

4. "An optimist is the human personification of spring."
   -- Susan J. Bissonette

5. "Can words describe the fragrance of the very breath of spring? "
   -- Neltje Blanchan

6. "Autumn arrives in early morning, but spring at the close of a winter day."
   -- Elizabeth Bowen

7. "If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant; if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome."
   -- Anne Bradstreet

8. "Happiness is like a sunbeam, which the least shadow intercepts, while adversity is often as the rain of spring."
   -- Chinese Proverb

9. "When spring comes the grass grows by itself. "
   -- Tao Te Ching

10. "Sweet springtime is my time is your time is our time for springtime is love time and viva sweet love. "
    -- e.e. cummings

11. "A little Madness in the spring Is wholesome even for the King."
    -- Emily Dickinson

12. "We are reformers in the spring and summer, but in autumn we stand by the old. Reformers in the morning, and conservers at night."
    -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

13. "Oh, give us pleasure in the flowers today; And give us not to think so far away As the uncertain harvest; keep us here All simply in the springing of the year."
    -- Robert Frost

14. "Spring sprang suddenly onto the land. "
    -- Jean Giono

15. "Science has never drummed up quite as effective a tranquilizing agent as a sunny spring day."
    -- W. Earl Hall

16. "I stuck my head out the window this morning and spring kissed me bang in the face. "
    -- Langston Hughes

17. "Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart."
    -- Victor Hugo

18. "Spring shows what God can do with a drab and dirty world."
    -- Virgil A. Kraft

19. "Spring is when you feel like whistling even with a shoe full of slush."
    -- Doug Larson

20. "One swallow does not make a summer, but one skein of geese, cleaving the murk of March thaw, is the spring."
    -- Aldo Leopold

21. "If spring came but once a century instead of once a year, or burst forth with the sound of an earthquake and not in silence, what wonder and expectation there would be in all hearts to behold the miraculous change. "
    -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

22. "Indoors or out, no one relaxes in March, that month of wind and taxes, the wind will presently disappear, the taxes last us all the year."
    -- Ogden Nash

23. "The difference between a gun and a tree is a difference of tempo. The tree explodes every spring. "
    -- Ezra Pound

24. "Spring has returned. The earth is like a child that knows poems. "
    -- Rainer Maria Rilke

25. "Spring is when life's alive in everything."
    -- Christina Rossetti

26. "If I had my life to live over, I would start barefoot earlier in the spring and stay that way later in the fall."
    -- Nadine Stair

27. "The world's favorite season is the spring. All things seem possible in May."
    -- Edwin Way Teale

28. "Spring An experience in immortality. "
    -- Henry David Thoreau

29. "Spring is a true reconstructionist."
    -- Henry Timrod

30. "Spring is a heart full of hope and a shoe full of rain."
    -- Unknown

Danielle Hollister

Danielle Hollister is a single mom of a seven year-old son, who is her personal assistant in their home office, where she has been working as a freelance writer, editor and researcher for more than 10 years. Danielle?s work has been featured in online newsletters, like Briefme.com's Books & Literature ezine, on various websites, and in print publications. Before expanding her career focus to the Internet, she worked for more than three years as a freelance reporter for The Patriot-News, the only daily newspaper in her hometown of Harrisburg, which is the Capitol of Pennsylvania. She also spent two years as the assistant writer to the Director of Public Relations at Penn State Harrisburg, after graduating with high honors from the University with a Bachelor's Degree in Humanitites/Communications. While in college, she worked part-time to pay for her education as a Special Events Coordinator for the Central PA Chapter of The National Multiple Sclerosis Society and as an Editorial Assistant for Stackpole Publishing in Harrisburg.