In the spring time, the only pretty ring time, When birds do sing, hey ding a ding; Sweet lovers love the spring. And so quipped William Shakespeare in his play "As You Like It", paying homage to that time of the year when the joys of the human heart are replenished every evening when the cool breeze caresses the face and the heart just knows that there's something great about to befall its way. There is indeed something very special about this time of the year. You just feel happy and content and yet you can never put a finger on the exact reason behind that happiness. You feel butterflies in your stomach and a smile appearing along your lips for no reason at all. You shed all your worries and complains and start to notice the beauty in everything around you. You grow sensitive to the finer elements in life. You notice that when you slip your hand under the pillow as you lie down, the cold sensation welcomes you to cozy up a little more. It feels like your heart will burst with all the love you hold and you don't even have to be an emotional fool to undergo such sentiments. It is the best feeling in the world and for once you get to sigh out of happiness... Along the lines of the poesy "Remembrance" where Emily Brontë says that, Cold in the earth, and fifteen wild Decembers From these brown hills have melted into Spring. Faithful indeed is the spirit that remembers After such years of change and suffering!, ...you bury your old thoughts, and carry them with you in the form of nostalgia. But you give yourself a new beginning with the onset of every spring. After all as Elizabeth Bowen had put it, Autumn arrives in early morning, but spring at the close of a winter day. Believe me, everybody knows the beauty of spring in their hearts and have known it for ages. Read these sayings about spring to know how nature pumps joy into every heart during that time of the year. Besides, kids can totally utilize these spring quotes for scrapbooking purposes all the time. Spring Quotes for Children You can teach your children some of these quotes so that they can supplement their scrapbooks or school essays with these wonderful thoughts and expressions on spring. The day the Lord created hope was probably the same day he created spring. ~ Bern Williams. Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke. Springtime is never about sitting at home. It's all about taking in the smells of the earth and frolicking on the lap of nature. In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt. ~ Margaret Atwood. It is about breathing in the fragrances of the different types of spring flowers... If you've never been thrilled to the very edges of your soul by a flower in spring bloom, maybe your soul has never been in bloom. ~ Audra Foveo. Break open a cherry tree and there are no flowers, but the spring breeze brings forth myriad blossoms. ~ Ikkyu Sojun. It is all about reconnecting with nature... All through the long winter, I dream of my garden. On the first day of spring, I dig my fingers deep into the soft earth. I can feel its energy, and my spirits soar. ~ Helen Hayes. May be because... Spring is sooner recognized by plants than by men. ~ Chinese Proverb. 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 unlocks the flowers to paint the laughing soil. ~ Bishop Reginald Heber. Behold, my friends, the spring is come; the earth has gladly received the embraces of the sun, and we shall soon see the results of their love! ~ Sitting Bull. You know the best gift you can give a beloved? A scrapbook. Adorn the pages of the scrapbook with photographs and love letters and a generous sprinkling of these quotes and see the spring magic unfold! In the Spring a fuller crimson comes upon the robin's breast; In the Spring the wanton lapwing gets himself another crest; In the Spring a livelier iris changes on the burnish'd dove; In the Spring a young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love. ~ Lord Alfred Tennyson in the poem "Locksley Hall". The beauteous eyes of the spring's fair night With comfort are downward gazing. ~ Heinrich Heine. Funny Spring Quotes Doug Larson once said, Spring is when you feel like whistling even with a shoe full of slush. Or when... The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful. ~ E.E. Cummings. Spring is nature's way of saying, "Let's party!" ~ Robin Williams. The weather here is gorgeous. It's mild and feels like it's in the eighties. The hot dog vendors got confused because of the weather and thought it was spring, so they accidentally changed the hot dog water in their carts. ~ David Letterman. An optimist is the human personification of spring. ~ Susan J. Bisonnette. In the spring I have counted one hundred and thirty-six different kinds of weather inside of four-and-twenty hours. ~ Mark Twain, in a speech given during the annual dinner of the New England Society in New York on 22nd December, 1876. In spring time, love is carried on the breeze. Watch out for flying passion or kisses whizzing by your head. ~ Emma Racine de Fleur. A man has every season while a woman only has the right to spring. ~ Jane Fonda. A Poem does not grow by jerks. As trees in Spring produce a new ring of tissue, so does every poet put forth a fresh outlay of stuff at the same season. ~ Wilfred Owen. Spring shows what God can do with a drab and dirty world. ~ Virgil A. Kraft. There are some thinkers such as Samuel Butler who have been critical of the season to quip, Youth is like spring, an overpraised season more remarkable for biting winds than genial breezes, but I believe criticism enhances the beauty of everything as then the mind is alert in order to take it what the criticized has to offer. So, enjoy this time of the year to the fullest just as the sayers of these spring quotes did. For, as Gerard Manley Hopkins put it, Nothing is so beautiful as spring.