Spring Quotations - Top 30 Quotations About Spring Time

Spring Quotations - Top 30 Quotations About Spring Time

By Danielle Hollister

Spring Quotations - Top 30 Quotations About Spring Time

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

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Top Ten Autumn Quotations

Top Ten Autumn Quotations

By Danielle Hollister

                     Top Ten Autumn Quotations

1. "Autumn's the mellow time." --William Allingham


2. "Autumn.. the year's last, loveliest smile." --William C. Bryant


3. "Autumn is a second spring when every leaf's a flower." --Albert Camus


4. "No Spring nor Summer Beauty hath such grace As I have seen in one Autumnal face." --John Donne


5. "I've never known anyone yet who doesn't suffer a certain restlessness when autumn rolls around... We're all eight years old again and anything is possible." --Sue Grafton


6. "Winter is an etching, spring a watercolor, summer an oil painting and autumn a mosaic of them all." --Stanley Horowitz


7. "Every season hath its pleasures; Spring may boast her flowery prime, Yet the vineyard's ruby treasures Brighten Autumn's sob'rer time." --Thomas Moore


8. "Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop off like autumn leaves." --John Muir


9. "There is a harmony In autumn, and a lustre in its sky, Which through the summer is not heard or seen, As if it could not be, as if it had not been!" --Percy Bysshe Shelley


10. "Change is a measure of time and, in the autumn, time seems speeded up. What was is not and never again will be; what is is change." --Edwin Way Teale

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15 Movie Quotes to Celebrate Fred Astaire's Birthday

15 Movie Quotes to Celebrate Fred Astaire's Birthday

Author: Noel Jameson

Ready to celebrate the birth of an entertainment great with some classic movie quotes? Fred Astaire's birthday is right around the corner and what better way to remember him than with some quotes from some of his most famous roles? If you're a Fred Astaire fan, here are fifteen quotes you're sure to remembe

15 Movie Quotes to Celebrate Fred Astaire's Birthday

1. 'If I ever forgot myself with that girl, I'd remember it.' ~ Top Hat

2. 'So, move Grant's Tomb to Union Square and put Brooklyn anywhere, but please, please, I'm down on my knees, don't monkey with Broadway!' ~ Broadway Melody of 1940

3. 'A gentle smile often breeds a kick in the pants.' ~ Holiday Inn

4. 'Would it be rude of me to inquire if there is any insanity in your family?' ~ You Were Never Lovelier

5. 'Couldn't I be the fellow who never gets his name mentioned? The one they call 'a friend'? You know: 'Ginger Rogers - and friend.' ~ The Sky's The Limit

6. 'You didn't tell anybody I was your guardian angel, did you?' ~ Yolanda and the Theif

7. 'John, everyday you act worse, but today you're acting like tomorrow.' ~ Roberta

8. 'I told you, I haven't even met her. But I'd kinda like to marry her... I think I will.' ~ Shall We Dance

9. 'Can I offer you anything? Frosted chocolate? Cointreau? Benedictine? Marriage?' ~ The Gay Divorcee

10. 'I don't often try to apologize 'cause I seldom make any mistakes.' ~ Follow the Fleet

11. 'Here's to the beautiful ladies. Here's to those wonderful girls. Adele's and Molly's, Lucille's and Polly's, you'll find them all at the Ziegfeld Follies' ~ Ziegfeld Follies

12. 'Why didn't you tell me I was in love with you?' ~ Easter Parade

13. 'It's not obscene, it's French.' ~ The Belle of New York

14. 'How dare you come back here! Didn't I tell you you were an optical delusion?' ~ Finian's Rainbow

15. 'Gentlemen, may I take this opportunity to tell you that you look like a mess of worms? And that you not only look like a mess of worms, but you ARE a mess of worms. And I'll bet you've been sitting at this table all these years because if you ever left it you'd be picked up on a vagrancy charge.' ~ Funny Face

There's much we can say about Fred Astaire... He was talented, funny, a great dancer ' but there was something else too. If you take a look at the above quotes closely, you'll see Fred Astaire was also a workaholic. Each of the fifteen quotes comes from a different movie, I didn't even touch on half of the movies he was in. On the tenth of May let's celebrate the birth of an entertainment icon -- the birth of Fred Astaire -- with these fifteen movie quotes.

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30 Elvis Presley Quotes to Celebrate His Birthday

30 Elvis Presley Quotes to Celebrate His Birthday

Elvis Presley is regarded as one of the most important figures of 20th-century popular culture. Elvis Presley was an American singer and actor. He is commonly known by the single name Elvis. One of the most popular musicians of the 20th century, he is often referred to as the "King of Rock and Roll". Elvis Nominated for 14 competitive Grammys, he won three, and received the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award at age 36. January 8th is Elvis Presley's birthday.Let's get to know him a little better with these thirty Elvis Presley quotes.

30 Elvis Presley Quotes to Celebrate His Birthday

1. Since the beginning, it was just the same. The only difference, the crowds are bigger now. --Elvis Presley


2. Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain't goin' away. --Elvis Presley


3. When I'm out there, I do what they want to hear. When I'm back here, I can do what I want to do. --Elvis Presley


4. More than anything else, I want the folks back at home to think right of me. --Elvis Presley


5. I learned how important it is to entertain people and give them a reason to come and watch you play. --Elvis Presley


6. When I was a boy, I always saw myself as a hero in comic books and in movies. I grew up believing this dream. --Elvis Presley


7. We're the perfect combination. Colonel's an old carny, and me, I'm off the wall. --Elvis Presley


8. I was an only child, and Mother was always right with me all my life. I used to get very angry at her when I was growing up-it's a natural thing. --Elvis Presley


9. Those people in New York are not gonna change me none. --Elvis Presley


10. Later on they send me to Hollywood. To make movies. It was all new to me. I was only 21 years old. --Elvis Presley


11. I think I have something tonight that's not quite correct for evening wear. Blue suede shoes. --Elvis Presley


12. The image is one thing and the human being is another. It's very hard to live up to an image, put it that way. --Elvis Presley


13. I've been getting some bad publicity - but you got to expect that. --Elvis Presley


14. The Lord can give, and the Lord can take away. I might be herding sheep next year. --Elvis Presley


15. I sure lost my musical direction in Hollywood. My songs were the same conveyor belt mass production, just like most of my movies were. --Elvis Presley


16. The next thing I knew, I was out of the service and making movies again. My first picture was called, GI Blues. I thought I was still in the army. --Elvis Presley


17. The colored folks been singing it and playing it just like I'm doin' now, man, for more years than I know. I got it from them. --Elvis Presley


18. Rhythm is something you either have or don't have, but when you have it, you have it all over. --Elvis Presley


19. I like to sing ballads the way Eddie Fisher does and the way Perry Como does. But the way I'm singing now is what makes the money. --Elvis Presley


20. The closest I ever came to getting married was just before I started singing. In fact, my first record saved my neck. --Elvis Presley


21. I'm trying to keep a level head. You have to be careful out in the world. It's so easy to get turned. --Elvis Presley


22. I believe in the Bible. I believe that all good things come from God. I don't believe I'd sing the way I do if God hadn't wanted me to. --Elvis Presley


23. There are too many people that depend on me. I'm too obligated. I'm in too far to get out. --Elvis Presley


24. The army teaches boys to think like men. --Elvis Presley


25. Whatever I will become will be what God has chosen for me. --Elvis Presley


26. I never expected to be anybody important. --Elvis Presley


27. I'll never make it, it will never happen, because they're never going to hear me 'cause they're screaming all the time. --Elvis Presley


28. Just because I managed to do a little something, I don't want anyone back home to think I got the big head. --Elvis Presley


29. Every time I think that I'm getting old, and gradually going to the grave, something else happens. --Elvis Presley


30. You went to the papers and tried to make me look bad. If you had come to me, we would have worked things out. --Elvis Presley

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