Spring Summer Quotes

• It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade.

  Charles Dickens

  Summer, Nature, Spring

  Charles Dickens (2015). “Great Expectations: Classic English Literature”, p.394, 谷月社

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• 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

  Friends, Spring, Earth

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• I know I am but summer to your heart, and not the full four seasons of the year.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Relationship, Summer, Heart

  Edna St. Vincent Millay (2014). “Millay: Poems”, p.170, Everyman's Library

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• Spring passes and one remembers one's innocence.

  Yoko Ono

  Summer, Time, Spring

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• Tears of joy are like the summer rain drops pierced by sunbeams.

  Hosea Ballou

  Inspirational, Summer, Rain

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  You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming.

  Pablo Neruda

  Inspiring, Hope, Spring

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  No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face.

  John Donne

  Beauty, Summer, Spring

  'Elegies' 'The Autumnal' (1599-1601)

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• Spring passes and one remembers one's innocence. Summer passes and one remembers one's exuberance. Autumn passes and one remembers one's reverence. Winter passes and one remembers one's perseverance.

  Yoko Ono

  Summer, Perseverance, Gratitude

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• There is no season such delight can bring, as summer, autumn, winter and the spring.

  William Browne

  Summer, Spring, Fall

  William Browne (1845). “Britannia's Pastorals”, p.256

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• A life without love is like a year without spring.

  Octavian Paler

  Summer, Spring, Love Is

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• Summer's lease hath all too short a date.

  William Shakespeare

  Summer, Poetry, Too Short

  Sonnet 18

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• In June as many as a dozen species may burst their buds on a single day. No man can heed all of these anniversaries; no man can ignore all of them.

  Aldo Leopold

  Anniversary, Nature, Spring

  Aldo Leopold, Michael Sewell (2001). “A Sand County Almanac”, p.82, Oxford University Press

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• 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

  Summer, Nature, Spring

  Thomas Carlyle (2014). “The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.73, Lulu.com

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• There ought to be gardens for all months in the year, in which, severally, things of beauty may be then in season.

  Francis Bacon

  Spring, Fall, Autumn

  Francis Bacon (2016). “Essays”, p.105, Jazzybee Verlag

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• The Indian Summer of life should be a little sunny and a little sad, like the season, and infinite in wealth and depth of tone, but never hustled.

  Henry Adams

  Summer, Sunny Weather, Sunny Afternoon

  Henry Adams (1946). “The Education of Henry Adams”

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• One swallow does not make a summer, but one skein of geese, cleaving the murk of March thaw, is the Spring.

  Aldo Leopold

  Summer, Spring, Doe

  Aldo Leopold (1989). “A Sand County Almanac, and Sketches Here and There”, p.18, Oxford University Press, USA

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• What is one to say about June, the time of perfect young summer, the fulfillment of the promise of the earlier months, and with as yet no sign to remind one that its fresh young beauty will ever fade.

  Gertrude Jekyll

  Summer, Time, Spring

  Gertrude Jekyll (2011). “Wood and Garden: Notes and Thoughts, Practical and Critical, of a Working Amateur”, p.77, Cambridge University Press

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• From dawn to dusk, winter to spring, summer & autumn; the contrasts of nature refresh the mind & renew our sense of balance

  Phil Harding

  Summer, Nature, Spring

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• He sometimes felt that life was something that had already risen, and all of this, the Jackson Pollack of spring, summer, and fall, the vague refrigeration and tinfoiled sky of wintertime, was just a falling, really, originward, in a kind of correction, as if by spritual gravity, towards the wiser consciousness--or consciousnessless, maybe; could gravity trick itself like that?--of death. It was a kind of movement both very slow and very fast; there was both too much and not enough time to think.

  Tao Lin

  Summer, Spring, Fall

  Tao Lin (2007). “Eeeee Eee Eeee: A Novel”, Melville House Pub

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• There is a privacy about it which no other season gives you.... In spring, summer and fall people sort of have an open season on each other; only in the winter, in the country, can you have longer, quiet stretches when you can savor belonging to yourself.

  Ruth Stout

  Summer, Country, Spring

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• Spring, summer, and fall fill us with hope; winter alone reminds us of the human condition.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Summer, Spring, Fall

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.108, BookBaby

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• anyone lived in a pretty how town
  (with up so floating many bells down)
  spring summer autumn winter
  he sang his didn't he danced his did.

  e. e. cummings

  Summer, Spring, Autumn

  '50 Poems' (1949) no. 29

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• Los Angeles has no seasons, so it's kind of hard to keep track of time here. The lines between spring, summer, fall, and winter all blur like my vision. I get stuck on repeat for different measures of eternity.

  Kris Kidd

  Summer, Spring, Fall

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• There is only one thing about which I shall have no regrets when my life ends. I have savored to the full all the small, daily joys. The bright sunshine on the breakfast table; the smell of the air at dusk; the sound of the clock ticking; the light rains that start gently after midnight; the hour when the family come home; Sunday-evening tea before the fire! I have never missed one moment of beauty, not even taken it for granted. Spring, summer, autumn, or winter. I wish I had failed as little in other ways.

  Agnes Sligh Turnbull

  Summer, Regret, Spring

  Agnes Sligh Turnbull, “No Regrets”

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• If he does go, the change will be doleful. Suppose he should be absent spring, summer, and autumn: how joyless sunshine and fine days will seem!

  Charlotte Bronte

  Summer, Spring, Sunshine

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.124, Penguin

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