It’s the first day of spring!  The vernal equinox  – or spring equinox as many call it – means “of spring” and “equal night” in Latin wherein day and night are of equal length.

Here are some first day of spring quotes to welcome Spring!

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

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

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

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

In the spring I have counted one hundred and thirty-six different kinds of weather inside of four and twenty hours.  ~Mark Twain

Spring has returned.  The Earth is like a child that knows poems.  ~Rainer Maria Rilke

I love spring anywhere, but if I could choose I would always greet it in a garden.  ~Ruth Stout

No matter how long the winter, spring is sure to follow.  ~Proverb

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

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

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

No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn.  ~Hal Borland

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

Every spring is the only spring – a perpetual astonishment.  ~Ellis Peters

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

To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.  ~George Santayana

April hath put a spirit of youth in everything.  ~William Shakespeare

Spring is nature’s way of saying, “Let’s party!”  ~Robin Williams