March is a month of transition. It's still cold in many parts of the country, the branches of trees are still barren, and flowers have yet to burst from the ground. But signs of spring are everywhere, from tiny buds forming on trees to the clock springing forward, signifying the longer days to come.
In short, March brings hope for all the sunshine and happy days ahead—so ring in this special month with these 35 quotes.
35 March Quotes
1. “March is a tomboy with tousled hair, a mischievous smile, mud on her shoes and a laugh in her voice.” ― Hal Borland
2. "A perfect spring day! Enjoy it while it lasts because you don’t know what’s coming.” ― Marty Rubin
3. “Spring makes its own statement, so loud and clear that the gardener seems to be only one of his instruments, not the composer.” ― Geoffrey Charlesworth
4. “How terrible a time is the beginning of March. In a month there will be daffodils and the sudden blossoming of orchards, but you wouldn’t know it now. You have to take spring on blind faith.” ― Beatriz Williams
5. “Spring work is going on with joyful enthusiasm.” – John Muir
6. “In March winter is holding back and spring is pulling forward. Something holds and something pulls inside of us too.” ― Jean Hersey
7. “March’s birth flower is the daffodil. It’s all too appropriate that cheerful yellow flowers represent the first month of spring.” ― FTD
8. “March is a month of considerable frustration it is so near spring and yet across a great deal of the country, the weather is still so violent and changeable that outdoor activity in our yards seems light-years away.” ― Thalassa Cruso
9. “March came in that winter like the meekest and mildest of lambs, bringing days that were crisp and golden and tingling, each followed by a frosty pink twilight which gradually lost itself in an elfland of moonshine.” ― L.M. Montgomery
10. “Spring is when you feel like whistling, even with a shoe full of slush.” – Doug Larson
11. “By March, the worst of the winter would be over. The snow would thaw, the rivers begin to run and the world would wake into itself again.” ―Neil Gaiman
12. “Match the right things in March.”― Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
13. “Our life is March weather, savage and serene in one hour.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
14. “To welcome her the spring breath’s forth Elysian sweets; March strews the Earth With violets and posies.” ― Edmund Waller
15. “This is the perfume of March: rain, loam, feathers, mint.” ―Lisa Kleypas
16. “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
17. “In March the soft rains continued, and each storm waited courteously until its predecessor sunk beneath the ground.” ― John Steinbeck
18. “The stormy March has come at last, with winds and clouds and changing skies; I hear the rushing of the blast that through the snowy valley flies.” ― William C. Bryant
19. “A cloud comes over the sunlit arch, a wind comes off a frozen peak, and you’re two months back in the middle of March.” ― Robert Frost
20. “Springtime is the land awakening. The March winds are the morning yawn.”
― Lewis Grizzard
21. “One swallow does not make a summer, but one skein of geese, cleaving the murk of March thaw, is the spring.” ― Aldo Leopold
22. "[March]: In like a lion, out like a lamb." — Farmer's Almanac
23. “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, Great Expectations
24. “Daffodils,
That come before the swallow dares, and take
The winds of March with beauty.” ― William Shakespeare
25. “A light exists in spring, not present in the year at any other period when March is scarcely here.” ― Emily Dickinson
26. “It was March. The days of March creeping gustily on like something that man couldn’t hinder and God wouldn’t hurry.” ― Enid Bagnold
27. “One swallow does not make a summer, but one skein of geese, cleaving the murk of March thaw, is the spring.” ― Aldo Leopold
28. “Look at the cherry blossoms! Their color and scent fall with them, Are gone forever, Yet mindless, The spring comes again” – Ikkyu
29. “Where did Gabriel get a lily, in the month of March, when the green is hardly seen on the early larch?” ― Grace James
30. “March winds and April showers bring forth May flowers.” ― English Proverb
31. “Whether it’s St. Patrick’s Day or not, everyone has a little luck o’ the Irish in them.” – Laura Sommers
32. “March is an example of how beautiful new beginnings can be.” – Anamika Mishra
33. “One swallow does not make a summer, but one skein of geese, cleaving the murk of March thaw, is the spring.” – Aldo Leopold
34. “Springtime is the land awakening. The March winds are the morning yawn.” ― Lewis Grizzard
35. “March, when days are getting long, Let thy growing hours be strong to set right some wintry wrong.” ― Caroline May
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