65 March Quotes To End Winter And Welcome Spring In

Anusuya Mukherjee
Dec 12, 2023 By Anusuya Mukherjee
Originally Published on Feb 18, 2021
Edited by Monisha Kochhar
Sakura or cherry blossom on road at Chiang Mai Thailand

March is the month where the winter leaves us and finally makes way for spring.

After the harsh winter, the warmth that spring brings in our lives is what makes it the best month of all. March has particularly been a month of interest for writers and poets all around the world.

So here are some march month quotes that you can either use as a calendar quote or just use as a caption for your 'Welcome Spring' Instagram picture.

For related quotes, check out January quotes and April quotes.
 

March Quotes And Sayings

March Birthday quotes for people who have their birthdays in March.

1.“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'.

2.“March is the month of expectation, the things we do not know”

― Emily Dickinson.

3."After a certain age, time just drizzles down upon your head like rain in the month of March"

―Elizabeth Gilbert.

4."If you wed when March winds blow,

Joy and sorrow both you'll know. . .

Married when March winds shrill and roar,

Your home will lie on a distant shore."

―New Zealand Proverb.

5."March was an unpredictable month, when it was never clear what might happen. Warm days raised hopes until ice and grey skies shut over the town again."

―Tracy Chevalier.

6."In March the soft rains continued, and each storm waited courteously until its predecessor sunk beneath the ground."

―John Steinbeck, 'East of Eden'.

7.“So many mists in March, so many frosts in May.”

-German Proverb.

8.“It is a beautiful March morning. [...] Eternally fresh, eternally hopeful, always ingenuous.”

― Kate Morton, 'The House at Riverton'.

9.“Match the right things in March”

― Ernest Agyemang Yeboah.

10."Boredom is . . . when the same naive flowers blossom again in the month of March."

―Iwan Goll.

11.“Despite March’s windy reputation, winter isn’t really blown away; it is washed away."

― 'The New York Times'.

12."March winds and April showers? Bring forth May flowers."

-Farmer's Almanac.

13."Saturday morning in late March.

I was alone and took a long walk . . .

Ice had broken up on the river

and the water rippled smoothly in blue light."

­―Edward Hirsch, 'Late March'.

14."A windy March is lucky. Every pint of March dust brings a peck of September corn, and a pound of October cotton."

-Julia Peterkin.

15.“Where did Gabriel get a lily, in the month of March, when the green is hardly seen on the early larch?”  

―Grace James.

16.“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, 'Two Tramps in Mud Time'.

Welcome March Quotes

March quotes to welcome the month of March with the same warmth it brings to your life.

17.“Springtime is the land awakening. The March winds are the morning yawn.”

Lewis Grizzard.

18.“By March, the worst of the winter would be over."

― Neil Gaiman, 'Odd and the Frost Giants'.

19.“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 Cullen Bryant.

20."February is merely as long as is needed to pass the time until March. "

-J.R. Stockton.

21."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.

22."It is the first mild day of March

The redbreast sings from the tall larch

Then come, my Sister! come, I pray "

―William Wordsworth, 'To My Sister'.

23.“This is the perfume of March: rain, loam, feathers, mint.”

― Lisa Kleypas, 'Love in the Afternoon'.

24.“They captured in their ramble all the mysteries and magics of a March evening."

― L.M. Montgomery.

25."Lo, the flowery month is come! March winds and April showers have done their work, and the earth is all bedecked with beauty."

―Charles H. Spurgeon.

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.“March, master of winds, bright minstrel and marshal of storms that enkindle the season they smite.”

― Algernon C Swinburne, 'March: An Ode'.

28.“As through the poplar’s gusty spire, the March wind sweeps and sings, I sit beside the hollow fire, and dream familiar things"

― 'Chambers’s Journal of Popular Literature'.

29."A dry March and a wet May? Fill barns and bays with corn and hay."

-Farmer's Almanac.

30."Tresses all truant-like, curl upon curl,

Wind-blown and rosy, my little March girl."

­―Laurence Dunbar, 'My Little March Girl'.

31."January grey is here,

Like a sexton by her grave;

February bears the bier,

March with grief doth howl and rave..."

-Percy Bysshe Shelle.

32."First, sturdy March, with Brows full sternly bent,

And armed strongly, rode upon a Ram"

-Edmund Spenser.

Funny March Quotes

Hilarious march quotes that bring humor. Have a big, old laugh with these March quotes.

33."Our life is March weather, savage and serene in one hour."

―Ralph Waldo Emerson.

34."March comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb."

―English Proverb.

35.“POOR MARCH

It is the HOMELIEST month of the year.”

― Vivian Swift, 'When Wanderers Cease to Roam: A Traveler's Journal of Staying Put'.

36."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.

37.“March is the month God created to show people who don’t drink what a hangover is like.”

― Garrison Keillor.

38.“Yes, but it’s, you know—every year, you’re all, ‘March! This is going to be great! Start of spring!’ But it’s definitely not, right?”

― Kate Clayborn, 'Love Lettering'.

39."Earthquakes mean March. . .

The sun of this month cures all.

Therefore, old women say:

Let the sun of March shine on my daughter,

but let the sun of February shine on my daughter-in-law."

― Anne Sexton, 'The Sermon of Twelve Acknowledgements'.

40.“March is a month without mercy for rabid basketball fans. [...] There are no Rules when the deal goes down in the final weeks of March. Even your good friends will turn into monsters.”

―Hunter S. Thompson.

41."My worst job ever, this was when I was a kid, was picking potatoes on the back of a trailer in March. It was freezing, absolutely freezing. . . "

―Ben Miles.

March Inspirational Quotes

March quotes that will make you aspire for higher goals in life.

42."In March winter is holding back and spring is pulling forward. Something holds and something pulls inside of us too.”

― Jean Hersey.

43.“March, when days are getting long, Let thy growing hours be strong to set right some wintry wrong.”

― Caroline May.

44."Smiling, I watch the shaken elm-boughs, knowing

It is the wind of March."

-John Greenleaf Whittier.

45. “Only those with tenacity can march forward in March”

― Ernest Agyemang Yeboah.

46.“I have said that there was great pleasure in watching the ways in which different plants come through the ground, and February and March are the months in which that can best be seen.”

―Henry N. Ellacombe.

47.“That was all she begged for on this March night that was perfectly equal to the day, unique in all the season.”

― Alice Hoffman, 'The Red Garden'.

48.“Winds of March, we welcome you, there is work for you to do. Work and play and blow all day, blow the winter wind away.”

-English Proverb.

Quotation On Spring

March quotations that welcome the Spring season. These March quotes will amplify your love for the spring.

49.“Autumn arrives in the early morning, but spring at the close of a winter day.”

― Elizabeth Bowen.

50.“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.

51."December days were brief and chill,

The winds of March were wild and drear,

And, nearing and receding still,

Spring never would, we thought, be here."

-Arthur Hugh Clough.

52.“The seventeenth of March. In other words, spring.”

― Colette, 'Cheri and The Last of Cheri'.

53.“To welcome her the Spring breath’s forth Elysian sweets; March strews the Earth With violets and posies.”

―  Edmund Waller.

54.“The almond blossom from the tree has gone, to be replaced by new green shoots. It smells of spring, and mown grass, and tilled earth from the fields beyond.”

― Joanne Harris, 'The Strawberry Thief'.

55.“A light exists in Spring

Not present in the year

at any other period

When March is scarcely here.”

― Emily Dickinson.

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

― Aldo Leopold.

57.“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.

58.“Now when the primrose makes a splendid show, And lilies face the March-winds in full blow, And humbler growths as moved with one desire; Put on, to welcome spring, their best attire…”

― William Wordsworth.

Daffodil Quotes

March quotes on daffodils as they bloom in March are perfect. These March quotes on daffodils will be the best captions for your daffodils picture.

59.“Daffodils,

That come before the swallow dares, and take

The winds of March with beauty.”

― William Shakespeare, ’The Winter’s Tale’.

60."It was the second week in March . . . The magnolia trees had already bloomed, and tulips, daffodils, and wildflowers were shooting up all around the convent's gardens."

―Rosanna Chiofalo.

61.“March brings breezes loud and shrill, stirs the dancing daffodil.”

― Sara Coleridge.

62."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."

―Beatriz Williams.

63.“The March wind roars, Like a lion in the sky, And makes us shiver, As he passes by.”

-English Proverb.

64."March’s birth flower is the daffodil. It’s all too appropriate that cheerful yellow flowers represent the first month of spring." ­

―FTD.

65."March brings breezes loud and shrill, Stirs the dancing daffodil."

-Sara Coleridge.

Here at Kidadl, we have carefully created lots of interesting family-friendly quotes for everyone to enjoy! If you liked our suggestions for March Quotes then why not take a look at May quotes, or June quotes.

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Written by Anusuya Mukherjee

Bachelor of Arts and Law specializing in Political Science and Intellectual Property Rights

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Anusuya MukherjeeBachelor of Arts and Law specializing in Political Science and Intellectual Property Rights

With a wealth of international experience spanning Europe, Africa, North America, and the Middle East, Anusuya brings a unique perspective to her work as a Content Assistant and Content Updating Coordinator. She holds a law degree from India and has practiced law in India and Kuwait. Anusuya is a fan of rap music and enjoys a good cup of coffee in her free time. Currently, she is working on her novel, "Mr. Ivory Merchant".

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