Quotes for Occasions & Seasons

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Looking for a perfect quote for a special occasion or your favorite time of year? Whether it’s your favorite season, holiday, or event, we’ve got you covered with the perfect quotes for all occasions and seasons.

Don’t save something for a special occasion. Every day of your life is a special occasion.

Thomas S. Monson

Quotes About Occasions

Hester Browne quote “Always keep a bottle of Champagne in the fridge for special occasions. Sometimes, the special occasion is that you've got a bottle of Champagne in the fridge”Pin
“Always keep a bottle of Champagne in the fridge for special occasions. Sometimes, the special occasion is that you’ve got a bottle of Champagne in the fridge.” – Hester Browne

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

Edna St. Vincent Mallay

Except. What is normal at any given time? We change just as the seasons change.

Sherwood Smith

When you’re young you prefer the vulgar months, the fullness of the seasons. As you grow older you learn to like the in-between times, the months that can’t make up their minds. Perhaps it’s a way of admitting that things can’t ever bear the same certainty again.

Julian Barnes

Every season has its peaks and valleys. What you have to try to do is eliminate the Grand Canyon.

Andy Van Slyke
Mark Twain seasons quote "I think that to one in sympathy with nature, each season, in turn, seems the loveliest"Pin
“I think that to one in sympathy with nature, each season, in turn, seems the loveliest.” – Mark Twain

There is a season for everything under the sun—even when we can’t see the sun.

Jared Brock

All seasons have something to offer.

Jeanette Walls

People change more frequently than the seasons do and still we blame the sun for bringing in the light.

Shweta Tale

Every season has a reason. Summer cannot do the works of winter, nor winter the works of summer. Each season is unique yet so important, so cherish the seasons in your life.

Gift Gugu Mona
Christina Imre quote "Seasons come and go. Your main goal should remain the same"Pin
“Seasons come and go. Your main goal should remain the same.” – Christina Imre

Some people plant in the spring and leave in the summer. If you’re signed up for a season, see it through. You don’t have to stay forever, but at least stay until you see it through.

Jim Rohn

American women often fall into the trap of, “Oh, these are my weekend clothes. These are my work clothes. This is what I wear at night.” It’s so old-fashioned. The French are not afraid of their luxury. Americans can be so puritanical and think, “That’s my special-occasion bag.” Whereas, for a French woman, it’s her everyday bag.

Michael Kors

Each day offers us the gift of being a special occasion if we can simply learn that as well as giving, it is blessed to receive with grace and a grateful heart.

Sarah Ban Breathnach
Suzanne Weyn occasion quote "Your life is an occasion. Rise to it"Pin
“Your life is an occasion. Rise to it.” – Suzanne Weyn

I liked wine, both red and white, and especially Champagne; and on very special occasions I could even drink a small glass of brandy.

Winston Churchill

Start living now. Stop saving the good china for that special occasion. Stop withholding your love until that special person materializes. Every day you are alive is a special occasion. Every minute, every breath, is a gift from God.

Mary Manin Morrissey

Four seasons fill the measure of the year; there are four seasons in the minds of men.

John Keats

The sun shines different ways in winter and summer. We shine different ways in the seasons of our lives.

Terri Guillemets
Calvin Coolidge quote "Heroism is not only in the man, but in the occasion"Pin
“Heroism is not only in the man, but in the occasion.” – Calvin Coolidge

The sun, moon, weather, climate and all seasons speak its appearance, to let us feel and realize; it’s a way to introduce oneself.

Ehsan Segal

The secret of change is to focus all of your energy not on fighting the old, but on building the new.

Socrates

I believe in process. I believe in four seasons. I believe that winter’s tough, but spring’s coming. I believe that there’s a growing season. And I think that you realize that in life, you grow. You get better.

Steve Southerland

We humans were clearly highly seasonal beasts until the coming of electric light but traces remain.

Brian Follett
Arthur Rubinstein quote "The seasons are what a symphony ought to be: four perfect movements in harmony with each other" Pin
“The seasons are what a symphony ought to be: four perfect movements in harmony with each other.” – Arthur Rubinstein

The course of the seasons is a piece of clock-work, with a cuckoo to call when it is springtime.

George Christoph Lichtenberg

Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand.

Mother Teresa

Not everyone takes action to harvest the experiences of the seasons of life in order to enjoy their bounty.

Andrea Goeglein

Farmers only worry during the growing season, but townspeople worry all the time.

E.W. Howe

“Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the touch of a friendly hand and for a talk beside the fire: it is the time for home.”

Edith Sitwell

The holiest of holidays are those kept by ourselves in silence and apart; The secret anniversaries of the heart.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Live each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influences of each.

Henry David Thoreau

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

George Santayana
Mary Ann Radmacher quote "Don't Wait! Start on your dreams, your impulses, your longings, your special occasions today. Because this is your moment"Pin
“Don’t Wait! Start on your dreams, your impulses, your longings, your special occasions today. Because this is your moment.” – Mary Ann Radmacher

David Duchovny asked me while I was picking out shoes in the closet. It wasn’t a special occasion. He just asked, ‘Will you marry me?’

Tea Leoni

You can make anything into a special occasion and dress up for it.

Victoria Beckham

Eating in Italy is essentially a family art, practiced for and by the family. The finest accomplishments of the home cook are not reserved like the good silver and china for special occasions or for impressing guests, but are offered daily for the pleasure and happiness of the family group.

Marcella Hazan

Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech.

Plutarch

Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

Charles Dickens

I like dressing in all seasons. Every season has its own character and charm.

Pierce Brosnan
Valentino Rossi quote “My normal is like being on holiday”Pin
“My normal is like being on holiday.” – Valentino Rossi

Cancer taught me to stop saving things for a special occasion. Every day is special. You don’t have to get cancer to start living life to the fullest. My post-cancer philosophy? No wasted time. No ugly clothes. No boring movies.

Regina Brett

I’ll buy a special occasion dress even if I don’t know when or where I’ll wear it.

Mary Helen Bowers

“There are two seasons in Scotland: June and Winter.”

Billy Connolly

Or maybe spring is the season of love and fall the season of mad lust. Spring for flirting but fall for the untamed delicious wild thing.

Elizabeth Cohen

We are born at a given moment, in a given place and, like vintage years of wine, we have the qualities of the year and of the season of which we are born. Astrology does not lay claim to anything more.

Carl Jung
Robert Breault quote "There are exactly as many special occasions in life as we choose to celebrate"Pin
“There are exactly as many special occasions in life as we choose to celebrate.” – Robert Breault

If you stay stuck in the past season or fixated on the future season, you will miss the one you’re in.

Maree Dee

Chicago has only two seasons: winter and construction.

Beth Evans

Time is not just the hands of a clock. It isn’t just a change of seasons either. It is a treasure trove of precious moments, infinite little joys and blessings, precious smiles, tears and heartbeats.

Mona Soorma

Yet sunshine brightens after rain, The darkness comes and goes again, So solace follows bitter pain, As seasons wax and wane.

Elizabeth Chase Akers Allen
Hippocrates quote “Look to the seasons when choosing your cures”Pin
“Look to the seasons when choosing your cures.” – Hippocrates

Quincy Seale

Quincy is KIM's editor, and has collected and shared inspiring quotes and stories since 2005. Quincy holds an MBA from the University of Dundee and an MSc from the University of Edinburgh, and lives in San Antonio with his wife Natalie, son Alex, and his dog Oban.

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