Anyone else counting down the days until you can eat as many fluffy Peeps and chocolate bunnies as possible? Or maybe you plan to celebrate the religious traditions of the holiday, complete with Easter treats and family-friendly games? Either way, these festive Easter quotes are sure to come in handy, whether you’re posting them on the ‘gram or dropping them into casual conversation at the dinner table. From the humorous to the contemplative, here are our 55 favorite Easter quotes to mark the holiday (which, btw, falls on March 31 this year).
55 Easter Quotes to Share with Loved Ones This Holiday
Including festive celebrity quotes
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1. “I love Easter. It’s like Halloween for soccer moms and baby chickens.” — Matthew Gray Gubler
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2. “Spring is the time of plans and projects.” — Leo Tolstoy
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3. “The great gift of Easter is hope.” — Basil C. Hume
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4. “A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg, even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.” — Bernard Meltzer
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5. “Blossom by blossom the spring begins.” — Algernon Charles Swinburne
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6. “A flower blossoms for its own joy.” — Oscar Wilde
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7. “A guy comes down to earth, takes your sins, dies, and comes back three days later. You believe in him and go to heaven forever. How do you get from that to hide-the-eggs? Did Jesus have a problem with eggs? Did he go, ‘When I come back, if I see any eggs, the whole salvation thing is iff?’” — Jon Stewart
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8. “Someone must X-ray my stomach to see if the Peeps I ate on Easter are still in there, intact and completely undigested. And I’m not talking about this past Easter. I’m talking about the last time I celebrated Easter, in 1962.” — Bill Maher
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9. “The Easter bunny ate all of the carrots we left for him. What a pig.” — Steve Carell
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10. “Easter is meant to be a symbol of hope, renewal, and new life.” — Janine Di Giovanni
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11. “The very first Easter taught us this: that life never ends and love never eies.” — Kate Mcgahan
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12. “I just love Easter. It’s just the best holiday ever. I love Peeps, and jelly beans, and I love chocolate covered bunnies, but I really love Peeps the best.” — Reese Witherspoon
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13. “There are always flowers for those who want to see them.” — Henri Matisse
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14. “I really wanted to name [my daughter] Easter Ann. I thought it was so cute. Literally no one agreed with me.” — Busy Philipps
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15. “If Easter says anything to us today, it says this: you can put truth in a grave, but it won't stay there.” — Clarence W. Hall
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16. “Where man sees but withered leaves, God sees sweet flowers growing.” — Albert Laighton
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17. “Easter is the only time when it’s perfectly safe to put all of your eggs in one basket.” — Evan Esar
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18. “Easter is very important to me. It's a second chance.” — Reba McEntire
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19. “In your Easter bonnet, with all the frills upon it, you’ll be the grandest lady in the Easter parade.” — Helen Merrill
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20. “My mom used to say that Greek Easter was later because then you get stuff cheaper.” — Amy Sedaris
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21. “The day the Lord created hope was probably the same day he created spring.” — Bernard Williams
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22. “Don’t wait for someone to bring you flowers. Plant your own garden and decorate your own soul.” — Luther Burbank
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23. “That is one good thing about this world...there are always sure to be more springs.” — L.M. Montgomery
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24. “I must have flowers, always and always.” — Claude Monet
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25. “Twas Easter Sunday. The full-blossomed trees filled all the air with fragrance and with joy.” — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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26. “Never let your kids have more fun than you on Easter!!” — Will Smith
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27. “With the coming of spring, I am calm again.” — Gustav Mahler
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28. “Our Lord has written the promise of resurrection, not in books alone, but in every leaf in springtime.” — Martin Luther King Jr.
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29. “Easter spells out beauty, the rare beauty of new life.” — S.D. Gordon
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30. “You can cut all the flowers, but you cannot keep spring from coming.” — Pablo Neruda
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31. “Just living is not enough. One must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.” — Hans Christian Anderson
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32. “Spring’s greatest joy beyond a doubt is when it brings the children out.” — Edgar Guest
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33. “There would be no Christmas if there was no Easter.” — Gordon B. Hinckley
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34. “Where flowers bloom, so does hope.” — Lady Bird Johnson
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35. “I still believe in Santa, the Easter Bunny, the Tooth Fairy and true love. Don’t even try to tell me different.” — Dolly Parton
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36. “To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow.” — Audrey Hepburn
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37. “Good idea: Finding the Easter eggs on Easter. Bad idea: Finding the Easter eggs on Christmas.” — Jack Handey
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38. “No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn.” — Hal Borland
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39. “It is the hour to rend thy chains, the blossom time of souls.” — Katharine Lee Bates
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40. “Easter may seem boring to children, and it is blessedly unencumbered by the silly fun that plagues Christmas. Yet it contains the one thing needful for every human life: the good news of Resurrection.” — Frederica Mathewes-Green
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41. “The Earth laughs in flowers.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
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42. “Easter is the demonstration of God that life is essentially spiritual and timeless.” — Charles M. Crowe
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43. “At one time I smoked, but in 1959 I couldn't think of anything else to give up for Lent so I stopped - and I haven't had a cigarette since.” — Ethel Merman
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44. “Faith makes all things possible. Love makes all things easy.” — Dwight L. Moody
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45. “All I really need is love, but a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt!” — Charles M. Schulz
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46. “There’s nothing better than a good friend, except a good friend with chocolate.” — Linda Grayson
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47. “Spring shows what God can do with a drab and dirty world.” — Virgil A. Kraft
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48. “The beautiful spring came, and when nature resumes her loveliness, the human soul is apt to revive also.” — Harriet Ann Jacobs
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49. “Today we celebrate the gift of victory over every fall we have ever experienced.” — Jeffrey R. Holland
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50. “It is spring again. The Earth is like a child that knows poems by heart.” — Rainer Maria Rilke
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51. “Easter was when Hope in person surprised the whole world by coming forward from the future into the present.” — N.T. Wright
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52. “Easter is the soul’s first taste of spring.” — Richelle E. Goodrich
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53. “People come together with their families to celebrate Easter. What better way to celebrate than to spend a few hours going on the journey of Christ’s life.” — Roma Downey
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54. "The story of Easter is the story of God’s wonderful window of divine surprise." — Carl Knudsen
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