Holidays & Occasions Easter Our Best-Ever Easter Quotes By Nellah Bailey McGough Nellah Bailey McGough Nellah McGough runs the day-to-day operations in the Southern Living Birmingham office, responds to reader questions and comments, manages freelancer contracts, and invoices. Southern Living's editorial guidelines Updated on April 3, 2017 Share Tweet Pin Email Trending Videos Photo: Southern Living We all love this time of year. The dogwoods and azaleas are blooming. It's a time of reflection and renewal but also a time for Easter egg hunts and Easter baskets full of chocolate-covered marshmallow bunnies and pink and yellow Peeps. We've collected some funny and some more reverent quotes for this special time of year. Take this time to enjoy your family, to laugh, smell the fresh grass and fragrant flowers, and most of all, give thanks for the little things in life that we take for granted each day. Happy Easter! 01 of 11 Carl Knudsen "The story of Easter is the story of God's wonderful window of divine surprise." 02 of 11 Caroline Rhea "I lied on my Weight Watchers list. I put down that I had 3 eggs…but they were Cadbury chocolate eggs." 03 of 11 Amy Sedaris "My mom used to say that Greek Easter was later because then you get stuff cheaper." 04 of 11 Irving Berlin "For In your Easter Bonnet, with all the frills upon it, You'll be the grandest lady in the Easter parade." 05 of 11 Steve Carell "The Easter Bunny ate all of the carrots we left for him. What a pig." 06 of 11 S. D. Gordon "Easter spells out beauty, the rare beauty of new life." 07 of 11 Steve Nelson & Jack Rollins "Here comes Peter Cottontail, hopping down the bunny trail, Hippity, hoppity, Easter's on its way." 08 of 11 Jack Handy "Good Idea: Finding Easter eggs on Easter.Bad Idea: Finding Easter eggs on Christmas." 09 of 11 Kurt Avish "Easter is the only time of year when it's perfectly safe to put all your eggs in one basket." 10 of 11 Charles Wesley "'Christ the Lord is risen to-day,' Sons of men and angels say. Raise your joys and triumphs high; Sing, ye heavens, and earth reply." 11 of 11 Roma Downey "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." Was this page helpful? Thanks for your feedback! Tell us why! Other Submit