Harbinger Quotes

The true harbinger of spring is not crocuses or swallows returning to Capistrano, but the sound of the bat on the ball.

Welcome, wild harbinger of spring! To this small nook of earth; Feeling and fancy fondly cling, Round thoughts which owe their birth, To thee, and to the humble spot, Where chance has fixed thy lowly lot.

In all parts of the Old World, as well as of the New, it was evident that Columbus had kindled a fire in every mariner's heart. That fire was the harbinger of a new era, for it was not to be extinguished.

Exceptions are not always the proof of the old rule; they can also be the harbinger of a new one.