April Quotes - Page 10

• How strange it is, sometimes, which conversations or events stays with us while so much else melts as fast as April snow.

  Marlena De Blasi

  Snow, Events, Strange

  Marlena de Blasi (2013). “A Thousand Days in Venice: An Unexpected Romance”, p.122, Algonquin Books

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• This work somehow awakened my dormant powers of will and I began to practice self-control. At first my resolutions faded like snow in April, but in a little while I conquered my weakness and felt a pleasure I never knew before - that of doing as I willed.

  Nikola Tesla

  Self, Practice, Snow

  Nikola Tesla (2016). “My Inventions: [Illustrated & Biography Added]”, p.31, eKitap Projesi

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• But days even earlier than these, in April, have a charm, — even days that seem raw and rainy, when the sky is dull and a bequest of March - wind lingers, chasing the squirrel from the tree and the children from the meadows. There is a fascination in walking through these bare early woods, – there is such a pause of preparation, winter's work is so cleanly and thoroughly done. Everything is taken down and put away.

  Thomas Wentworth Higginson

  Summer, Spring, Taken

  "The Procession of the Flowers: And Kindred Papers".

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• In April 1917 the illusion of isolation was destroyed, America came to the end of innocence, and of the exuberant freedom of bachelor independence. That the responsibilities of world power have not made us happier is no surprise. To help ourselves manage them, we have replaced the illusion of isolation with a new illusion of omnipotence.

  Barbara Tuchman

  Responsibility, Omnipotence, America

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• Tulips come up in spring for no reason. Of course, you planted bulbs and now in April the earth warms up. But why? For no reason except gravity. Why gravity? For no reason. And why did you plant red tulip bulbs to begin with? For beauty, which is itself and has no reason. So the world is empty. Things rise and fall for no reason. And what a great opportunity that is! You can start writing again at any minute. Let go of all your failures and sit down and write something great. Or write something terrible and feel great about it.

  Natalie Goldberg

  Letting Go, Spring, Fall

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• Looking foolish does the spirit good.

  John Updike

  Doe, Fool, Spirit

  John Updike (2012). “Self-Consciousness: Memoirs”, p.247, Random House

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• I nearly broke out laughing when the wrteched soothsayer warned Caesar: "Beware the Ides of April." I thought it a miracle (and a relief) that no one in the udience had snickered or yelled out a correction. How could such an error be made by an actor? Had my ears deceived me?

  Seth Grahame-Smith

  Errors, Laughing, Miracle

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• January cold and desolate;
  February dripping wet;
  March wind ranges;
  April changes;
  Birds sing in tune
  To flowers of May,
  And sunny June
  Brings longest day;
  In scorched July
  The storm-clouds fly,
  Lightning-torn;
  August bears corn,
  September fruit;
  In rough October
  Earth must disrobe her;
  Stars fall and shoot
  In keen November;
  And night is long
  And cold is strong
  In bleak December.

  Christina Rossetti

  Strong, Stars, Spring

  Christina Rossetti (2014). “Rossetti: Poems”, p.128, Everyman's Library

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• In 1980, when I graduated from high school, my goal was to be on 'The Tonight Show' with Johnny Carson at least once before our ten-year class reunion. Our class reunion was in June of 1990, and I was on 'The Tonight Show' in April 1990, so I made it by a few months.

  Jeff Dunham

  School, June, Years

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• Friends are very understanding when you tell them in April that you can see them next September, but there is a limit to how long you can go on like that.

  Jill Dando

  Long, Understanding, Goes On

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• We've got some guys going good and we've got some guys who are struggling. Usually April's a tough month. Guys come from Arizona where the weather's perfect and the ball flies all over the place. Then you get into the reality of the season, and it can work against them, not so much physically as mentally.

  Jeff Pentland

  Struggle, Reality, Weather

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• I give him (Frank Howard during April 28, 1968 two-hitter) shoulder, back, foot and the ball last," and Frank Howard commented, "He threw everything at me but the ball.

  Luis Tiant

  Two, Feet, Giving

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• And not a girl goes walking Along the Cotswold lanes But knows men's eyes in April Are quicker than their brains.

  John Drinkwater

  Girl, Eye, Men

  John Drinkwater (1919). “Poems, 1908-1919”

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• Triumphant hours are the Lark's
  Who circles skywards from his home each day:
  World's early riser, with bubbling golden song,
  Towards the firmament, guardian of April's gate.

  Dafydd ap Gwilym

  Inspirational, Life, Song

  Dafydd ap Gwilym (1982). “Dafydd Ap Gwilym: A Selection of Poems”

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• Three things a wise man will not trust, The wind, the sunshine of an April day, And woman's plighted faith.

  Robert Southey

  Wise, Sunshine, Men

  Robert Southey (1853). “Madoc”, p.249

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• On Sunday 8 April 1945, he had just finished conducting a service of worship at Schoenberg, when two soldiers came took him away. As he left, he said to another prisoner, This is the end - but for me, the beginning - of life. He was hanged the next day, less than a week before the Allies reached the camp.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Life, Sunday, Two

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• Early in April, as I was vigorously hoeing in a corner, I unearthed a huge toad, to my perfect delight and satisfaction; he had lived all winter, he had doubtless fed on slugs all the autumn. I could have kissed him on the spot.

  Celia Thaxter

  Life, Autumn, Winter

  Celia Thaxter (2008). “An Island Garden”, p.56, Applewood Books

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• To reporters the day after his accession to the presidency, April 13, 1945: When they told me yesterday what had happened, I felt like the moon, the stars and all the planets had fallen on me.

  Harry S. Truman

  Stars, Moon, Yesterday

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• It is the sweetest spring within the memory of man. So green, so mild, so beautiful! Ah, what a contrast between nature without and my own soul so torn with doubt and terror!

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Beautiful, Memories, Spring

  Derrick Belanger, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2014). “A Study in Terror: Volume 1: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Revolutionary Stories of Fear and the Supernatural”, p.203, Andrews UK Limited

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• Why should I deem myself to be a chisel, when I could be the artist?

  Friedrich Schiller

  Artist, Should, Chisels

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• In whatever position you find yourself, determine first your objective.

  Ferdinand Foch

  Finding Yourself, Firsts, Determine

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• We must create our own world.

  Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

  World

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• Gratitude never radicalized anybody. I don't care if they recognize the past, I just want them to get angry about the present and keep going.

  Gloria Steinem

  Gratitude, Past, Care

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• I tell young people: Do not think of yourself, think of others. Think of the future that awaits you, think about what you can do and do not fear anything.

  Rita Levi-Montalcini

  Fear, Thinking, People

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• It must never be lost sight of what observation is for. It is not for the sake of piling up miscellaneous information or curious facts, but for the sake of saving life and increasing health and comfort

  Katharine Kolcaba

  Life, Health, Nursing

  Katharine Kolcaba (2003). “Comfort Theory and Practice: A Vision for Holistic Health Care and Research”, p.20, Springer Publishing Company

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