April Quotes - Page 10

• Thanks be to God, the air is soft as in April in Seville, and it is a pleasure to be in it, so fragrant it is.

  Christopher Columbus

  Air, Thanks, Pleasure

  "Journal of the First Voyage". Book by Bartolomé de Las Casas. Entry for October 08, 1492,

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• Our opponents see an America in which every day is April 15, tax day. Well, we see an America in which every day is the Fourth of July.

  Ronald Reagan

  July, America, Opponents

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• Sometimes I'll watch an old movie on television and, once in a while, one of mine, such as April Showers, will come on and I'll watch it. And you know something? I'm always amazed at what a lousy actress I was. I guess in the old days we just got by on glamour.

  Ann Sothern

  Watches, Television, Actresses

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• Her [ Onata April] great talent as an actress is that she has the ability to understand and listen to the scenario and what the story is, and then she can pretend and live that.

  David A. Siegel

  Stories, Actresses, Talent

  Source: collider.com

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• Nature hav no music; nor would ther be for theeany better melody in the April woods at dawnthan what an old stone-deaf labourer, lying awakeo'night in his comfortless attic, might perchancebe aware of, when the rats run amok in his thatch?

  Robert Bridges

  Running, Lying, Night

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• It is often said it is no matter what a man believes if he is only sincere. This is true of all minor truths, and false of all truths whose nature it is to fashion a man's life. It will make no difference in a man's harvest whether he thinks turnips have more saccharine matter than potatoes--whether corn is better than wheat. But let the man sincerely believe that seed planted without ploughing is as good as with, that January is as favorable for seed sowing as April, and that cockle seed will produce as good a harvest as wheat, and will it make no difference?

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Fashion, Believe, Men

  henry ward beecher (1858). “life thoughts,”, p.16

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• October knew, of course, that the action of turning a page, of ending a chapter or of shutting a book, did not end a tale. Having admitted that, he would also avow that happy endings were never difficult to find: "It is simply a matter," he explained to April, "of finding a sunny place in a garden, where the light is golden and the grass is soft; somewhere to rest, to stop reading, and to be content.

  Neil Gaiman

  Book, Reading, Garden

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• I am no more lonely than a single mullein or dandelion in a pasture, or a bean leaf, or sorrel, or a horse-fly, or a bumblebee. I am no more lonely than the Mill Brook, or a weathercock, or the north star, or the south wind, or an April shower, or a January thaw, or the first spider in a new house.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Lonely, Horse, Stars

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.84, Simon and Schuster

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• Well, let it pass, he thought; April is over, April is over. There are all kinds of love in the world, but never the same love twice. --The Sensible Thing

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  World, Kind, Same Love

  F. Scott Fitzgerald, Matthew J. Bruccoli (1995). “The Short Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald: A New Collection”, p.301, Simon and Schuster

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• The month of April 2000 will provide an unprecedented showcase for the clean energy options available to individuals, businesses and the government, .. As tens of millions of people take action to support clean energy during Earth Month, the 'New Energy for a New Era' campaign will catapult us toward a clean and affordable energy future.

  Gaylord Nelson

  Government, People, Support

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• You will remember this when all else fades, this moment, here, together, by this well. There will be certain days, and certain nights, you’ll feel my presence near you, hear my voice. You’ll think you have imagined it and yet, inside you, you will catch an answering cry. On April evenings, when the rain has ceased, your heart will shake, you’ll weep for nothing, pine for what’s not there. For you, this life will never be enough, there will forever be an emptiness, where once the god was all in all in you.

  John Banville

  Rain, Heart, Night

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• We can't possibly have a summer love. So many people have tried that the name's become proverbial. Summer is only the unfulfilled promise of spring, a charlatan in place of the warm balmy nights I dream of in April. It's a sad season of life without growth...It has no day.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Summer, Dream, Spring

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). “The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works”, p.268, e-artnow

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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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• Okay, why don't we practice your talking with Marguerite? OUT LOUD. I'll be her." Julius stared at him blankly. "Now?" "No, I was thinking maybe next April. Then you could maybe give her a call, arrange a date..." He arched his eyebrow in question, and snapped, "Yes, NOW.

  Lynsay Sands

  Thinking, Talking, Practice

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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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• 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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• 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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• There's a gentleness about April that made me ache. It seemed like I was always on the run, always working and chasing some goal or another, but April had a way of holding me still. And then I'd begin to hurt and yearn for something I couldn't describe, something I hadn't known yet. All I knew was the ache itself and the strange, sweet feeling it was.

  Elizabeth Chandler

  Running, Sweet, Hurt

  Elizabeth Chandler (1999). “I Do”, Bantam Books for Young Readers

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• It might interest you that just as the U.S. was ramping up its involvement in Vietnam, LBJ launched an illegal invasion of the Dominican Republic (April 28, 1965). (Santo Domingo was Iraq before Iraq was Iraq.)

  Junot Diaz

  Iraq, Vietnam, Republic

  Junot Diaz (2008). “The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao”, p.4, Faber & Faber

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• In April, I asked my staff to determine if Senate rules and relevant laws would allow me to direct the trustees to sell any remaining HCA stock. In May, my staff worked with outside counsel and with the Senate ethics committee staff to draft a written communication to the trustees. After obtaining pre-approval by mid-June from the Senate ethics committee, I issued a letter directing my trustees to sell any remaining HCA stock in my family's trust.

  Bill Frist

  Communication, Law, June

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• O bluebird, welcome back again, Thy azure coat and ruddy vest, Are hues that April loveth best.

  John Burroughs

  Hue, Coats, Azure

  John Burroughs (1909). “Bird Stories from Burroughs: Sketches of Bird Life Taken from the Works of John Burroughs”

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• It's a warm wind, the west wind, full of birds' cries; I never hear the west wind but tears are in my eyes. For it comes from the west lands, the old brown hills, And April's in the West wind, and daffodils.

  John Masefield

  Eye, Wind, Land

  John Masefield (1922). “The Poems and Plays of John Masefield: Poems”

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• The immaterial blue colour shown at Iris Clert's in April had in short made me inhuman, had excluded me from the world of tangible reality; I was an extreme element of society who lived in space and who had no means of coming back to earth. Jean Tinguely saw me in space and signaled to me in speed to show me the last machine to take to return to the ephemerality of material life.

  Yves Klein

  Mean, Reality, Blue

  "Yves Klein, 1928 - 1962". Book by Yves Klein, p. 47, 1974.

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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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