April Quotes - Page 9

• I thought of the idea of Summly in March or April 2011. I was 15 years old and I was revising for some kind of history exam. The problem was I was trying to find information that was useful to me. When you type into Google an esoteric term, you get quite a lot of stuff that's not relevant.

  Nick D'Aloisio

  Years, Ideas, Google

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• In the autumn I gathered all my sorrows and buried them in my garden. And when April returned and spring came to wed the earth, there grew in my garden beautiful flowers unlike all other flowers. And my neighbors came to behold them, and they all said to me, "When autumn comes again, at seeding time, will you not give us of the seeds of these flowers that we may have them in our gardens?"

  Khalil Gibran

  Beautiful, Forgiveness, Spring

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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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• I think that no matter how old or infirm I may become, I will always plant a large garden in the spring. Who can resist the feelings of hope and joy that one gets from participating in nature's rebirth?

  Edward Giobbi

  Art, Spring, Garden

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• That God once loved a garden we learn in Holy writ.
  And seeing gardens in the Spring I well can credit it.

  Winifred Mary Letts

  Spring, Garden, Credit

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• Smells are surer than sounds or sights
  To make your heartstrings crack.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Women, Heart, Sight

  "The Complete Works of Rudyard Kipling".

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• We shall sooner have the fowl by hatching the egg than by smashing it.
  Abraham Lincoln, White House speech 11 April 1865.
  Or arm th' obdured breast
  With stubborn patience as with triple steel.

  John Milton

  Patience, White, Eggs

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• I was born on the 5th April 1942. On Good Friday. Round about crucifixion time. Archbishop Ussher, a man for dates, who calculated that the world began on September 27th 4004 BC, says the crucifixion took place at three o'clock in the afternoon on Good Friday in the year 33 AD. I was right on time.

  Peter Greenaway

  Friday, Men, Years

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• The IRS said today anyone with a refund coming from their 2001 taxes will lose it if they don't pick it up by April 15th. If it is more then three years they will just keep it. How come it doesn't work that way with back taxes?

  Jay Leno

  Years, Three, Irs

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• When Andrew went with the girls, we were talking all morning and he was saying, ‘It’s okay, just remember we had such a good day, our wedding was so perfect,’ you know, because we’re such a unit together. He made me feel such a part of the day on April 29th.

  Sarah Ferguson

  Girl, Wedding, Morning

  "Sarah Ferguson On Not Being Invited To Royal Wedding: I Felt ‘Totally Worthless'" by Hilary Moss, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 10, 2011.

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• By the time Gandhi met Muhammad Ali in Delhi in April 1915it was, Gandhi said, 'love at first sight.'

  Joseph Lelyveld

  Sight, Firsts, Muhammad

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• 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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• Ah, March! we know thou art Kind-hearted,
  spite of ugly looks and threats,
  And, out of sight, art nursing April's violets!

  Helen Hunt Jackson

  Art, Nursing, Sight

  Helen Hunt Jackson (1872). “Verses”, p.85

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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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• 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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• 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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• Christmas begins about the first of December with an office party and ends when you finally realize what you spent, around April fifteenth of the next year.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Funny, Christmas, Money

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Modern Manners: An Etiquette Book for Rude People”, p.136, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• On April 2, the nurses started my first round of five intravenous immunoglobulin (IVIG) infusions. The clear IV bags hung on a metal pole above my head, their liquid trickling down into my vein. Each of those ordinary-looking bags contained the healthy antibodies of over a thousand blood donors and cost upwards of $20,000 per infusion. One thousand tourniquets, one thousand nurses, one thousand veins, one thousand blood-sugar regulating cookies, all just to help one patient.

  Susannah Cahalan

  Blood, Nurse, Healthy

  Susannah Cahalan (2012). “Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness”, p.116, Simon and Schuster

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• April frowned, irritation evident. “I did not consent to your presence,” she said peevishly. “Please depart, and attempt your political assassination on someone else’s property.

  Mira Grant

  Irritation, Political, Said

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• Peace is joy at rest. Joy is peace on its feet. quoting her pastor in Salon, April 25, 2003

  Anne Lamott

  Feet, Joy, Salons

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• The air is like a butterfly
  With frail blue wings.
  The happy earth looks at the sky
  And sings.

  Joyce Kilmer

  Happiness, Spring, Butterfly

  Joyce Kilmer (1946). “Joyce Kilmer”

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• Anne Lamott’s priest friend Tom, how to get through: "Left foot, right foot, left foot, breathe," he said. "Right foot, left foot, right foot, breathe." Salon April 25, 2003

  Anne Lamott

  Feet, Breathe, Salons

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• Potentiality knocks on the door of my heart. [On Seeing The 100% Perfect Girl One Beautiful April Morning ]

  Haruki Murakami

  Beautiful, Girl, Morning

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• Two things you need to know about taxes. They've extended the deadline to April 18, and when you write your check, just make it out to China.

  David Letterman

  Writing, Two, Needs

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• Pansies in soft April rains Fill their stalks with honeyed sap Drawn from Earth's prolific lap.

  Bayard Taylor

  Rain, Sap, Earth

  Bayard Taylor (1866). “The Poems”, p.243

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