April 13 Quotes

#1. Be good children, and we shall all meet in Heaven. I want to meet you all, white and black, in Heaven. Our Federal Union! It must be preserved! [Toast at a celebration of Thomas Jefferson's birthday, April 13 1830]

Andrew Jackson

#2. Americans who read the papers or watch Jay Leno have been aware for some time now that there is a slim but real possibility - about 1 in 45,000 - that an 850-foot-long asteroid called Apophis could strike Earth with catastrophic consequences on April 13, 2036.

Rusty Schweickart

#3. 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

#4. I've certainly experienced racism, but it has not made a great impact on me. I have always thought, as I got older and older, I was more in charge of who I was. What someone thought about me or said about me made less of an impression on me at very vulnerable times.

Robert Guillaume

#5. He said, I always thought the woman I'd marry would hit me easy, in a bolt of lightning, and there is not lightning there is not even thunder there is not even rain.

Aimee Bender

#6. It's not your enemies who are likeliest to hurt you. It is, always, those you trust.

Rachel Caine

#7. I believe with all my heart that the American classroom teachers are one of our greatest and most heroic treasures.

Patricia Polacco

#8. But from the perspective of the aging parent, there is no major difference between four and fifteen, except that when your child is four, his motoring privileges are restricted to little toy Fisher-Price vehicles which are unlikely (although I would not totally rule it out in America) to sue you.

Dave Barry

#9. You poor, deluded woman ... do you believe there is any such thing as love? ... You're living an illusion. Do you believe the words of love they whisper in the ears of penniless women like us?

Nawal El Saadawi

#10. If you can solve your problem, then what is the need of worrying? If you cannot solve it, then what is the use of worrying?

Santideva

#11. I never really thought comedy was a career option, just something I did for fun. Suddenly I realised I was getting paid which was a bonus. I studied for a diploma with the London College of Music, and teaching was something I thought I might do but comedy intervened.

Bill Bailey

#12. Teenagers are fast. They're like cockroaches that way.

Stephen King

#13. Looks can be decieving

Masashi Kishimoto

#14. When a mad man found some certain way to express his insanity in original way, he would get promoted to be called an Artist ... Wait, are you talking about me?

Hiroko Sakai

#15. Habits gradually change the face of one's life as time changes one's physical face; & one does not know it.

Virginia Woolf

#16. Certainty is the enemy of mankind. If you're certain about everything, you have the Inquisition, you have Nazis and you have - that certainty is something to be guarded about.

Anthony Hopkins