Quotes About April 17

#1. Babe Ruth didn't become her father until 18 months after he married her mother, Claire, on April 17, 1929, Opening Day of the baseball season. Julia was 12 years old.

Jane Leavy

#2. When punk came along, I found my generation's music. I grew up listening to the Beatles and the Rolling Stones and Pink Floyd, 'cause that was what got played in the house. But when I first saw the Stranglers, I thought, 'This is it.'

Robert Smith

#3. One genius has made many clever artists.

Martial

#4. A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.

Queen Victoria

#5. The square root of nothing.

R.D. Laing

#6. The toughest metal melts when the maker has an issue ...

Adil Adam Memon

#7. The wonderful thing about being a writer is that everything that happens is grist to the mill.

Jane Green

#8. I was not going to use writing for advertising or journalism. I would tend bar, load trucks, chauffeur - do whatever it took. But from the moment I took my first writing workshop, I was a writer.

Dennis Lehane

#9. The shaming of Washington, insofar as it is even possible, is a very noble pursuit.

Mark Leibovich

#10. When I grow up I want to be an old woman.

Michelle Shocked

#11. How often I find myself called wrong,' Churchill had written to his wife on 17 April 1924, 'for warning of follies in time.

Martin Gilbert

#12. All life is but a skull-bone and
A rack of ribs through which
we keep passing food & fuel-
just so's we can burn so
furious beautiful.

Jack Kerouac

#13. Who I ram strangers my skin.

Sean Kilpatrick

#14. Listen, friends," said the disciple confidently, " [ ... ] I didn't have a friend in the world. Do you know what it's like not to have a friend in the world?"
"It ain't no worsen havinum that would put a knife in your back when you wasn't looking," the older man said, barely parting his lips.

Flannery O'Connor