Quotes by American Authors - Page 37

April Comes like an idiot babbling and strewing flowers.
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Summer ends and Autumn comes and he who would have it otherwise would have high tide always and a full moon every night.
Hal Borland
Take a winter as you find him and he turns out to be a thoroughly honest fellow with no nonsense in him: and tolerating none in you which is a great comfort in the long run.
James Russell Lowell
No Winter lasts forever no Spring skips its turn. April is a promise that May is bound to keep and we know it.
Hal Borland
The nicest thing about the promise of spring is that sooner or later she'll have to keep it.
Mark Beltaire
April is the cruellest month breeding Lilacs out of the dead land mixing memory and desire stirring dull roots with Spring rain.
T.S Eliot
I liked to sail alone. The sea was the same as a girl to me - I did not want anyone else along.
E B White
The ocean and I have many pebbles To find and wash off and roll into shape.
William Stafford
The buck stops here.
Harry S. Truman
Don't let it be forgot That once there was a spot -For one brief shining moment That was known as Camelot.
John F Kennedy
Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.
Ronald Reagan
I beg leave to assure the Congress that no pecuniary consideration could have tempted me to accept this arduous employment at the expense of my domestic ease and happiness. I do not wish to make any profit from it.
George Washington
The final greatness of the presidency lies in the truth that it is not just an office of incredible power but a breeding ground of indestructible myth.
Clinton Rossiter
I desire to so conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end ... I have lost every friend on earth I shall have one friend left and that friend shall be down inside me.
Abraham Lincoln
I think the American public wants a solemn ass as a president and I think I'll go along with them.
Calvin Coolidge
I have no expectation of making a hit every time I come to bat.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
In America any boy may become president and I suppose it's just one of the risks he takes.
Adlai Stevenson
Harricum! Harricum! Give 'em hell Harricum!
Harry S. Truman
Within the first few months I discovered that being a president is like riding a tiger. A man has to keep riding or be swallowed.
Harry S. Truman
I feel like the man who was tarred and feathered and ridden out of town on a rail. To the man who asked how he liked it he said: 'If it wasn't for the honour of the thing I'd rather walk.'
Abraham Lincoln
If you are as happy my dear sir on entering this house as I am in leaving it and returning home you are the happiest man in the country.
James Buchanan
The four most miserable years of my life . . .
John Adams
Had I been chosen president again I am certain I could not have lived another year.
John Adams
A president's hardest task is not to do what's right but to know what's right.
Lyndon B. Johnson
When the president does it that means it is not illegal.
Richard Nixon
The presidency does not yield to definition. Like the glory of a morning sunrise it can be experienced - it can not be told.
Calvin Coolidge
Well I wouldn't say that I was in the 'great' class but I had a great time while I was trying to be great.
Harry S. Truman
Seriously I do not think I am fit for the presidency.
Abraham Lincoln
Th' prisidincy is th' highest office in th' gift iv th people. Th' vice-prisidincy is th' next highest an' the lowest. It isn't a crime exactly. Ye can't be sint to jail f r it but it's a kind iv a disgrace.
Finley Peter Dunne
Trying to make the presidency work these days is like trying to sew buttons on a custard pie.
James David Barber
The president is the representative of the whole nation and he's the only lobbyist that all the one hundred and sixty million people in this country have.
Harry S. Truman
We steal if we touch tomorrow. It is God's.
Henry Ward Beecher
A preoccupation with the future not only prevents us from seeing the present as it is but often prompts us to rearrange the past.
Eric Hoffer
Live for today. Multitudes of people have failed to live for today. ... What they have had within their grasp today they have missed entirely because only the future has intrigued them.
William Allen White
The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today.
Elbert Hubbard
Just do your best today and tomorrow will come ... tomorrow's going to be a busy day a happy day.
Helen Boehm
Very strange is this quality of our human nature which decrees that unless we feel a future before us we do not live completely in the present.
Phillips Brooks
You don't save a pitcher for tomorrow. Tomorrow it may rain.
Leo Durocher
To live only for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain that sustain life not the top.
Robert M. Pirsig
The most effective way to ensure the value of the future is to confront the present courageously and constructively.
Rollo May
Live wastes itself while we are preparing to live.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every moment that I am centered in the future I suffer a temporary loss of this life.
Hugh Prather
My head is buried in the sands of tomorrow while my tail feathers are singed by the hot sun of today.
John Barrymore
Some people are making such thorough preparation for rainy days that they aren't enjoying today's sunshine.
William Feather
The best preparation for a better life next year is a full complete harmonious joyous life this year.
Thomas Dreier
Freedom from worries and surcease from strain are illusions that always inhabit the distance.
Edwin Way Teale
I have always been waiting for something better-sometimes to see the best I had snatched from me.
Dorothy Reed Mendenhall
When shall we live if not now?
M.F.K. Fisher
You don't need endless time and perfect conditions. Do it now. Do it today. Do it for twenty minutes and watch your heart start beating.
Barbara Sher
Today is the blocks with which we build.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
I have everything I need to enjoy my here and now-unless I am letting my consciousness be dominated by demands and expectations based on the dead past or the imagined future.
Ken Keyes
Today is yesterday's pupil.
Benjamin Franklin
There is no present or future only the past happening over and over again now.
Eugene O'Neill
I have realized that the past and the future are real illusions that they exist only in the present which is what there is and all that there is.
Alan Watts
Few of us ever live in the present we are forever anticipating what is to come or remembering what has gone.
Louis L'Amour
The present is the necessary product of all the past the necessary cause of all the future.
Robert G. Ingersoll
Now is all we have. Everything that has ever happened to you and anything that is ever going to happen to you is just a thought.
Wayne Dyer
Patterns of the past echo in the present and resound through the future.
Dhyani Ywahoo
Don't waste today regretting yesterday instead of making a memory for tomorrow.
Laura Palmer
It is difficult to live in the present ridiculous to live in the future and impossible to live in the past.
Jim Bishop