Declared Vacant April

Famous quotes containing the words declared, vacant and/or april:

    “It is hereby earnestly proposed that the USA would be much better off if that big, sprawling, incoherent, shapeless, slobbering civic idiot in the family of American communities, the City of Los Angeles, could be declared incompetent and placed in charge of a guardian like any individual mental defective.”
    —Westbrook Pegler (1894–1969)

    “And ladies with their nails prepared for tea
    And sunken barques that coast the shores of hell
    And old men vacant of propriety
    Have faintly rung a next-door neighbor’s bell.”
    —Allen Tate (1899–1979)

    “Thou art thy mother’s glass, and she in thee
    Calls back the lovely April of her prime.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)