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Quotes About Calendar

It was part of her ritual. In December she always got a new calendar at the grocery store and used the old one to write all the important dates on it." "And she probably didn't want you to forget, right?
~ Carolyn Brown
I had two cups of coffee, put Eric's jeans in the washer, read a romance for awhile, and studied my brand-new Word of the Day calendar, a Christmas gift from Arlene. My first word of the New Year was 'exsanguinate.' This was probably not a good omen.
~ Charlaine Harris
Even at the beginning of fall—which is only a date on the calendar in Texas;
~ Charlaine Harris
School after Labor Day is now the law of the land in Maryland.
~ Larry Hogan
I'm very antischedule. Except for board meetings, I don't really schedule things or keep a calendar. I think appointments are caustic to creativity.
~ David Karp
By the European Julian calendar it was already November 4, exactly one year and seven months from the date—dare she think of it—when she'd determined to withdraw the Montglane Service from its hiding place of a thousand years. But here in Russia, by the Gregorian calendar, it was only October 23.
~ Katherine Neville
James Ussher states in The Epistle to the Reader of his treatise The Annals of the World: Moreover, we find that the years of our forefathers, the years of the ancient Egyptians and Hebrews, were the same length as the Julian year. It consisted of twelve months containing thirty days each. (It cannot be proven that the Hebrews used lunar months before the Babylonian captivity.) Five days were added after the twelfth month each year. Every four years, six days were added after the twelfth month.
~ Ken Ham
The Civil calendar is the only calendar used in Genesis and Exodus. When God told Moses to start numbering the days in the Spring, the sacred or religious calendar was created. From this point on, we must look at the passage to see which calendar is being used. All the dates given in this book are based on the civil calendar. The civil calendar is the standard one used by Jews today. This is why the Jewish new year takes place in the Fall.
~ Ken Johnson
The calendar is a human invention; time does not exist on the spiritual level.
~ Isabel Allende
Why is there an end of the year? Because the calendar imposes numerical order on time. There is a natural fitness in the celebration of the New Year, a holiday of numbers imposed on things, with lists, as well as with Advent calendars and songs like 'The Twelve Days of Christmas.'
~ Elif Batuman
I'm so organised. I never screw up. I've done it maybe twice before. I check my calendar seven times a day.
~ Anna Paquin
My ace in the hole as a human being used to be my capacity for remembering birthdays. I worked at it. Whenever I made a new friend, I made a point of finding out his or her birthday early on, and I would record it in my Filofax calendar.
~ Susan Orlean
See Chapter 37 for more on BC/BCE and AD/CE.
~ Susan Wise Bauer
destroying beauty a rose red sunlight; I take it apart in the garage like a puzzle: the petals are as greasy as old bacon and fall like the maidens of the world backs to floor and I look up at the old calendar hung from a nail and touch my wrinkled face and smile because the secret is beyond me.
~ Charles Bukowski
December 31, 1999—not so for December 31, 2000. Everybody celebrated the turn of the millennium on the wrong date.
~ Charles Seife
It popped up on my Outlook calendar, flagged in red like an inflamed pimple full of infected bureaucratic pus... I've been trying desperately to get it shifted, but no, it is stuck like a king-sized dildo in a guinea pig.
~ Charles Stross
Christmas sits like a black hole on the calendar. Just try scheduling a meeting at work the month of December.
~ Andrew Shaffer
I tell you, that switch from B.C. to A.D. must have driven people nuts. I bet more than a few Israelites missed their dental appointments.
~ Tom Robbins
A 1968 calendar, large X's marking various dates (April 4, July 19); a letter written in blood so smeary its satanic message cannot be deciphered; an astrology chart; a fedora tilted on the plastic neck of a female torso, and, in a place that once housed Christians—well, Catholics anyway—not a cross of Jesus anywhere.
~ Toni Morrison
Možno by som si mala samovraždu naplánova? tak, aby sa stretávka a môj pohreb konali v rovnakom ?ase. Pozrela som sa do kalendára. Nie, tak dlho ur?ite nevydržím ?aka?. Teraz máme koniec apríla, rada by som to mala ?o najskôr za sebou.
~ Kerstin Gier
Show me your calendar and I will tell you your priorities. Tell me who your friends are, and I'll tell you where you're going.
~ Kevin Kelly
No more bereavement food. I was sick of it. It's funny how time is measured after you've lost someone. Everything relates back to that second your life swerved. The calendar isn't measured by the names of the months or seasons anymore, but by those significant dates. The day we met. The first time we kissed. The first dinner with his family. The anniversary of his death. The date of his funeral.
~ Kristan Higgins
At one point they tried to calculate when time began, when exactly the earth had been created. Tomorow was September 1
~ Georgi Gospodinov
Thirty days hath September, April, June, and November; All the rest have thirty-one Excepting February alone: Which hath but twenty-eight, in fine, Till leap year gives it twenty-nine.
~ Anonymous