Passover begins April 1 – 9
“Freedom is won not on the battlefield but in the classroom and the home. Teach your children the history of freedom if you want them never to lose it”
– Rabbi Jonathan Sacks
“Passover affirms the great truth that liberty is the inalienable right of every human being.”
– Morris Joseph
No Housework Day – April 7
“I have trouble with four letter words: cook, dust, wash, iron.”
– berkleygreen.com
“Nothing inspires cleanliness more than an unexpected guest.”
– Radhika Mundra
Encourage a Young Writer Day – April 10
“You may not write well every day, but you can always edit a bad page. You can’t edit a blank page.”
– Jodi Picoult
“The scariest moment is always just before you start.”
– Stephen King
“You don’t start out writing good stuff. You start out writing crap and thinking it’s good stuff, and then gradually you get better at it. That’s why I say one of the most valuable traits is persistence.”
– Octavia E. Butler
National Library Week Second week of April
“Libraries store the energy that fuels the imagination. They open up windows to the world…”
– Sidney Sheldon
“Libraries: The medicine chest of the soul.”
– Inscription over the door of the Library at Thebes
“I couldn’t go to college, so I went to the library three days a week for 10 years.”
– Ray Bradbury
President Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act – April 11, 1964
“The purpose of the law is simple. It does not restrict the freedom of any American, so long as he respects the rights of others. It does not give special treatment to any citizen. It does say the only limit to a man’s hope for happiness, and for the future of his children, shall be his own ability.”
– President Lyndon B. Johnson
“Where you see wrong or inequality or injustice, speak out, because this is your country. This is your democracy. Make it. Protect it. Pass it on.”
– Thurgood Marshall
Author Beverly Cleary born – April 12, 1916
“I don’t necessarily start with the beginning of the book. I just start with the part of the story that’s most vivid in my imagination and work forward and backward from there”
– Beverly Cleary
“I am not a pest.”
– Ramona Quimby to her sister Beezus
Webster’s Dictionary published – April 14, 1828
5,000 new words were added to Webster’s Dictionary in 2025 including the following: freestyle, cold brew, farm-to-table, rizz, adulting, cancel culture, doomscroll, hard pass, dad bod, petrichor, teraflop, ghost kitchen WFH (work from home), and side-eye.
Income Tax Day – April 15
“Next to being shot at and missed, nothing is quite as satisfying as an income tax refund.” – F. J. Raymond
“Income tax has made more liars out of the American people than golf.”
– Will Rogers
Earth Day Established – April 22, 1970
“The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful”.
– E. E. Cummings
“Even if you never have the chance to see or touch the ocean, the ocean touches you with every breath you take, every drop of water you drink, every bite you consume. Everyone, everywhere is inextricably connected to and utterly dependent upon the existence of the sea.”
– Dr. Sylvia Earle
Arbor Day – April 24
“To be without trees would, in the most literal way, to be without our roots.”
– Richard Mabey
“Arbor Day is not like other holidays. Each of those reposes on the past, while Arbor Day proposes for the future.”
– Julius Sterling Morton
Hug a Friend Day – April 26
“We need four hugs a day for survival. We need eight hugs a day for maintenance. We need 12 hugs a day for growth.”
– Virginia Satir
“The best gift you can give is a hug; one size fits all and no one minds if you return it.”
– Marge Piercy
National Honesty Day – April 30
“If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.”
– Mark Twain
“Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.”
– Buddha
“A half-truth is a whole lie.”
– Yiddish Proverb
National Humor Month
“A lot of people are afraid of heights. Not me, I’m afraid of widths.”
– Steven Wright
“When I die, I want to die like my grandfather who died peacefully in his sleep. Not screaming like all the passengers in his car.”
– Will Rogers
“It just occurred to me that the majority of my diet is made up of the foods that my kid didn’t finish.”
– Carrie Underwood