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A girl sits on a swing in front of a cherry tree with blossoms at Mauerpark in Berlin, Germany, in 2013. English poet Thomas Tusser once said, “Sweet April showers do bring May flowers.” Reuters

April is here, and it's time to celebrate as spring gets into full swing. This month will be a big one, with 30-day observances recognizing poetry, Parkinson's disease and financial literacy. Passover starts Friday and runs through April 11. Major League Baseball's opening day will take place Sunday, which is also Easter, and the Boston Marathon is scheduled for April 20. You also can't forget Tax Day, Earth Day or Record Store Day.

No matter what holidays you honor, embrace the fourth month of the year with these famous quotes about April, pulled from About Education and BrainyQuote:

“The first of April is the day we remember what we are the other 364 days of the year.” — Mark Twain

“April prepares her green traffic light and the world thinks go.” — Christopher Morley

“April is a promise that May is bound to keep.” — Hal Borland

“Our spring has come at last with the soft laughter of April suns and shadow of April showers.” — Byron Caldwell Smith

“The sun was warm but the wind was chill. You know how it is with an April day.” — Robert Frost

“April hath put a spirit of youth in everything.” — William Shakespeare

“There are no days in the whole round year more delicious than those which often come to us in the latter half of April... The sun trembles in his own soft rays... The grass in the meadow seems all to have grown green since yesterday... though there is warmth enough for a sense of luxury, there is coolness enough for exertion.” — Thomas Wentworth Higginson

"The April winds are magical, And thrill our tuneful frames; The garden-walks are passional To bachelors and dames." — Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Every tear is answered by a blossom, / Every sigh with songs and laughter blent, / April-blooms upon the breezes toss them. / April knows her own, and is content." — Susan Coolidge

"April comes like an idiot, babbling and stewing flowers." — Edna St. Vincent Millay

“A gush of bird-song, a patter of dew, A cloud, and a rainbow's warning, Suddenly sunshine and perfect blue -- An April day in the morning.” — Harriet Prescott Spofford

“Sweet April showers do bring May flowers.” — Thomas Tusser