“Spring is here my friends and a new chapter begins.”
Jack Layton (1950–2011) Leader of the New Democratic Party of Canada
" 2011 Election Night Victory Speech http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOFXnnu481c." May 2, 2011
“Spring is here my friends and a new chapter begins.”
Jack Layton (1950–2011) Leader of the New Democratic Party of Canada
" 2011 Election Night Victory Speech http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOFXnnu481c." May 2, 2011
Jo Cox (1974–2016) UK politician
Column: Jo Cox – After a hard day’s night, the real work starts http://www.batleynews.co.uk/news/local/column-jo-cox-after-a-hard-day-s-night-the-real-work-starts-1-7264438 (16 May 2015)
“And so on to the end of the chapter.”
Francois Rabelais book Gargantua and Pantagruel
Source: Gargantua and Pantagruel (1532–1564), Fifth Book (1564), Chapter 10.
Dante Alighieri book Vita Nuova
Source: La Vita Nuova (1293), Chapter I, opening lines (as reported in The 100 Best Love Poems of All Time by Leslie Pockell)
George H. W. Bush (1924–2018) American politician, 41st President of the United States
Inaugural Address (1989)
Context: I do not mistrust the future; I do not fear what is ahead. For our problems are large, but our heart is larger. Our challenges are great, but our will is greater. And if our flaws are endless, God's love is truly boundless.
Some see leadership as high drama, and the sound of trumpets calling, and sometimes it is that. But I see history as a book with many pages, and each day we fill a page with acts of hopefulness and meaning. The new breeze blows, a page turns, the story unfolds. And so today a chapter begins, a small and stately story of unity, diversity, and generosity — shared, and written, together.
“The first chapter sells the book; the last chapter sells the next book.”
Mickey Spillane (1918–2006) American writer
“The chapter of knowledge is a very short, but the chapter of accidents is a very long one.”
Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield (1694–1773) British statesman and man of letters
To Solomon Dayrolles (16 February 1753)
“I'm starting a new chapter in my life, and you have no idea how much that means.”
Christopher Reeve (1952–2004) actor, director, producer, screenwriter
At the premiere of his first work as a director, after his injuries of 1995 (1997)