In August of 2002, I survived a car accident. Although I can still see the van speeding toward us, I cannot bring… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
This was one of those perfect New England days in late summer where the spirit of autumn takes a first stealing flight,… — Sarah Orne Jewett Copy Share Image
Long years ago, we made a tryst with destiny and now the time comes when we shall redeem our pledge... At the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My mother was in labour for two full days before having me on a sunny August afternoon. She went into labour on… — Dan Levy Copy Share Image
The 6th of August in the morning we saw an opening in the land and we ran into it, and anchored in… — William Dampier Copy Share Image
What I find so interesting is, Herbert Hoover in August 1928 said no country in the world was closer to abolishing poverty… — Robert Dallek Copy Share Image
The first indication of menopause is a broken thermostat. It's either that or your weight. In any case, if you don't do… — Dorothea Benton Frank Copy Share Image
Consider how august a privilege it is, when angels are present, and archangels throng around, when cherubim and seraphim encircle with their… — Saint John Chrysostom Copy Share Image
“Bay leaves granted wishes as July turned into August. I wrote a wish on the leaf and kissed it three times in… — Valerie Dunsmore Copy Share Image
But before Derby go, would they mind telling the rest of the Premier League - the league which it has debased with… — Pete Gill Copy Share Image
If I indulge myself and surrender to memory, I can still feel the knot of excitement that gripped me as I turned… — Duane Michals Copy Share Image
Once upon a Lammas Night When corn rigs are bonny, Beneath the Moon's unclouded light, I held awhile to Annie... The time… — Robert Burns Copy Share Image
... Member Countries shall take necessary action and/or shall establish negotiations, individually or in groups, with the oil companies with a view… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
It was in August or September of 1995 that I met Diana, Princess of Wales. Diana and I met through Oonagh Toffolo,… — Hasnat Khan Copy Share Image
You saw me before I saw you. In the airport, that day in August, you had that look in your eyes, as… — Lucy Christopher Copy Share Image
From the great trees the locusts cry In quavering ecstatic duo-a boy Shouts a wild call-a mourning dove In the blue distance… — Hamlin Garland Copy Share Image
“Sight is an important thing, August. Without it, our minds invent, and the things they invent are almost always worse than the… — Victoria Schwab Copy Share Image
In societies where men are truly confident of their own worth, women are not merely tolerated but valued." (From a speech read… — Aung San Suu Kyi Copy Share Image
I happened upon a memoir by a midlevel White House staffer, and he had been in the room that [Nixon's last] night… — Harry Shearer Copy Share Image
He had been eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers, which were to be put into vials hermetically… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
I knew Mohamed Atta had something to do in this operation. I knew definitely that the White House and World Trade Centre… — Zacarias Moussaoui Copy Share Image
In 2016, Washington and its coalition partners conducted more than 7,000 strikes in Iraq and Syria. And in Libya, the United States… — Peter Bergen Copy Share Image
Remember to be gentle with yourself and others. We are all children of chance and none can say why some fields will… — Kent Nerburn Copy Share Image
In August, the large masses of berries, which, when in flower, had attracted many wild bees, gradually assumed their bright velvety crimson… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Halfway through one August day, while she was embroidering with her friends, she heard someone coming to the door. She didn't have… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
Edinburgh is a world city, visited throughout the year for its beauty and history, but in August, it is the City of… — Dominic Holland Copy Share Image
I can recall back in 1998, in August of that year, when we had a horrible disaster along the Mexican border in… — Henry Bonilla Copy Share Image
Always keep mint on your windowsill in August, to ensure that buzzing flies will stay outside, where they belong. Don't think the… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“In June we picked the clover, And sea-shells in July: There was no silence at the door, No word from the sky.… — Cecil Day-Lewis Copy Share Image
One stifling summer afternoon last August, in the attic of a tiny stone house in Pennsylvania, I made a most interesting discovery:… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The Parisian is to the French what the Athenian was to the Greeks: no one sleeps better than he, no one is… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Let me give you a word of the philosophy of reform. The whole history of the progress of human liberty shows that… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
I had the advantage, that I know Swedish. So I had the Swedish book and I had a lot of English translations,… — Liv Ullmann Copy Share Image
I can see that I imagine all kinds of rejection that never happens. I can see that I beg and plead for… — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
And out of the blue, I got a call from an editor friend at Knopf and she said that they were interested… — Bob Colacello Copy Share Image
“In 1850, August Salzmann photographed, near Jerusalem, the road to Beith-Lehem (as it was spelled at the time): nothing but stony ground,… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
The seasons don't matter to most of us anymore except as spectacles. In my county and in many places around this part… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
I grew up when one of America's greatest black playwrights, August Wilson, was writing about life in Pittsburgh, but I never saw… — Billy Porter Copy Share Image
My God, this novel makes me break out in a cold sweat! Do you know how much I've written in five months,… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
There is a velvety sensuality here at the mouth of the Mississippi that you won't find anywhere else. Tell me what the… — Andrei Codrescu Copy Share Image
![“I happened upon a memoir by a midlevel White House staffer, and he had been in the room that [Nixon's last] night [in office]. This guy's memoir told me what Nixon's last words were. And they were, on August 8, 1974, to the crew: "Have a Merry Christmas, fellas!" That was just so bizarre.” quote by Harry Shearer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1aa/harry-shearer-7595_august_i-happened-upon-a-memoir-by-a-midlevel-w_2308171.jpg)
