August Quotes

240 quotes by 213 authors

That smell of freshly cut grass makes me think of Friday night football in high school. The smell of popcorn and cigar smoke reminds me… — Garth Brooks
Under current federal policy on human embryonic stem cell research, only those stem cell lines derived before August 9, 2001 are eligible for federally funded… — Tom Allen
I've been sober for two-and-a-half years, My children are happy. In August, my wife and I will celebrate our fifteenth wedding anniversary. My band is… — Trey Anastasio
With respect to the creation of the program, I introduced the bill in September 1945, immediately after the end of the war with Japan, in… — J. William Fulbright
The seasons don't matter to most of us anymore except as spectacles. In my county and in many places around this part of the nation,… — Bill McKibben
Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside a lake in… — Diane Ackerman
The first week of August hangs at the very top of summer, the top of the live-long year, like the highest seat of a Ferris… — Natalie Babbitt
August has passed, and yet summer continues by force to grow days. They sprout secretly between the chapters of the year, covertly included between its… — Jonathan Safran Foer
The collision of hail or rain with hard surfaces, or the song of cicadas in a summer field. These sonic events are made out of… — Iannis Xenakis
In August, the large masses of berries, which, when in flower, had attracted many wild bees, gradually assumed their bright velvety crimson hue, and by… — Henry David Thoreau
The way to ensure summer in England is to have it framed and glazed in a comfortable room. — Horace Walpole
August creates as she slumbers, replete and satisfied. — Joseph Wood Krutch
He had been eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers, which were to be put into vials hermetically sealed, and let… — Jonathan Swift
Even with insects - some can sing, some can't. — Kobayashi Issa
When summer opens, I see how fast it matures, and fear it will be short; but after the heats of July and August, I am… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Verily, the word of Allah teaches us, and we implicitly believe it, that for a Muslim to kill a Jew, or for him to be… — Ibn Saud
My God, this novel makes me break out in a cold sweat! Do you know how much I've written in five months, since the end… — Gustave Flaubert
Iraqis will never forget that on 8 August 1990 Kuwait became part of Iraq legally, constitutionally and actually. It continued to do so until last… — Saddam Hussein
Every July, August and part of September I escape of the guitar, I escape of Paco de Lucia and I go to Mexico to the… — Paco de Lucia
It's not often you find yourself writing about a game that you haven't seen one kick of. But it's not often that the favourites lose… — Phil Cornwell

Who Wrote These August Quotes

213 authors contributed a total of 240 August Quotes, led by these top contributors: