August Quotes
240 quotes by 213 authors
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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The way to ensure summer in England is to have it framed and glazed in a comfortable room.
— Horace Walpole
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August creates as she slumbers, replete and satisfied.
— Joseph Wood Krutch
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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
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Even with insects - some can sing, some can't.
— Kobayashi Issa
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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: