August Quotes
240 quotes by 213 authors
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I was in Vienna in August 1968 for a meeting of the International Federation of Multiple Sclerosis Societies, of which I was co-founder, and we…
— Shirley Temple
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It was in August or September of 1995 that I met Diana, Princess of Wales. Diana and I met through Oonagh Toffolo, whose husband was…
— Hasnat Khan
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You need to make a trip to Des Moines in August, because the Iowa State Fair really is a sight to see. The Iowa Fairgrounds…
— Zach Johnson
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When my father returned home on the twenty-first of August 1983, he had a speech prepared. Filipinos never got to hear it, because he was…
— Benigno Aquino III
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When New Orleans was flooded in August 2005, the rising water cut off Memorial Medical Centre, a community hospital that was holding more than 200…
— Peter Singer
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What I find so interesting is, Herbert Hoover in August 1928 said no country in the world was closer to abolishing poverty than the United…
— Robert Dallek
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In March 1943, my parents, four-year-old sister and I were interned with other foreign civilians at Lunghua camp, a former teacher training college outside Shanghai,…
— J. G. Ballard
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It was August 28th, 1963, and the greatest civil rights coalition in modern history had descended upon Washington. Hundreds of thousands of protesters trekked through…
— Yvette Clarke
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In January 2013, I told the people in the Justice Department after the re-election that I wanted to focus on reforming the federal criminal justice…
— Eric Holder
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It is best to be born in April or August when the life-giving Sun is in its exaltation sign Aries or Leo, its home, for…
— Max Heindel
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Founded in August 2003, MySpace would go on to be the most-visited social networking site in the world from 2005 until early 2008.
— David Sze
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In August of 2002, I survived a car accident. Although I can still see the van speeding toward us, I cannot bring to mind the…
— Siri Hustvedt
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The ship was named the Bounty: I was appointed to command her on the 16th of August 1787.
— William Bligh
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I expect that on the 1st of August, the SA will be once more ready for duty.
— Ernst Rohm
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Youth is in a grand flush, like the hot days of ending summer; and pleasant dreams thrall your spirit, like the smoky atmosphere that bathes…
— Donald G. Mitchell
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The owners said that they wanted the salary cap and refused to promise that they would abide by the rules of the just-expired contract after…
— David Cone
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Remember to be gentle with yourself and others. We are all children of chance and none can say why some fields will blossom while others…
— Kent Nerburn
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The streets lie, the sidewalks lie, everything lies. You can try and read it but you're gonna get it wrong...all wrong. The summer evenings burn…
— Henry Rollins
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Mr. Electricidad: OK, kids, whos next? Remember, there are no dumb ideas. Linus: Maybe we can freeze his circuits! Mr. Electricidad: Thats the dumbest idea…
— Shark Boy And Lava Girl
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October. This is the one of the peculiarly dangerous months to speculate in stocks in. The others are July, January, September, April, November, May, March,…
— Mark Twain
Who Wrote These August Quotes
213 authors contributed a total of 240 August Quotes, led by these top contributors: