August Quotes
240 quotes by 213 authors
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From a marketing point of view, you don't introduce new products in August.
— Andrew Card
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American banks may have been unable to supply adequate loans, but the Rothschild consortium in Britain was both able and willing. It was during this…
— G. Edward Griffin
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On the McLaughlin Report, August 26, 1990: 'There are only two groups that are beating the drums for war in the middle East, the Israeli…
— Pat Buchanan
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My timing’s a little off. But I’m about to get hotter than Jamaica in the middle of August.
— David Ortiz
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When in August 1793 a British delegation showed their hosts a terrestrial globe, it turned into a diplomatic incident, for the Chinese were furious to…
— Margaret Thatcher
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During the warm season (August 8 and 9), Maine is a true vacation paradise, offering visitors a chance to jump into crystal-clear mountain lakes and…
— Dave Barry
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I get all my ideas in Switzerland near the Forka Pass. There is a little town called Gletch, and two thousand feet up above Gletch…
— Dr. Seuss
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That was on a night in August. Dad Lewis died early that morning and the young girl Alice from next door got lost in the…
— Kent Haruf
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More investment trusts securities were offered in September of 1929 even than in August - the total was above $600 million. However, the nearly simultaneous…
— John Kenneth Galbraith
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Over this August district work period, like many of my colleagues, I spent a lot of time with the men and women in uniform from…
— Zach Wamp
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There is a velvety sensuality here at the mouth of the Mississippi that you won't find anywhere else. Tell me what the air feels like…
— Andrei Codrescu
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August in Florida is God's way of reminding us who's in charge.
— Blaize Clement
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If I indulge myself and surrender to memory, I can still feel the knot of excitement that gripped me as I turned the corner into…
— Duane Michals
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May 12-13: Sowed Hemp at Muddy hole by Swamp. August 7: Began to separate the Male from the Female at Do - rather too late.
— George Washington
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Why do Britons keep stabbing each other in August? Why do seaside hotels burn down in August? Why do children disappear in August, examinations get…
— Simon Jenkins
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A little rain, a little blood. Black fingernails in August; and going berserk, going bananas. As if entrapped in a tropical heatwave, with dozens of…
— Adam Zagajewski
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These, in the day when heaven was falling, The hour when earth's foundations fled, Followed their mercenary calling And took their wages and are dead.…
— A. E. Housman
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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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In an echo of earlier times, the climate change prophets have in recent years tried to silence counter views and suppress dissent. August members of…
— Colin Robinson
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I think we will have a boy baby and he will be born on the 20th of August. Everyone else has a girl baby and…
— Dawn Powell
Who Wrote These August Quotes
213 authors contributed a total of 240 August Quotes, led by these top contributors: