August Quotes

240 quotes by 213 authors

My life's long radiant Summer halts at last, And lo! beside my path way I behold Pursuing Autumn glide: nor frost nor cold Has heralded… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox
The 6th of August in the morning we saw an opening in the land and we ran into it, and anchored in 7 and a… — William Dampier
What an extraordinary episode in the economic progress of man was that age which came to an end in August 1914. — John Maynard Keynes
Britain, the first industrial nation, had offered the world a remarkable public experiment in liberal, capitalist democracy whose success was premised upon free trade and… — Kenneth O. Morgan
You think OWS is radical? You think 350.org was radical for helping organize mass civil disobedience in D.C. in August against the Keystone Pipeline? We're… — Bill McKibben
Everything good, everything magical happens between the months of June and August. Winters are simply a time to count the weeks until the next summer — Jenny Han
In August of 1921, one of the great American combinations was unveiledâ€”even better than the peanut butter and jelly sandwich. This fortuitous new blend was… — George Vecsey
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
The first indication of menopause is a broken thermostat. It's either that or your weight. In any case, if you don't do something, you could… — Dorothea Benton Frank
Let me give you a word of the philosophy of reform. The whole history of the progress of human liberty shows that all concessions yet… — Frederick Douglass
I don't know nothing about the sport. Just tune in August 28th and y'all find out how much I know about the sport. — James Toney
He is careful to deny responsibility for September, but he does not, you notice, condemn the killings. He also refrains from killing words, sparing Roland… — Hilary Mantel
This aggression will not stand. With these words, George Bush committed the United States to the liberation of the oil-rich Kingdom of Kuwait, after it… — George H. W. Bush
August 28th 2012. Remember that date. It marks the day when the world went raving mad. — George Monbiot
Smell brings to mind... a family dinner of pot roast and sweet potatoes during a myrtle-mad August in a Midwestern town. Smells detonate softly in… — Diane Ackerman
October is a fine and dangerous season in America. It is dry and cool and the land is wild with red and gold and crimson,… — Thomas Merton
Hardly a name in profane history is more august than his. Hardly another character in the world's record has made so little of its opportunities.… — Justin Winsor
The pursuit of perfection always implies a definite aristocracy, which is as much a goal of effort as a noble philosophy, an august civil polity… — Ralph Adams Cram
News conference in Chicago, where he apologized for the above statement, which was accepted by the Vatican. (11 August 1966) — John Lennon
One stifling summer afternoon last August, in the attic of a tiny stone house in Pennsylvania, I made a most interesting discovery: the shortest, cheapest… — S. J. Perelman

Who Wrote These August Quotes

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