August Quotes

240 quotes by 213 authors

The children would remember for the rest of their lives the august solemnity with which their father, devastated by his prolonged vigil and by the… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
THE DEATH OF LEOPOLD GURSKY Leopold Gursky started dying on August 18, 1920. He died learning to walk. He died standing at the blackboard. And… — Nicole Krauss
The thing you can count on in life is that Tennessee will always be scorching hot in August. — Ann Patchett
December is the toughest month of the year. Others are July, January, September, April, November, May, March, June, October, August, and February. — Mark Twain
Do you suppose that it is within your power to insult me? You evidently are not aware to whom you are speaking? Do you imagine… — Marcel Proust
But I didn't frame it; I put into an envelope and sealed it and stuffed it far back into a corner drawer of a filing… — Jodi Picoult
I recall an August afternoon in Chicago in 1973 when I took my daughter, then seven, to see what Georgia Oâ€™Keeffe had done with where… — Joan Didion
Today is the first of August. It is hot, steamy and wet. It is raining. I am tempted to write a poem. But I remember… — Sylvia Plath
they have enough testosterone between them, if testosterone were electricity they could light up New York City for the month of August — Janet Evanovich
Memory believes before knowing remembers. [Light in August] — William Faulkner
The road is a strange place. Shuffling along, I looked up and you were there walking across the grass toward my truck on an August… — Robert James Waller
I saw the spiders marching through the air, Swimming from tree to tree that mildewed day In latter August when the hay Came creaking to… — Robert Lowell
The operation of the Church is entirely set up for the sinner; which creates much misunderstanding among the smug.â€ (August 9, 1955) — Flannery O'Connor
This is the autumn of wonders, yet every day, every single day, I go back to that burned afternoon in August when T. Ray left.… — Sue Monk Kidd
Every person on the face of the earth makes mistakes, Lily. Every last one. We're all so human. Your mother made a terrible mistake, but… — Sue Monk Kidd
I love borders. August is the border between summer and autumn; it is the most beautiful month I know. Twilight is the border between day… — Tove Jansson
The road made wet by the water of August shines like it was cut in full moonlight — Pablo Neruda
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? — William Shakespeare
Less than a month ago all of August still stretched before us - long and golden and reassuring, like an endless period of delicious sleep. — Lauren Oliver
The only Virgos left in the world are people like you who were born in August. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Who Wrote These August Quotes

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