July Quotes
248 July quotes by 207 unique authors
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Many public-school children seem to know only two dates—1492 and 4th of July; and as a rule they don't know what happened on either occasion.
— Mark Twain
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That’s one of the reasons I never wanted to get married. The last thing I wanted was infinite security and to be the place an…
— Sylvia Plath
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Ruin, weariness, death, perpetually death, stand grimly to confront the other presence of Elizabethan drama which is life: life compact of frigates, fir trees and…
— Virginia Woolf
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They found out about him in July and stayed angry all through August. They tried to kill him in September. It was way too soon.…
— Lee Child
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Once the inner connection is grasped, all theoretical belief in the permanent necessity of existing conditions collapses before their collapse in practice -- Letter to…
— Karl Marx
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Why did the Articles [of Confederation] fail so completely? Most historians believe the founding fathers spent a great deal of their first constitutional convention drafting…
— Jon Stewart
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Wind and storm colored July. Also, in the middle, cadaverous, awful, lay the grey puddle in the courtyard, when holding an envelope in my hand,…
— Virginia Woolf
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Every year, at 8:00 PM on the second Saturday of July, hundreds of people gather along a section of Los Angeles rail track to drop…
— James Frey
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Every day we're told that we live in the greatest country on earth. And it's always stated as an undeniable fact: Leos are born between…
— David Sedaris
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George Gershwin died on July 11, 1937, but I don’t have to believe it if I don’t want to.
— John O'Hara
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Good Morning, on July 7 My thoughts go out to you, my Immortal Beloved I can only live wholly with you or not at all-…
— Ludwig van Beethoven
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And now," he continued, speaking to Milo, "where were you on the night of July 27?" "What does that have to do with it?" asked…
— Norton Juster
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On Wednesday, July 19, the Council, having gleaned and discerned, released its official verdict: the fall of the tile bearing the letter "Z" constitutes the…
— Mark Dunn
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I wanted change and excitement and to shoot off in all directions myself, like the colored arrows from a Fourth of July rocket.
— Sylvia Plath
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Immortality is like trying to carve your initials in a block of ice in the middle of July.
— Arthur Miller
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December is the toughest month of the year. Others are July, January, September, April, November, May, March, June, October, August, and February.
— Mark Twain
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I wish we could spend July by the sea, browning ourselves and feeling water-weighted hair flow behind us from a dive. I wish our gravest…
— Zelda Fitzgerald
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This was like July 13th, 1943, the pivotal day of the Battle of the Kursk. We were like Alexander Vasilevsky, the Soviet general. If we…
— Lee Child
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I've never really thought about it before, but it's a miracle how many kinds of light there are in the world, how many skies: the…
— Lauren Oliver
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Is there anything on earth which would have meaning and would even change the course of events not only on earth, but in other worlds?”…
— Daniil Kharms
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Now I wish she'd never broken any of her rules. I understood why she held to them so hard. Once you broke the first one,…
— Janet Fitch
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So in the sweltering heat of a July night, I sang a Christmas carol to a room full of fae, who had been driven out…
— Patricia Briggs
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Japanese-owned cargo ship Tsimtsum, flying Panamanian flag, sank July 2nd, 1977, in Pacific, four days out of Manila. Am in lifeboat. Pi Patel my name.…
— Yann Martel
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July 24, 6:03 A.M. The laundry was warm and the rafters were firm, and Michael Holzapfel jumped from the chair as if it were a…
— Markus Zusak
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I dream that I have found us both again, With spring so many strangers' lives away, And we, so free, Out walking by the sea,…
— Thomas Pynchon
Who Wrote These July Quotes
207 authors contributed a total of 248 July Quotes, led by these top contributors: