August Quote by John Lewis Download Open image “I was honored to have an opportunity to speak on August 28th, 1963.” — John Lewis ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare August Honored Opportunity Speak
I was honoured when they asked me to appear at the president's birthday rally in Madison Square Garden. There was like a hush over… — Marilyn Monroe Copy Share Image
Somewhere it was written that October 18th is my birthday, and some people flew to Georgia to wish me! They came to my college,… — Sai Pallavi Copy Share Image
I was born in 1952, so obviously the sixties were important. That's when I came of age. It was also a revolutionary period, a… — Per Petterson Copy Share Image
Growing up, my birthday was always Confederate Memorial Day. It helped to create this profound sense of awareness about the Civil War and the… — Natasha Trethewey Copy Share Image
My congratulations on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the October Revolution. — David Rockefeller Copy Share Image
“January 26th. The day when nothing remarkable happens to anyone else.” — Ashley Newell Copy Share Image
I came to political consciousness with John F. Kennedy's magnificent 1961 Inaugural Address. It seemed the start of something fresh and exciting, and it was. — Joe Klein Copy Share Image
On your special day I just want you to know that you are always remembered by me in a very special way. You are… — Kiran Copy Share Image
I happen to believe that this election year [2016] is...one of the most important elections that we're going to face in a very long… — John Lewis Copy Share Image
If you're not hopeful and optimistic, then you just give up. You have to take that long hard look and just believe that if… — John Lewis Copy Share Image
I am very, very hopeful about the American South - I believe that we will lead America to what Dr. King called 'the beloved… — John Lewis Copy Share Image
[Donald Trump's inauguration] will be the first one that I miss since I've been in Congress. You cannot be at home with something that… — John Lewis Copy Share Image
To question the legitimacy of the next United States president, you know, and you're worried about a tweet that says, hey, why don't you… — John Lewis Copy Share Image
We are tired of being beaten by policemen. We are tired of seeing our people locked up in jails over and over again. And… — John Lewis Copy Share Image
Now we have black and white elected officials working together. Today, we have gone beyond just passing laws. Now we have to create a… — John Lewis Copy Share Image
“For me, the nomination of Barack Obama as a candidate for president and his inauguration in Washington represents a brief glimpse at the power… — John Lewis Copy Share Image
Too many people struggled, suffered, and died to make it possible for every American to exercise their right to vote. — John Lewis Copy Share Image
The vote is precious. It's almost sacred, so go out and vote like you never voted before. — John Lewis Copy Share Image
My position is very, very simple. That I fought too long and too hard against discrimination based on race and color, not to stand… — John Lewis Copy Share Image
On the McLaughlin Report, August 26, 1990: 'There are only two groups that are beating the drums for war in the middle East, the… — Pat Buchanan Copy Share Image
Meanwhile after failing the bar twice, I knew some people in New York and moved here in August '71. — Robert Quine Copy Share Image
I had the advantage, that I know Swedish. So I had the Swedish book and I had a lot of English translations, and German… — Liv Ullmann Copy Share Image
I love the little garden in the back of my family's brownstone in Brooklyn. Digging out there in the dirt is a joy for… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
I can see that I imagine all kinds of rejection that never happens. I can see that I beg and plead for love that… — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
August depresses me a little. I don't even feel like eating. And when I don't eat, that's a sure sign of stagnation. — Willard Scott Copy Share Image
It [August 10th 1792] was the bloodiest day of the Revolution so far, but also one of the most decisive. — William Doyle Copy Share Image
How sociable the garden was. We ate and talked in given light. The children put their toys to grass All the warm wakeful August… — Thom Gunn Copy Share Image
It's August, which means Congress is on recess and Mitch McConnell has shimmied back into the ocean to seek a mate. — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
I studied acting in NYU's graduate program, in which we covered everything from Ibsen and Chekov to August Wilson and David Mamet. — Andre Holland Copy Share Image