"The first week of August hangs at the……" — Natalie Babbitt
"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 wheel when it pauses in its turning."
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24 Quotes by Natalie Babbitt
Natalie Babbitt has 24 quotes on this site.
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Don't be afraid of death; be afraid of an unlived life. You don't have to live forever, you just have…
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Readers are lucky - they will never be bored or lonely.
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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…
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Nothing seems interesting when it belongs to you, only when it doesn't.
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Like all magnificent things, it's very simple.
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For some, time passes slowly. An hour can seem like an eternity. For others, there was never enough. For Jesse…
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Don't fear death, fear the un-lived life
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But dying's part of the wheel, right there next to being born. You can't pick out the pieces you like…
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You dont have to live forever just live.
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Still-there's no use trying to figure why things fall the way they do. Things just are, and fussing don't bring…
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Time is like a wheel. Turning and turning - never stopping. And the woods are the center; the hub of…
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Living's heavy work, but off to one side, the way we are, it's useless, too. It don't make sense. If…
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More August Quotes
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That smell of freshly cut grass makes me think of Friday night football in high school. The smell of popcorn…
— Garth Brooks
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Under current federal policy on human embryonic stem cell research, only those stem cell lines derived before August 9, 2001…
— Tom Allen
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I've been sober for two-and-a-half years, My children are happy. In August, my wife and I will celebrate our fifteenth…
— Trey Anastasio
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With respect to the creation of the program, I introduced the bill in September 1945, immediately after the end of…
— J. William Fulbright
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The seasons don't matter to most of us anymore except as spectacles. In my county and in many places around…
— Bill McKibben
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Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood…
— Diane Ackerman
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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…
— Natalie Babbitt
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August has passed, and yet summer continues by force to grow days. They sprout secretly between the chapters of the…
— Jonathan Safran Foer
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The collision of hail or rain with hard surfaces, or the song of cicadas in a summer field. These sonic…
— Iannis Xenakis
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In August, the large masses of berries, which, when in flower, had attracted many wild bees, gradually assumed their bright…
— Henry David Thoreau
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The way to ensure summer in England is to have it framed and glazed in a comfortable room.
— Horace Walpole
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August creates as she slumbers, replete and satisfied.
— Joseph Wood Krutch
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