"Prayer is an august avowal of ignorance." — Victor Hugo

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
• Under current federal policy on human embryonic stem cell research, only those stem cell lines derived before August 9, 2001… — Tom Allen
• 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
• With respect to the creation of the program, I introduced the bill in September 1945, immediately after the end of… — J. William Fulbright
• The seasons don't matter to most of us anymore except as spectacles. In my county and in many places around… — Bill McKibben
• Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood… — Diane Ackerman
• The first week of August hangs at the very top of summer, the top of the live-long year, like the… — Natalie Babbitt
• August has passed, and yet summer continues by force to grow days. They sprout secretly between the chapters of the… — Jonathan Safran Foer
• The collision of hail or rain with hard surfaces, or the song of cicadas in a summer field. These sonic… — Iannis Xenakis
• In August, the large masses of berries, which, when in flower, had attracted many wild bees, gradually assumed their bright… — Henry David Thoreau
• The way to ensure summer in England is to have it framed and glazed in a comfortable room. — Horace Walpole
• August creates as she slumbers, replete and satisfied. — Joseph Wood Krutch

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