July 15 Quotes

#1. The man who bears my name, and who claims to be me, was born on July 15, 1865, the sixth in a family of seven. He was an ugly child, and remained ugly till his eighteenth year, when his looks gradually improved.

Laurence Housman

#2. Modern Architecture died in St. Louis, Missouri, on July 15, 1972, at 3.32 p.m. (or thereabouts), when the infamous Pruitt Igoe scheme, or rather several of its slab blocks, were given the final coup de grace by dynamite.

Charles Jencks

#3. Druid log July 15: Dark elves are not only quick and efficient killers, but creative and pyrotechnically inclined ones.

Kevin Hearne

#4. Republicans believe every day is the Fourth of July, but the democrats believe every day is April 15.

Ronald Reagan

#5. Our opponents see an America in which every day is April 15, tax day. Well, we see an America in which every day is the Fourth of July.

Ronald Reagan

#6. On 15 July 2007, I swam across an open patch of sea at the North Pole to highlight the melting of the Arctic sea ice.

Lewis Gordon Pugh

#7. The American people aren't overtaxed. The government in Washington is overfed. The main difference between ourselves and the other side is: we see an America where every day is the Fourth of July. They see an America where every day is April 15.

Ronald Reagan

#8. I put together an iPhone app called TrimIt and released that in July 2011. About a month later, the private fund of the Hong Kong billionaire Li-Kashing cold emailed me and expressed an interest to invest, but they didn't realize I was 15. They thought it was a U.K. company with a team.

Nick D'Aloisio

#9. A bookshelf is as particular to its owner as are his or her clothes; a personality is stamped on a library just as a shoe is shaped by the foot.
[Baffled at a Bookcase (London Review of Books, Vol. 33 No. 15, 28 July 2011)]

Alan Bennett

#10. Estimated height in feet of a memorial tree planted for George Harrison that died in July after an attack by beetles : 15

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