Top 100 Quotes About August
#1. August in sub-Saharan Los Angeles is one of the great and awful tests of one's endurance, sanity and stamina.
Henry Rollins
#2. The 9/11 Commission recently released their report, citing important changes which need to be made to improve our nation's homeland security. I voiced my disappointment with the House leadership when this report was left until after the August recess for action.
Leonard Boswell
#3. Every year, the bright Scandinavian summer nights fade without anyone's noticing. One evening in August you have an errand outdoors, and all of a sudden it's pitch-black. It is still summer, but the summer is no longer alive.
Tove Jansson
#4. I read somewhere," said Kate, "that people are made of stardust."
He dragged his eyes from the sky. "Really?"
"Maybe that's what you're made of. Just like us."
And despite everything, August smiled.
Victoria Schwab
#5. Far be it from me to insult the pun! I honor it in proportion to its merits; nothing more. All the most august, the most sublime, the most charming of humanity, and perhaps outside of humanity, have made puns.
Victor Hugo
#6. I hope for a light grief in old age.
I was born in Rome and it has returned to me.
My autumn was a kind of she-wolf,
And August - the month of Caesars - smiled at me.
Osip Mandelstam
#7. We're not even supposed to have a break in August if we have not passed the appropriations bills. It's in the House rules.
Dan Webster
#8. Seal In Soul
My Soul Is One. U Can See.
Petra Cecilia Maria Hermans
Religion of Blue Circle
August 21, 2016
Petra Hermans
#9. These, in the day when heaven was falling, The hour when earth's foundations fled, Followed their mercenary calling And took their wages and are dead. The British regulars who made the retreat from Mons, beginning August 24, 1914.
A.E. Housman
#11. And August was a force. Charming, gregarious,
Sara Gruen
#13. Do you imagine that the poisonous spittle of five hundred little men of your sort, hoisted on to each other's shoulders, could even drool down on to the tips of my august toes?
Marcel Proust
#14. There Are Two Different Ways To Bow.
One To Serve.
The Other : To Hide.
P.C.M. Hermans
August 22, 2016
Amen
Petra Hermans
#15. Having sliced Odovacar in half in early spring 493, Theoderic ruled his Italian kingdom for the next thirty-three years, until his own death on 30 August 526.
Peter Heather
#16. My name is August. I won't describe what I look like. Whatever you're thinking, it's probably worse. August
R.J. Palacio
#17. Today is the first of August. It is hot, steamy and wet. It is raining. I am tempted to write a poem. But I remember what it said on one rejection slip: 'After a heavy rainfall, poems titled 'Rain' pour in from across the nation.
Sylvia Plath
#18. 'Purple Plumeria' I dithered over for months and then wrote the whole thing between the beginning of July and end of August. The dithering and procrastination time was three times the writing times.
Lauren Willig
#19. August for the people and their favourite islands. Daily the steamers sidle up to meet The effusive welcome of the pier.
W. H. Auden
#21. On the announcement that signs of extra terrestrial life were found in a meteorite, August 6, 1996 A hundred years from now Bob Dole's new tax plan will rate a footnote in the history books and this may have a whole chapter in itself.
Richard E. Berendzen
#22. My Truth Is More Than Truth Is The Very Truth,
Petra Cecilia Maria Hermans
August 30, 2016
Amen
God
Petra Hermans
#23. When people depend on my Task
they trust my soul and heart,
Petra Cecilia Maria Hermans
August 19, 2016
Amen
God
Petra Hermans
#24. December is the toughest month of the year. Others are July, January, September, April, November, May, March, June, October, August, and February.
Mark Twain
#25. Summertime, and the reading is easy ... Well, maybe not easy, exactly, but July and August are hardly the months to start working your way through the works of Germanic philosophers. Save Hegel, Heidegger, and Husserl for the bleaker days of February.
Michael Dirda
#26. I have been involved with 'Spring Awakening' for six years. I am 20 now - I just turned 20 in August - and I originally auditioned when I was 14 years old. I auditioned for Michael Mayer, Duncan Sheik and Steven Sater.
Lea Michele
#27. I began to doubt that I would ever know the truth of what transpired, or who those people really were. But all that changed one rainy August afternoon, when I was surprised by a dead man who had answers.
James Caskey
#28. Catherine Avril Morris: Thank you for sharing your life and your beautiful baby boy, August John, with me. His life was short but his impact on mine is everlasting. Lady, you amaze me with your strength and generosity of spirit.
Katie Graykowski
#29. I intend to put up with nothing that I can put down.
[Letter to J. Beauchamp Jones, August 8, 1839]
Edgar Allan Poe
#30. Every summer, around late July and into August, I find myself in Europe, performing at any festival that will have me.
Henry Rollins
#31. Speaking of August Rodin: He raised his world above us in an immense arc, and made it a part of nature.
Rainer Maria Rilke
#32. Meanwhile after failing the bar twice, I knew some people in New York and moved here in August '71.
Robert Quine
#33. And I had my first oyster. Now, this was a truly significant event. I remember it like I remember losing my virginity - and in many ways, more fondly. August
Anthony Bourdain
#34. Someone who was talking about
enemies, is afraid of showing to be
it's own enemy.
P. Hermans
August 19, 2016
Petra Hermans
#35. Could you let me have the 3 weeks due to me now and if I work again before August I must of course repay you at the rate of exchange you let me have it at now if you kindly will.
Basil Rathbone
#36. born on a early Sunday morning in August, 1960. A church baby
Kathryn Stockett
#37. On Sunday August 5, 2012, I was among a group of people who witnessed the Rover landing on Mars in real time at NASA's Caltech-managed Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena.
Ahmed Zewail
#38. When you stand on the banks
of Penn Swamp Pond in August,
those injuries can save your life
and keep you picking till the bush is bare.
Charles Rafferty
#39. If June was the beginning of a hopeful summer, and July the juice middle, August was suddenly feeling like the bitter end.
Sarah Dessen
#40. Based on the timing, the circumstances. In July 1970, William Maitland vanished from the face of the earth. In August of the same year, we heard the first reports of a foreign pilot flying for the enemy. Running weapons and gold.
Tess Gerritsen
#41. From August 25 to 28, I'm sharing the Amazon proceeds of all versions of Love Is Never Past Tense with Orphan World Relief
Janna Yeshanova
#42. Meryl Streep and Julia Roberts act themselves senseless in 'August: Osage County,' and by the time they're finished, they've acted their movie senseless, too.
Steve Erickson
#43. From a marketing point of view, you don't introduce new products in August.
Andrew Card
#44. Gold is My Signature.
Petra Cecilia Maria Hermans
August 18, 2016
Petra Hermans
#45. We had all these famous writers in Sweden and from all over the world home at dinner. I wanted to be a writer, and I wanted to be a highbrow writer as my father. He never, ever read anything like crime novels. He wrote biographies of Dante, James Joyce, August Strindberg and Joseph Conrad.
David Lagercrantz
#46. Did you know there are thirty-two names for love in one of the Eskimo languages?" August said. "And we just have this one. We are so limited, you have to use the same word.
Sue Monk Kidd
#47. When I was starting, I was very much influenced by the straight up, eyes to camera style of August Sander. He is really the only one. Had I known then the work of people like Ken Russell, Vivian Maier, Helen Levitt, and Steven Berkoff, they would undoubtedly have influenced me too.
Derek Ridgers
#48. - The More I Bring, The More I Give -
Petra Hermans, August 16, 2016
Petra Hermans
#49. August, the summer's last messenger of misery, is a hollow actor.
Henry Rollins
#50. Less than a month ago all of August still stretched before us - long and golden and reassuring, like an endless period of delicious sleep.
Lauren Oliver
#51. August is a teacher's longest Sunday -Weird Sisters
Eleanor Brown
#52. When my father returned home on the twenty-first of August 1983, he had a speech prepared. Filipinos never got to hear it, because he was murdered right on the tarmac.
Benigno Aquino III
#53. Walking the streets of Charleston in the late afternoons of August was like walking through gauze or inhaling damaged silk.
Pat Conroy
#54. On a sticky August evening two weeks before her due date, Ashima Ganguli stands in the kitchen of a Central Square apartment, combining Rice Krispies and Planters peanuts and chopped red onion in bowl.
Jhumpa Lahiri
#55. The nature of the beast is that film is a director's medium. It's not a Tracy Letts play, it's a John Wells film. 'August: Osage County,' as a play, is done. Written. On the shelf. It'll be performed in its entirety for years.
Tracy Letts
#56. In Dallas, June is hot, July is hotter, and August is hell. Not
J. Kenner
#57. Summer sky swallowed colour, but the sky of late August made colour ricochet back to earth, and there were sharp edges on all the buildings and curbs and even on the leaves of the trees and on the impatiens in the flowerbeds of all the towns through which Wayne travelled to reach Wally Michelin.
Kathleen Winter
#58. I was born twice: first, as a baby girl, on a remarkably smogless Detroit day in January of 1960; and then again, as a teenage boy, in an emergency room near Petoskey, Michigan, in August of 1974.
Jeffrey Eugenides
#59. Long drawn, the cool, green shadows
Steal o'er the lake's warm breast,
And the ancient silence follows
The burning sun to rest. The calm of a thousand summers,
And dreams of countless Junes,
Return when the lake-wind murmurs
Through golden August noons.
William Braithwaite
#60. And in the Final Days, a War will erupt unlike any before. (Dated 8 August 2012)
Alejandro C. Estrada
#61. My first app was released in July or August of 2008. It was a 'fingermill' - a treadmill for your fingers. My level of programming was quite basic to begin with, so it was more gimmicky to start with. Day one it was up there, I had 79 pounds worth of revenue.
Nick D'Aloisio
#62. This October like November,
That August like a hundred thousand hours,
And that September,
A hundred thousand dragging sunlit days,
And half October like a thousand years ...
Ford Madox Ford
#63. AUGUST PULLMAN'S PRECEPT
Everyone deserves a standing ovation because we all overcometh the world.
Auggie
R.J. Palacio
#64. Some days in late August at home are like this, the air thin and eager like this, with something in it sad and nostalgic and familiar ...
William Faulkner
#65. She divorced me August 10 of 2000, but she never was able to completely get rid of me. Don't ask me why.
Jim Lampley
#66. She felt woozy, as if she'd been running around on a full stomach in the August heat. A big man in a white undershirt stood behind the cash register. His shoulders were hairy and crimson with sunburn, and there was a line of zinc painted on his nose. A white plastic tag on his shirt said PETE.
Joe Hill
#67. Corruption is a result
of low standards
on local, national and global level.
My works : Petra Cecilia Maria Hermans
Netherlands, TILBURG,
August 17, 2016
Petra Hermans
#68. Religion of Blue Circle
To bring and give a lesson,
is to leave the last lesson not pronounced.
Amen, Petra Cecilia Maria Hermans
August 29, 2016
Amen
God
Petra Hermans
#69. Napoleone di Buonaparte, as he signed himself until manhood, was born in Ajaccio, one of the larger towns on the Mediterranean island of Corsica, just before noon on Tuesday, August 15, 1769.
Andrew Roberts
#70. August found himself nodding, even though he spent most of his time afraid. Afraid of what he was, afraid of what he wasn't, afraid of unraveling, becoming something else, becoming nothing.
Victoria Schwab
#71. It was August 5th in 1971. The vortex of summer. Joshua looked unwaveringly at Meredith Hurley. She looked back with kindness, and smiled softly as she looked back, feeling a connection that was invisible to the naked eye, yet magnetic and manifested in both of their hearts.
Keira D. Skye
#72. Bailing the center of a spot and not having an embankment is not the only way to flirt. So soon, so left without a spoon, so august and so strange and taller than every other, it is not astonishing that someone is older.
Gertrude Stein
#74. THE TRAIN CARRYING THE BODY OF ELLEN AXSON Wilson pulled into the station at Rome, Georgia, at 2:30 in the afternoon, Tuesday, August 11, 1914, under gunmetal skies, amid the peal of bells.
Erik Larson
#75. I was the worst kind of fool. When I look back on that August night, changed forever by all my wounds and all my suffering, that undamaged Odd Thomas seems like a different human being from me, immeasurably more confident than I am now, still able to hope, but not as wise, and I mourn for him.
Dean Koontz
#76. As for him, he was naturally somewhat dashed by the consciousness of duty unfulfilled, but more so by the prospect of a lawn-tennis party, which, though an inevitable evil in August, he had thought there was no occasion to fear in May.
M.R. James
#77. As the world stood on the brink of war in August 1914, the local paper of a small town in the west of Ireland took a stand: 'We give this solemn warning to Kaiser Wilhelm: The Skibbereen Eagle has its eye on you.
Robert Hutton
#78. News conference in Chicago, where he apologized for the above statement, which was accepted by the Vatican. (11 August 1966)
John Lennon
#79. ...August 6, 1945, the first day of the countdown to what may be the inglorious end of this strange species, which attained the intelligence to discover the effective means to destroy itself, but - so the evidence suggests - not the moral and intellectual capacity to control its worst instincts
Noam Chomsky
#80. And in August it will be fifty-two years together."
"Wow," Oliver says. "That's amazing."
"I wouldn't call it amazing," the woman says, blinking. "It's easy when you find the right person.
Jennifer E. Smith
#81. The cold stars spun to the ancient rhythm, the august march of an everlasting symphony. They are old, the stars, and their memory is long.
Rick Yancey
#82. I don't have to get up in the morning and go beat up my body like I used to. I don't have to be out there in August in 108 degree weather down in Texas.
Emmitt Smith
#83. Idolatry is not holding on to the wrong things; it is holding on to the good things wrongly, including God," Herbert McCabe, O.P., quoted in Christian Century, August 21, 2013, 21. Any
Rev. Joseph A. Heim
#84. How poor, how rich, how abject, how august, How complicate, how wonderful, is man! ... Midway from nothing to the Deity!
Edward Young
#85. It was a cruel trick of the universe, thought August, that he only felt human after doing something monstrous.
Victoria Schwab
#86. He once told me that an August evening was "as hot as three toads in a Cuisinart," a comparison that left me blinking two days later.
Dean Koontz
#87. Hardly a name in profane history is more august than his. Hardly another character in the world's record has made so little of its opportunities. His discovery was a blunder; his blunder was a new world; the New World is his monument.
Justin Winsor
#89. August has passed, and yet summer continues by force to grow days. They sprout secretly between the chapters of the year, covertly included between its pages.
Jonathan Safran Foer
#90. On 23 August 1572, French Catholics who stressed the importance of good deeds attacked communities of French Protestants who highlighted God's love for humankind. In this attack, the St Bartholomew's Day Massacre, between 5,000 and 10,000 Protestants were slaughtered in less than twenty-four hours.
Yuval Noah Harari
#91. S.O.S. I NEED YOUR HELP. I AM INJURED, NEAR DEATH, AND TOO WEAK TO HIKE OUT OF HERE. I AM ALL ALONE, THIS IS NO JOKE. IN THE NAME OF GOD, PLEASE REMAIN TO SAVE ME. I AM OUT COLLECTING BERRIES CLOSE BY AND SHALL RETURN THIS EVENING. THANK YOU, CHRIS MCCANDLESS. AUGUST?
Jon Krakauer
#92. August stared at her, aghast. "Did I know that kissing you would bring your soul to surface? That - THAT - would have the same effect as pain or music? No, I must have missed that lesson."
She stared at him, agape. "August, was that sarcasm?
Victoria Schwab
#93. The weary August days are long;
The locusts sing a plaintive song,
The cattle miss their master's call
When they see the sunset shadows fall.
Edmund Clarence Stedman
#94. As long as I do not give in to tension,
I hold on to tension.
P.C.M. Hermans
Worldpoet 546
August 18, 2016
Petra Hermans
#95. There have been so many times we've failed at this, August. I can't bear to go through another round of up and down with you.
J.L. Berg
#96. July 24th, 1833. - The Beagle sailed from Maldonado, and on August the 3rd she arrived off the mouth of the Rio Negro.
Charles Darwin
#97. Britain, the first industrial nation, had offered the world a remarkable public experiment in liberal, capitalist democracy whose success was premised upon free trade and world peace. Tuesday, 4 August 1914 brought that experiment to an abrupt halt.
Kenneth O. Morgan
#98. When you're unsure of yourself," she said, "when you start pulling back into doubt and small living, she's the one inside saying, 'Get up from there and live like the glorious girl you are.' She's the power inside you, you understand?" ~August Boatwright
Sue Monk Kidd
#99. Sienna McQuillen
21 August
.
I think I'll have another child.
And after I'm pregnant, I think I'll eat the father.
Sienna McQuillen
#100. No player can become accustomed to New York's climate in August in a few days. The playing conditions, the courts in New York and France are very different.
Helen Wills Moody
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