August Quotes - Page 2

• When summer opens, I see how fast it matures, and fear it will be short; but after the heats of July and August, I am reconciled, like one who has had his swing, to the cool of autumn.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Summer, Senior, Autumn

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Joel Porte (1982). “Emerson in His Journals”, p.354, Harvard University Press

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• What wondrous life is this I lead!
  Ripe apples drop about my head;
  The luscious clusters of the vine
  Upon my mouth do crush their wine;
  The nectarine and curious peach
  Into my hands themselves do reach;
  Stumbling on melons, as I pass,
  Ensnared with flowers, I fall on grass.

  Andrew Marvell

  Life, Crush, Summer

  'The Garden' (1681) st. 5

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• 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

  New York, Player, Climate

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• I really started trying to get my act together in August of 2002.

  Ethan Suplee

  Trying, Together

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I mean, if somebody said to me, junior year of college, you can go anywhere, your old man's paying for it, I'd have been gone in a flash. But I had to work. Every summer my mother would say, 'Get that job and hold on to it until August 30.'

  Chris Matthews

  Summer, Mother, Jobs

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• I suddenly realized how much I loved her when we attended Alfred Hitchcock's 75th birthday party last August. There was something magical about that night, and it made me see how much she really meant to me.

  Rod Taylor

  Birthday, Party, Night

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• Over this August district work period, like many of my colleagues, I spent a lot of time with the men and women in uniform from my home State. The 196th Field Artillery Brigade just got back from a year in Afghanistan.

  Zach Wamp

  Women, Home, Years

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• The pursuit of perfection always implies a definite aristocracy, which is as much a goal of effort as a noble philosophy, an august civil polity or a great art.

  Ralph Adams Cram

  Art, Philosophy, Goal

  RALPH ADAMS CRAM (1922). “TOWARDS THE GREAT PEACE”

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• I think we will have a boy baby and he will be born on the 20th of August. Everyone else has a girl baby and at times I don't believe I should mind having a little Phyllis Dawn but Dearest wants a boy and I do.

  Dawn Powell

  Girl, Baby, Believe

  Dawn Powell (1998). “The Diaries of Dawn Powell: 1931-1965”, Zoland Books

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• 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

  Character, Opportunity, Discovery

  Justin Winsor (1891). “Christopher Columbus and how He Received and Imparted the Spirit of Discovery”

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• I was notified on July 17 to be ready to start August 7 for an October air date. When we reached the screen we did not have a single segment ready. It was done so fast the writers never got a chance to know what it was all about.

  Jeffrey Hunter

  July, Air, Done

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• The 6th of August in the morning we saw an opening in the land and we ran into it, and anchored in 7 and a half fathom water, 2 miles from the shore, clean sand.

  William Dampier

  Morning, Land, Water

  William Dampier (2012). “A Voyage to New Holland”, p.114, tredition

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• I left for Petersburg in August, 1871 and stayed there until 1879.

  Carl Spitteler

  Left

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• Meanwhile after failing the bar twice, I knew some people in New York and moved here in August '71.

  Robert Quine

  New York, People, Bars

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• On 24 August 1939, as an officer in the reserve, I had to join my regiment in Potsdam.

  Hans Frank

  Potsdam, Officers, Reserves

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• While in El Paso, I met Mr. Clinton Burk, a native of Texas, who I married in August 1885.

  Calamity Jane

  Texas, Married, Clinton

  Calamity Jane (1896). “Life and Adventures of Calamity Jane”

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• As for me, I know nothing else but miracles,
  Whether I walk the streets of Manhattan,
  Or dart my sight over the roofs of houses toward the sky,
  Or wade with naked feet along the beach just in the edge of the water,
  Or stand under the trees in the woods,
  Or talk by day with any one I love,
  Or sleep in bed at night with any one I love,
  Or watch honey bees busy around the hive of a summer forenoon...
  Or the wonderfulness of the sundown,
  Or of stars shining so quiet and bright,
  Or the exquisite delicate thin curve of the new moon in spring...
  What stranger miracles are there?

  Walt Whitman

  Summer, Beach, Stars

  Walt Whitman, “Miracles”

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• 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

  Sleep, Long, Golden

  Lauren Oliver (2015). “Delirium Trilogy: Delirium, Pandemonium, Requiem”, p.225, Hachette UK

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• Yeah, we held a junior carp tournament on the St. Lawrence River in New York last August. I hosted that along with a couple of other people.

  Tom Felton

  New York, Couple, Rivers

  "Tom Felton Talks About Reading, Collecting, and Being Draco". Interview with Marie Morreale, www.scholastic.com.

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• Faulkner sat in our living room and read from Light in August. That was incredible.

  Leslie Fiedler

  Light, Rooms, Incredibles

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• The pleasure of jogging and running is rather like that of wearing a fur coat in Texas in August: the true joy comes in being able to take the damn thing off.

  Joseph Epstein

  Running, True Joy, Texas

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• And in doing this I advise you to send to the best manors of your lands those of your household in whom you place most confidence to be present in August at the leading of the corn, and to guard it as aforesaid.

  Robert Grosseteste

  Land, Corn, Advise

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• I was born in August, no July, 1908.

  Satchel Paige

  July, Born

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• What I learned as an actor was the only way you could really do August Wilson's work, you had to leave an ounce of your essence on that stage,... Otherwise it was impossible.

  Charles S. Dutton

  Essence, Actors, Way

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• 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

  Week, Rate, Let Me

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