July Quotes - Page 5

• July 4. Statistics show that we lose more fools on this day than in all the other days of the year put together. This proves, by the number left in stock, that one fourth of July per year is now inadequate, the country has grown so

  Mark Twain

  Country, 4th Of July, Years

  Pudd'nhead Wilson Chapter XVII (p. 164)

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• I believe in America because we have great dreams, and because we have the opportunity to make those dreams come true.

  Wendell Willkie

  Dream, 4th Of July, Believe

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• No bought potpourri is so pleasant as that made from ones own garden, for the petals of the flowers one has gathered at home hold the sunshine and memories of summer, and of past summers only the sunny days should be remembered.

  Eleanour Sinclair Rohde

  Summer, Memories, Flower

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• Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.

  John Lubbock

  Inspirational, Success, Summer

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• Don't worry, the fans don't start booing until July.

  Earl Weaver

  Worry, Fans, Booing

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• July is hollyhocks and hammocks, fireworks and vacations, hot and steamy weather, cool and refreshing swims, beach picnics, and vegetables all out of the garden - first sweet corn on the cob dripping with butter, first tomatoes dead ripe and sunwarm, string beans, squash, crisp cucumbers. July can also be hard and shiny, brassy and sharp. Some days are like copper pennies in the sunlight.

  Jean Hersey

  Sweet, Beach, Garden

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• After I saw Kiss on stage, I wanted my show to look like the fourth of July. The persona of Rick James was wild and crazy, sex, drugs and rock and roll.

  Rick James

  Sex, Crazy, Kissing

  FaceBook post by Rick James from Jul 04, 2012

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• No other date on the calendar more potently symbolizes all that our nation stands for than the Fourth of July.

  Mac Thornberry

  Calendars, Rehabilitation, Fourth

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• I was born in Panama, the Republic of Panama, on July 16, 1948 in Panama City, in an area called San Felipe.

  Ruben Blades

  Cities, Republic, Born

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• The zeal, bravery, and good behavior of the officers and men on the night of June 30, and during July 1, was commendable in the extreme.

  John Buford

  Night, Men, June

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• Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.

  Albert Camus

  Freedom, 4th Of July, Independence

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• It is easy to take liberty for granted, when you have never had it taken from you.

  Dick Cheney

  Veterans Day, Freedom, Taken

  "Painkiller Deathstreak" by Nicholson Baker, www.newyorker.com. August 9, 2010.

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• There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured with what is right in America.

  William J. Clinton

  Memorial Day, Freedom, 4th Of July

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• I would sign on for projects that were meant to shoot in July, and then they would postponed and they would bleed into the following semester, and then I'd take a semester off, and then the movie would collapse.

  Claire Danes

  Projects, Collapse, Following

  Interview, www.ign.com. July 01, 2003.

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• Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Freedom, Mistake, Struggle

  Mahatma Gandhi (1947). “Teachings of Mahatma Gandhi”

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• No one's gonna give a damn in July if you lost a game in March.

  Earl Weaver

  Baseball, Games, Umpires

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• I was born an American; I will live an American; I shall die an American.

  Daniel Webster

  Leadership, Patriotic, Patriotism

  Speech in Senate on Compromise Bill, 17 July 1850

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• On Monday mornings I am dedicated to the proposition that all men are created jerks.

  H. Allen Smith

  Monday, Morning, 4th Of July

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• I wanted my show to look like the fourth of July.

  Rick James

  Looks, Persona, Shows

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• At midnight on July 1, 1997, Hongkong, the British Crown Colony, will be restored to China. This is not only an event which will be celebrated by patriotic Chinese; any patriotic American should celebrate it as well.

  Robert Trout

  Patriotic, Usa, Chinese

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• In July of 1983, I left Washington, DC area and have had minimal contact with Judge Clarence Thomas since

  Anita Hill

  Judging, Washington Dc, Contact

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• Later in July I'm going to be promoting and putting on a boxing show of amateur fighters from July 21st through the 28th where one hundred kids will be fighting and competing with each other to see who's going to be the best.

  Alexis Arguello

  Kids, Fighting, Boxing

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• I made a gym, it's the best gym in Nicaragua, I have kids that this year July 6th through the 11th will be fighting and then will go on to the Central American Games and I'm sure at least one will win a gold medal.

  Alexis Arguello

  Kids, Fighting, Winning

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• It is the love of country that has lighted and that keeps glowing the holy fire of patriotism.

  J. Horace McFarland

  Country, 4th Of July, Patriotic

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• O, beautiful for spacious skies, For amber waves of grain, For purple mountain majesties, Above the fruited plain.

  Katharine Lee Bates

  Beautiful, 4th Of July, Sky

  "America the Beautiful" (song) (1893)

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