July Quotes - Page 8

• It rained all that night. The next day was Saturday, the Fourth of July.

  Michael Shaara

  Night, Next Day, Saturday

  Jeff Shaara, Michael Shaara (2012). “The Civil War Trilogy 3-Book Boxset (Gods and Generals, The Killer Angels, and The Last Full Measure)”, p.655, Ballantine Books

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• The Hall of Fame ceremonies are on the thirty-first and thirty-second of July.

  Ralph Kiner

  Firsts, Fame, Thirty

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• Why is it that, next to the birthday of the Savior of the world, your most joyous and most venerated festival returns on this day (the 4th of July)? Is it not that, in the chain of human events, the birthday of the nation is indissolubly linked with the birthday of the Savior?.

  John Quincy Adams

  4th Of July, Events, World

  John Quincy Adams; Speech on Independence Day in Newburyport, Massachusetts, teachingamericanhistory.org. July 4, 1837.

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• I sing of brooks, of blossoms, birds, and bowers:
  Of April, May, or June, and July flowers.
  I sing of Maypoles, Hock-carts, wassails, wakes,
  Of bridegrooms, brides, and of the bridal cakes.

  Robert Herrick

  Spring, Flower, June

  Robert Herrick, John Donne (1948). “The Love Poems of Robert Herrick and John Donne”

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• Bright was the summer's noon when quickening steps
  Followed each other till a dreary moor
  Was crossed, a bare ridge clomb, upon whose top
  Standing alone, as from a rampart's edge,
  I overlooked the bed of Windermere,
  Like a vast river, stretching in the sun.

  William Wordsworth

  Summer, Rivers, Bed

  William Wordsworth (1854). “The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth”, p.492

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• The sandy cat by the Farmer's chair
  Mews at his knee for dainty fare;
  Old Rover in his moss-greened house
  Mumbles a bone, and barks at a mouse.
  
  In the dewy fields the cattle lie
  Chewing the cud 'neath a fading sky;
  Dobbin at manger pulls his hay:
  Gone is another summer's day.

  Walter de La Mare

  Summer, Lying, Cat

  Walter De la Mare (1920). “Collected Poems, 1901-1918”

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• People take pictures of the Summer, just in case someone thought they had missed it, and to proved that it really existed.

  Ray Davies

  Summer, People, Cases

  Song: People Take Pictures Of Each Other

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• The consolations of space are nameless things. It was after the neurosis of winter. It was In the genius of summer that they blew up The statue of Jove among the boomy clouds. It took all day to quieten the sky And then to refill its emptiness again.

  Wallace Stevens

  Summer, Winter, Clouds

  Wallace Stevens (2011). “The Palm at the End of the Mind: Selected Poems and a Play”, p.429, Vintage

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• O for a lodge in a garden of cucumbers!
  O for an iceberg or two at control!
  O for a vale that at midday the dew cumbers!
  O for a pleasure trip up to the pole!

  Rossiter Johnson

  Summer, Garden, Two

  Rossiter Johnson (1902). “Morning Lights and Evening Shadows”

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• It is a good rule never to see or talk to the man whose words have wrung your heart, or helped it, just as it is wise not to look down too closely at the luminous glow which sometimes shines on your path on a summer night, if you would not see the ugly worm below.

  Rebecca Harding Davis

  Summer, Wise, Heart

  Rebecca Harding Davis (1904). “Rebecca Harding Davis: Writing Cultural Autobiography”, p.88, Vanderbilt University Press

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• O summer day beside the joyous sea!
  O summer day so wonderful and white,
  So full of gladness and so full of pain!
  Forever and forever shalt thou be
  To some the gravestone of a dead delight,
  To some the landmark of a new domain.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Summer, Pain, Sea

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1875). “The Masque of Pandora: And Other Poems”, p.140

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• My daughter just graduated college and she's a dance major. She's done a couple of dance videos already and won Miss Massachusetts a couple of weeks ago. She's going out for Miss United States the second week of July, out in Las Vegas. She will probably wind up going to New York and trying the Broadway thing.

  Doug Flutie

  Daughter, Mother, New York

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• Nervous? He's tighter than Pat Buchanan's sphincter muscle at a 4th of July soiree on Fire Island.

  Dennis Miller

  Football, 4th Of July, Fire

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• Every July, August and part of September I escape of the guitar, I escape of Paco de Lucia and I go to Mexico to the Carrabian. I have a little house there where I spend two months listening to music, no playing because I don't bring the guitar with me, fishing and cooking my fish and charging the batteries for new concerts.

  Paco de Lucia

  Player, August, Fishing

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• When we were the political slaves of King George, and wanted to be free, we called the maxim that "all men are created equal" a self evident truth; but now when we have grown fat, and have lost all dread of being slaves ourselves, we have become so greedy to be masters that we call the same maxim "a self evident lie" The fourth of July has not quite dwindled away; it is still a great day-for burning fire-crackers!!!

  Abraham Lincoln

  Kings, Lying, Men

  Abraham Lincoln (1989). “Abraham Lincoln: Speeches & Writings Part 1: 1832-1858: Library of America #45”, p.359, Library of America

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• There are more than 100 first- and second- hand witnesses to the retrieval of an extraterrestrial spacecraft and at least four extraterrestrial bodies from a crash which occurred in July, 1947, 75 miles northwest of Roswell, New Mexico; written and videotaped testimony from several first-hand witnesses who are respected military officers have been obtained.

  Steven M. Greer

  Military, Hands, Mexico

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• Let there be no doubt. Alien technology harvested from the infamous saucer crash in Roswell, N.Mex., in July 1947 led directly to the development of the integrated circuit chip, laser and fiber optic technologies, Particle beams, Electromagnetic propulsion systems, Depleted uranium projectiles, Stealth capabilities, and many others! How do I know? I was in charge! A matter of public record I think the kids on this planet are wise to the truth, and I think we ought to give it to them. I think they deserve it.

  Philip J. Corso

  Wise, Kids, Thinking

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• The slanders poured down like Niagara. If you take into consideration the setting - the war and the revolution - and the character of the accused - revolutionary leaders of millions who were conducting their party to the sovereign power - you can say without exaggeration that July 1917 was the month of the most gigantic slander in world history.

  Leon Trotsky

  War, Party, Character

  Leon Trotsky (2017). “History of the Russian Revolution”, p.596, Penguin UK

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• For years I've nursed a secret desire to spend the Fourth of July in a double hammock with a swingin' redheaded broad.  But I could never find me a double hammock

  Frank Sinatra

  Years, Secret, Desire

  "The Way You Wear Your Hat : Frank Sinatra and the Lost Art of Livin'". Book by Bill Zehme, 1997.

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• I shot Barton Fink in July and moved out to LA that fall. The movie came out in the spring and it was a year before I got Wings.

  Tony Shalhoub

  Spring, Fall, Years

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• Let's make my birthday, July the 7th at noon, Peace and Love Day. Everybody go, 'Peace and love.' In the office, on the bus, wherever. It's still peace and love for me, I'm a product of the 60s and it was a very influential period in my life, and you know, my head was turned around a bit, my eyes were opened as it were. In fact, I even have it on my arm, 'Peace and love'. I see nothing wrong with peace and love.

  Ringo Starr

  Eye, Office, My Birthday

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• This flick is all I have to say about being 17, the United States Navy, Christmas and the Fourth of July.

  Kenneth Anger

  Navy, United States, Fourth

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• If I was ever a rare fine summer person, that's long ago. Most of us are half-and-half. The August noon in us works to stave off the November chills. We survive by what little Fourth of July wits we've stashed away. But there are times when we're all autumn people.

  Ray Bradbury

  Summer, Autumn, August

  Ray Bradbury (1962). “Something wicked this way comes: a novel”, Bantam

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• I could see the road ahead of me. I was poor and I was going to stay poor. But I didn't particularly want money. I didn't know what I wanted. Yes, I did. I wanted someplace to hide out, someplace where one didn't have to do anything. The thought of being something didn't only appall me, it sickened me . . . To do things, to be part of family picnics, Christmas, the 4th of July, Labor Day, Mother's Day . . . was a man born just to endure those things and then die? I would rather be a dishwasher, return alone to a tiny room and drink myself to sleep.

  Charles Bukowski

  Mother, 4th Of July, Sleep

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• We're all looking for a plan that will work. The current plan is not working, and 21,500 additional troops -- it's a snowball in July. It's not going to work.

  Arlen Specter

  Troops, Currents, Going To Work

  "Senate Republicans divided in dissent on Iraq". NBC News, January 30, 2007.

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