Months Quotes - Page 37

• A whole week, a single campaign, a month, a week, even a day was far more than enough to cut a company or platoon to ribbons or cripple a man for life: it needed only a quarter of an hour.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  War, Cutting, Men

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• The history of man for the nine months preceding his birth would, probably, be far more interesting and contain events of greater moment than all the three score and ten years that follow it.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Men, Years, Interesting

  Miscellanies, Aesthetic and Literary

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• Oh! how the hours hasten to change into days, the days into months, the months into years, and those into life's annihilation!

  Muhammad Ali

  Time, Years, Hours

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• Why one day in the country Is worth a month in town; Is worth a day and a year Of the dusty, musty, lag-last fashion That days drone elsewhere.

  Christina Rossetti

  Country, Fashion, Years

  Christina Rossetti (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Christina Rossetti (Illustrated)”, p.186, Delphi Classics

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• The weather behaved itself. In the spring, the little flowers came out obediently in the meads, and the dew sparkled, and the birds sang. In the summer it was beautifully hot for no less than four months, and, if it did rain just enough for agricultural purposes, they managed to arrange it so that it rained while you were in bed. In the autumn the leaves flamed and rattled before the west winds, tempering their sad adieu with glory. And in the winter, which was confined by statute to two months, the snow lay evenly, three feet thick, but never turned into slush.

  T. H. White

  Summer, Spring, Rain

  T. H. White (2011). “The Once and Future King”, p.120, Penguin

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• I should consent to breed under pressure, if I were convinced in any way of the reasonableness of reproducing the species. But my nerves and the nerves of any woman I could live with three months, would produce only a victim... lacking in impulse, a mere bundle of discriminations. If I were wealthy I might subsidize a stud of young peasants, or a tribal group in Tahiti.

  Ezra Pound

  Way, Pressure, Groups

  Ezra Pound (1958). “Pavannes and Divagations”, p.55, New Directions Publishing

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• The American father is never seen in London. He passes his life entirely in Wall Street and communicates with his family once a month by means of a telegram in cipher.

  Oscar Wilde

  Family, Wall, Father

  Oscar Wilde (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Oscar Wilde (Illustrated)”, p.1861, Delphi Classics

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• We do not intend to part from the Americans and we do not intend to be satellites. I am sure they do not want us to be so. The stronger we are, the better partners we shall be; and I feel certain that as the months pass we shall draw continually closer together with mutual confidence and respect.

  Harold MacMillan

  Together, Stronger, Want

  First broadcast to the nation as prime minister, London, January 17, 1957.

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• Seasons pursuing each other the indescribable crowd is gathered, it is the fourth of Seventh-month, (what salutes of cannon and small arms!

  Walt Whitman

  Crowds, Arms, Festivals

  Walt Whitman, Sculley Bradley, Harold W. Blodgett (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856”, p.19, NYU Press

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• It was when my children were 5, 3 and 10 months old that I just felt the desperate need to get to know God through the pages of my Bible. And as a result, I started a Bible class in my city for the primary purpose of being in it.

  Anne Graham Lotz

  Children, Class, Cities

  "Taking The Reins Of Billy Graham's Legacy". "All Things Considered" with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. October 10, 2011.

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• Life and death are nothing but the mind. Years, months, days, and hours are nothing but the mind. Dreams, illusions, and mirages are nothing but the mind. The bubbles of water and the flames of fire are nothing but the mind. The flowers of the spring and the moon of the autumn are nothing but the mind. Confusions and dangers are nothing but the mind.

  Dogen

  Dream, Spring, Flower

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• For children, diversity needs to be real and not merely relegated to learning the names of the usual suspects during Black History Month or enjoying south-of-the-border cuisine on Cinco de Mayo. It means talking to and spending time with kids not like them so that they may discover those kids are in fact just like them.

  John Ridley

  Children, Real, Mean

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• People are resilient. After all, every person born has recovered from nine months on life support.

  Robert Breault

  Adversity, People, Support

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• I understand my own pictures best six months after I have done them.

  Pablo Picasso

  Six Months, Done, Painting

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• I go to bed at 2 a.m. and get up at 7 a.m. - I've never been a sleeper. But I definitely get sick every month-and-a-half.

  Alexa Von Tobel

  Sick, Bed, Half

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• The most unfathomable schools and sages have never attained to the gravity which dwells in the eyes of a baby of three months old. It is the gravity of astonishment at the universe, and astonishment at the universe is not mysticism, but a transcendent common-sense. The fascination of children lies in this: that with each of them all things are remade, and the universe is put again upon its trial.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Baby, Children, Lying

  "The Defendant". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1901.

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• I was one of the first artists to have a YouTube account, if not the first. I joined two months after the site launched.

  Soulja Boy

  Artist, Two, Firsts

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• I have four to five months, tops!, per year to give to my acting work.

  Meryl Streep

  Years, Giving, Acting

  "Meryl Streep on 'Marvin's Room'". Interview with Henri Behar, www.filmscouts.com. December 22, 1996.

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• In 1969, at the age of 19, I was lucky enough to work with George C. Scott in the definitive portrayal of his career over a period of many months and several countries on the definitive film version of Patton's WWII career.

  Edward Albert

  Country, Careers, Age

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• I know some players like being the centre of attention and I admit that when I first became a player I liked fame, too. But that feeling lasted only for three months. Then I realised what it was really like to be the centre of attention all the time. It isn't all good.

  Mario Balotelli

  Player, Feelings, Three

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• When white-collar people get jobs, they sell not only their time and energy, but their personalities as well. They sell by the week, or month, their smiles and their kindly gestures, and they must practice that prompt repression of resentment and aggression.

  C. Wright Mills

  Jobs, Practice, White

  C. Wright Mills (2002). “White Collar: The American Middle Classes”, p.17, Oxford University Press

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• In 1938, when I had decided that the only way to see the country was in a trailer, and I built the trailer which I still have and lived in it for eighteen months, and learned America from San Diego to the Canadian border, from Miami to New Jersey, and east to west in between.

  Leslie Charteris

  Country, America, West

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• I haven't been out in the marketplace in a while. I'm thinking about going back into it. I've got some things set up over the next couple of months just to go and see. But I have no idea what the specific way to a solution is anymore. It's mysterious to me.

  Michael Nesmith

  Couple, Thinking, Ideas

  Interview with Ken Plume, asitecalledfred.com. May 2003.

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• Look at airport security now. What started out as definite racial profiling is now where the computer picks a name. That's why you get a seven-month-old getting a pat down. [Imitates a security officer.] "Check the diapers. They're full."

  Robin Williams

  Funny, Humorous, Food

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• It's a wonderful way to live, and not a bad way to go, either. The average Frenchman is still smiling three months after he's dead.

  Bob Hope

  Funny, Humorous, Average

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