July famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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All labours draw hame at even, And can to others say, "Thanks to the gracious God of heaven, Whilk sent this summer day."
-- Alexander Hume -
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 -
At noon, on the Fourth of July, 1826, while the Liberty Bell was again sounding its old message to the people of Philadelphia, the soul of Thomas Jefferson passed on; and a few hours later John Adams entered into rest, with the name of his old friend upon his lips.
-- Allen Johnson -
Don’t mind me,†I said. “I’m just the person who tried to rob the place last July.†“No, you diddn’t,†Abby said, appearing on the roof. She was wearing a trim suit and tall black boots. Her hair was pulled into a sleek ponytail at the nape of her neck, and either i was imagining things or Townsend wasn’t quite as good a spy as I thought, because I could have sworn I saw him drool a little. Note to self: your aunt is a hottie.
-- Ally Carter -
I don’t feel pressure … I don’t give a toss about it. I spent the afternoon of Sunday, 9 July, 2006 in Berlin sleeping and playing the PlayStation. In the evening, I went out and won the World Cup.
-- Andrea Pirlo -
On July 4 we celebrate government of the people, by the people, and for the people, or as they are now called, corporations.
-- Andy Borowitz -
In July of 1983, I left Washington, DC area and have had minimal contact with Judge Clarence Thomas since
-- Anita Hill -
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 -
I came to my first Colts training camp in July of 1950, and it was murder, absolute murder. We had a coach named Clem Crow who must have been nuts. You got to remember that I'd been a Marine, had gone through basic training and spent 26 months in the Pacific during WWII, but the Marine drill instructors had nothing on Clem.
-- Art Donovan -
There are many in this old world of ours who hold that things break about even for all of us. I have observed, for example, that we all get the same amount of ice. The rich get it in the summertime and the poor get it in the winter.
-- Bat Masterson -
A white truffle, which elsewhere might sell for hundreds of dollars, seemed easier to come by than something fresh and green. What could be got from the woods was free and amounted to a diurnal dining diary that everyone kept in their heads. May was wild asparagus, arugula, and artichokes. June was wild lettuce and stinging nettles. July was cherries and wild strawberries. August was forest berries. September was porcini.
-- Bill Buford -
OUR INSPIRATION: Billy Graham, July 2, 1962 “World events are moving very rapidly now. I pick up the Bible in one hand, and I pick up the newspaper in the other. And I read almost the same words in the newspaper as I read in the Bible. It’s being fulfilled every day round about us.
-- Billy Graham -
The cosmic calendar compresses the local history of the universe into a single year. If the universe began on January 1st it was not until May that the Milky Way formed. Other planetary systems may have appeared in June, July and August, but our Sun and Earth not until mid-September. Life arose soon after. We humans appear on the cosmic calendar so recently that our recorded history occupies only the last few seconds of the last minute of December 31st
-- Carl Sagan -
In July, 1892, fate suddenly granted me financial independence.
-- Carl Spitteler -
Modern Architecture died in St. Louis, Missouri, on July 15, 1972, at 3.32 p.m. (or thereabouts), when the infamous Pruitt Igoe scheme, or rather several of its slab blocks, were given the final coup de grace by dynamite.
-- Charles Jencks -
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 -
July 4 is the perfect day to relax. It also provides a very good chance to spend quality time with friends and family since everyone is able to get away from the hassles of every day life, such as work.
-- Colin Chapman -
My name, the McGregor name, my family's motto ... means royal is in my blood. That goes way back. So for [Aldo] to say he is the king and I am the joker, if this was a different time, I would invade his favela on horseback and kill anyone that was not fit to work. But we are in a new time. So I'll whoop his ***** in July.
-- Conor McGregor -
On the fourth day of July following, a party of about two hundred Indians attacked Boonsborough, killed one man, and wounded two.
-- Daniel Boone -
Is there anything on earth which would have meaning and would even change the course of events not only on earth, but in other worlds?†I asked my teacher. “There is,†my teacher answered me. “Well, what is it?†I asked. “It’s...†began my teacher and suddenly fell silent. I stood and waited intently for his answer. But he was silent. And I stood and was silent. And he was silent. And I stood, silent. And he was silent. We’re both standing and silent. Ho-la-la! We’re both standing and silent. Ho-le-le! Yes, yes, we’re both standing and silent! 16-17 July 1937
-- Daniil Kharms -
Esquire, in a July, 1957 issue, has a photograph of me playing the French horn at the Five Spot.
-- David Amram -
I have been advised that you have decided to move forward with your story without my interview. This, despite the fact confirmed more than three weeks ago that I would make myself available on a date certain (6 July), after you spoke to other relevant Church personnel and toured Church facilities, and that I would provide information annihilating the credibility of your sources including the fundamental crimes against the Scientology religion that were the reasons for their removal from post.
-- David Miscavige -
Every day we're told that we live in the greatest country on earth. And it's always stated as an undeniable fact: Leos are born between July 23 and August 22, fitted queen-size sheets measure sixty by eighty inches, and America is the greatest country on earth. Having grown up with this in our ears, it's startling to realize that other countries have nationalistic slogans of their own, none of which are 'We're number two!
-- David Sedaris -
The fire in leaf and grass so green it seems each summer the last summer.
-- Denise Levertov -
July 13, 1954 was the most tragic day of my life. I had lost my beloved Frida forever. To late now I realized that the most wonderful part of my life had been my love for Frida.
-- Diego Rivera -
If Satch (Paige) and I were pitching on the same team, we would clinch the pennant by July fourth and go fishing until World Series time.
-- Dizzy Dean -
Heck, if anybody told me I was setting a record (strikeouts in a game on July 30, 1933) I'd of got me some more strikeouts.
-- Dizzy Dean -
The noise from good toast should reverberate in the head like the thunder of July.
-- E. V. Lucas -
No one's gonna give a damn in July if you lost a game in March.
-- Earl Weaver -
Don't worry, the fans don't start booing until July.
-- Earl Weaver -
I think the National League has better biorhythms in July.
-- Earl Weaver -
I don't mean to sound grandiose, but there's something universal that you tap into with films like Feast of July and Schindler's List. You know they aren't make-believe. They illustrate something about life. This is my major concern whenever I select a film
-- Embeth Davidtz -
Answer July- Where is the Bee- Where is the Blush- Where is the Hay? Ah, said July- Where is the Seed- Where is the Bud- Where is the May- Answer Thee-Me-
-- Emily Dickinson -
We shot that in Morocco, and got out of the country at the beginning of July - and two months later came the attack on Twin Towers. The movie was then released in December, so that kind of atmosphere is not something that was unfamiliar to me.
-- Eric Bana -
They claim we're products from the bottom of Hell, But the black is back, and it's bound to sell. Picture us coolin' out on the Fourth of July... And if you heard we were celebratin', that's a worldwide lie.
-- Flavor Flav -
The better part of one's life consists of his friendships. ABRAHAM LINCOLN, letter to Joseph Gillespie, July 13, 1849 Friendship is insipid to those who have experienced love.
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld -
What, to the American slave, is your Fourth of July? I answer: A day that reveals to him, more than all other days of the year, the gross injustices and cruelty to which he is the constant victim. To him your celebration is a sham.
-- Frederick Douglass -
Kiss is a Fourth of July fireworks show with a backbeat.
-- Gene Simmons -
Think for a moment: what is the British equivalent of the U.S. Fourth of July, or even the French 14th of July for that matter?
-- Gordon Brown -
What harm is there in making 100,000 people happy on a hot summer afternoon?
-- Gordon McLendon -
I got a series with the WB next year. We start shooting in July. It's going to be called Safe Harbor, and it's an hour show. It's a Spelling show and will follow 7th Heaven.
-- Gregory Harrison -
Live in each season as it passes: breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit.
-- Henry David Thoreau -
The thinnest yellow light of November is more warming and exhilarating than any wine they tell of. The mite which November contributes becomes equal in value to the bounty of July.
-- Henry David Thoreau -
The Fourth of July-memorable in the history of our nation as the great day of independence to its countrymen-had no claim upon our sympathies. They made a flag and threw it to the heavens and bid it float forever; but every star in it was against us.
-- Henry McNeal Turner -
And if a diversion is needed, why not arrest a general? Arthur Dillon is a friend of eminent deputies, a contender for the post of Commander-in-Chief of the Northern Front; he has proved himself at Valmy and in a halfdozen actions since. In the National Assembly he was a liberal; now he is a republican. Isn't it then logical that he should be thrown into gaol, July 1, on suspicion of passing military secrets to the enemy?
-- Hilary Mantel -
One day, about the middle of July 1838, one of the carriages, lately introduced to Paris cabstands, and known as Milords, was driving down the Rue de l'Universite, conveying a stout man of middle height in the uniform of a captain of the National Guard.
-- Honore de Balzac -
On July 26, 1916, I announced to all my friends in America that from now on I resolved to write no more poems in the classical language, and to begin my experiments in writing poetry in the so-called vulgar tongue of the people.
-- Hu Shih -
Whenever I was upset by something in the papers, Jack always told me to be more tolerant, like a horse flicking away flies in the summer.
-- Jackie Kennedy -
Life is like an onion: you peel off layer after layer and then you find there is nothing in it.
-- James Huneker -
I always have the most fun on the Fourth of July. You don't have to exchange any gifts. You just go to the beach and watch fireworks. It's always fun.
-- James Lafferty -
The dandelions and buttercups gild all the lawn: the drowsy bee stumbles among the clover tops, and summer sweetens all to me.
-- James Russell Lowell -
At that time, about July 5, we had no Iraqi corrections officers working for us. It was a responsibility of the CPA, with contractors, to set up a training program.
-- Janis Karpinski -
In July everybody you telephone is somewhere else - either on the beach or on vacation, and half the time you're somewhere else too.
-- Jean Hersey -
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 -
When I am an old woman I shall wear purple, With a red hat which doesn't go and doesn't suit me, And I shall spend my pension on brandy and summer gloves, And satin sandals, and say we've no money for butter.
-- Jenny Joseph -
Since the new film has been out, I'm doing quite a lot but then in July I will start doing things at home. I have to fix the house up, see the grandchildren and such.
-- Jeremy Bulloch -
Now I take the summer off, relax, and I know that at the end of July we're gonna start another season.
-- Jerry Orbach -
A career high was when I did a cover for W Magazines July issue with Steven Meisel. So few girls shoot with Meisel in their career, and a lot of people had told me I would never achieve that, so it was a dream come true.
-- Joan Smalls -
I have kept a steady focus on restoring public faith in our state government since taking office July 1. Now it is time to make even bigger and bolder gains through legislative action.
-- Jodi Rell -
And pray, who are you?" Said the Violet blue To the Bee, with surprise, At his wonderful size, In her eyeglass of dew. "I, madam," quoth he, "Am a publican Bee, Collecting the tax Of honey and wax. Have you nothing for me?
-- John B. Tabb -
...the NCI...Annual planning Project Requirements (says that) by July 1, 1975, it is estimated that 670,000 people in the US will be working on cancer.
-- June Goodfield -
Once the inner connection is grasped, all theoretical belief in the permanent necessity of existing conditions collapses before their collapse in practice -- Letter to Ludwig Kugelmann (July 11, 1868)
-- Karl Marx -
Karl Rove told me about Valerie Plame's identity on July 11, 2003. I called him because Ambassador Wilson was in the news that week. I didn't know Ambassador Wilson even had a wife until I talked to Karl Rove, and he said that she worked at the Agency and worked on WMD.
-- Karl Rove -
This flick is all I have to say about being 17, the United States Navy, Christmas and the Fourth of July.
-- Kenneth Anger -
The collapse of Enron and the subsequent collapse of Arthur Andersen were tremendous tragedies. But as I stated at the time of my indictment on July 8, 2004, failure does not equate to a crime.
-- Kenneth Lay -
This record was supposed to come out in July already, but it just got delayed and delayed, so, well, I guess it was just coincidence.
-- Kerry King -
Druid log July 15: Dark elves are not only quick and efficient killers, but creative and pyrotechnically inclined ones.
-- Kevin Hearne -
Every July, I look forward to taping a Christmas show - in July in Nashville. In 98-degree weather. I love it.
-- Larry the Cable Guy -
A world without tomatoes is like a string quartet without violins.
-- Laurie Colwin -
They found out about him in July and stayed angry all through August. They tried to kill him in September. It was way too soon. They weren't ready. The attempt was a failure. It could have been a disaster, but it was actually a miracle. Because nobody noticed.
-- Lee Child -
I did that Dior Couture 60th anniversary show in July. It took so long to get ready, I think I would have rather been watching.
-- Linda Evangelista -
The English winter - ending in July to recommence in August
-- Lord Byron -
No other date on the calendar more potently symbolizes all that our nation stands for than the Fourth of July.
-- Mac Thornberry -
Let us pick up our books and our pens, they are the most powerful weapons." Malala Yousafzai, the schoolgirl who was shot in the head by the Taliban for wanting an education and survived, in her keynote speech to the United Nations, 12th July 2013.
-- Malala Yousafzai -
My works are dear to me, each in its own way, I shall have to answer for them on the Day off Judgement. God alone knows whether I shall ever see them again. Quite apart from the money which I was going to receive for their sale there (exhibition in Gallery Der Sturm, Berlin June-July, 1914) and it is no small sum..
-- Marc Chagall -
On Wednesday, July 19, the Council, having gleaned and discerned, released its official verdict: the fall of the tile bearing the letter "Z" constitutes the terrestrial manifestation of an empyrean Nollopian desire, that desire most surely being that the letter "Z" should be utterly excised--fully extirpated--absolutively heave-ho'ed from our communal vocabulary!
-- Mark Dunn -
December is the toughest month of the year. Others are July, January, September, April, November, May, March, June, October, August, and February.
-- Mark Twain -
July 24, 6:03 A.M. The laundry was warm and the rafters were firm, and Michael Holzapfel jumped from the chair as if it were a cliff... Michael Holzapfel knew what he was doing. He killed himself for wanting to live.
-- Markus Zusak -
You know my friends, there comes a time when people get tired of being trampled by the iron feet of oppression. There comes a time my friends, when people get tired of being plunged across the abyss of humiliation, where they experience the bleakness of nagging despair. There comes a time when people get tired of being pushed out of the glittering sunlight of life's July and left standing amid the piercing chill of an alpine November.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. -
Always someone resting there - a lone rock in the summer field
-- Masaoka Shiki -
Felling a tree and gazing at the cut end - tonight's moon
-- Matsuo Basho -
In July the Sun is hot. Is it shining? No, it's not!
-- Michael Flanders -
He wasn't sure exactly which day, but what's noteworthy about that is that is also before Valerie Plame is first identified in the Robert Novak piece that ran on Monday, July 14.
-- Michael Isikoff -
It rained all that night. The next day was Saturday, the Fourth of July.
-- Michael Shaara -
After the week at the Fillmore we flew down to L.A. to hang out and pick up whatever gigs we could. We did a gig in Santa Barbara on July 1st and then the next night we opened for Sam & Dave at the Whisky...
-- Mitch Mitchell -
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 -
Touch was important. The evening of the Third of July we would go around the neighborhood and look at the fireworks others had bought, taking them out of the brown paper sack and handling them cautiously as if they were precious stones. There was envy when we saw sacks with more in them than we had.
-- Paul Engle -
Our small ears never had such a workout as on the Fourth of July, hearing not only our own bursting crackers but also those of our friends, and often the boom of homemade cannon shot off by daring boys of 16 years, ready to lose a hand if it blew up.
-- Paul Engle -
Soldiers of the American Revolution fought that 18th century war with heavy muskets. In the early 20th century, we kids fought it every Fourth of July not only with exploding powder and shimmering flares, but with all of our senses.
-- Paul Engle -
Today the Somme is a peaceful but sullen place, unforgetting and unforgiving. ... To wander now over the fields destined to extrude their rusty metal fragments for centuries is to appreciate in the most intimate way the permanent reverberations of July, 1916. When the air is damp you can smell rusted iron everywhere, even though you see only wheat and barley.
-- Paul Fussell -
We owe it to the victims of the suicide bombers who struck London on 7 July 2005 to find out how the attacks happened and to learn the lessons that will spare lives in the future.
-- Pauline Neville-Jones, Baroness Neville-Jones -
The suicide bombers who struck London on 7 July 2005 killed 52 innocent people and wounded hundreds more. All of them must live with their memories. And the rest of us will always remember where we were when we heard that London had been hit by the worst terrorist attack in its history.
-- Pauline Neville-Jones, Baroness Neville-Jones -
The Hall of Fame ceremonies are on the thirty-first and thirty-second of July.
-- Ralph Kiner -
The Mets just had their first .500-or-better April since July of 1992.
-- Ralph Kiner -
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 -
People take pictures of the Summer, just in case someone thought they had missed it, and to proved that it really existed.
-- Ray Davies -
My life, I realize suddenly, is July. Childhood is June, and old age is August, but here it is, July, and my life, this year, is July inside of July.
-- Rick Bass -
I wanted my show to look like the fourth of July.
-- Rick James
