July Quotes
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The English winterending in July, To recommence in August.
Robert Byron— 1819-24 Don Juan, canto13, stanza 42.
"Nothing important happened today." - King George's diary entry, July 4th, 1776, the same day the American colonies declared their independence.
— Arnold Hunt, curator at the British Library, says King George never kept a diary.
And the body of a dead youth Lies stretched upon the ground Upon the filthy pavements No reason can be found Black day in July
gordon lightfoot— Black Day In July, Track 3, (mono 45 edit), UNITED ARTISTS 50281, March 1968
On the July 12, 2005, edition of Fox News's The Big Story, host John Gibson said that White House deputy chief of staff Karl Rove should be given "a medal" for outing covert CIA operative Valerie Plame, adding that Plame "should have been outed by somebody."
john gibson— Fox's Gibson: Rove deserves "a medal ... Because Valerie Plame should have been outed by somebody"
I sing of brooks, of blossoms, birds, and bowers:Of April, May, of June, and July flowers.I sing of Maypoles, Hock-carts, wassails, wakes,Of bridegrooms, brides, and of their bridal cakes.
Robert Herrick— "Argument of His Book".
The 'Little' or 'Barebones' Parliament, summoned by Oliver Cromwell to meet at Westminster on 4th July, 1653, after the dissolution of the remains of the Long Parliament, may have been an unpractical body, so far as the task of administration in troublous times was concerned. But it seems quite possible that the wealth of contumely and scorn which has been poured upon it was, originally, due quite as much to the fierce anger of vested interests against outspoken criticism, as to any real vagueness or want of practical wisdom in the plans of the House itself.
edward jenks— Chapter XII, Civil Procedure In The Middle Ages, p. 178
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— June 2009 letter by Miscavige to journalists Thomas C. Tobin and Joe Childs, regarding investigation of accounts of abuse of Scientology staff members by Miscavige for "The Truth Rundown" series in the St. Petersburg Times —Joe Childs, Thomas C. Tobin (June 23, 2009). A letter from David Miscavige. St Petersburg Times. Retrieved on 2010-07-03.
All those traitors who were morally against fascism during the shameful forty-five days following July 25 must inexorably be wiped out.
alessandro pavolini— Quoted in "Mussolini Orders Arrest Of Critics" - "New York Times" article - October 8, 1943
For 40 years, I didn't miss a single deadline, but since July, I have missed every one. I also, to my intense disappointment, missed the Telluride and Toronto film festivals. Having just written my first review since June ( The Queen ), I think an update is in order.
roger ebert— "Roger writes to readers" Chicago Sun Times (11 October 2006)
They have had numerous extraterrestrial signals. They were apparently searching in a spectrum or in an area . . . where they hit the mother lode. The signals were so numerous that they began to have their systems externally jammed by some sort of human agency that did not want them to continue receiving those signals... [I received this information from a source in SETI.] This person, if I were to say who he is, almost every one your listeners would probably know the name. (July 30, 2006)
steven m. greer— Greer on a Coast to Coast AM radio show that was hosted by Art Bell
How did it happen that the Reverend Charles Dodgson, thirty years of age, lecturer on geometry at Christ Church, Oxford, hitherto remarkable chiefly for his precision, on a single July afternoon, while rowing up the Isis with a brother don and three little girls, parthenogenetically gave birth to one of the most famous stories of all time?
florence becker lennon— Page 23 (The Life of Lewis Carroll (1962))
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— Matthew Cooper, former Time reporter, Sunday, August 19, 2007, Meet the Press [6]
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— In a hearing on Congress's War Powers (January 30, 2007) [4]
In the latter days of July in the year 185-, a most important question was for ten days hourly asked in the cathedral city of Barchester, and answered every hour in various ways Who was to be the new Bishop?
Anthony Trollope— Barchester Towers, First lines (1857)
Psychotic gunmen no longer seem to have any motive beyond a general anger. James Holmes appears to have shot dead 12 people in Colorado's Aurora cinema in July simply because they were watching a Batman film and he saw himself as the Joker. And Adam Lanza| has no link with the school he attacked last week, apart from having once attended it as a little boy.
— Tom Leonard, in "Has the Sandy Hook massacre finally made America fall out of love with guns?" in The Daily Mail (21 December 2012)
Other form by Howard Zinn, Dissent In Pursuit Of Equality, Life, Liberty And Happiness: An Interview With Historian Howard Zinn by Sharon Basco, , July 03 2002:
— While some people think that dissent is unpatriotic, I would argue that dissent is the highest form of patriotism.
However, the Treaty of Sevres was never ratified, As Kay Holloway wrote, the failure of the signatories to bring the treaty into force ‘resulted in the abandonment of thousands of defenceless peoples Armenians and Greeks to the fury of their persecutors, by engendering subsequent holocausts in which the few survivors of the 1915 Armenian massacres perished.” The Treaty of Sevres was replaced by the Treaty of Lausanne of 24 July 1923 that included a ‘Declaration of Amnesty’ for all offences committed between 1 August 1914 and 20 November 1922.
— William Schabas, Genocide in International Law: The Crimes of Crimes, p.22
In the United Kingdom Islamophilia runs amok. The July 7 bombings, which killed 55 people, seem to have reinforced the taboo on criticism of Islam.
— Koenraad Elst, Van Gogh Is Dead. Islam Counts Its Blessings.
A swarm of bees in May is worth a load of hay. A swarm of bees in June is worth a silver spoon. A swarm of bees in July is not worth a fly.
— English proverb
If the first of July be rainy weather, it will rain, more of less, for four weeks together.
— English proverb
The glowing ruby should adorn those who in warm July are born. Then will they be exempt and free from love's doubt and anxiety.
— English proverb
Here men from the planet Earth first set foot upon the Moon. July 1969 AD. We came in peace for all mankind.
— Plaque left on the site of the first moon landing, read by Neil Armstrong while on the moon (20 July 1969).
The linden in the fervors of July Hums with a louder concert.
william cullen bryant— William Cullen Bryant, Among the Trees; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 460.
Despite all of the church's extreme measures, however, the Fishman affidavit, along with all of the confidential OT materials, reappeared on alt.religion.scientology on July 31, 1995. Since then, they have been reproduced on site after site, server after server, in innumerable languages, rendering any concept of confidentiality or secrecy fairly moot in the cyber domain.
— Urban. The Church of Scientology. 2011. pp. 186-188.
2 Kalki 23:49, 22 July 2008 (UTC) 2 //Gbern3 ( talk ) 13:44, 14 July 2013 (UTC) If Nature is against us, we shall fight Nature, and make it obey. ~ Simón Bolívar (born July 24)
— SOURCE: Birth of a World: Bolivar in Terms of His Peoples - Page 55 by Waldo David Frank - 1951
selected by Nanobug 2004 Blue Moon, now I'm no longer alone, without a dream in my heart, without a love of my own. ~ Lorenz Hart (a Blue moon occurred on 31 July 2004)
— used 17 November 2006, proposed by Kalki
Of seven abortion restrictions tested in a July 15-17 Gallup poll, informing women of certain risks of an abortion in advance of performing it is the most widely favored, at 87%. Seven in 10 Americans favor requiring parental consent for minors and establishing a 24-hour waiting period for women seeking abortions. Nearly two-thirds favor making the specific procedure known as "partial birth abortion" illegal... 71% say [abortion] should be illegal in the second trimester and 86% in the third.
— Gallup.com press release citing poll results on July 25, 2011. [20].
