July Quotes 

Winthrop Mackworth Praed, I Remember, I Remember.
Share

More July Quotes 

"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.

Tags: Nothing, important, happened, today, King, George's, diary, entry, 4th

Share
twitter

The English winterending in July, To recommence in August.

Robert Byron

— 1819-24  Don Juan, canto13, stanza 42.

Tags: English, recommence, August

Share
twitter

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

Tags: body, dead, youth, Lies, stretched, ground, filthy, pavements, reason

Share
twitter

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)

Tags: Psychotic, gunmen, longer, motive, beyond, anger, Holmes, appears, shot

Share
twitter

The flames kindled on the 4th of July 1776, have spread over too much of the globe to be extinguished by the feeble engines of despotism; on the contrary, they will consume these engines and all who work them.


— Thomas Jefferson, in a letter to John Adams (12 September 1821).

Tags: flames, kindled, 4th, spread, over, globe, extinguished, feeble, engines

Share
twitter

As for September 11, let us not too easily grant the Americans possession of that date on the calendar. Like May 1 or July 14 or December 25, September 11 may seem full of significance to some people, while to other people it is just another day.

j. m. coetzee

— Dagens Nyheter interview with David Attwell (December 8, 2003)

Tags: September, us, easily, grant, Americans, possession, date, calendar, May

Share
twitter

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".

Tags: sing, brooks, blossoms, birds, April, May, June, flowersI, Maypoles

Share
twitter

I dedicate this book to the memory of my friend Richard Flisges, who died as a brave soldier of work in a mine at Schliersee on the 19th of July 1923.

joseph goebbels

— Dieses Buch widme ich dem Andenken meines Freundes Richard Flisges, der am 19. Juli 1923 in einem Bergwerk bei Schliersee als tapferer Soldat der Arbeit in den schweren Tod ging.

Tags: dedicate, book, memory, friend, who, died, brave, soldier, work

Share
twitter

To the beautiful memory of Kenneth Grahame, husband of Elspeth and father of Alastair, who passed the River on the 6 July 1932, leaving childhood and literature through him the more blest for all time.

Kenneth Grahame

— Epitaph, written by his cousin, Anthony Hope.

Tags: beautiful, memory, Kenneth, Grahame, husband, father, Alastair, who, passed

Share
twitter

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

Tags: numerous, extraterrestrial, signals, apparently, searching, spectrum, area, hit, mother

Share
twitter

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))

Tags: Reverend, Charles, Dodgson, thirty, years, age, lecturer, geometry, Christ

Share
twitter

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?


— Page 23 (The Life of Lewis Carroll (1962))

Tags: Reverend, Charles, Dodgson, thirty, years, age, lecturer, geometry, Christ

Share
twitter

Mali is on the road to recovery. It is recovering its territorial integrity, is actively preparing for the presidential elections in July and, with the international donor conference in Brussels, is making progress in its development .


— French President, Francois Hollande, on Mali's recovery, quoted on BBC News, "Donors pledge $4bn for Mali's reconstruction", May 15, 2013.

Tags: Mali, road, recovery, recovering, territorial, integrity, actively, preparing, presidential

Share
twitter

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.


— Tom Leonard, in "Has the Sandy Hook massacre finally made America fall out of love with guns?" in The Daily Mail (21 December 2012)

Tags: Psychotic, gunmen, longer, motive, beyond, anger, Holmes, appears, shot

Share
twitter

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.

Tags: Other, form, Howard, Zinn, Dissent, Pursuit, Equality, Life, Liberty

Share
twitter

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.


— Chapter XII, Civil Procedure In The Middle Ages, p. 178

Tags: 'Little', 'Barebones', Parliament, summoned, Oliver, Cromwell, meet, Westminster, 4th

Share
twitter

The Summer looks out from her brazen tower through the flashing bars of July.

Francis Thompson

— Francis Thompson, A Corymbus for Autumn (1891), Stanza 3.

Tags: Summer, looks, brazen, tower, flashing, bars

Share
twitter

Many public-school children seem to know only two dates: 1492 and 4th of July; and as a rule they don't know what happened on either occasion.


— Mark Twain, in his introduction to the rules for Mark Twain's Memory Builder : A Game for Acquiring and Retaining All Sorts of Dates (1891), also known as the "History Game", quoted in Mark Twain and the Novel : The Double-cross of Authority (1998) by Lawrence Howe, p. 10.

Tags: publicschool, children, know, two, dates, 4th, rule, what, happened

Share
twitter

In July the Sun is hot. Is it shining? No, it's not!


— Michael Flanders, song "The Seasons". (Sourced)

Tags: Sun, hot, shining

Share
twitter

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

Tags: swarm, bees, May, worth, load, hay, June, silver, spoon

Share
twitter

If the first of July be rainy weather, it will rain, more of less, for four weeks together.


— English proverb

Tags: first, rainy, weather, rain, more, less, four, weeks, together

Share
twitter

3 ~ MosheZadka (Talk) 05:58, 20 July 2005 (UTC) 2 significant for USA but not really for anyone else AllanHainey 12:00, 26 July 2005 (UTC)


— For the record, the first voter is not from the US (unless you count Israel as the 51st state). ~ MosheZadka (Talk) 16:04, 26 July 2005 (UTC)

Tags: Talk, UTC, significant, USA, AllanHainey

Share
twitter

3 AllanHainey 7 July 2005 14:06 (UTC) 2 Kalki 8 July 2005 21:31 (UTC) 2 Jeff Q:;(talk) 10:43, 10 July 2006 (UTC) 2 InvisibleSun 08:27, 11 July 2007 (UTC) 2 Zarbon 05:25, 24 April 2008 (UTC) 1 //Gbern3 ( talk ) 16:58, 4 July 2013 (UTC) This type of man who is devoted to the study of wisdom is always most unlucky in everything, and particularly when it comes to procreating children; I imagine this is because Nature wants to ensure that the evils of wisdom shall not spread further throughout mankind. - Desiderius Erasmus, The Praise of Folly


— If we do go for this quote, we really should include the title of the work (which I've added, thanks to InvisibleSun), lest we encourage folks to use it without irony. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 02:07, 12 July 2006 (UTC)

Tags: AllanHainey, 7, UTC, 8, Jeff, InvisibleSun, Zarbon, 24, April

Share
twitter

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

Tags: UTC, Gbern3, talk, Nature, against, us, we, fight, obey

Share
twitter

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

Tags: selected, Nanobug, Blue, Moon, now, longer, alone, without, dream

Share
twitter

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].

Tags: seven, abortion, restrictions, tested, Gallup, poll, informing, women, certain

Share
twitter

Tutu, D., and Urbina, I. "Against Israeli apartheid", The Nation 275:4-5, posted June 27, 2002 (July 15, 2002 issue). [1] [2] ?


— Kennedy, Nigel "First violin / Prelude to dialogue". Ha'aretz, December 24, 2007.

Tags: Against, Israeli, apartheid, Nation, posted, June, issue

Share
twitter

The White House had concocted a fake letter from Habbush to Saddam, backdated to July 1, 2001. It said that 9/11 ring leader Mohammed Atta had actually trained for his mission in Iraq thus showing finally that there was an operational link between Saddam and al Qaeda, something the Vice Presidents Office had been pressing CIA to prove since 9/11 as a justification to invade Iraq. There is no link.


— Ron Suskind, The Way of the World; p. 371 [about Bush]

Tags: White, House, concocted, fake, letter, Habbush, ring, leader, Mohammed

Share
twitter

She remembered sitting beneath the tree on a hot July day with someone who looked at her with a longing that took everything else away. And it had been at that moment that she'd first fallen in love.

Nicholas Sparks

— The Notebook (1996)

Tags: she, remembered, sitting, beneath, tree, hot, day, with, someone

Share
twitter
  • 1
  • 2
  • »
  • Dictionary
  • Thesaurus
  • Examples
    • See in a sentence
    • Example articles
  • Quotes
    • Famous Quotes
    • Quote Articles
  • Spanish
    • Spanish-English Translation
    • Reference
  • Reference
    • Education
    • ESL
    • Grammar
    • Abbreviations
    • Biography
    • Books & Literature
    • Examples
    • Foreign Languages
    • Resources
    • Slideshows
  • Word Finder
    • 4 Pics 1 Word Answers
    • Anagram Solver
    • Scrabble Dictionary
    • Unscramble
    • Word Cookies Cheat
    • Scrabble Checker
    • Words With Friends Cheat
    • More Games
Share
  • Dictionary
  • Thesaurus
  • Examples
    • See in a sentence
    • Example articles
  • Quotes
    • Famous Quotes
    • Quote Articles
  • Spanish
    • Spanish-English Translation
    • Reference
  • Reference
    • Education
    • ESL
    • Grammar
    • Abbreviations
    • Biography
    • Books & Literature
    • Examples
    • Foreign Languages
    • Resources
    • Slideshows
  • Word Finder
    • 4 Pics 1 Word Answers
    • Anagram Solver
    • Scrabble Dictionary
    • Unscramble
    • Word Cookies Cheat
    • Scrabble Checker
    • Words With Friends Cheat
    • More Games
Share
  • Home
  • Quotes
  • July quotes
Send your feedback to YourDictionary
Get our free Amazon Alexa Skills!

Join YourDictionary today

By continuing, you agree to our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy.

Please set a username for yourself.
People will see it as Author Name with your public flash cards.