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
I'm aYankee Doodle Dandy AYankee Doodle, do or die; A real live nephew of my Uncle Sam's, Born on the fourth of July.
— 1904 'Yankee Doodle Boy'.
We have been in recess since July, and during that time there have been a fuel crisis, a Danish no vote, the collapse of the Euro and a war in the middle east, but what is our business tomorrow? The Insolvency Bill [Lords]. It ought be called the Bankruptcy Bill [Commons], because we play no role.
tony benn— HC Deb, 23 October 2000, Col 12, cited in Adam Tomkins, "What is Parliament for?" in Bamforth N. and Leyland P. (eds.), Public Law in a Multi-Layered Constitution, Oxford, Hart (2003, p. 53).
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)
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)
During a single week of July 1967, 164 Americans were killed and 2100 were wounded in city riots in the United States. We are truly fighting a two-front war and doing badly in both. Each war feeds on the other and, although the President assures us that we have the resources to win both wars, in fact we are not winning either.
j. william fulbright— "The Price of Empire" speech, to the meeting of the American Bar Association in Hawaii (August 1967), in Haynes Bonner Johnson and Bernard M. Gwertzman, Fulbright: The Dissenter (1968), p. 305.
George died on July 11, 1937, but I don't have to believe that if I don't want to.
George Gershwin— John O'Hara in Newsweek, July 15, 1940, p. 3.
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.
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.
Since Deacon Hollingshead’s arrival in town last July the Dominion had been hard at work, cleansing New York City of moral corruption. “Corruption” is a popular word with the enthusiasts of the Dominion, usually uttered as a prelude to the knife, the docket, or the noose.
robert charles wilson— p. 317 (Julian Comstock: A Story of 22nd-Century America (2009))
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))
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.
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)
Hot July brings cooling showers, apricots and gillyflowers.
— Sara Coleridge "The Months", Pretty Lessons in Verse for Small Children (1834).
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).
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.
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.
In July the Sun is hot. Is it shining? No, it's not!
— Michael Flanders, song "The Seasons". (Sourced)
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.
No compromise on the main purpose; no peace till victory; no pact with unrepentant wrong -- that is the Declaration of July 4th, 1918.
— Winston Churchill At a joint Anglo-American rally in Westminster, July 4, 1918, speaking against calls for a negotiated truce with Germany. As printed in War aims & peace ideals: selections in prose & verse (1919), edited by Tucker Brooke & Henry Seidel Canby, Yale University Press, p. 138
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)
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)
...using hypnosis, scientists have temporarily created hallucinations, compulsions, certain types of memory loss, false memories, and delusions in the laboratory so that these phenomena can be studied in a controlled environment.[ "The Truth and the Hype of Hypnosis". Scientific American: July 2001
— Michael Nash R., in ;;Science Reporter, Volume 39 (2002)
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.
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]
