July Quotes
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"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.
The English winterending in July, To recommence in August.
Robert Byron— 1819-24 Don Juan, canto13, stanza 42.
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
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)
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).
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)
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".
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.
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))
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)
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.
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)
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
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)
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
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]
