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Quotes About May

Oh, what is so rare as a day in May, When the great sun shines like this! When the soft winds woo, all tender and true, And breathe on one's cheek like a kiss! When the sky is so blue—ah—heaven's own blue! And the birds in the greening trees Are bursting their throats with rapturous notes...
~ Jean Wright, "A-Maying"
There is a sweetness of May verging on June that no other time in the whole year can equal. And by sweetness is meant more than flower fragrance or honey taste; this is the greater sweetness of understanding and emotion, the glow of pleasure in being.
~ Hal Borland
Spring breezes drift and tiny May birds chirp in morning's dawn-lit heart.
~ Terri Guillemets
There's May amid the meadows There's May amid the trees... Above the rippling river May swallows skim and dart; November and December Keep watch within my heart.
~ Amy Levy, "A Dirge," c.1884
Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it.
~ G. K. Chesterton
I shall not sing a May song. A May song should be gay. I'll wait until November And sing a song of gray.
~ Gwendolyn Brooks
Welladay! Welladay! For the winds of May! Love is unhappy when love is away!
~ James Joyce
They say New York is the city that never sleeps. But at a quarter to three on a moonlit Tuesday morning in May, the stretch of Central Park West that we were driving on was crapped out like a cat on a porch swing.
~ James Patterson
I make personal appearances around the country. I'm starting a book tour now, and I may be coming to Toronto with the Learning Annex, which I'm doing all through the United States, so that may come up just before Christmas.
~ Burt Ward
I was a student at Kent State University in May of 1970. I was also a musician in a regionally popular band called the James Gang. I was still going to class and stuff, but I was in and out because we were playing a lot.
~ Joe Walsh
Honest to God, so International Women's Day, just like May Day and just like Earth Day, all have roots to Marxism and the Bolsheviks and the Soviets.
~ Rush Limbaugh
A single woman, of good fortune, is always respectable, and may be as sensible and pleasant as any body else.
~ Jane Austen
National Osteoporosis Awareness and Prevention Month is celebrated each May, and becomes a chance for our Nation to become more familiar with the effects of this disease, and about the preventable steps that we can take to deal with it.
~ Lois Capps
I hate the noon--give me the moon, And dewy nights in May or June.
~ Thomas Haynes Bayly
Once History inhabits a crazy house, egotism may be the last tool left to History.
~ Norman Mailer
And I or you pocketless of a dime, may purchase the pick of the earth.
~ Walt Whitman
Monday, May 27: Memorial Day was sunny and warm.
~ Walter Isaacson
Midway wasn't much of a place. Two tiny islands, crisscrossed by airstrips, totaled barely fifteen hundred acres on the edge of a lagoon circled by a jagged reef. But in May 1942, Midway may have been the most heavily defended acreage in the Pacific. Certainly
~ Walter R. Borneman
harsh winters. If this calf was born in May or June of last year, it might have been eight months old now. The cow, its mother, was
~ Charles Martin
Dude, I think I've solved the next riddle! Meet me tomorrow morning for breakfast. Seriously. Breakfast. If your butt isn't out of bed by ten o'clock, I'm coming up there with a Taser and a pot of coffee. – May (on Trick's voicemail)
~ Cherie Priest
You have a really warped relationship with technology. – May
~ Cherie Priest
April is a promise that May is bound to keep.
~ Hal Borland
By the time May rolls around, I'm probably going to want to spend a month on an island. But if Steven Spielberg or Steven Soderbergh or any number of directors were to say 'Hey, there's this role, are you interested?' I'd be there in a flash.
~ Marg Helgenberger
The best part about Maui is that I can spend a lot of time outside. My off-season is April, May, and June.
~ Julia Mancuso