Quotes About August

The decisive battle was fought at the beginning of August 338 BCE on the banks of the Cephisus River in Boeotia

When's your birthday, Eric?" Lisa asked. "This August," he said. "You and Cassie both have summer birthdays," Kelly observed. "She's in late August." "You two are both turning sixteen

It's hard to reconcile this August with the other one. and to be honest I don't try very hard. I've seen flashes of this August before-This brightness, this conviviality, this generosity of spirit-but I know what he's capable of, and I won't forget it. The others can believe what they like, but I don't believe for a second that this is the real August and the other an aberration And yet I can see how they might be fooled-

And August was a force. Charming, gregarious

If June was the beginning of a hopeful summer, and July the juice middle, August was suddenly feeling like the bitter end.

that August an ominous and unprecedented British armada of 450 ships and boats carrying forty-five thousand British soldiers and sailors, as well as the rented Germanic troops known as the Hessians (of Headless Horseman fame), assembled in New York Harbor

The thing you can count on in life is that Tennessee will always be scorching hot in August.

SAN Diego slid from July into August like a baker slides a fresh sheet of cookies into the oven—quick and smooth, with the new panful of days set to cook up crisp.

I love the little garden in the back of my family's brownstone in Brooklyn. Digging out there in the dirt is a joy for me, although by the time August rolls around and my roses have black spot, I need the break winter provides.

On Sunday August 5, 2012, I was among a group of people who witnessed the Rover landing on Mars in real time at NASA's Caltech-managed Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena.

At 6:45 on that cloudy and rapidly darkening evening, Lockington drove north on Clark Street. Wrigley Field loomed on his right and he stared glumly at the gaunt floodlight towers that were being erected on the grandstand roofs, far from operational now, but they'd be functioning in August. Night baseball in Wrigley Field—a sacrilege of unthinkable proportions, like a dice game smack dab in the middle of Vatican Square.

The redheaded homicide detective stepped through the door at 7:30 A.M. and out into the August heat that already had reached 88 degrees. By noon the temperature would hit 100, and by two or three o'clock it would be hovering around 105. Frayed nerves would then start to snap and produce a marked increase in the detective's business. Breadknife weather, the detective thought. Breadknives in the afternoon.

On and off, all that hot French August, we made ourselves ill from eating the greengages. Joss and I felt guilty; we were still at the age when we thought being greedy was a childish fault and this gave our guilt a tinge of hopelessness because, up to then, we had believed that as we grew older our faults would disappear, and none of them did.

In August, President Truman made the decision that death had spared Roosevelt from having to make. Truman ordered the dropping of the first atomic bombs on Hiroshima (August 6) and Nagasaki (August 9).

Faulkner describes in Light in August as "a prone and somnolent yellow cat

When deep August arrives, a certain melancholy sets in, the kind people get on a Sunday afternoon.

Did you know that a bee dies after he stings you? And that there's a star called Aldebaran? And that around the tenth of August, any year, you can look up in the sky at night and see dozens and dozens of shooting stars?

There was a certain corner where the heat of that hot August seemed concentrated, reverberated from one wall to the other

A smart mother makes often a better diagnosis than a poor doctor.

Many a time, in my political indifference, I was secretly amused to see him swinging between anti-semitism and his passion for nut cake.

I always disliked dogs, those protectors of cowards who lack the courage to fight an assailant themselves.

Mustard saw my Instagram probably, like, August of 2015. He just reached out to me by DM on Instagram.

I expect that on the 1st of August, the SA will be once more ready for duty.

the beauty and nobility, the august mission and destiny, of human handwriting.