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Quotes About February

Richard was born on February 29, 1960, at 2:07 A.M.
~ Philip Carlo
I figured, correctly, that Berlin in February was not a destination coveted by tourists. I found good airfares on Lufthansa, an airline I quite like, and got a great rate at a brand new Ritz-Carlton, which clearly hoped to seduce visitors into forsaking Hawaii for Potsdammer Platz.
~ Erik Larson
January is always a good month for behavioral economics: Few things illustrate self-control as vividly as New Year's resolutions. February is even better, though, because it lets us study why so many of those resolutions are broken.
~ Sendhil Mullainathan
L'incandescente mattina di febbraio in cui Beatriz Viterbo morì, dopo un'imperiosa agonia che non si abbassò un solo istante al sentimentalismo né al timore, notai che le armature di ferro di plaza Constitución avevano cambiato non so quale pubblicità di sigarette; il fatto mi dispiacque, perché compresi che l'incessante e vasto universo già si separava da lei e che quel mutamento era il primo di una serie infinita. - incipit del racconto L'Aleph .
~ Jorge Luís Borges
We want to set a tone going into our fiscal year that starts Feb. 1, that Wal-Mart Stores is going to be aggressive in taking care of customers, taking care of our associates, communications and merchandising.
~ Lee Scott
February was always the cruelest month for Hunter S. Thompson. An avid NFL fan, Hunter traditionally embraced the Super Bowl in January as the high-water mark of his year.
~ Douglas Brinkley
The most serious charge which can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.
~ Joseph Wood Krutch
En febrero, cuando las mañanas estaban llenas de viento, de gorriones y de luz azul. Me acuerdo. Mi madre murió entonces. Que yo debía haber gritado: que mis manos tenían que haberse hecho pedazos estrujando su desesperación. Así hubieras tú querido que fuera. ¿Pero acaso no era alegre aquella mañana?
~ Juan Rulfo
Pike spawn in February, March, and April because they cannot wait until May.
~ Will Cuppy
Giovedì 28 Febbraio 1957, Essere a temperatura ambiente. Ecco tutta la mia ambizione.
~ Daniel Pennac
February was sobbing and blustering its lachrymose way into March
~ Dorothy L. Sayers
The story of the Alamo has touched many more people than one would think. So, I would like to pay my respects to those men on both sides of the walls in those months of February and March 1836.
~ Phil Collins
If you can believe it, Hollywood wanted to change my birthdate. I was born after Valentine's Day, so they wanted to change it to February 14. A Latin lover should be born on Valentine's Day. I said no.
~ Cesar Romero
In February 1859, after military rule ended in Delhi, the city was formally ceded to Punjab, becoming one of its districts.
~ Rajmohan Gandhi
Or you might set the morning star for it burns and burns and glitters in the winter dawn, and throws forth beam like those of metal consumed by oxygen. (Out of Doors in February)
~ Richard Jefferies
Tinsel in February, tinsel in August. There are things in a man besides his reason.
~ Wallace Stevens
But the take from February 7, 1956 is the one we know today: Gonna-TELL-Aunt-MARy-'BOUT-Uncle-JOHN! That's the backbeat entering American popular music.
~ David K. Kirby
Violets are God's apology for February.
~ Barbara Johnson
in February there is everything to hope for and nothing to regret.
~ Patience Strong
The February day was closing, and a ray of sunshine, slanting through a slit in the chapel wall, brought out the vision of a pale haloed head floating against the dusky background of the chancel like a water-lily on its leaf.
~ Edith Wharton
Racing through the Kalahari was fantastic and Nairobi is one of my favourite places. In the northern climate, Sweden in February on snow and ice is spectacular.
~ Colin McRae
In February the weather sometimes gave us a vacation, in August, never. We just got up earlier every morning until finally we met ourselves going to bed.
~ Katherine Paterson
I used to try to decide which was the worst month of the year. In the winter I would choose February. I had it figured out that the reason God made February short a few days was because he knew that by the time people came to the end of it they would die if they had to stand one more blasted day.
~ Katherine Paterson
As brutal and bitter as the winters are in the northern reaches of the Ojibwe homelands, there is a kind of peace that falls over the land in February and March. Or if not a peace exactly, a kind of watchful waiting: April and May will erupt with their usual vernal violence soon enough.
~ David Treuer