Famous Quotes & Sayings

These results, while disappointing, are in line with our announcement on July 18,

Karl Marx

Once the inner connection is grasped, all theoretical belief in the permanent necessity of existing conditions collapses before their collapse in practice -- Letter to Ludwig Kugelmann (July 11, 1868)

Gottfried Leibniz

The dot was introduced as a symbol for multiplication by Leibniz. On July 29, 1698, he wrote in a letter to Johann Bernoulli: "I do not like X as a symbol for multiplication, as it is easily confounded with x...

Frederick Douglass

This Fourth of July is yours, not mine. You may rejoice, I must mourn.

Frederick Douglass

What, to the American slave, is your Fourth of July? I answer: A day that reveals to him, more than all other days of the year, the gross injustices and cruelty to which he is the constant victim. To him your celebration is a sham.

Caitlyn Jenner

The Montreal Olympics were in July 1976, the bicentennial, at the height of patriotism.

A swarm in May is worth a load of hay; a swarm in June is worth a silver spoon; but a swarm in July is not worth a fly.

Janet Fitch

Now I wish she'd never broken any of her rules. I understood why she held to them so hard. Once you broke the first one, they all broke, one by one, like firecrackers exploding in your face in a parking lot on the Fourth of July.

Kerry King

This record was supposed to come out in July already, but it just got delayed and delayed, so, well, I guess it was just coincidence.

J. M. Coetzee

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.

Paul Fussell

Today the Somme is a peaceful but sullen place, unforgetting and unforgiving. ... To wander now over the fields destined to extrude their rusty metal fragments for centuries is to appreciate in the most intimate way the permanent reverberations of July, 1916. When the air is damp you can smell rusted iron everywhere, even though you see only wheat and barley.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

So let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire.

Mac Thornberry

No other date on the calendar more potently symbolizes all that our nation stands for than the Fourth of July.

Mark Twain

December is the toughest month of the year. Others are July, January, September, April, November, May, March, June, October, August, and February.

Markus Zusak

July 24, 6:03 A.M. The laundry was warm and the rafters were firm, and Michael Holzapfel jumped from the chair as if it were a cliff... Michael Holzapfel knew what he was doing. He killed himself for wanting to live.

The last week of July to the first week of August.

Michael Flanders

In July the Sun is hot. Is it shining? No, it's not!

Jimmy Fallon

The White House announced that President Obama will attend a summit in Kenya this July. When asked if he's ever been to Kenya, Obama said, 'Of course. I was born - no, bored - over there. There's nothing to do in Kenya.'

Jodi Rell

I have kept a steady focus on restoring public faith in our state government since taking office July 1. Now it is time to make even bigger and bolder gains through legislative action.

Rick James

I wanted my show to look like the fourth of July.

Roald Dahl

If I had my way, I'd remove January from the calendar altogether and have an extra July instead.

Ronald Reagan

We don't celebrate dependence day on the Fourth of July. We celebrate Independence Day.

Ronald Reagan

The American people aren't overtaxed. The government in Washington is overfed. The main difference between ourselves and the other side is: we see an America where every day is the Fourth of July. They see an America where every day is April 15.

Rosa Parks

I want to be treated like a human being.

Marc Chagall

My works are dear to me, each in its own way, I shall have to answer for them on the Day off Judgement. God alone knows whether I shall ever see them again. Quite apart from the money which I was going to receive for their sale there (exhibition in Gallery Der Sturm, Berlin June-July, 1914) and it is no small sum..

Rick Bass

My life, I realize suddenly, is July. Childhood is June, and old age is August, but here it is, July, and my life, this year, is July inside of July.

Tim Dorsey

But instead they tell you they'll come to fix your cable between noon and five, and I say, okay, I'll pay my next bill between July and November, but they don't laugh.

Kenneth Anger

This flick is all I have to say about being 17, the United States Navy, Christmas and the Fourth of July.

Ralph Kiner

The Hall of Fame ceremonies are on the thirty-first and thirty-second of July.

William Hague

The appalling crackdown that we witnessed in Hama and other Syrian cities on 30 and 31 July only erode the regime's legitimacy and increase resentment. In the absence of an end to the senseless violence and a genuine process of political reform, we will continue to pursue further EU sanctions.

Yann Martel

Japanese-owned cargo ship Tsimtsum, flying Panamanian flag, sank July 2nd, 1977, in Pacific, four days out of Manila. Am in lifeboat. Pi Patel my name. Have some food, some water, but Bengal tiger a serious problem. Please advise family in Winnepeg, Canada. Any help very much appreciated. Thank you.