March Quotes - Page 37

• We came in the wind of the carnival. A wind of change, or promises. The merry wind, the magical wind, making March hares of everyone, tumbling blossoms and coat-tails and hats; rushing towards summer in a frenzy of exuberance.

  Joanne Harris

  Summer, Wind, Rushing

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• The girl with the long brown hair turned around. "Are you her boy friend?" she asked. Summer glanced from Crystal to Nate and back. Then question made her feel a little awkward. After all, she had saved him a seat. No, I'm her fiance," Nate said. We've been promised to each other since birth." Summer added. Our wedding isn't until March.

  Brandon Mull

  Girl, Summer, Boys

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• Everybody finished the song at different times. At last, only the Weasley twins were left singing along to a very slow funeral march.

  J. K. Rowling

  Song, Funeral, Singing

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• However, FDA attempted to reverse this clear congressional intent in March, 1979, by proposing to regulate vitamins and minerals as 'Over-The-Counter' drugs.

  Orrin Hatch

  Dark, Fda, Vitamins And Minerals

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• When Jo's conservative sister Meg says she must turn up her hair now that she is a "young lady," Jo shouts, "I'm not! and if turning up my hair makes me one, I'll wear it in two tails till I'm twenty.... I hate to think I've got to grow up, and be Miss March, and wear long gowns, and look as prim as a China aster! It's bad enough to be a girl anyway, when I like boys' games and work and manners! I can't get over my disappointment in not being a boy; and it's worse than ever now, for I'm dying to go and fight with Papa, and I can only stay at home and knit, like a poky old woman.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Girl, Disappointment, Growing Up

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• Both described at the same time how it was always March there and always Monday, and then they understood that José Arcadio Buendía was not as crazy as the family said, but that he was the only one who had enough lucidity to sense the truth of the fact that time also stumbled and had accidents and could therefore splinter and leave an eternalized fragment in a room.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Monday, Crazy, Splinters

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• India is calling Blood is calling to blood. Get up, we have no time to lose. Take up your arms ! we shall carve our way through the enemy's ranks, or if God wills, we shall die a martyr's death. And in our last sleep we shall kiss the road that will bring our Army to Delhi. The road to Delhi is the road to Freedom. Chalo Delhi (March to Delhi).

  Subhas Chandra Bose

  Sleep, Kissing, Army

  Subhas Chandra Bose (2007). “Chalo Delhi: writings and speeches, 1943-1945”

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• Because they are mean is no reason why I should be. I hate such things, and though I think I've a right to be hurt, I don't intend to show it. (Amy March)

  Louisa May Alcott

  Hurt, Hate, Mean

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• I haven't devoured a soul in...What month is this? March?

  Rick Riordan

  Soul, Months, Havens

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• I keep turning over new leaves, and spoiling them, as I used to spoil my copybooks; and I make so many beginnings there never will be an end. (Jo March)

  Louisa May Alcott

  Fresh Start, Used, Ends

  Louisa May Alcott (2016). “Little Women: Top Novelist Focus”, p.209, 谷月社

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• January gray is here, like a sexton by her grave; February bears the bier, march with grief doth howl and rave, and April weeps -- but, O ye hours! Follow with May's fairest flowers.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Time, Grief, Flower

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley (Illustrated)”, p.500, Delphi Classics

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• You know things have gone bad when military marches pass for pop music.

  James Patterson

  Military, Gone, Pops

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• There is no power in the world that can stop the forward march of free men and women when they are joined in the solidarity of human brotherhood.

  Walter Reuther

  Freedom, Power, Men

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• In the United States in 2009, more than 10.2 billion trips were taken on transit trains and buses. So far, the nation has not experienced a major transit attack since Sept. 11, but the March 2010 Moscow subway bombings and earlier train attacks in London and Mumbai show that we must be prepared.

  John Mica

  Taken, Moscow, Mumbai

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• If the British march By land or sea from the town to-night, Hang a lantern aloft in the belfry-arch Of the North-Church-tower, as a signal-light,-- One if by land, and two if by sea; And I on the opposite shore will be, Ready to ride and spread the alarm Through every Middlesex village and farm, For the country-folk to be up and to arm.

  Paul Revere

  Country, Night, Sea

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• Poor Dimitri Shostakovich: In the Soviet Union, he was condemned as being too radical; in the West, for being too conservative. He could please no one but the musical public. He revenged himself on both by writing a short piece called 'March of the Soviet Police.'

  Edward Abbey

  Writing, Police, Musical

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.41, RosettaBooks

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• For the Spartans, it wasn’t walls or magnificent public buildings that made a city; it was their own ideals. In essence, Sparta was a city of the head and the heart. And it existed in its purest form in the disciplined march of a hoplite phalanx on their way to war!

  Bettany Hughes

  Wall, War, Heart

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• Old age likes to dwell in the recollections of the past, and, mistaking, the speedy march of years, often is inclined to take the prudence of the winter time for a fat wisdom of, midsummer days. Manhood is bent to the passing cares of the passing moment, and holds so closely to his eyes the sheet of, "to-day," that it screens the "to-morrow" from his sight.

  Lajos Kossuth

  Eye, Winter, Past

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• If it's not accepted that big government, fiat money, ignoring liberty, central economic planning, welfarism, and warfarism caused our crisis, we can expect a continuous and dangerous march toward corporatism and even fascism with even more loss of our liberties.

  Ron Paul

  Loss, Government, Liberty

  Farewell Address to the U.S. Congress, delivered 14 November 2012

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• March Madnesss...the only place where you hear 'Kansas is advancing.'

  Bill Maher

  Kansas, America, Advancing

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• The next time The Oregonian runs a misleading headline saying that it's because of bike lanes that people aren't having their streets paved, I want all of you to march down Broadway and occupy The Oregonian!

  Steve Novick

  Running, People, Broadway

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• I did Wall Street, and then everything that happened with An Education took me up until March. I didn't want to work during that because there was just so much stuff. I didn't realize you had to go to so many parties. It was a nightmare! I had to go to all these parties! The glamour!

  Carey Mulligan

  Wall, Party, Want

  Source: collider.com

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• How many women do we know who were continually kissed by Clark Gable, William Powell, Cary Grant, Spencer Tracy and Fredric March? Only one: Myrna Loy...

  Lauren Bacall

  Art, Grants, Tracy

  Hosting a Carnegie Hall tribute to Myrna Loy, as quoted in "The New York Times", January 16, 1985.

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• NoH8 on the Hill, NoH8 anywhere. No American, regardless of who they love, should be denied equal protection under the law. History is on our side and our march towards justice will prevail.

  Xavier Becerra

  Law, Justice, Sides

  "‘NOH8 on the Hill III’ Draws Support From 67 Members of Congress" by Laurence Watts, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 24, 2013.

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• The great challenge which faces us is to assure that, in our society of big-ness, we do not strangle the voice of creativity, that the rules of the game do not come to overshadow its purpose, that the grand orchestration of society leaves ample room for the man who marches to the music of another drummer.

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  Creativity, Men, Games

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