The best Quotes by Mary Oliver

August of another summer, and once again I am drinking the sun and the lilies again are spread across the water.

Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?

I acknowledge my feeling and gratitude for life by praising the world and whoever made all these things.

I realise that it is August: the summer's last stand.

August is the border between summer and autumn; it is the most beautiful month I know.

The quiet August noon has come;
A slumberous silence fills the sky;
The winds are still, the trees are dumb,
In glassy sleep the waters lie.

Less than a month ago all of August still stretched before us - long and golden and reassuring, like an endless period of delicious sleep.

August is a gentle reminder for not having done a single thing from your new year resolution for seven months and not doing any for the next five.

Everything good, everything magical happens between the months of June and August.

Breathe the sweetness that hovers in August.

Nobody is perfect, but people born in August almost get there.

August is like the Sunday of summer.

August rain: the best of the summer gone, and the new fall not yet born. The odd uneven time.

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

Anyone else got the feeling that July lasted exactly three days?

Hey August, let's go out together in the next thirty days!

All the other months are just crude experiments, out of which the perfect August is made.

Summer - the seasons between spring and autumn, comprising in the Northern Hemisphere
the warmest months of the year: June, July and August.
The period of finest development, perfection, or beauty previous to any decline; the summer of life.

In August, the large masses of berries, which, when in flower, had attracted many wild bees, gradually assumed their bright velvety crimson hue, and by their weight again bent down and broke their tender limbs.

If you see German soldiers, don't panic. They are here to help.

I will be casting my vote for Kamala Harris and Tim Walz in the 2024 Presidential Election. I'm voting for Kamala Harris because she fights for the rights and causes I believe need a warrior to champion them.

Donald Trump was fired by 81 million people. Clearly he is having a very difficult time processing that.

It's been the honor of my lifetime to serve as your president. I love the job - but I love my country more.

I am sorry on behalf of most, if not close to all, of Australia at this point. I'm sorry about Raygun and that we broke dancing.

I don't think you understand how Australians work. Once we get a hold of a good quality meme, we drive it into the ground until we die. We're all still dropping the old "I pulled a Bradbury" and that happened over 20 years ago.

I really appreciate the positivity and I'm glad I was able to bring some joy into your lives. That's what I hoped. I didn't realise that would also open the door to so much hate which has, frankly, been pretty devastating.

Don't be afraid to be different, go out there and represent yourself, you never know where that's gonna take you.

Since the day I announced my candidacy, I set out to find a partner who can help unite our nation and move us forward—a fighter for the middle class and patriot who believes in the promise of America. I am here today because I found such a leader: Governor Tim Walz.

Thank you, Kamala Harris, for the trust that you've placed in me. And maybe more so, thank you for bringing back the joy. I couldn't be prouder to be on this ticket - and to help make you the next President of the United States.

While Walz pretends to support Americans in the Heartland, when the cameras are off, he believes that rural America is "mostly cows and rocks". Walz is obsessed with spreading California's dangerously liberal agenda far and wide.

While it's not very Minnesotan to brag, I've got to brag on our state a little here: We were just ranked #1 in the country for health care.

If giving tax breaks to millionaires created jobs or grew our economy, I would be in favor of them, but they are the same failed policies of the past that just don't work.

I feel like I've got feet firmly in different camps. Between the right of gun ownership and public safety.

You have to understand what caused genocide to happen. Or it will happen again.

My first mission is to take care of our troops. I take that mission very personally.