No 'Born on the 4th of July' stories anywhere in sight,
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All you have to do is look up on the Fourth of July.
DAN GUICE What to the Slave is the 4th of July.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS And I'm proud to be an American,
where at least I know I'm free.
And I won't forget the men who died...
LEE GREENWOOD Those who won our independence believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the ...
LOUIS D. BRANDEIS On this day, so full for Americans of thoughts connected with their National Independence, we may no...
SETH LOW [A safe Independence Day] would be a good psychological boost, but we need some fundamental news as ...
CHARLES PAYNE We, and all others who believe in freedom as deeply as we do, would rather die on our feet than live...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT Bravery itself is freedom......God bless America
PRINCE HOPKINS AMACHREE I will rather b a poor brave man than being a rich coward
PRINCE HOPKINS AMACHREE I was born in August, no July, 1908.
SATCHEL PAIGE What better day to lay the cornerstone of the Freedom Tower than the day our country declared its in...
GEORGE PATAKI It's part of tradition to have fireworks for July Fourth and New Year's, so it's just really difficu...
RANDY JENKINS Think for a moment: what is the British equivalent of the U.S. Fourth of July, or even the French 14...
GORDON BROWN The United States is the only country with a known birthday. ~James G. Blaine
JAMES G. BLAINE Ask not what your country can do for you. Ask what you can do for your country.
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY People in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than governments.
DWIGHT DAVID EISENHOWER We on this continent should never forget that men first crossed the Atlantic not to find soil for th...
ROBERT J. MCCRACKEN Carelessness about our security is dangerous; carelessness about our freedom is also dangerous
ADLAI E. STEVENSON July 4. Statistics show that we lose more fools on this day than in all the other days of the year p...
MARK TWAIN Pop, pop, pop! Bom, bom, bom!/ Throughout the day/ no time for memorandums now./ Go ahead! Liberty a...
DAVY CROCKETT I don't think anyone could have picked a better title than 'Superman' to open in Imax 3D on July Fou...
GREG FOSTER The Kingdom of God wasn't born on the Fourth of July.
MATT CHANDLER Breathes there the man with soul so dead
Who never to himself hath said,
This is my own, my native l...
WALTER SCOTT America is much more than a geographical fact. It is a political and moral fact - the first communit...
ADLAI E. STEVENSON All we have of freedom - all we use or know - This our fathers bought for us, long and long ago
RUDYARD KIPLING Those who make peaceful revolutions impossible will make violent revolutions inevitable
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY I have one yardstick by which I test every major problem-and that yardstick is: Is it good for Ameri...
DWIGHT DAVID EISENHOWER It is the love of country that has lighted and that keeps glowing the holy fire of patriotism.
J. HORACE MCFARLAND The American Revolution was a beginning, not a consummation.
WOODROW T. WILSON When I was little I thought, isn't it nice that everybody celebrates on my birthday? Because it&...
GLORIA STUART Many public-school children seem to know only two dates - 1492 and 4th of July; and as a rule they d...
MARK TWAIN We defend and we build a way of life, not for America alone, but for all of mankind
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from opposition; for if he viol...
THOMAS PAINE What is the essence of America? Finding and maintaining that perfect, delicate balance between freed...
MARILYN VOS SAVANT America is too great for small dreams.
RONALD REAGAN This, then, is the state of the union: free and restless, growing and full of hope. So it was in the...
LYNDON B. JOHNSON A statistician made a few calculations and discovered that since the birth of our nation more lives ...
CURTIS BILLINGS Supposedly, George Washington gave him a cannon. And every year on the 4th of July, he'd fire 14 sho...
LINDA ASHCRAFT This earth that we live on is full of stories in the same way that, for a fish, the ocean is full of...
BEN OKRI There is no real, definitive relief in sight. And North Carolina?s gasoline tax may increase again J...
SARAH DAVIS Payton Thompson is a threat anywhere on the field. That's why he doesn't come off the field very muc...
FRED HEINZ Democracy is the government of the people, by the people, for the people
ABRAHAM LINCOLN Then join hand in hand, brave Americans all! By uniting we stand, by dividing we fall.
JOHN DICKINSON Freedom's natal day is here.
Fire the guns and shout for freedom,
See the flag above unfurled!
Hail ...
FLORENCE A. JONES Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY Freedom has its life in the hearts, the actions, the spirit of men and so it must be daily earned an...
DWIGHT DAVID EISENHOWER If you look at tailgating, everyone does it. It's for everyone who likes to cook outdoors. It co...
JOHN MADDEN It is with roses and locomotives (not to mention acrobats Spring electricity Coney Island the 4th of...
E. E. (EDWARD ESTLIN) CUMMINGS It is with roses and locomotives (not to mention acrobats Spring electricity Coney Island the 4th of...
E. E. CUMMINGS There also tends to be a broader July 4th rally, and then after that, a lot of lower volume and a fl...
JEFFREY HIRSCH I earnestly pray that the Omnipotent Being who has not deserted the cause of America in the hour of ...
GEORGE WASHINGTON I was born on July 23rd, 1906, in Sarajevo in the province of Bosnia, which then belonged to the Aus...
VLADIMIR PRELOG My early childhood memories center around this typical American country store and life in a small Am...
FREDERICK REINES [Thompson made himself the centerpiece of his stories] to show that a regular person could be in the...
DAVID AMRAM We've added about 30 new panda items since Tai Shan was born in July.
MATT OLEAR Why are video games so violent? The ones I've seen remind me of the 4th of July, with everything...
MADELEINE M. KUNIN America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense, it is the other way around. Human rights ...
JIMMY CARTER Building a better you is the first step to building a better America
ZIG ZIGLAR [Indeed, pop culture expert Robert Thompson, head of Syracuse University's Center for the Study of P...
CHARLIE CHAPLIN She had a new secret, the strenght of the moon, looking at her
SUSAN ENGBERG You have to love a nation that celebrates its independence every July 4, not with a parade of guns, ...
ERMA BOMBECK America lives in the heart of every man everywhere who wishes to find a region where he will be free...
WOODROW T. WILSON If our country is worth dying for in time of war let us resolve that it is truly worth living for in...
HAMILTON FISH I tell people, 'I was born in a little house at the dead end of a dirt road that had no name and...
ROBERT H. SCHULLER I was born in Ludwigsburg, Wuerttemberg, in the southwestern part of the Federal Republic of Germany...
HARTMUT MICHEL America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination, and unbeatable determin...
HARRY S TRUMAN July 4 is the perfect day to relax. It also provides a very good chance to spend quality time with f...
COLIN CHAPMAN America is successful because of the hard work and creativity and enterprise of our people.
GEORGE W. BUSH I look forward to a great future for America - a future in which our country will match its military...
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY Americans, indeed all free men, remember that in the final choice a soldier's pack is not so heavy a...
DWIGHT DAVID EISENHOWER Where were you born?"
"On a battlefield," [Yossarian] answered.
"No, no. In what state wer...
JOSEPH HELLER I'd love to live anywhere else and I've had the experience of living in Perth and I was actually bor...
JAMIE KENNEDY Stories have changed, my dear boy,” the man in the grey suit says, his voice almost imperceptibly ...
ERIN MORGENSTERN Stories can take you anywhere. And The Wild can mean anything it's any kind of adventure.
JANE MILLS You give No. 18 (Thompson) a half an inch and she's going to score.
KEVIN CASSIDY Art helps clue you into a lot of things. The hardest part about being in here is spending a lot of t...
BUCK JOHNSON No other date on the calendar more potently symbolizes all that our nation stands for than the Fourt...
MAC THORNBERRY I grew up on the crime stuff. Spillane, Chandler, Jim Thompson, and noir movies like Fuller, Orson W...
FRANK MILLER I have a little pussy,/ And her coat is silver-gray;/ She lives in a great wide meadow/ And she neve...
STORIES OF CHILDHOOD The glowing Ruby should adorn
Those who in warm July are born,
Then will they be exempt and fr...
UNATTRIBUTED AUTHOR Robert Kapilow is a born teacher, an enthusiast who can think on his feet, a 110 percent believer in...
THE BOSTON GLOBE Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off t...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN May the sun in his course visit no land more free, more happy, more lovely, than this our own countr...
DANIEL WEBSTER There is an option still left to the United States of America, that it is in their choice and depend...
GEORGE WASHINGTON Robert Louis Stevenson... I'm focusing on the late short stories that I was ignorant of. I alway...
JANE BIRKIN Every ZERO Is 3/4th Of an HERO...!
It’s All in the PERCEPTION!
SUJIT LALWANI I was born and brought up in the countryside. I used to live in a sort of converted stables on the g...
SAM HEUGHAN Much of the old Busch was under cover, but there's no cover on the new stadium. People having proble...
JACQUE PHILLIPS Its important to know stories. I felt the earth shift to make a place for you when you were born, an...
SHANNON HALE Written by the ancient Chinese philosopher of the same name, the 'Zhuangzi' is one long perp...
PATRICK STUMP Born too late to explore the world, born too early too explore the universe.
INTERNET MEME PROVERB There's no longevity in me telling old stories on the radio.
DANNY BONADUCE Remember you're not alone; you've no right to inflict the sight of your fear on me.
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Ju...
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PEARL BUCK There is no relief in sight.
MARK ROSENBERG There will be mental worries with the long jump before Rio, but I know I can get through it. It'...
KATARINA JOHNSON-THOMPSON You can exercise anytime, anywhere. It doesn't have to be the gym.
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EMMA THOMPSON Sometimes you have to, as I say, build bridges where you can - but draw lines where you must.
FRED THOMPSON To have felt too much is to end in feeling nothing.
DOROTHY THOMPSON What used to drive me was the fact that I wanted to be better than everybody at something. One of my...
DALEY THOMPSON One of things I like about looking at pictures when you're young and also meeting back with old ...
LEA THOMPSON The problem is that agencies sometimes lose sight of common sense as they create regulations.
FRED THOMPSON I have to read something positive every single day. I have to have faith that the day is unfolding i...
LEA THOMPSON Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live.
DOROTHY THOMPSON I wear pink on Saturdays for breast cancer, and I wear blue on Sundays. I'm superstitious. At th...
LEXI THOMPSON It's cool. It's reverse modeling really. Instead of taking a structure and finding out what vibratio...
BARBARA THOMPSON [University of Colorado's Extreme Ultraviolet Variability Experiment (EVE) will measure spectral ene...
BARBARA THOMPSON LWS is kind of science with an edge.
BARBARA THOMPSON This is going to make our neighborhood very isolated. The decision is very disappointing.
BARBARA THOMPSON decided to let it go.
BARBARA THOMPSON It will help in lifting morale on campus. I don't think any university can stay competitive without ...
BARBARA THOMPSON Just a couple times a year we'll have eclipses that are not much more than an hour. We can stand it.
BARBARA THOMPSON We love the bingo. You tell them the people on Social Security will sit at home in a rocker and die ...
BARBARA THOMPSON I started with golf because I saw my brothers play, I was always watching them. It was my life. Grow...
LEXI THOMPSON We had a lot of kids over there, but they were there legally. They were in the band, cheerleaders an...
BECKY THOMPSON There are things in your life - nobody's perfect, of course - things you just need to cleanse.
BECKY THOMPSON You need to release, to humble yourself, and realize that you have things in your life you need to t...
BECKY THOMPSON I learned that it's hard to work in the Army. My dad wanted me to tell him that he's a big hero to m...
BECKY THOMPSON Our major concern is the safety of our students. We hope traffic flows slowly and smoothly.
BECKY THOMPSON Children are the most wonderful audiences. What's struck me most is that that they watch it so s...
EMMA THOMPSON We needed to play good and win or we'd go home. We're going to have to turn around and do it again t...
BEAU THOMPSON Kevin did a good job. We also did well inside. We got good games from Cory Jordan and Jared King not...
BEAU THOMPSON (Davis) played well for us while he was in there. He got two cheapies. He's been really good for us ...
BEAU THOMPSON I guess all you can say is they outplayed us in every aspect of the game. We did a terrible job pass...
BEAU THOMPSON I thought he dominated the game with his speed, defensively. Overall, except for a little lull at th...
BEAU THOMPSON We played good the last 4 minutes of the game. That's really what it took for us to win this one.
BEAU THOMPSON We gave up too many points in this tournament and we've got to get better defensively. This was a qu...
BEAU THOMPSON Cory was very efficient with what he did down at the post. He's capable of that night in and night o...
BEAU THOMPSON We get a technical foul that's very deserving. That was the end of the game. After the technical we ...
BEAU THOMPSON