1981/births/august

Famous quotes containing the words births and/or august:

    “As the births of living creatures, at first, are ill-shapen: so are all Innovations, which are the births of time.”
    —Francis Bacon (1561–1626)

    “Until, on Vinegar Hill, the fatal conclave.
    Terraced thousands died, shaking scythes at cannon.
    The hillside blushed, soaked in our broken wave.
    They buried us without shroud or coffin
    And in August the barley grew up out of the grave.”
    —Seamus Heaney (b. 1939)