January Quotes

• Summer is a promissory note signed in June, its long days spent and gone before you know it, and due to be repaid next January.

  

  Hal Borland
  • Long
  • Summer
  • June

• Lets talk about the holidays, more specifically, consumption during the holidays. If it's true that 'We are what we eat,' most of us would be unrecognizable during the period that ranges from the night before Thanksgiving through that day in early January when everyone decides to return to the gym.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • True
  • Night
  • Day

• Widely distributed reports have noted in January 1968, Obama was registered as a Muslim at Jakarta's Roman Catholic Franciscus Assisi Primary School under the name Barry Soetoro.

  

  Aaron Klein
  • School
  • Name
  • Catholic

• I'm working on my new album right now. Hopefully to get that out at the top of 2005, January 2005.

  

  Obie Trice
  • Working
  • New
  • January

• Every man should be born again on the first day of January. Start with a fresh page. Take up one hole more in the buckle if necessary, or let down one, according to circumstances; but on the first of January let every man gird himself once more, with his face to the front, and take no interest in the things that were and are past.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Man
  • Burn
  • January

• An estimated 7 million illegal immigrants were residing in the United States in January 2000. This is double the size of the illegal immigrant population in January 1990 and constitutes 2.5 percent of the total U.S. population of just over 281 million.

  

  Gary Miller Bad Brains
  • Size
  • January
  • Immigrant

• Our task force put to sea in early January 1942, to attack the Japanese in the Marshall and Gilbert islands, but the mission was called off on the eve of the attack.

  

  Jack Adams
  • Sea
  • Japanese
  • Mission

• January 30th will be a historic day for the Middle East and the world. The Iraqi people will take the next step toward a free and democratic society as they place their votes for a transitional Iraqi government.

  

  Dana Rohrabacher
  • People
  • World
  • Society

• I miss everything about Chicago, except January and February.

  

  Gary Cole
  • Chicago
  • February
  • January

• In January 1962, when I was the author of one and a half unperformed plays, I attended a student production of 'The Birthday Party' at the Victoria Rooms in Bristol. Just before it began, I realised that Harold Pinter was sitting in front of me.

  

  Tom Stoppard
  • Party
  • Play
  • Author

• Under current law, on January 1st, 2013, there is going to be a massive fiscal cliff of large spending cuts and tax increases.

  

  Ben Bernanke
  • Law
  • Tax
  • Cliff

• In January '77 I went out to LA and have been here 26 years.

  

  Ted Shackelford
  • Years
  • Been
  • January

• In January of 1995, my family and I moved to Seattle. Pearl Jam did the first of their live radio broadcasts, Monkey Wrench Radio, along with many other Seattle musicians.

  

  Jack Irons Pearl Jam
  • Live
  • Family
  • Musicians

• As my other obligations are beginning to take an inordinate amount of time, I have asked to step down as WMG's board chairman, effective January 31, 2012. However, I will remain a director of the company and in that way, continue my association with Warner Music and its extraordinary people.

  

  Edgar Bronfman, Jr.
  • People
  • Time
  • Music

• We sold OkCupid to Match in January of 2011. In September of 2012, I became CEO of all of Match, which is the operating segment of IAC that contains all of the dating properties.

  

  Sam Yagan
  • Dating
  • September
  • January

• I have on my wall right now a front page of the 'Journal' from January 1991, when I co-wrote a front-page story about Iraq firing missiles at Israel. By October, I was writing about tech products.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Writing
  • Wall
  • Page

• In January 1961, the United States severed diplomatic relations in response to Cuban nationalisation of U.S.-owned sugar plantations, banks and businesses.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • Response
  • Sugar
  • January

• I was an independent developer and started Junction Point in January of 2005.

  

  Warren Spector
  • Independent
  • Point
  • January

• In the Land of Toys, every day, except Sunday, is a Saturday. Vacation begins on the first of January and ends on the last day of December. That is the place for me! All countries should be like it! How happy we should all be!

  

  Carlo Collodi
  • Vacation
  • December
  • January

• January is here, with eyes that keenly glow, A frost-mailed warrior striding a shadowy steed of snow.

  

  Edgar Fawcett
  • Snow
  • Warrior
  • Glow

• I was always the poor kid, even though I very much tried to pretend to be the other way. Always well presented. Always really active in the school, doing fashion shows, plays, involved in every single aspect of the school. Overcompensating, I think, for the fact that I knew I wouldn't be going on the ski trip every January.

  

  FKA twigs
  • School
  • Single
  • Fashion

• Senator Clinton is very knowledgeable about national security and is probably going to be strong on defense. I have no doubts whatsoever that if she were president in January '09, she would not act irresponsibly and issue orders to conduct an immediate withdrawal from Iraq, regardless of the consequences, and squander the gains that have been made.

  

  Jack Keane
  • She
  • Strong
  • Security

• The actual writing time is a lot shorter than the thinking time. I don't do too many notes. I keep it mostly in my head. I usually start writing a new book around January, and it's due October 1.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Writing

• I was born January 6, 1937, eight years after Wall Street crashed and two years before John Steinbeck published The Grapes of Wrath, his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about the plight of a family during the Great Depression.

  

  Lou Holtz
  • Great
  • Family
  • Winning

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