Dry Erase Wall Quotes for August 2022

August: A Month to Enjoy the Outdoors and Prepare for Fall

The best parts of August are the warmth and contentment it brings us as we take pleasure in being outside in the bright summer sun after finishing the perfect to-do list on your dry erase wall. It’s the ideal month of the year to go to the beach and have ice cream and cool drinks with your family and friends, to travel to a place you’ve never been, to go exploring in the woods or mountains, and free yourself from daily cares. It’s also the month when children get ready to return to school after a long summer vacation, and parents help them by buying new school supplies and clothes.

Here’s a collection of cool quotes and sayings about August you can post on your dry erase wall to make your month more enjoyable and help yourself get through its hottest days and the mayhem of back-to-school prep.

Musings about August

1. “The arrival of August means that summer is drawing to a close, and that’s exactly why it should be embraced.”
– Amanda McArthur (US writer, animation enthusiast, and project manager)

2. “No matter where you are in the world, August is a pretty wonderful time of the year.”
– Shash Wighton (US writer and teacher)

3. “The summer sun is starting to wane, kids are heading back to school, and the nights are getting just a touch colder, which can only mean one thing: It’s August.”
– Stacey Leasca (US journalist)

4. “One day, you discover you are alive. Explosion! Concussion! Illumination! Delight! You laugh, you dance around, you shout. But, not long after, the sun goes out. Snow falls, but no one sees it on an August noon.”
– Ray Bradbury (US author and screenwriter)

5. “August, dear sweet lovely August — it might just be the most perfect month of the summer.”
– Georgea Kovanis (US journalist)

6. “Childhood is June, and old age is August.”
– Rick Bass (US writer and environmental activist)

7. “August is the slow, gentle month that stretches out the longest across the span of a year. It yawns and lingers on with the light in its palms.”
– Victoria Erickson (US author, poet, and teacher)

8. “The first week of August hangs at the very top of summer, the top of the live-long year, like the highest seat of a Ferris wheel when it pauses in its turning. Often at night, there is lightning, but it quivers all alone.”
– Natalie Babbitt (US writer and illustrator of children’s books)

9. “Every year, August lashes out in volcanic fury, rising with the din of morning traffic, its great metallic wings smashing against the ground, heating the air with ever-increasing intensity.”
– Henry Rollins (US musician, writer, spoken word artist, and actor)

10. “Caught in the doldrums of August, we may have regretted the departing summer, having sighed over the vanished strawberries and all that they signified.”
– Denis Mackail (English fiction writer)

11. “August is a nice break from the thick, sweltering days of July and the rainy days of June.”
– Georgea Kovanis (US journalist)

12. “August has its own unique triggers, such as anxiety over the impending school season and the end of vacation time. Don’t allow the funk to isolate you. Stay active in your plans and do things with people you love.”
– Stacey Leasca (US journalist)

13. “I bet deep down you still wish your mom would take you clothes shopping for the new school year every August.”
– Bridgette Willard (US businesswoman)

14. “Your August can be as memorable as the leaving summer.”
– Jennifer Lewis (US writer, editor, and publisher)

15. “August is a time of growing up, of forgotten forevers, full of the sweetest intent.”
– Meka Boyle (US writer and photographer)

16. “Because of their love of the limelight, many celebrities are August babies. Barack Obama, Mila Kunis, Viola Davis, Daniel Radcliffe, and Alfred Hitchcock were all born in August.”
– Tara Carlson (US writer)

17. “August is the time to reap what you’ve sown, quite literally even, as most summer vegetables are ready to be harvested.”
– Shash Wighton (US writer and teacher)

18. “Don’t let your August be four weeks of feeling sad that fall is right around the corner.”
– Jasmine Vaughn-Hall (US culture reporter)

19. “The month of August has plenty worth celebrating, like the end-of-summer barbecues, the time spent with friends at the beach, and the last remaining vestiges of summer vacation.”
– Stacey Leasca (US journalist)

20. “The end of August can be a sad time because we know it means summer will soon be over. But fall has its perks too.”
– Sckylar Gibby-Brown (US Writer, entrepreneur, and quote curator)
The Natural World in August

21. “The first week of August is motionless and hot. It is curiously silent, too, with blank white dawns and glaring noons, and sunsets smeared with too much color.”
– Natalie Babbitt (US writer and illustrator of children’s books)

22. “August is the scent of tree-ripened peaches, of hot buttered sweet corn on the cob.”
– Jean Hersey (US author)

23. “August was nearly over – the month of apples and falling stars, the last carefree month for the school children. The days were not hot, but sunny and limpidly clear – the first sign of advancing autumn.”
– Victor Nekrasov (Russian writer, journalist, and editor)

24. “That August time, it was delight. To watch the red moons wane to white.”
– Algernon Charles Swinburne (English poet, playwright, novelist, and critic)

25. “In June, we picked the clover and sea shells in July: There was no silence at the door, no word from the sky. A hand came out of August and flicked his life away: We had not time to bargain, mope, moralize, or pray.”
– Cecil Day-Lewis (Irish-born, British poet, Poet Laureate, and mystery writer)

26. “August breeze — perched on the flame tree, a Red-vented Bulbul.”
― Meeta Ahluwalia (Indian writer)

27. “Life, now, was unfolding before me, constantly and visibly, like the flowers of August that drop fanlike petals on eternal soil.”
– Roman Payne (US novelist and poet)

28. “Youth is in a grand flush, like the hot days of ending summer; and pleasant dreams thrall your spirit, like the smoky atmosphere that bathes the landscape of an August day.”
― Donald G. Mitchell (US essayist and novelist)

29. “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.”
― William Cullen Bryant (US romantic poet, journalist, and editor)
Memories of Augusts Past and Present

30. “I love the little garden in the back of my family’s brownstone in Brooklyn. Digging out there in the dirt is a joy for me, although by the time August rolls around and my roses have black spots, I need the break that winter provides.”
― Siri Hustvedt (US novelist, essayist, poet, and non-fiction writer)

31. “We used to play football on the levee, with no shirts on in the summer – August in New Orleans – and my skin would turn red.”
― Aaron Neville (US R&B and soul singer)

32. “August used to be a sad month for me. As the days went on, the thought of school starting weighed heavily upon my young frame.”
―Henry Rollins ((US musician, writer, spoken word artist, and actor)

33. “I saw the spiders marching through the air, swimming from tree to tree that mildewed day in latter August when the hay came creaking to the barn.” — Robert Lowell (US poet)

34. “How sociable the garden was. We ate and talked in the given light. The children put their toys to grass all the warm wakeful August night.”
— Thom Gunn (English poet)

August Memories

35. “Bicycle rides down city streets Lazy days, with blazing heat Swimming trips to the local beach Exploring the neighborhood on your skates Reading books, and staying up late The sun settling down, after half past eight Summer’s good times’ must end we know So off to autumn …watch the cool winds blow!”
– Randy Wayamori (US poet)