August 30 is the 242nd day of the year (243rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 123 days remaining until the end of the year.
Quotes of the day from previous years:
- 2004
- There lives more faith in honest doubt, believe me, than in half the creeds. ~ Alfred, Lord Tennyson
- 2005
- No one can conceive the variety of feelings which bore me onwards, like a hurricane, in the first enthusiasm of success. Life and death appeared to me ideal bounds, which I should first break through, and pour a torrent of light into our dark world. ~ Mary Shelley (born 30 August 1797, and also relating to the recent landfall of Hurricane Katrina
- 2006
- We are unfashioned creatures, but half made up, if one wiser, better, dearer than ourselves — such a friend ought to be — do not lend his aid to perfectionate our weak and faulty natures.. ~ Mary Shelley (date of birth)
- 2007
- Live, and be happy, and make others so. ~ Mary Shelley
- 2008
- Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago. ~ Warren Buffett
- 2009
