Summer Quotes - Page 15

• I'm a summer baby, so I usually have my birthday as a good summer memory.

  Sloane Crosley

  Birthday, Baby, Memories

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• My father was against the death penalty, and that was hard in the Son of Sam summer when fear was driving the desire for the death penalty.

  Andrew Cuomo

  Father, Son, Desire

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• I will always remember this summer day in Paris, when I was to perform a great acrobatic move. I can still see myself stepping on the ring of a packed circus along real performers.

  Tony Curtis

  Real, Moving, Paris

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• I guess I stopped acting when I was 18 and didn't pick it up again until I was 21. That wasn't the plan, though. When I first started at Yale, the plan was to do a movie each summer.

  Claire Danes

  Yale, Acting, Firsts

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• I hate camping, but I love summer camp.

  Zooey Deschanel

  Hate, Camping, Camps

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• There is a part of me that will forever want to be walking under autumn leaves, carrying a briefcase containing the works of Shakespeare and Yeats and a portable chess set. I will pass an old tree under which once on a summer night I lay on the grass with a fragrant young woman and we quoted e.e. cummings back and forth.

  Roger Ebert

  Autumn, Night, Tree

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• I was four years old then, and I think it must have been the next summer that I first heard the voices.

  Black Elk

  Thinking, Years, Voice

  Black Elk (2000). “Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux”, Bison Books

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• You remember that my great vision came to me when I was only nine years old, and you have seen that I was not much good for anything until after I had performed the horse dance near the mouth of the Tongue River during my eighteenth summer.

  Black Elk

  Horse, Years, Rivers

  Black Elk (2000). “Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux”, Bison Books

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• For my Oxford degree, I had to translate French and German philosophy (as it turned out, Descartes and Kant) at sight without a dictionary. That meant Germany for my first summer vacation, to learn the thorny language on my own.

  Paul Engle

  Philosophy, Vacation, Sight

  Paul Engle (1996). “A lucky American childhood”, Univ of Iowa Pr

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• I think with the success of, like, every summer there has been a couple R-rated comedies that have done so well; I think it is so nice to see that people are turning out to see these movies, and it doesn't seem to be as big a stigma with the studios anymore.

  Will Ferrell

  Couple, Nice, Thinking

  "Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly On Set Interview - Step Brothers". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. May 29, 2008.

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• Grilling outside with my parents at the Jersey shore. We would grill lobster and corn in the summer.

  Bobby Flay

  Parent, Corn, Jersey

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• Our lives are structured by our memories of events. Event X happened just before the big Paris vacation. I was doing Y in the first summer after I learned to drive. Z happened the weekend after I landed my first job. We remember events by positioning them in time relative to other events.

  Joshua Foer

  Jobs, Memories, Weekend

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• Palin seems to have forgotten that her poll ratings have plummeted since the summer of 2011.

  Ron Fournier

  Forgotten, Rating, Polls

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• I turned down a movie this summer because it was nine weeks in Vancouver and my oldest daughter is 14. I've got four more summers with her. I'm not giving away nine weeks of her summer to go do a silly movie.

  Jeff Foxworthy

  Movie, Daughter, Mother

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• As a kid I would get my parents to drop me off at my local library on their way to work during the summer holidays and I would walk home at night. For several years I read the children's library until I finished the children's library. Then I moved into the adult library and slowly worked my way through them.

  Neil Gaiman

  Children, Home, Holiday

  "Neil Gaiman on libraries, Dr Who, fanatical fans and his dreams". Neil Gaiman remarks at the interational book festival in Edinburgh, www.theguardian.com. August 17, 2011.

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• Hospitals are closing across the country due to the burden of illegal immigration, college students find that summer jobs have dried up due to illegal immigration, and wages across the board are depressed by the overwhelming influx of cheap and illegal labor.

  Elton Gallegly

  Country, Jobs, College

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• In the summer you want fresh, light and sort of quick things; in winter you want things that are comforting, so your body really tells you you want to go towards potatoes, apples, fennel, things that are warm and comforting. And loin of pork.

  Ina Garten

  Winter, Light, Apples

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• I grew up in southwestern Virginia. I was born in South Carolina, but only because my parents had a vacation cabin or something there on the beach. I was like a summer baby. But I did grow up in the South. I grew up in serious, serious Appalachia, in a very small town.

  William Gibson

  Baby, Beach, Growing Up

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. August 22, 2007.

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• I had a really nice childhood; I had great parents. I earned my allowance by washing dishes, and in the summer I earned my allowance by working in daddy's garden.

  Nikki Giovanni

  Nice, Garden, Daddy

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• Occasionally I have come across a last patch of snow on top of a mountain in late May or June. There's something very powerful about finding snow in summer.

  Andy Goldsworthy

  Nature, Powerful, June

  Andy Goldsworthy (2001). “Midsummer Snowballs”, Harry N. Abrams

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• I propose to fight it out on this line if it takes all summer.

  Ulysses S. Grant

  Military, Fighting, Civil War

  Dispatch from Spotsylvania (Va.) Court House, 11 May 1864.

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• Nothing is as easy to make as a promise this winter to do something next summer; this is how commencement speakers are caught.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Winter, Keeping Promises, June

  "Chicago Daily News" Newspaper, February 20, 1958.

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• Long weekends at festivals, short weeks at home, all summer long: now that is surely preferable to the immense cost and headache of the nuclear family holiday in the sun?

  Tom Hodgkinson

  Home, Holiday, Weekend

  "Mind the beer, dear" by Tom Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. July 29, 2006.

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• Working is bad enough in the winter, but in the summer it can become completely intolerable. Stuck in airless offices, every fibre of our being seems to cry out for freedom. We're reminded of being stuck in double maths while the birds sing outside.

  Tom Hodgkinson

  Math, Winter, Office

  "Idle thoughts" by Tom Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. June 9, 2006.

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• I also want to thank Arizona citizens for their efforts at conserving energy last summer.

  Jane D. Hull

  Effort, Energy, Citizens

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