Summer Quotes - Page 30

• My life is like the summer rose
  That opens to the morning sky,
  But ere the shades of evening close
  Is scattered on the ground - to die.

  Richard Henry Wilde

  Morning, August, Sky

  Richard Henry Wilde, “Stanzas”

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• The streets lie, the sidewalks lie, everything lies
  You can try and read it but you're gonna get it wrong...all wrong
  The summer evenings burn and melt and the nights glitter but you're gonna get it wrong
  And it's gonna sink its teeth into your flesh and pull you to the bottom.

  Henry Rollins

  Lying, Night, August

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• Once upon a Lammas Night
  When corn rigs are bonny,
  Beneath the Moon's unclouded light,
  I held awhile to Annie...
  The time went by with careless heed
  Between the late and early,
  With small persuasion she agreed
  To see me through the barley...
  Corn rigs and barley rigs,
  Corn rigs are bonny!
  I'll not forget that happy night
  Among the rigs with Annie!

  Robert Burns

  Moon, Night, Light

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• The Queen of Hearts, she made some tarts,
  All on a summer day:
  The Knave of Hearts, he stole those tarts,
  And took them quite away!

  Lewis Carroll

  Queens, Heart, August

  1865 Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, ch.11,'Who Stole the Tarts?'.

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• When in still air and still in summertime
  A leaf has had enough of this, it seems
  To make up its mind to go; fine as a sage
  Its drifting in detachment down the road.

  Howard Nemerov

  Air, August, Mind

  Howard Nemerov (1981). “The Collected Poems of Howard Nemerov”, p.440, University of Chicago Press

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• As for me, I know nothing else but miracles,
  Whether I walk the streets of Manhattan,
  Or dart my sight over the roofs of houses toward the sky,
  Or wade with naked feet along the beach just in the edge of the water,
  Or stand under the trees in the woods,
  Or talk by day with any one I love,
  Or sleep in bed at night with any one I love,
  Or watch honey bees busy around the hive of a summer forenoon...
  Or the wonderfulness of the sundown,
  Or of stars shining so quiet and bright,
  Or the exquisite delicate thin curve of the new moon in spring...
  What stranger miracles are there?

  Walt Whitman

  Beach, Stars, Spring

  Walt Whitman, “Miracles”

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• Not wholly in the busy world, nor quite
  Beyond it, blooms the garden that I love.
  News from the humming city comes to it
  It sound of funeral or of marriage bells.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Garden, Cities, August

  Alfred Tennyson Tennyson, Baron, Alfred Lord Tennyson (2014). “Fifty Poems”, p.102, Cambridge University Press

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• August creates as she slumbers, replete and satisfied.

  Joseph Wood Krutch

  August, Months, Slumber

  Joseph Wood Krutch (1995). “The Best Nature Writing of Joseph Wood Krutch”

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• From the great trees the locusts cry
  In quavering ecstatic duo-a boy
  Shouts a wild call-a mourning dove
  In the blue distance sobs-the wind
  Wanders by, heavy with odors
  Of corn and wheat and melon vines;
  The trees tremble with delirious joy as the breeze
  Greets them, one by one-now the oak
  Now the great sycamore, now the elm.

  Hamlin Garland

  Distance, Boys, August

  Hamlin Garland (1961). “Boy Life on the Prairie”, p.178, U of Nebraska Press

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• He had been eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers, which were to be put into vials hermetically sealed, and let out to warm the air in raw, inclement summers.

  Jonathan Swift

  War, Science, August

  Gulliver's Travels "A Voyage to Laputa, etc." ch. 5 (1726)

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• Even with insects - some can sing, some can't.

  Kobayashi Issa

  August, Insects

  Kobayashi Issa, “Even With Insects”

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• When summer opens, I see how fast it matures, and fear it will be short; but after the heats of July and August, I am reconciled, like one who has had his swing, to the cool of autumn.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Senior, Autumn, August

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Joel Porte (1982). “Emerson in His Journals”, p.354, Harvard University Press

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• When fortune empties her chamber pot on your head, smile and say We are going to have a summer shower.

  John A. Macdonald

  Pot, Fortune, Showers

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• The morning had dawned clear and cold, with a crispness that hinted at the end of summer.

  George R. R. Martin

  Morning, Cold, Ends

  George R. R. Martin (2012). “George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons”, p.25, Bantam

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• Inner sunshine warms not only the heart of the owner, but all who come in contact with it.

  James Thomas Fields

  Heart, Sunshine, Self Improvement

  James Thomas Fields (1881). “Underbrush”

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• ....that the mounds of ices, and the bowls of mint-julep and sherry cobbler they make in these latitudes, are refreshments never to be thought of afterwards, in summer, by those who would preserve contented minds.

  Charles Dickens

  Ice, Mind, Cobblers

  Charles Dickens (1842). “American Notes for General Circulation”, p.170

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• Bakers of bread rolls and pastry cooks will not buy grain before eleven o'clock in winter and noon in summer.

  Cardinal Richelieu

  Winter, Bread, Bakers

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• When I was a little kid, of course, I was brown all summer. That's because I was free as a bird- nothing to do but catch bugs all day.

  Roy Blount, Jr.

  Kids, Bird, Littles

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• Now Simmer blinks on flowery braes,
  And o'er the chrystal streamlets plays;
  Come let us spend the lightsome days
  In the birks of Aberfeldy.

  Robert Burns

  Play, Blink

  Robert Burns, Robert P. Irvine (2013). “Selected Poems and Songs”, p.145, Oxford University Press

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• The trees are God's great alphabet:
  With them
  He writes in shining green
  Across the world
  His thoughts serene.

  Leonora Speyer

  Writing, Shining, Tree

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• This very act of planting a seed in the earth has in it to me something beautiful. I always do it with a joy that is largely mixed with awe.

  Celia Thaxter

  Beautiful, Joy, Earth

  Celia Thaxter (2008). “An Island Garden”, p.25, Applewood Books

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• I loved you when love was Spring, and May, Loved you when summer deepened into June, and now when autumn yellows all the leaves.

  Vita Sackville-West

  Love, Spring, Autumn

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• In winter I go skiing on Saturdays and Sundays when the slopes are quieter due to changeover day for tourists, and in summer I hike up into the mountains at sunset, just as the village is settling down to dinner.

  Vanessa Mae

  Sunset, Sunday, Winter

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• Geology ... offers always some material for observation. ... [When] spring and summer come round, how easily may the hammer be buckled round the waist, and the student emerge from the dust of town into the joyous air of the country, for a few delightful hours among the rocks.

  Archibald Geikie

  Country, Spring, Science

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• After graduating in the summer of 1980, I knew I wanted my life to count.

  Donna Rice Hughes

  Graduates, Counting, Wanted

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