Summer Quotes - Page 31

• The summer sun was not meant for boys like me. Boys like me belonged to the rain.

  Benjamin Alire Saenz

  Rain, Boys, Sun

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• Another secret of the universe: Sometimes pain was like a storm that came out of nowhere. The clearest summer could end in a downpour. Could end in lightning and thunder.

  Benjamin Alire Saenz

  Pain, Secret, Storm

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• It's not the winter that bothers me - it's the summers.

  Walter Alston

  Winter, June, Bother

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• Do you recall that night in June
  Do you recall that night in June
  Upon the Danube River;
  We listened to the ländler-tune,
  We watched the moonbeams quiver.

  Charles Hamilton Aide

  Night, June, Rivers

  "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations" by John Bartlett, 10th ed., 1919.

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• The world is wide; no two days are alike, nor even two hours; neither were there ever two leaves of a tree alike since the creation of the world; and the genuine productions of art, like those of nature, are all distinct from one another.

  John Constable

  Art, June, Two

  John Constable, Anne Gray, Dr, John Gage, Conal Shields, Ann Galbally (2006). “Constable: Impressions of Land, Sea and Sky”

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• Summer cooking implies a sense of immediacy, a capacity to capture the essence of the fleeting moment.

  Elizabeth David

  Food, Essence, Cooking

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• My selective memory of what drinking was like told me that standing at the bar in a pub, on a summer's evening with a long, tall glass of lager and lime was heaven, and I chose not to remember the nights on which I had sat with a bottle of vodka, a gram of coke and a shotgun, contemplating suicide.

  Eric Clapton

  Suicide, Memories, Drinking

  Eric Clapton (2007). “Clapton: The Autobiography”, Broadway

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• My daughter is a freshman in college and my son is - well, our daughter and our son - is a sophomore in college. So they come home on selected weekends, they come home on vacations and they're home in the summer, although they have jobs.

  Erika Slezak

  Daughter, Mother, Jobs

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• As far as I am concerned, freedom summer never really ended.

  Victoria Gray Adams

  Civil Rights, Concerned

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• Where today are the Pequot? Where are the Narragansett, the Mohican, the Pokanoket, and many other once powerful tribes of our people? They have vanished before the avarice and the oppression of the White Man, as snow before a summer sun. Will we let ourselves be destroyed in our turn without a struggle, give up our homes, our country bequeathed to us by the Great Spirit, the graves of our dead and everything that is dear and sacred to us? I know you will cry with me, 'Never! Never!'

  Tecumseh

  Country, Giving Up, Powerful

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• There is no part of the country where in the summer you cannot get a sufficient supply of the best specimens. Teach your children to bring them in for themselves. Take your text from the brooks, not from the booksellers.

  Louis Agassiz

  Country, Children, Teaching

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• At the bottom of every leaf-stem is a cradle, and in it is an infant germ; the winds will rock it, the birds will sing to it all summer long, but the next season it will unfold and go alone.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Song, Rocks, Wind

  Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

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• Is childhood ever long enough, or a happy time, or even a beautiful summer day? All of these carry the seeds of the same fierce mystery that we call death.

  Eugene Kennedy

  Beautiful, Death, Happy Times

  Eugene Kennedy (1987). “On Being a Friend”, Ballantine Books

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• I'm sure many people who discover they are destined to be athletes before they know what kind, go through a period of revelation... when they realise instinctively that this is their game... I think I realised that those first couple of summers in Barellan when the War Memorial Tennis Club became my playground.

  Evonne Goolagong Cawley

  Sports, Couple, War

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• Scientists are also unnerved by the summer's implications for the future...proof that human activities are propelling a slide toward climate calamity...humans may have tipped the balance...a particularly harsh jolt to polar bears.

  Andrew Revkin

  Balance, May, Glaciers

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• We called the Weather Bureau and found out what historically was the hottest day of the summer...So we scheduled the hearing that day, and bingo, it was the hottest day of record in Washington, or close to it...we went in the night before and opened all the windows...so that the air conditioning wasn't working inside the room.

  Tim Wirth

  Night, Weather, Air

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• And the case of butterflies so rich it looks As if all summer settled there and died.

  Philip Larkin

  Butterfly, Looks, Rich

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• With six small diamonds for his eyes
  He walks upon the summer skies,
  Drawing from his silken blouse
  The lacework of his dwelling house.

  Robert P. T. Coffin

  Eye, Garden, Sky

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• Thy tongue
  Makes Welsh as sweet as ditties highly penn'd,
  Sung by a fair queen in a summer's bower,
  With ravishing division, to her lute.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Sweet, Queens

  'Henry IV, Part 1' (1597) act 3, sc. 1, l. [207]

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• Forgiveness is not simply the absolving of an enemy, or one who has done us wrong. Forgiveness must encompass all those things which disturb the tranquility of our soul: the barking dog that robs you of sleep, the heat of summer, the cold of winter. Forgive the ingrown toenail, the flea that bites; forgive the cranky child, wrinkles, a forgotten birthday.

  Barbara Wood

  Forgiveness, Dog, Children

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• My brother Jim and I spent many wonderful summers working on dairy farms in Wisconsin owned by Mom's cousins, and as members of our local Boy Scout troop.

  Peter Agre

  Mom, Cousin, Brother

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• Nature is a tropical swamp in sunshine, on whose purlieus we hear the song of summer birds, and see prismatic dewdrops, - but her interiors are terrific, full of hydras and crocodiles.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Song, Nature, Sunshine

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “The Later Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1843-1871”, p.147, University of Georgia Press

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• I know I am deathless…We have thus far exhausted trillions of winters and summers, There are trillions ahead, and trillions ahead of them.

  Walt Whitman

  Winter, Leaves Of Grass, Exhausted

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• Who could believe in the prophecies ... that the world would end this summer, while one milkweed with faith matured its seeds.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Believe, Science, World

  Michael Benjamin Berger, Henry David Thoreau (2000). “Thoreau's Late Career and The Dispersion of Seeds: The Saunterer's Synoptic Vision”, p.126, Camden House

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• I have not been one who believed in the global warming. But I tell you, they are making a convert out of me as these blistering summers. They have broken heat records in a number of cities already this year and broken all-time records and it is getting hotter and the ice caps are melting and there is a build up of carbon dioxide in the air. We really need to address the burning of fossil fuels.

  Pat Robertson

  Years, Ice, Cities

  "Pat Robertson: I’m ‘A Convert’ On Global Warming, ‘It Is Getting Hotter’". thinkprogress.org. August 03, 2006.

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