Summer Quotes - Page 33

• Whenever you take a step forward, you are bound to disturb something.

  Indira Gandhi

  Inspirational, Have Faith, Steps

  Indira Gandhi (1985). “Selected Thoughts of Indira Gandhi: A Book of Quotes”, p.67, Mittal Publications

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• Know what you did last summer, so I started hookin'

  Method Man

  Rap, Lasts, Knows

  Song: Blackout!

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• The power, indeed, of every individual is small, and the consequence of his endeavours imperceptible, in a general prospect of the world. Providence has given no man ability to do much, that something might be left for every man to do. The business of life is carried on by a general co-operation; in which the part of any single man can be no more distinguished, than the effect of a particular drop when the meadows are floated by a summer shower: yet every drop increases the inundation, and every hand adds to the happiness or misery of mankind.

  Samuel Johnson

  Men, Hands, Humanity

  Samuel Johnson (1810). “The works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With An essay on his life and genius”, p.291

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• Ye flowers that drop, forsaken by the spring,
  Ye birds that, left by summer, cease to sing,
  Ye trees that fade, when Autumn heats remove,
  Say, is not absence death to those who love?

  Alexander Pope

  Missing You, Goodbye, Missing Someone

  Alexander Pope (1807). “The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope”, p.172

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• Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside a lake in the mountains; another, a moonlit beach; a third, a family dinner of pot roast and sweet potatoes during a myrtle-mad August in a Midwestern town. Smells detonate softly in our memory like poignant land mines hidden under the weedy mass of years. Hit a tripwire of smell and memories explode all at once. A complex vision leaps out of the undergrowth.

  Diane Ackerman

  Love, Beach, Sweet

  "A Natural History of the Senses". Book by Diane Ackerman, 1990.

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• Antisthenes says that in a certain faraway land the cold is so intense that words freeze as soon as they are uttered, and after some time then thaw and become audible, so that words spoken in winter go unheard until the next summer.

  Plutarch

  Winter, Land, Next

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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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• We travel, in essence, to become young fools again - to slow time down and get taken in, and fall in love once more.

  Pico Iyer

  Falling In Love, Travel, Taken

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• He was a worshiper of liberty, a friend of the oppressed. A thousand times I have heard him quote these words: 'For Justice all place a temple, and all season, summer.' He believed that happiness is the only good, reason the only torch, justice the only worship, humanity the only religion, and love the only priest. He added to the sum of human joy; and were every one to whom he did some loving service to bring a blossom to his grave, he would sleep tonight beneath a wilderness of flowers. . . .

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Love, Flower, Sleep

  Cameron Rogers, Robert Green Ingersoll (1927). “Colonel Bob Ingersoll: a biographical narrative of the great American orator and agnostic”

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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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• I am made for autumn. Summer and I have a fickle relationship, but everything about autumn is perfect to me. Woolly jumpers, Wellington boot, scarves, thin first, then thick, socks. The low slanting light, the crisp mornings, the chill in my fingers, those last warm sunny days before the rain and the wind. Her moody hues and subdued palate punctuated every now and again by a brilliant orange, scarlet or copper goodbye. She is my true love.

  Alys Fowler

  Goodbye, Morning, Rain

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• The cause of rain is now, I consider, no longer an object of doubt. If two masses of air of unequal temperatures, by the ordinary currents of the winds, are intermixed, when saturated with vapour, a precipitation ensues. If the masses are under saturation, then less precipitation takes place, or none at all, according to the degree. Also, the warmer the air, the greater is the quantity of vapour precipitated in like circumstances. ... Hence the reason why rains are heavier in summer than in winter, and in warm countries than in cold.

  John Dalton

  Country, Rain, Winter

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• You know it is summer in Ireland when the rain gets warmer.

  Hal Roach

  Rain, Ireland And The Irish, Funny Irish

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• Go to bed when summers ends, what a good idea; wake up bright and early when birds announce its spring.

  Francis Norris, 1st Earl of Berkshire

  Nature, Spring, Ideas

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• Adventure Bay is a convenient and safe place for any number of ships to take in wood and water during the summer months: but in the winter, when the southerly winds are strong, the surf, on all parts of the shore, makes the landing exceedingly troublesome.

  William Bligh

  Travel, Strong, Adventure

  William Bligh (2009). “The Voyage of the Bounty”, p.43, BoD – Books on Demand

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• One can always tell it's summer when one sees school teachers hanging about the streets idly, looking like cannibals during a shortage of missionaries.

  Robertson Davies

  Teacher, School, Streets

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• Sometimes a lengthened period of prosperity melts away in a moment; just as the heat of summer flies before a day of tempest.

  Luc de Clapiers

  Heat, Sometimes, Prosperity

  Jean de La Bruyère, Luc de Clapiers marquis de Vauvenargues (1903). “La Bruyère and Vauvenargues: Selections from the Characters, Reflexions and Maxims”

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• I have an enormous family because I'm from Montreal and my family's Catholic, so my dad has eight siblings and they all have kids and we all grew up in the same property on weekends and summers.

  Jessica Pare

  Dad, Sibling, Kids

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• In summer, intolerable closeness; in winter, unendurable cold. All the floors were rotten. Filth on the floors an inch thick; one could slip and fall.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Fall, Winter, Rotten

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2014). “Crime and Punishment”, p.560, Penguin UK

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• The days draw out, the weather gets warmer, and it's what we call summer, with a bitter laugh when we've said it.

  Stan Barstow

  Weather, Laughing, Bitter

  Stan Barstow (1981). “A Kind of Loving: The Vic Brown Trilogy”, Michael Joseph

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• My Soul gave me good counsel, teaching me never to delight in praise or to be distressed by reproach. Before my Soul taught me, I doubted the value of my accomplishments until the passing days sent someone who would extol or disparage them. But now I know that trees blossom in the spring and give their fruits in the summer without any desire for accolades. And they scatter their leaves abroad in the fall and denude themselves in the winter without fear of reproof.

  Khalil Gibran

  Spring, Fall, Teaching

  "The Vision: Reflections on the Way of the Soul". Book by Kahlil Gibran, translated by Juan R. I. Cole, 1994.

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• It was a heavenly summer, the summer in which France fell and the British Expeditionary Force was evacuated from Dunkirk. Leaves were never such an intense and iridescent green; sunlight glinted on flower-studded meadows as the Germans encircled the Maginot Line and overran not only France but Belgium and Holland. Birdsong filled the air in the lull between bursts of gunfire and accompanied the fleeing refugees who blocked the roads. It was as though the weather was preparing a glorious requiem for the death of Europe.

  Eva Ibbotson

  Flower, Air, Europe

  "A Song for Summer".

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• August has passed, and yet summer continues by force to grow days. They sprout secretly between the chapters of the year, covertly included between its pages.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  August, Years, Pages

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• How often had that hydrant even been opened? Did you jet water through a car window, what, twice at best? Summer burned just a few afternoons long, in the end. As for flying, Dose never even glanced at the sky. Flying was a summer within a summer, a whim. So why think of it at all?

  Jonathan Lethem

  Thinking, Sky, Long

  Jonathan Lethem (2003). “The Fortress of Solitude”, Large Print Press

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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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