Summer Quotes - Page 35

• With a tear for the dark past, turn we then to the dazzling future, and, veiling our eyes, press forward. The long and weary winter of the race is ended. Its summer has begun. Humanity has burst the chrysalis. The heavens are before it.

  Edward Bellamy

  Eye, Dark, Winter

  Edward Bellamy (2000). “Looking Backward: From 2000 to 1887”, p.187, Applewood Books

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• Such an assemblage of the spraddle-legged men of the middle class, whose hands were bent and shoulders stooped from delving and constructing, had never appeared to an Asbury Park summer crowd, and the latter was vaguely amused.

  Stephen Crane

  Men, Hands, Class

  Stephen Crane (1984). “Prose and Poetry”, p.463, Library of America

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• My dreams came true while wearing the opening look from the spring/summer 2010 Dior ready-to-wear collection. I will never forget how special I felt opening John Galliano's show, like I was living a dream.

  Karlie Kloss

  Dream, Spring, Special

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• How many times can summer turn to fall in one life?

  Charles Wright

  Fall, Turns

  Charles Wright (2014). “Negative Blue: Selected Later Poems”, p.54, Macmillan

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• I think the most enduring lesson I was taught through my experiences of being a Girl Scout was that I was a member of a larger community. I out-grew my uniforms and badges years ago, but the memories of visiting nursing homes or organizing Earth Day tree plantings or my summers camping with girls from all different backgrounds will stay with me always.

  Natalie Merchant

  Girl, Memories, Home

  "Girls Scouts' 100th Anniversary a Time to Reflect", abcnews.go.com. March 12, 2012.

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• It was kind of a beautiful day, finally real summer in Indianapolis, warm and humid - the kind of weather that reminds you after a long winter that while the world wasn't built for humans, we were built for the world.

  John Green

  Beautiful, Real, Winter

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.174, Penguin

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• Don't think for one min that I haven't been taking mental notes of everyone taking shots at me this summer. And I mean everyone!

  LeBron James

  Mean, Thinking, Notes

  Twitter post from Aug 10, 2010

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• We play the whole summer. I do think guys should be compensated. Just like I think college players should be compensated as well. Unfortunately, it's not there. But I think it should be something, you know, there for it.

  Dwyane Wade

  Player, College, Thinking

  "Dwyane Wade: No pay for Olympics". Statement to the Press, www.espn.com. April 13, 2012.

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• In fact, I was one of the few trusted people that Lucy allowed to play with their kids. I spent time at their summer home, rode horses at their ranch, and swam at their beach house. I even spent a Christmas with them at Palm Springs one year.

  Keith Thibodeaux

  Christmas, Beach, Horse

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• I was like the only diverse kid in my high school, and I'm half-Puerto Rican. But yeah, I have a huge family and tons of cousins in Puerto Rico. We actually hung out with them last summer, and it was awesome. But I wish my grandfather had taught my dad Spanish when he was younger so he could've taught me when I was younger, and sometimes he does, too. It's a shame.

  Aubrey Plaza

  Cousin, Dad, Father

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• The world keeps turnin'
  It gets merry like a merry go 'round
  It gets cold like a frozen winter
  Well I change like summer fall
  But I know love is all in all
  Seeds we're always sowing
  The grace is always blowing
  We've just got to lift the sail
  And we're bound to hit the shore
  We'll finally calm this storm.

  Trevor Hall

  Christian, Fall, Winter

  Song: The World Keeps Turning

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• He brings to the fierce struggle of politics the tepid enthusiasm of a lazy summer afternoon at a cricket match.

  Aneurin Bevan

  Struggle, Cricket Match, Lazy

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• Researchers at the Naval Postgraduate School have told us that the entire Arctic ice cap may totally disappear in summer in as little as five years if nothing is done to curb emissions of greenhouse gas pollution.

  Al Gore

  School, Years, Ice

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• Science is warning us that if we do not quickly reduce the global warming pollution that is trapping so much of the heat our planet normally radiates back out of the atmosphere, we are in danger of creating a permanent 'carbon summer'.

  Al Gore

  Creating, Atmosphere, Warning

  Nobel Peace Prize Lecture, delivered 10 December 2007, Oslo, Norway

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• The news of my pregnancy spread like a forest fire in summer

  John Sculley

  Pregnancy, Fire, News

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• When I came home for the summer after my first year of college, I told my mother that my best friend and I were driving to California. She laughed out loud - 2,000 miles in a what? Well, my best friend had an old Chevy. What could go wrong?

  Jane Smiley

  Friendship, Mother, Home

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• I'm a regular Canadian girl. I enjoy staying home. In the summer I've got a garden. I'm very much a homebody, a normal, family-oriented girl. But I do have this other incredible side of my life that involves acting and traveling.

  Elisha Cuthbert

  Girl, Home, Garden

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• The Americans never walk. In winter too cold and in summer too hot.

  Jack Butler Yeats

  Humorous, Winter, Hiking

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• Every summer, my grandparents would rent a house on Balboa Island. They had the house next to Bob Hope's. I've been going down there all my life, to that whole area.

  Mike Love

  Love, Islands, Grandparent

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• Thus shall ye think of all this fleeting world: As star at dawn, a bubble in a stream A flash of lightning in a summer cloud A flickering lamp, a phantom, and a dream

  Gautama Buddha

  Dream, Buddhist, Stars

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• My room was in one of those turrets and at night I could hear the sea and the faint rustle of eelgrass in the soft wind. The weather was perfect that summer. No storms. Blue skies and just the right amount of wind every day. The sailors were in heaven.

  Katherine Page

  Ocean, Night, Blue

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• Summer softens lines that winter cruelly shows.

  John J. Geddes

  Winter, Lines, Shows

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• How sweet to move at summer's eve
  By Clyde's meandering stream,
  When Sol in joy is seen to leave
  The earth with crimson beam;
  When islands that wandered far
  Above his sea couch lie,
  And here and there some gem-like star
  Re-opes its sparkling eye.

  Andrew Park

  Sweet, Stars, Lying

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• This is the river of the great 19th-century landscapists; of Cole, Cropsey and Church, and at the end of the summer it lies motionless under the haze as under a light coat of varnish.

  Judith Thurman

  Art, Lying, Light

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• Gently I stir a white feather fan,
  With open shirt sitting in a green wood.
  I take off my cap and hang it on a jutting stone;
  A wind from the pine-tree trickles on my bare head.

  Li Bai

  August, Wind, White

  Li Po, “Summer In The Mountains”

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