Summer Quotes - Page 37

• Plaque was placed on 6 May 1977 at Bellevue (a house on the slopes of the Wienerwald) where the Freud family spent their summers.

  Sigmund Freud

  Dream, House, May

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• Personally, I would rather climb in the high mountains. I have always abhorred the tremendous heat, the dirt-filled cracks, the ant-covered foul-smelling trees and bushes which cover the cliffs, the filth and noise of Camp 4 (the climbers' campground), and worst of all, the multitudes of tourists which abound during the weekends and summer months.

  Yvon Chouinard

  Weekend, Climbing, Tree

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• Memory can glean, but can never renew. It brings us joys faint as is the perfume of the flowers, faded and dried, of the summer that is gone.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Memories, Flower, Joy

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.27

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• It has been ordained that there be summer and winter, abundance and dearth, virtue and vice, and all such opposites for the harmony of the whole, and (Zeus) has given each of us a body, property, and companions.

  Epictetus

  Winter, Opposites, Vices

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• It is not the high summer alone that is God's. The winter also is His. And into His winter He came to visit us. And all man's winters are His - the winter of our poverty, the winter of our sorrow, the winter of our unhappiness - even 'the winter of our discontent.

  George MacDonald

  Winter, Men, Sorrow

  George MacDonald (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of George MacDonald (Illustrated)”, p.636, Delphi Classics

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• I dropped my hoe and ran into the house and started to write this poem, 'End of Summer.’ It began as a celebration of wild geese. Eventually the geese flew out of the poem, but I like to think they left behind the sound of their beating wings.

  Stanley Kunitz

  Writing, Thinking, Wings

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• Spring came late, but when it came it was hand-in-hand with summer, and almost at once everything was baking and warm, and in the villages the people danced every night on concrete dancing floors under the plane trees.

  Nancy Mitford

  Spring, Night, Hands

  Nancy Mitford (1963). “The Nancy Mitford Omnibus”

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• There are those who argue that everything breaks even in this old dump of a world of ours. I suppose these ginks who argue that way hold that because the rich man gets ice in the summer and the poor man gets it in the winter things are breaking even for both. Maybe so, but I'll swear I can't see it that way.

  Bat Masterson

  Winter, Men, Ice

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• I only won $250 all summer. And then I got crippled. I had a horse step on me while performing and it was messed up for a while.

  Chris LeDoux

  Horse, Steps, Performing

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• February, when the days of winter seem endless and no amount of wistful recollecting can bring back any air of summer.

  Shirley Jackson

  Winter, Air, February

  Shirley Jackson (1966). “The Magic of Shirley Jackson”, p.781, Macmillan

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• Fast fading violets cover'd up in leaves;
  And mid-May's eldest child,
  The coming musk-rose, full of dewy wine,
  The murmurous haunt of flies on summer eves.

  John Keats

  Children, Wine, Rose

  'Ode to a Nightingale' (1820) st. 5

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• On the first day of May the people of the crofter townland are up betimes and busy as bees about to swarm. This is the day of migrating, bho baile gu beinn (from townland to moorland), from the winter homestead to the summer sheiling. The summer of their joy is come, the summer of the sheiling, the song, the pipe and the dance, when the people ascend the hill to the clustered bothies, overlooking the distant sea from among the fronded ferns and fragrant heather, where neighbour meets neighbour, and lover meets lover.

  Alexander Carmichael

  Song, Winter, Sea

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• To set one's name to a work gives no one a title to be remembered, for who knows how many of the best of men have gone without a trace? The iniquity of oblivion blindly scatters her poppyseed and when wretchedness falls upon us one summer's day like snow, all we wish for is to be forgotten.

  W. G. Sebald

  Fall, Men, Names

  W. G. Sebald (2016). “The Rings of Saturn”, p.18, New Directions Publishing

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• Village cricket spread fast through the land. In those days before it became scientific, cricket was the best game in the world to watch, with its rapid sequence of amusing incidents, each ball a potential crisis!

  G. M. Trevelyan

  Children, Fun, Land

  "English Social History".

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• I ball all through the winter and I stunt all through the summer.

  Gucci Mane

  Winter, Balls

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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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• One may prefer spring and summer to autumn and winter, but preference is hardly to the point. The earth turns, and we live in the grain of nature, turning with it.

  Robert Hass

  Spring, Winter, Autumn

  Robert Hass (1984). “Twentieth century pleasures: prose on poetry”, Ecco Pr

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• Poetry is a fireplace in summer or a fan in winter.

  Robert Hass

  Winter, Fans, Fireplaces

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• We don't know what's going to happen this summer or who's going to be here next year. We have no control over any of that. So, we're going to play our [22 remaining] games and do the best we can and show up for the New York Knick fans. That's the most important thing.

  Jalen Rose

  New York, Years, Games

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• In my day, at 12 years old, which was 38 years ago, we worked out in summer months for two and a half hours. Today someone in that age group might work out for four hours, two hours in the morning and two at night

  Mark Spitz

  Sports, Morning, Night

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• The whole universe or the structure that perceives it is a worthy opponent, but try as I may I can not escape the sound of suffering. Perhaps as an old man I will take great comfort in pottering around in a lab and gently talking to students in the summer evening and will accept suffering with insouciance. But not now; men in their prime, if they have convictions are tasked to act on them.

  Julian Assange

  Men, Talking, Suffering

  "Witnessing". Selected Correspondence, Julian Assange's old blog, IQ.org (via Archive.org), web.archive.org. January 3, 2007.

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• The old people, they struggled, they fought the elements, they fought everything was against them here. The river, the summers and the heat. So finally when they settled Hurricane there and got the water on that bench, most of them left.

  Calvin Johnson

  Rivers, People, Water

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• I remember opening my dad's closet and there were, like, 40 suits, every color of the rainbow, plaid and winter and summer. He had two jewelry boxes full of watches and lighters and cuff links. And just... he was that guy. He was probably unfulfilled in his life in many ways.

  Jon Hamm

  Dad, Winter, Color

  "Jon Hamm Is a Capital-M Man" by Alex Postman, www.elle.com. August 21, 2009.

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• My summers at Apple had taught me that the secret to encouraging creativity and producing the best possible product was to keep people fulfilled and happy. I wanted the people who built salesforce.com to be inspired and to feel valued.

  Marc Benioff

  Creativity, Apples, People

  Marc Benioff, Carlye Adler (2009). “Behind the Cloud: The Untold Story of How Salesforce.com Went from Idea to Billion-Dollar Company-and Revolutionized an Industry”, p.11, John Wiley & Sons

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• To this day, I fondly recall the challenges of building a fire, pitching a tent, climbing a New England mountain, canoeing on a lake. Camp songs still resonate inside me. Competition exists at Keewaydin, of course, but nobody fails summer camp, a nice respite from winters of fortune and misfortune at school.

  Michael Eisner

  Song, Nice, School

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