Summer Quotes - Page 38

• 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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• I always try to describe making movies like summer camp, or some holiday where you spend all day, every day with a new group of people whom you kind of love and then never see again.

  Eddie Redmayne

  Holiday, People, Trying

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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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• 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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• I spent the whole summer with my boobs out, breastfeeding. I loved it. It was heaven.

  Victoria Beckham

  Heaven, Breastfeeding, Whole

  "Victoria Beckham: behind the scenes with the queen of fashion". Interview with Jess Cartner-Morley, www.theguardian.com. February 10, 2012.

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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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