Summer Quotes - Page 38

• Jimmy Carter began his planning in the early summer of 1976, Ronald Reagan a year prior. The Clinton Administration, elected in 1992, lingered in naming its team, and as a result, took almost a year to staff its ranks.

  Richard V. Allen

  Team, Years, Administration

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• Decrying the mismanagement that led to the summer's catastrophic wildfires: The Clinton administration didn't cause these fires, but their policies have left the Forest Service under-funded and under-prepared for this crisis. I don't think it's a conspiracy, but it's a philosophy they have that leads to explosive fires that destroy everything.

  Marc Racicot

  Philosophy, Thinking, Fire

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• Soon will set in the fitful weather, with fierce gales and sullen skies and frosty air, and it will be time to tuck up safely my roses and lillies and the rest for their winter sleep beneath the snow, where I never forget them, but ever dream of their wakening in happy summers yet to be.

  Celia Thaxter

  Dream, Sleep, Winter

  Celia Thaxter (1894). “An Island Garden”

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• Winter, spring, summer, or fall, all you gotta do is call, and I'll be there, 'cause you've got a friend.

  James Taylor

  Friendship, Spring, Fall

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• I have heard it said that winter, too, will pass, that spring is a sign that summer is due at last. See, all we have to do is hang on.

  Maya Angelou

  Spring, Winter, Funeral

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• The summer that I was ten - Can it be there was only one summer that I was ten? It must have been a long one then.

  May Swenson

  Long, Has Beens, Ten

  May Swenson (2013). “May Swenson: Collected Poems: (Library of America #239)”, p.96, Library of America

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• I did an internship with Mike (Shanahan) and the Redskins last summer and I knew after a week and a half that it wasn't for me. I think I knew that going in, but I wanted to make sure.

  Terrell Davis

  Thinking, Half, Lasts

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• By some chance, here they are, all on this earth; and who shall ever tell the sorrow of being on this earth, lying, on quilts, on the grass in a summer evening, among the sounds of the night. May God bless my people, my uncle, my aunt, my mother, my good father, oh, remember them kindly in their time of trouble; and in the hour of their taking away.

  James Agee

  Mother, Quilts, Uncles

  James Agee (2008). “A Death in the Family”, p.15, Penguin

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• I was also reminded of one of the unique charms of NYC in the summer: vast piles of rotting garbage piled on the sidewalks, with that sweet yet nauseating smell of decomposing groceries sitting in the humid fetid air, and rancid food juices oozing over the sticky sidewalks. With my windows open to counter the stuffiness, I could occasionally catch a whiff of the stench outside. People actually like living in this chaotic, fetid monument to incompetence? Beats me.

  Andrew Sullivan

  Sweet, Unique, Nyc

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• I very much looked up to Janet Evans and Summer Sanders.

  Natalie Coughlin

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• In the summer there are twelve cottonwoods around the pool, which in the winter become an elevated thicket. There is also a courtyard with a small garden of plants that stay green all year. The winter is bleak. This place is primarily for the installation of art, necessarily for whatever architecture of my own that can be included in an existing situation, for work, and altogether for my idea of living.

  Donald Judd

  Art, Winter, Garden

  Donald Judd (1987). “Complete Writings, 1975-1986”

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• So in the sense that we were all dealing with that freer approach, yes, it was certainly one of the first contacts, perhaps the first contact, when Peter came that summer. So it's a very pivotal moment that is documented there.

  Evan Parker

  Pivotal Moments, Firsts, Peter

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• Sometimes the valley below is like a bowl filled up with fog. I can see hard green figs on two trees and pears on a tree just below me. A fine crop coming in. May summer last a hundred years.

  Frances Mayes

  Fog, Years, Filled Up

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• I was 13 and at summer camp when I had my first kiss.

  Carlos Pena, Jr.

  Kissing, First Kiss, Firsts

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• The river itself portrays humanity precisely, with its tortuous windings, its accumulation of driftwood, its unsuspected depths, and its crystalline shallows, singing in the Summer sun. Barriers may be built across its path, but they bring only power, as the conquering of an obstacle is always sure to do. Sometimes when the rocks and stone-clad hills loom large ahead, and eternity itself would be needed to carve a passage, there is an easy way around. The discovery of it makes the river sing with gladness and turns the murmurous deeps to living water, bright with ripples and foam.

  Myrtle Reed

  Rivers, Rocks, Discovery

  Myrtle Reed (2017). “Old Rose and Silver”, p.58, Lindhardt og Ringhof

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• In conformity with these designs on the city of Washington, and notwithstanding the disastrous results of the invasion of 1862, it was determined by the Rebel government last summer to resume the offensive in that direction.

  Edward Everett

  Government, Cities, Design

  Edward Everett (1868). “Orations and Speeches on Various Occasions”, p.628

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• The olive grove of Academe, Plato's retirement, where the Attic bird Trills her thick-warbled notes the summer long.

  John Milton

  Retirement, Plato, Long

  Paradise Regained bk. 4, l. 240 (1671)

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• In our passage from the Cape of Good Hope the winds were mostly from the westward with very boisterous weather: but one great advantage that this season of the year has over the summer months is in being free from fogs.

  William Bligh

  Years, Wind, Weather

  William Bligh (1838). “A narrative of the mutiny on board his majesty's ship Bounty”, p.12

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• Now the peak of summer's past, the sky is overcast And the love we swore would last for an age seems deceit.

  Cecil Day-Lewis

  Lying, Past, Sky

  Cecil Day Lewis (1992). “The Complete Poems of C. Day Lewis”, p.346, Stanford University Press

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• I have the same pet peeve as Anderson Cooper, which is bare feet in public. I hate it. It so grosses me out, especially in New York. Oh my God, New York in the summer with people and their feet in their sandals and their flip-flops, like get it away!

  Busy Philipps

  New York, Hate, Feet

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Hope changes everything. It changes winter into summer, darkness into dawn, descent into ascent, barrenness into creativity, agony into joy.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Creativity, Winter, Agony

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• Japans humid and warm summer climate, as well as frequent earthquakes resulted in lightweight timber buildings raised off the ground that are resistant to earth tremors.

  Harry Seidler

  Japan, Earthquakes, Climate

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• Oh, bring again my heart's content,
  Thou Spirit of the Summer-time!

  William Allingham

  Heart, Spirit, My Heart

  William Allingham (1865). “Fifty Modern Poems”, p.49

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• When I was in college, I spent a summer working in London. I'd enjoyed tea before that, but then I got actual, really good tea there and never looked back.

  Sarah Zettel

  College, Tea, London

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• It would be right to state that, with the successful flight of the XR-4 in the summer of 1942, the helicopter became a reality in the United States.

  Igor Sikorsky

  Successful, Reality, United States

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