Sunny Afternoon Quotes

• Taken everything I've got, all I've got's this sunny afternoon.

  Ray Davies

  Philosophy, Taken, Afternoon

  "Sunny Afternoon". Song by Ray Davies, 1966.

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• The fifties - they seem to have taken place on a sunny afternoon that asked nothing of you except a drifting belief in the moment and its power to satisfy.

  Elizabeth Hardwick

  Taken, Belief, Moments

  Elizabeth Hardwick (1984). “Bartleby in Manhattan, and Other Essays”, Vintage

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• A shady business never yields a sunny life.

  B. C. Forbes

  Yield, Sunny Weather, Sunny Day

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• I was testing a P-51 fighter in Minneapolis when I spotted this object. I was at about 10,000 feet on a nice, bright, sunny afternoon. I thought the object was a kite, then I realized that no kite is gonna fly that high.

  Deke Slayton

  Nice, Feet, Kites

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• Someone has somewhere commented on the fact that millions long for immortality who don't know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.

  Susan Ertz

  Inspirational, Death, Sunday

  Anger in the Sky ch. 5 (1943)

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• The Indian Summer of life should be a little sunny and a little sad, like the season, and infinite in wealth and depth of tone, but never hustled.

  Henry Adams

  Summer, Sunny Weather, Depth

  Henry Adams (1946). “The Education of Henry Adams”

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• If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: 'President Can't Swim.'

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Morning, Humorous, Swimming

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

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• My aunt had a season ticket for the Friday afternoon concerts, and I would go down for lessons. My lessons were Saturday morning.

  Robert Ripley

  Friday, Morning, Aunt

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• We all have these places where shy humiliations gambol on sunny afternoons.

  W. H. Auden

  Shy, Sunny Day, Humiliation

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• All that sunny afternoon, traveling north and east, Caroline believed absolutely in the future. And why not? For if the worst had already happened to them in the eyes of the world, then surely, surely, it was the worst that they left behind them now.

  Kim Edwards

  Eye, East, Why Not

  Kim Edwards (2006). “The Memory Keeper's Daughter: A Novel”, p.76, Penguin

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• I think golf is a waste of time and a waste of a sunny afternoon. I also stink at it. I have never found anything, including divorce and a sexual harassment suit, more frustrating.

  Jay Mohr

  Divorce, Golf, Thinking

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• Leisure is gone,--gone where the spinning-wheels are gone, and the pack-horses, and the slow wagons, and the peddlers, who brought bargains to the door on sunny afternoons.

  George Eliot

  Horse, Doors, Gone

  GEORGE ELIOT (1860). “ADAM BEDE”, p.431

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