In The Summer Quotes

That familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.

Spring passes and one remembers one's innocence. Summer passes and one remembers one's exuberance. Autumn passes and one remembers one's reverence. Winter passes and one remembers one's perseverance.

It will not always be summer: build barns.

Today...the bluebirds, old and young, have revisited their box, as if they would fain repeat the summer without intervention of winter, if Nature would let them.

Live in each season as it passes: breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit.

We all get the same amount of ice. The rich get it in the summer. The poor get it in the winter.

Green was the silence, wet was the light, the month of June trembled like a butterfly.

December's wintery breath is already clouding the pond, frosting the pane, obscuring summer's memory.

Dancing in Tijuana when I was 13 — that was my 'summer camp.' How else do you think I could keep up with Fred Astaire when I was 19?

And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.

The summer demands and takes away too much. /But night, the reserved, the reticent, gives more than it takes

I do not wonder at a snowflake, a shell, a summer landscape, or the glory of the stars; but at the necessity of beauty under which the universe lies.

Among the delights of Summer were picnics to the woods.

There is no real need for decorations when throwing a barbecue party - let the summer garden, in all its vibrant and luscious splendour, speak for itself.

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.

Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.

The dance grew into a colorful flower bouquet which caught and contained the glow of sun-happy summer days, the secret of star-studded nights, and the wistful sweetness of overcast and rainy hours.

Home grown tomatoes, home grown tomatoes What would life be like without homegrown tomatoes Only two things that money can't buy That's true love and home grown tomatoes.

There shall be an eternal summer in the grateful heart.

Play ball! Means something more than runs Or pitches thudding into gloves! Remember through the summer suns This is the game your country loves.

Let life be beautiful like summer flowers and death like autumn leaves.

Pro football is a game; not a war. It's for win or lose, not life or death... but say that in the summer, for winter brings the playoffs, and a season is at stake.

Summer's lease hath all too short a date.

I had no specific bent towards science until my grandfather, who died - that summer - of stomach cancer. ... I decided that nobody should suffer that much.

go barefoot and be warm all the time not only when you go to bed and sleep

Warm summer sun, shine kindly here.

My old grandmother always used to say, Summer friends will melt away like summer snows, but winter friends are friends forever.

Tell you what I like the best - 'Long about knee-deep in June, 'Bout the time strawberries melts On the vine, - some afternoon Like to jes' git out and rest, And not work at nothin' else!

When autumn comes, it doesn't ask. It just walks in, where it left you last. And you never know, when it starts; until there's fog inside the glass around your summer heart.

In the summer of 80, Silhouette bought my first book.

I think of love, and you, and my heart grows full and warm, and my breath stands still... I can feel a sunshine stealing into my soul and making it all summer, and every thorn, a rose.

The first week of August hangs at the very top of summer, the top of the live-long year, like the highest seat of a Ferris wheel when it pauses in its turning.

When fortune empties her chamber pot on your head, smile and say We are going to have a summer shower.

This is the divine moment when we can hold the fairest blossom of spring in one hand and the sweetest flowers of early summer in the other.

A man says a lot of things in summer he doesn't mean in winter.

Summer cooking implies a sense of immediacy, a capacity to capture the essence of the fleeting moment.

Again and again, the cicada's untiring cry pierced the sultry summer air like a needle at work on thick cotton cloth.

Then summer fades and passes and October comes. We'll smell smoke then, and feel an unexpected sharpness, a thrill of nervousness, swift elation, a sense of sadness and departure.

I'm all about high-waisted pants and skirts, pencil skirts, and sheer, long-sleeves in the summer.

Summer night-- even the stars are whispering to each other.

The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world's joy.

I almost wish we were butterflies and liv'd but three summer days - three such days with you I could fill with more delight than fifty common years could ever contain.

August rain: the best of the summer gone, and the new fall not yet born. The odd uneven time.

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

Her smile is like summer moonlight-beautiful and magical, with a fire that could melt the night.

I believe that summer is our time, a time for the people, and that no politician should be allowed to speak to us during the summer. They can start talking again after Labor Day.

Summer set lip to earth's bosom bare, And left the flushed print in a poppy there. I will touch a hundred flowers And not pick one.

Who could believe in the prophecies ... that the world would end this summer, while one milkweed with faith matured its seeds.

I enjoy the sun and the beauty of summer as long as I can. Who knows whether one of these days I shall not be prevented from doing it?

There is a harmony in autumn, and a luster in its sky, which through the summer is not heard or seen, as if it could not be, as if it had not been!