End Of Summer Quotes

• Summer ends, and Autumn comes, and he who would have it otherwise would have high tide always and a full moon every night.

  Hal Borland

  Summer, Autumn, Moon

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• The end-of-summer winds make people restless.

  Sebastian Faulks

  Summer, Wind, People

  Sebastian Faulks (2007). “Engleby: A Novel”, Doubleday Books

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• August has passed, and yet summer continues by force to grow days. They sprout secretly between the chapters of the year, covertly included between its pages.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Summer, August, Years

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• When summer gathers up her robes of glory, and like a dream of beauty glides away.

  Sarah Helen Whitman

  Summer, Dream, August

  Sarah Helen Whitman (1853). “Poems”, p.60

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• summer was our best season: it was sleeping on the back screeneed porch in cots, or trying to sleep in the treehouse; summer was everything good to eat;it was a thousand colors in a parched landscape.

  Harper Lee

  Summer, Sleep, Color

  Harper Lee (1960). “TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD”

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• Gone are the birds that were our summer guests.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Summer, Bird, Gone

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2012). “My Complete Poetical Works (Annotated Edition)”, p.852, Jazzybee Verlag

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• By all these lovely tokens September days are here, With summer's best of weather And autumn's best of cheer.

  Helen Hunt Jackson

  Inspiring, Summer, Cheer

  Helen Hunt Jackson, “September”

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• Bees do have a smell, you know, and if they don't they should, for their feet are dusted with spices from a million flowers.

  Ray Bradbury

  Summer, Flower, Smell

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• Do what we can, summer will have its flies.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Summer, Garden, Insects

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.63, Courier Corporation

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• Don't remember summer even saying goodbye.

  David Mitchell

  Summer, Goodbye, Remember

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• Our fear of death is like our fear that summer will be short, but when we have had our swing of pleasure, our fill of fruit, and our swelter of heat, we say we have had our day.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Death, Summer, July

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1978). “The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson: 1854-1861”, p.17, Harvard University Press

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• I'd be happy with this summer if it's all we ever had.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Summer, Shiver, Ifs

  Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “Shiver”, p.203, Scholastic UK

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• While we're young and beautiful, living free and easy. Here without a worry, dancing in our bare feet because when the summer's done we might not be so young and beautiful.

  Carrie Underwood

  Beautiful, Summer, Feet

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• It will not always be summer: build barns.

  Hesiod

  Summer, Hard Work, Garden

  Hesiod (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Hesiod (Illustrated)”, p.49, Delphi Classics

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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

  Summer, Morning, Cold

  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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• What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.

  John Steinbeck

  Summer, Winter, Weather

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• Autumn is leaving its mellowness behind for its spiky, rotted stage. Don't remember summer even saying goodbye.

  David Mitchell

  Summer, Goodbye, Autumn

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• Oh, the summer night, Has a smile of light, And she sits on a sapphire throne.

  Bryan Procter

  Smile, Summer, Night

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• The castle grounds were gleaming in the sunlight as though freshly painted; the cloudless sky smiled at itself in the smoothly sparkling lake, the satin-green lawns rippled occasionally in a gentle breeze: June had arrived.

  J. K. Rowling

  Summer, Lakes, June

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• I know I am but summer to your heart, and not the full four seasons of the year.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Relationship, Summer, Heart

  Edna St. Vincent Millay (2014). “Millay: Poems”, p.170, Everyman's Library

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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

  Summer, Pain, Secret

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• I fell for her in summer, my lovely summer girl, From summer she is made, my lovely summer girl, I’d love to spend a winter with my lovely summer girl, But I’m never warm enough for my lovely summer girl, It’s summer when she smiles, I’m laughing like a child, It’s the summer of our lives; we’ll contain it for a while She holds the heat, the breeze of summer in the circle of her hand I’d be happy with this summer if it’s all we ever had.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Summer, Girl, Children

  Maggie Stiefvater (2009). “Shiver”, p.175, Scholastic Inc.

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• A little kid asks my dad why that man is chopping down the tree. Dad: He's not chopping it down. He's saving it. Those branches were long dead from disease. All plants are like that. By cutting off the damage you make it possible for the tree to grow again. You watch - by the end of summer, this tree will be the strongest on the block.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Summer, Dad, Block

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• Summer ends now; now, barbarous in beauty, the Stooks arise Around; up above, what wind-walks! what lovely behavior Of silk-sack clouds! Has wilder, willful-waiver Meal-drift molded ever and melted across skies?

  Gerard Manley Hopkins

  Summer, Clouds, Wind

  Gerard Manley Hopkins, “Hurrahing In Harvest”

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• The summer sun was not meant for boys like me. Boys like me belonged to the rain.

  Benjamin Alire Saenz

  Summer, Rain, Boys

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