Summer Garden Quotes - Page 2

• If a June night could talk, it would probably boast it invented romance.

  Bernard Williams

  Love, Summer, Night

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• This was one of those perfect New England days in late summer where the spirit of autumn takes a first stealing flight, like a spy, through the ripening country-side, and, with feigned sympathy for those who droop with August heat, puts her cool cloak of bracing air about leaf and flower and human shoulders.

  Sarah Orne Jewett

  Summer, Country, Flower

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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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• 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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• Where was he, her Alexander, of once? Was he truly gone? The Alexander of the Summer Garden, of their first Lazarevo days, of the hat in his hands, white toothed, peaceful, laughing, languid, stunning Alexander, had he been left far behind? Well, Tatiana supposed that was only right. For Alexander believed his Tatiana of once was gone, too. The swimming child Tatiana of the Luga, of the Neva, of the River Kama. Perhaps on the surface they were still in their twenties, but their hearts were old.

  Paullina Simons

  Summer, Children, Heart

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• I walk without flinching through the burning cathedral of the summer. My bank of wild grass is majestic and full of music. It is a fire that solitude presses against my lips.

  Violette Leduc

  Summer, Journey, Fire

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• All your renown is like the summer flower that blooms and dies; because the sunny glow which brings it forth, soon slays with parching power.

  Dante Alighieri

  Summer, Flower, September

  Dante Alighieri, Claudia Hamilton Ramsay (1862). “Dante's Divina Commedia Translated Into English, in the Metre and Triple Rhyme of the Original with Notes by Ramsay: Purgatorio”, p.77

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• Heat, ma am! It was so dreadful here that I found there was nothing left for it but to take off my flesh and sit in my bones.

  Sydney Smith

  Summer, August, Weather

  Sydney Smith, Sarah Austin, Lady Saba Smith Holland Holland (1855). “A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith”, p.269, London, Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans

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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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• 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.

  Pippa Middleton

  Summer, Real, Party

  "Pippa Middleton's Book On Partying Is Not Very Good" by Christopher Howse, www.businessinsider.com. November 2, 2012.

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• I find you in all small and lovely things; in the little fishes like flames in the green water, in the furred and stupid softness of bumble-bees fat as laughter, in all the chiming radiance of warmth and light and scent in the summer garden.

  Winifred Holtby

  Summer, Laughter, Stupid

  Winifred Holtby, Vera Brittain (1960). “Selected letters of Winifred Holtby and Vera Brittain, 1920-1935”

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• If there were no tribulation, there would be no rest; if there were no winter, there would be no summer.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Summer, Winter, Garden

  Saint John Chrysostom, Edward Budge, Charles Marriott (1842). “To the People of Antioch”, p.77

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• I love you. I'm blind for you, wild for you. Sick with you. I told you that our first night together when I asked you to marry me, I am telling you now. Everything that's happened to us, everything, is because I crossed the street for you. I worship you. You know that through and through.

  Paullina Simons

  Love You, Night, Worship You

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• Falling in love with you in the Summer Garden in the white nights in Leningrad is the moment that propels me through life.

  Paullina Simons

  Summer, Falling In Love, Love You

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• I don't want this life to end," said Alexander. "The good, the bad, the everything, the very old, to ever end.

  Paullina Simons

  Want, Ends, This Life

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