Summer Quotes - Page 10

• My God is the green tide in the spring leaves the redness of cherries high in the air the excitement of shooting stars the song of birds in summer branches the sunrise on a winter's morning the name of everything we don't understand.

  William of Ockham

  Song, Morning, Stars

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• August brings into sharp focus and a furious boil everything I've been listening to in the late spring and summer.

  Henry Rollins

  Spring, August, Focus

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

  Kobayashi Issa

  Stars, Night, Whispering

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• Summer coming like a car from down the highway.

  Sherman Alexie

  Nature, Car, Highways

  Sherman Alexie (2013). “The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven”, p.133, Open Road Media

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• Summer came. For the books thief, everything was going nicely. For me, the sky was the color of Jews.

  Markus Zusak

  Book, Color, Sky

  Markus Zusak (2013). “The Book Thief: Enhanced Movie Tie-in Edition”, p.342, RH Childrens Books

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• Summer grasses — all that remains of great soldiers' imperial dreams.

  Matsuo Basho

  Dream, Soldier, Grass

  "Narrow Road to the Interior".

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• Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness, Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun; Conspiring with him how to load and bless With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eves run; To bend with apples the moss’d cottage-trees, And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core; To swell the gourd, and plump the hazel shells With a sweet kernel; to set budding more, And still more, later flowers for the bees, Until they think warm days will never cease, For Summer has o’er-brimm’d their clammy cells.

  John Keats

  Friendship, Running, Sweet

  John Keats, Helen Vendler (1990). “Poetry Manuscripts at Harvard”, p.222, Harvard University Press

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• The summer's flower is to the summer sweet Though to itself it only live and die

  William Shakespeare

  Sweet, Flower, Dies

  Sonnet 94

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• To me, nothing tastes more like summer than peach pie. I began collecting pie recipes from friends and family while I was still working on my first draft. As the recipes poured in, it was fun to try to match the pies to the characters in the book.

  Sarah Weeks

  Fun, Book, Character

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• 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.

  Thomas Wolfe

  Fall, Sadness, Autumn

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• 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.

  John Mayer

  Heart, Autumn, Glasses

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• There is always in February some one day, at least, when one smells the yet distant, but surely coming, summer.

  Gertrude Jekyll

  Smell, One Day, February

  Gertrude Jekyll (2011). “Wood and Garden: Notes and Thoughts, Practical and Critical, of a Working Amateur”, p.19, Cambridge University Press

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• Many a forenoon have I stolen away, preferring to spend thus the most valued part of the day; for I was rich, if not in money, in sunny hours and summer days, and spent them lavishly; nor do I regret that I did not waste more of them in the workshop or the teacher's desk.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Teacher, Regret, Waste

  Henry David Thoreau (2009). “Walden”, p.125, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Don't you know that day dawns after night, showers displace drought, and spring and summer follow winter? Then, have hope! Hope forever, for God will not fail you!

  Charles Spurgeon

  Encouraging, Spring, Winter

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• Soon we will plunge ourselves into cold shadows, and all of summer's stunning afternoons will be gone. I already hear the dead thuds of logs below falling on the cobblestones and the lawn.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Fall, Autumn, Shadow

  Charles Baudelaire, “Chant D'Automne (Song Of Autumn)”

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• It is the month of June,
  The month of leaves and roses,
  When pleasant sights salute the eyes,
  And pleasant scents the noses.

  Nathaniel Parker Willis

  Spring, Eye, June

  "Bartlett's Familiar Quotation" by John Bartlett, 10th ed., 1919.

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• Sing a song of seasons; something bright in all, flowers in the summer, fires in the fall.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Song, Nature, Flower

  Robert Louis Stevenson, Frances Schoonmaker (2000). “Robert Louis Stevenson”, p.31, Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

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• Now, writing every day, and being paid for it and encouraged to do it, it was as if, in the midst of the clich?d dark and stormy night, I found the magical inn, its windows golden lit, and Summer was due to start tomorrow. I can only work at one thing well. Deprive me of that, and my "back-up plan," even now, will be the empty, stormy, darkened heath -- where, incidentally, even unpublished, somehow I'll still be writing.

  Tanith Lee

  Writing, Dark, Night

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• The love-making of the bluebird is as beautiful as the bird itself, and normally as gentle, unless interrupted by some jealous rival who would steal his bride; then gentleness gives place to active combat. The male usually arrives a few days ahead of the female, selects what he considers to be a suitable summer home, and carols his sweetest, most seductive notes day after day until she appears in answer to his call.

  Arthur Cleveland Bent

  Beautiful, Home, Jealous

  Arthur Cleveland Bent (1949). “Life histories of North American thrushes, kinglets, and their allies: order Passeriformes”

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• I love borders. August is the border between summer and autumn; it is the most beautiful month I know.

  Tove Jansson

  Beautiful, Autumn, August

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• I come from a privileged background but I worked a lot of winter seasons in the Alps and I've done lots of mundane summer jobs back in Britain where I mixed with less well off people. Maybe it comes from there but I've always felt that it's our duty to make society fairer.

  Jonathan Trigell

  Jobs, Winter, People

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Balm of the summer night, balm of the ordinary, imperial joy and sorrow of human existence, the dreamed as well as the lived— what could be dearer than this, given the closeness of death?

  Louise Glück

  Night, Joy, Sorrow

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• A soft Sea washed around the House A Sea of Summer Air And rose and fell the magic Planks That sailed without a care — For Captain was the Butterfly For Helmsman was the Bee And an entire universe For the delighted crew.

  Emily Dickinson

  Butterfly, Air, Sea

  Emily Dickinson, Frances Schoonmaker Bolin (1994). “Emily Dickinson”, p.36, Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

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• To think that the affairs of this life always remain in the same state is a vain presumption; indeed they all seem to be perpetually changing and moving in a circular course. Spring is followed by summer, summer by autumn, and autumn by winter, which is again followed by spring, and so time continues its everlasting round. But the life of man is ever racing to its end, swifter than time itself, without hope of renewal, unless in the next that is limitless and infinite.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Spring, Moving, Autumn

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• The American goes to Paris, always has, and comes back and tells his neighbor, always does, how exorbitant and inhospitable it is, how rapacious and selfish and unaccommodating and unresponsive it is, how dirty and noisy it is-and the next summer his neighbor goes to Paris.

  Milton Mayer

  Selfish, Dirty, Paris

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