Summer Quotes - Page 8

• He stood beside a cottage lone
  And listened to a lute,
  One summer's eve, when the breeze was gone,
  And the nightingale was mute.

  Thomas Kibble Hervey

  Gone, Cottages, Mute

  Thomas Kibble Hervey (1830). “The Devil's progress, a poem, by the editor of the 'Court journal'.”, p.50

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• Clapping my hands with the echoes the summer moon begins to dawn.

  Matsuo Basho

  Moon, Echoes, Hands

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• Whenever I was upset by something in the papers, [Jack] always told me to be more tolerant, like a horse flicking away flies in the summer.

  Jackie Kennedy

  Horse, July, Political

  "A Hero for Our Time". Book by Ralph G Martin, 1983.

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• August, the summer's last messenger of misery, is a hollow actor.

  Henry Rollins

  August, Actors, Lasts

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• School's-out-for-summer!!

  Alice Cooper

  School

  Song: School's Out

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• So fades a summer cloud away; So sinks the gale when storms are o'er; So gently shuts the eye of day; So dies a wave along the shore.

  Anna Letitia Barbauld

  Time, Eye, Clouds

  Anna Letitia Barbauld, Lucy Aikin (1825). “The works of Anna Laetitia Barbauld: in two volumes”, p.315

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• The smell of manure, of sun on foliage, of evaporating water, rose to my head; two steps farther, and I could look down into the vegetable garden enclosed within its tall pale of reeds - rich chocolate earth studded emerald green, frothed with the white of cauliflowers, jeweled with the purple globes of eggplant and the scarlet wealth of tomatoes.

  Doris Lessing

  Garden, Eggplant, Vegetables

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• Summer time an' the livin' is easy, Fish are jumpin' an' the cotton is high. Oh, yo' daddy's rich, and yo' ma' is good-lookin', So hush, little baby, don' yo' cry.

  Ira Gershwin

  Baby, Sea, Fishing

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• Did he so often lodge in open field, In winter's cold and summer's parching heat, To conquer France, his true inheritance?

  William Shakespeare

  Winter, Fields, France

  William Shakespeare, Ronald Knowles (1999). “King Henry VI Part 2: Third Series”, p.154, Cengage Learning EMEA

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• The summer dawn's reflected hue To purple changed Lock Katrine blue, Mildly and soft the western breeze Just kiss'd the lake, just stirr'd the trees, And the pleased lake, like maiden coy, Trembled but dimpled not for joy.

  Walter Scott

  Kissing, Purple, Lakes

  Walter Scott, J. W. Lake (1827). “The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott: Complete in One Volume”, p.151

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• I like acting for now. But after seeing Apollo 13, what I really want to do is to be an astronaut. I'm dying to go to a space camp next summer!

  Natalie Portman

  Space, Dying, Acting

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• 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!

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Fall, Autumn, August

  'Hymn to Intellectual Beauty' (1816)

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• O, it's die we must, but it's live we can, And the marvel of earth and sun Is all for the joy of woman and man And the longing that makes them one." (Between the Dusk of a Summer Night, 13-16)

  William Ernest Henley

  Night, Men, Joy

  William Ernest Henley, “Between The Dusk Of A Summer Night”

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• It is easy to forget now, how effervescent and free we all felt that summer.

  Anna Godbersen

  Forget, Easy, Morning Light

  Anna Godbersen (2010). “Bright Young Things”, p.1, Harper Collins

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• In summer the empire of insects spreads.

  Adam Zagajewski

  Empires, Insects, Spread

  "In Valleys" by Adam Zagajewski, www.newyorker.com. May 2, 2011.

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• Catch, then, oh! catch the transient hour,
  Improve each moment as it flies;
  Life's a short summer-man a flower;
  He dies-alas! how soon he dies!

  Samuel Johnson

  Life, Time, Flower

  Samuel Johnson, Francis William Blagdon (1811). “The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia”, p.184

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• There is no season such delight can bring, as summer, autumn, winter and the spring.

  William Browne

  Spring, Fall, Autumn

  William Browne (1845). “Britannia's Pastorals”, p.256

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• The Indian Summer, the dead Summer's soul.

  Mary C. Ames

  Fall, Autumn, July

  "Presence", line 62 in "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (pp. 764-765), 1922.

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• The spring, summer, is quite a hectic time for people in their lives, but then it comes to autumn, and to winter, and you can't but help think back to the year that was, and then hopefully looking forward to the year that is approaching.

  Enya

  Spring, Autumn, Winter

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

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• The softness of the summer day like an ermine paw.

  Anais Nin

  Paws, Summer Days, Softness

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• There is a tiny yellow daffodil, The butterfly can see it from afar, Although one summer evening's dew could fill Its little cup twice over, ere the star Had called the lazy shepherd to his fold, And be no prodigal.

  Oscar Wilde

  Stars, Butterfly, Yellow

  Oscar Wilde (2014). “Poems”, p.30, Simon and Schuster

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• The summer night was starless and stirless, with distant spasms of silent lightning.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Night, Lightning, Silent

  Vladimir Nabokov (2011). “Pale Fire”, p.112, Vintage

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• Our life is like th' unstable wave, Our bloom of youth decays. Our joys are brief as lightning flash In summer's cloudy days, Our riches fleet as swift as thought; Faith in the One Supreme Alone will bear us o'er the gulfs Of Being's stormy stream.

  Bhartrhari

  God, Joy, Life Is Like

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• One swallow is a coincidence, but two swallows make summer.

  Siddhartha Mukherjee

  Two, Coincidence

  Siddhartha Mukherjee (2011). “The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer”, p.171, Simon and Schuster

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• Working all winter shining all summer

  DJ Khaled

  Winter, Shining

  Song: Take It to the Head, Album: Kiss The Ring, 2012

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