Summer Quotes - Page 9

• Take my hand and we'll go riding through the sunshine from above. We'll find happiness together in the summer skies of love.

  Ozzy Osbourne

  Romantic, Sunshine, Hands

  Song: Symptom Of The Universe

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• My summer time tip is to wear shorts and light shirts; everything in summery fabrics such as linen and cotton. And don't think about work.

  Domenico Dolce

  Thinking, Light, Fabric

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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

  Real, Party, Garden

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

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• So that's what I'm here to become. And suddenly, this word fills me with a brand of sadness I haven't felt since childhood. The kind of sadness you feel at the end of summer. When the fireflies are gone, the ponds have dried up and the plants are wilted, weary from being so green.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Sadness, Firefly, Childhood

  Augusten Burroughs (2013). “Dry: A Memoir”, p.74, Macmillan

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• If eternity had a season, it would be midsummer. Autumn, winter, spring are all change and passage, but at the height of summer the year stands poised. It's only a passing moment, but even as it passes the heart knows it cannot change.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Spring, Heart, Autumn

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2009). “Powers”, p.74, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Yet the summer which was to change everything was coming nearer every day. When boys and girls are growing up, life can't stand still, not even in the quietest of country towns; and they have to grow up, whether they will or no. That is what their elders are always forgetting.

  Willa Cather

  Girl, Country, Growing Up

  Willa Cather (2013). “The Best of Willa Cather”, p.583, Simon and Schuster

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• We aged a hundred years, and this happened in a single hour: the short summer had already died, the body of the ploughed plains smoked.

  Anna Akhmatova

  Years, Body, Hours

  "'In Memoriam, July 19, 1914' ('White Flock')". Poem by Anna Akhmatova, 1917.

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• Spring is the fresh green of young corn and the pink blush of blossoms. Autumn contrasts the yellowed foilage with violet hues. Winter is the white of snow against its black forms ... Summer is the contrast of blues and the golden bronze of the corn.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Spring, Winter, Autumn

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• I had this aunt who had a career and traveled. She'd say things like, "When you go to college, I think we should go scuba diving in the summer. The scuba diving in Portugal is fabulous." And I'd be like, "Portugal! Holy cats!".

  Geena Davis

  Cat, Aunt, College

  Interview with Emma Watson, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 25, 2016.

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• We will enjoy ourselves with the forms that are given us: a human face, a hand, the breast of a woman or the body of a man, a glad or sorrowful expression, the infinite seas, the wild rocks, the melancholy language of the black trees in the snow, the wild strength of spring flowers and the heavy lethargy of a hot summer day when Pan, our old friend, sleeps and the ghosts of midday whisper. This alone is enough to make us forget the grief of the world, or to give it form.

  Max Beckmann

  Spring, Grief, Flower

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• Summer means promises fulfilled, objectives gained, hopes realized. The surge of doing and achieving, of watching and enjoying is finally replaced by a sense of quiet and floating and a certain fullness and repletion, as though one cannot absorb any more.

  Sigurd F. Olson

  Mean, Promise, Floating

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• Summer is my favorite time to read mysteries.

  Meg Cabot

  Mystery, My Favorite

  Source: www.cosmopolitan.com

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• Spring is beautiful, and summer is perfect for vacations, but autumn brings a longing to get away from the unreal things of life, out into the forest at night with a campfire and the rustling leaves.

  Margaret Elizabeth Sangster

  Beautiful, Spring, Fall

  Margaret Elizabeth Sangster (1914). “Friends O' Mine: A Book of Poems and Stories”

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• Summer movie idea: take all the sequels that are out right now, and make movies about their backstories.

  Stephen Colbert

  Ideas, Sequels, Right Now

  Twitter post from Jun 27, 2012

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• Spring, summer, and fall fill us with hope; winter alone reminds us of the human condition.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Spring, Fall, Winter

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.108, BookBaby

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• The spring rains woke the dormant tillers, and bright green shoots sprang from the moist earth and rose like sleepers stretching after a long nap. As spring gave way to summer, the bright green stalks darkened, became tan, turned golden brown. The days grew long and hot. Thick towers of swirling black clouds brought rain, and the brown stems glistened in the perpetual twilight that dwelled beneath the canopy. The wheat rose and the ripening heads bent in the prairie wind, a rippling curtain, an endless, undulating sea that stretched to the horizon.

  Rick Yancey

  Spring, Rain, Twilight

  Rick Yancey (2014). “The Infinite Sea: The Second Book of the 5th Wave”, p.11, Penguin

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• ...Summer nights held a special kind of loneliness that gave rise to strange imaginings. One walked the beach alone and thought too much.

  Robert Ludlum

  Beach, Loneliness, Night

  Robert Ludlum (2012). “The Aquitaine Progression: A Novel”, p.64, Bantam

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• On summer evenings, when every flower, and tree, and bird, might have better addressed my soft young heart, I have in my day been caught in the palm of a female hand by the crown, have been violently scrubbed from the neck to the roots of the hair as a purification for the Temple, and have then been carried off highly charged with saponaceous electricity, to be steamed like a potato in the unventilated breath of the powerful Boanerges Boiler and his congregation, until what small mind I had, was quite steamed out of me

  Charles Dickens

  Funny, Powerful, Humorous

  Charles Dickens (1870). “Novels”, p.57

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• A summer breeze can be very refreshing; but if we try to put it in a tin can so we can have it entirely to ourselves, the breeze will die. Our beloved is the same. He is like a breeze, a cloud, a flower. If you imprison him in a tin can, he will die. Yet many people do just that. They rob their loved one of his liberty, until he can no longer be himself. They live to satisfy themselves and use their loved one to help them fulfill that. That is not loving; it is destroying.

  Nhat Hanh

  Love, Flower, Clouds

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• Summer, with its dog days, its vacations, its distractions, is over. We have had our holidays, our rest, our recreation. The fall season, with its new opportunities for effort, enterprise and achievement, is upon us. Let us rip off our coats and get down to business. We may have allowed pessimism to grip us during the summer months. We may even have allowed laziness to enter our bones. Now it is up to us to throw off both lassitude and pessimism. The time has come for action, for aggressiveness.

  B. C. Forbes

  Dog, Rip, Fall

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• If you were my queen, truly my queen, our court would be stronger still. If you were mine , without mortal distractions, we'd be safer. We'd be stronger if we were truly together. Summer is a time to rejoice in pleasures and heat. When I'm around you, I want to forget everything else. I love Donia. I always will, but when I'm near you--" He stopped himself.

  Melissa Marr

  Queens, Forget Everything, Together

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• Just as teardrops, when they are large and round and compassionate, can leave a long strand washed clean of discord, the summer rain as it washes away the motionless dust can bring to a person's soul something like endless breathing.

  Muriel Barbery

  Rain, Dust, Breathing

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• Summer passes into autumn in some unimaginable point of time, like the turning of a leaf.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Autumn, Leafs, Unimaginable

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.252, Delphi Classics

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• I welcome the autumnal chill in the air. There is a stimulation about it. Life moves to a different rhythm. There is a sense of change in the atmosphere and change is good inasmuch as it prevents stagnation. We should grow weary of a summer that never ended.

  Patience Strong

  Moving, Air, Atmosphere

  Patience Strong (1951). “The Glory of the Garden”

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• The soft mellow warble of the bluebird, heard at its best throughout spring and early summer, is one of the sweetest, most confiding and loving sounds in nature.

  Thomas Roberts

  Spring, Sound, Mellow

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