Summertime Quotes - Page 3

• It was June, and the world smelled of roses. The sunshine was like powdered gold over the grassy hillside.

  Maud Hart Lovelace

  Summer, Sunshine, June

  Maud Hart Lovelace (2011). “Betsy-Tacy and Tib”, p.11, Harper Collins

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• I'm a big fan of London in the summertime. English people are dependent on weather to change our attitudes, and, provided it's a decent summer, everyone's spirits are uplifted and the whole place is in bloom. It's a magical transformation. London in the summer, going to see bands play outside, watching football.

  Ed Westwick

  Summer, Football, Attitude

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Press close, bare-bosomed Night! Press close, magnetic,
  nourishing Night!
  Night of south winds! Night of the large, few stars!
  Still, nodding Night! Mad, naked, Summer Night!

  Walt Whitman

  Summer, Stars, Night

  Walt Whitman, Sculley Bradley, Harold W. Blodgett (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856”, p.27, NYU Press

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• Warm summer sun, shine kindly here. Warm southern wind, blow softly here. Green sod above, lie light, lie light. Good night, dear Heart, Good night, good night.

  Mark Twain

  Romantic, Good Night, Summer

  Mark Twain, William Dean Howells, Albert Bigelow Paine (2014). “The Mark Twain Autobiography + 3 Biographies: 4 Mark Twain Biographies In 1 Book: Chapters From My Autobiography By Mark Twain + My Mark Twain By William Dean Howells’ + Mark Twain A Biography By Albert Bigelow Paine + The Boys’ Life Of Mark Twain By Albert Bigelow Paine”, p.1366, e-artnow

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• If it's wild to your own heart, protect it. Preserve it. Love it. And fight for it, and dedicate yourself to it, whether it's a mountain range, your wife, your husband, or even (god forbid) your job. It doesn't matter if it's wild to anyone else: if it's what makes your heart sing, if it's what makes your days soar like a hawk in the summertime, then focus on it. Because for sure, it's wild, and if it's wild, it'll mean you're still free. No matter where you are.

  Rick Bass

  Jobs, Husband, Heart

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• No price is set on the lavish summer;
  June may be had by the poorest comer.

  James Russell Lowell

  Summer, June, May

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.117

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• The first week of August hangs at the very top of summer, the top of the live-long year, like the highest seat of a Ferris wheel when it pauses in its turning.

  Natalie Babbitt

  Summer, August, Years

  Natalie Babbitt (2015). “Tuck Everlasting”, p.3, Macmillan

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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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• Spring passes and one remembers one's innocence. Summer passes and one remembers one's exuberance. Autumn passes and one remembers one's reverence. Winter passes and one remembers one's perseverance.

  Yoko Ono

  Summer, Perseverance, Gratitude

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• There is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.

  John Ruskin

  Change, Running, Rainy Day

  "The Use Of Life". Book by John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury. Chapter 4: "Recreation", 1894.

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• The first week of August hangs at the very top of summer, the top of the live-long year, like the highest seat of a Ferris wheel when it pauses in its turning. The weeks that come before are only a climb from balmy spring, and those that follow a drop to the chill of autumn, but the first week of August is motionless, and hot. It is curiously silent, too, with blank white dawns and glaring noons, and sunsets smeared with too much color.

  Natalie Babbitt

  Summer, Spring, Sunset

  Natalie Babbitt (2015). “Tuck Everlasting”, p.3, Macmillan

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• In June as many as a dozen species may burst their buds on a single day. No man can heed all of these anniversaries; no man can ignore all of them.

  Aldo Leopold

  Anniversary, Nature, Spring

  Aldo Leopold, Michael Sewell (2001). “A Sand County Almanac”, p.82, Oxford University Press

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• There's no such thing as bad weather, only inappropriate clothing

  Ranulph Fiennes

  Running, Adventure, Weather

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• Spring passes and one remembers one's innocence.

  Yoko Ono

  Summer, Time, Spring

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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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• 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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• Summer makes a silence after spring.

  Vita Sackville-West

  Summer, Spring, June

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• There's no such thing as bad weather - only the wrong clothes.

  Billy Connolly

  Being Happy, Running, Adventure

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• You're lookin' so good in what's left of those blue jeans
  Drip of honey on the money maker gotta be
  The best buzz I'm ever gonna find
  Hey, I'm a little drunk on you
  And high on summertime

  Luke Bryan

  Country, Song, Blue

  Song: Drunk On You, 2011

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• Well I'm a-gonna raise a fuss, I'm gonna raise a holler
  About workin' all summer just to try an' earn a dollar
  Everytime I call my baby, to try to get a date
  My boss says, no dice, son, you gotta work late
  Sometimes I wonder what I'm gonna do
  'cause there ain't no cure for the summertime blues.

  Eddie Cochran

  Summer, Baby, Son

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• I'm not really looking forward to wearing a black rubber suit in the summertime in humid Chicago. If you see a pool of sweat through the city, follow it and you will find me.

  Christian Bale

  Cities, Sweat, Black

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

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• August rain: the best of the summer gone, and the new fall not yet born. The odd uneven time.

  Sylvia Plath

  Summer, Rain, Fall

  Sylvia Plath (2007). “The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.124, Anchor

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• The crickets felt it was their duty to warn everybody that summertime cannot last for ever. Even on the most beautiful days in the whole year - the days when summer is changing into autumn - the crickets spread the rumor of sadness and change.

  E. B. White

  Beautiful, Summer, Sadness

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• I wear black because I'm comfortable in it. But then in the summertime when it's hot I'm comfortable in light blue.

  Johnny Cash

  Light, Blue, Black

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• New York's a big playground. I have a bike, and I'm really into just being outside. Especially in the summertime.

  Chace Crawford

  New York, Just Being, Bigs

  Interview with Christopher Bollen, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 10, 2009.

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