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Quotes About Summer

When my son was born, I was still playing in a summer league in Rhode Island.
~ Doris Burke
There was no romance about the mosquitos, however.
~ Edward Burnett Tylor
That's AAU ball. That's what you do: 'I want to get out there first and score.' You see it in games during the summer. There are not a lot of great blockouts going on.
~ Ben Howland
I love going to the movies, whitewater rafting in the summer when I am home in Idaho, biking in the summer in Idaho, paddle boarding in the summer.
~ Hilary Knight
I hate long pants.
~ Grace Potter
I'm paranoid about mosquitoes.
~ Shirley Ballas
I've gone down to the Jersey Shore every summer since I was born. It's like a second home, and Asbury Park is like the capital - it's the center of all of it. Musically, it's incredible.
~ Jack Antonoff
When I grew up, we went to Coney Island and Central Park. We'd find our way to the water and watch the fireworks.
~ Jimmy Smits
In the summer Regent's Park is one of the best places in the world with every nationality playing every sport.
~ Russell Howard
The narrow range of his reading is striking. Up to the spring and summer of 1924 he listed just over 200 books. Only a handful of these came from outside his own culture.
~ Peter Padfield
And the case of butterflies so rich it looks As if all summer settled there and died.
~ Philip Larkin
Behind the glass, underneath the cellophane, remains your final summer – sweet And meaningless, and not to come again.
~ Philip Larkin
The closest she had been to them was certain summer evenings when they had gone for picnics in the magravine's ice-barge -- simple family affairs, just Freya and Mama and Papa and about seventy servants and courtiers
~ Philip Reeve
Without the war, without this magnificent summer, this absence of men, would we ever have met?
~ Philippe Besson
Au fond, je n'écris que pour retrouver la belle sensation du soleil luisant entre les omoplates d'un garçon étendu, ventre et visage contre le sable, dans août qui s'en va.
~ Philippe Besson
Era come una mano di colore data sul venticello, sui muri gialletti della borgata, sui prati, sui carretti, sugli autobus coi grappoli agli sportelli. Una mano di colore ch'era tutta l'allegria e la miseria delle notti dell'estate del presente e del passato.
~ Pier Paolo Pasolini
Lì, accatastati, coperti da un cellophane appannato, ci sono i resti dell'estate: un tavolino pieghevole, qualche sedia bianca, vasi di fiori ormai secchi
~ Pier Vittorio Tondelli
The germs were already there in the hot, dry summer of 1929, when the crops began to fail on the southern prairies and the boom ran wild and out of hand and the country continued to overbuild on borrowed funds. The Great Depression was beginning and nobody knew it. The Great Repression was already under way but nobody cared. One did not need to visit Munich to see dissidents beaten to the ground. It was happening here.
~ Pierre Berton
My nana ji has a shop in Bapu Bazaar. Every summer, after my final exams, my mother would pack me off to my grandparents' home in Jaipur where we would visit nana ji's shop and I would roam around the market, holding his finger, wearing those cute Jaipuri lehengas.
~ Jasmin Bhasin
So when people go to the park this summer, they are not going to have the same quality of a visit. There is not going to be a ranger out on the trail to tell them about the important cultural and historic areas within the Olympic National Park.
~ Norm Dicks
My father - he was an orthodontist - was supposed to sell his practice and move down to Florida, but that never happened... I would sometimes spend the summer with him and visit him, but he never lived with us.
~ Kate DiCamillo
My parents live in northern Michigan, and every year, in the summer, we visit them for a few weeks.
~ Robin Sloan
I would visit my father and spend the summers with him in the south of France.
~ Yasmin Aga Khan
As a child, we visited the San Juan Islands during the summer. Kayaking, big family meals, playing on the beach - great memories!
~ Zoe McLellan