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Quotes About Summer

University of Oklahoma. He spent his summers on a farm in Pennsylvania, not far from Roseto—although that, of course, didn't mean much, since Roseto
~ Malcolm Gladwell
Summer vacation is a topic seldom mentioned in American educational debates. It is considered a permanent and inviolate feature of school life, like high school football or the senior prom.
~ Malcolm Gladwell
None of those things, though, will improve her math and reading skills, and every carefree summer day she spends puts her further and further behind Alex.
~ Malcolm Gladwell
No more pencils, no more books, no more teachers' dirty looks, when the teacher rings the bell, drop your books and run like hell
~ Alice Cooper
Teachers can go on cruises with the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration and anyone can spend the summer as a volunteer in a National Parks and even earn money doing it.
~ Matthew Lesko
In the sciences, the saga of Einstein's physics doctorate is revealing about institutional training and creativity. In the summer of 1900, Einstein graduated from the Swiss Polytechnic, but was not offered an assistant's post in the physics department
~ Andrew Robinson
What Frank wrote: It's a summer day, and I want to be wanted more than anything in the world.
~ Andrew Sean Greer
In the suburbs of Delaware, spring meant not young love and damp flowers but an ugly divorce from winter and a second marriage to buxom summer.
~ Andrew Sean Greer
Surely the sun is already hammering the beach like a tinsmith.
~ Andrew Sean Greer
It's a summer day, and I want to be wanted more than anything in the world.
~ Andrew Sean Greer
But then she hadn't just learned to love this summer – she had also learned how to need.
~ Ann Brashares
The rules took a while to sort out. Lena and Carmen wanted to focus on friendship-type rules, stuff about keeping in touch with one another over the summer, and making sure the Pants kept moving from one girl to the next. Tibby preferred to focus on random things you could and couldn't do in the Pants --- like picking your nose.
~ Ann Brashares
In a way it scared me, having a summer of experiences and feelings that belonged to me alone. What happened in front of my friends felt read. What happened to me by myself felt partly dreamed, partly imagined, definitely shifted and warped by own fears and wants. And who knows? Maybe there is more truth in how you feel than in what actually happens.
~ Ann Brashares
I Pantaloni ci promettevano che c'era tempo. Niente sarebbe andato perduto. Avevamo un anno intero, se ce ne fosse stato bisogno. Avevamo tutta la strada fino all'estate successiva: allora avremmo tirato fuori i Pantaloni e, insieme o separate, avremmo ricominciato da capo
~ Ann Brashares
The summers before that are a blur of baby oil and Sun-In and hating our bodies (I got big breasts; Tibby got no breasts) at the Rockwood public swimming pool.
~ Ann Brashares
To honor the Pants and the Sisterhood And this moment and this summer and the rest of our lives Together and apart.
~ Ann Brashares
And it's funny. While I was locked up, I would call the father and he was going on with his life. He was having his summer and was, you know, worried about whether he would get a new tape or album. People had gossiped about him but they were still allowed to hang out with him. Before I left home, nobody was allowed to be around me. Occasionally
~ Ann Fessler
Take Me Out to the Ball Game.
~ Ann M. Martin
We are both from the same kind of towns. We both know the sound of swivel-head spray at midnight on a summer lawn. We both know the weak secrets of us.
~ Sam Lipsyte
Jam on a winter took away the blue devils. It was like tasting summer.
~ Sandra Dallas
Missouri Ann ate her bit of orange slowly. Tastes like summer, she said.
~ Sandra Dallas
way and the summer sun was blazing. She wondered whether he should take off his sweater. He lined up his club, patting
~ Santa Montefiore
All summer they'd been pushing me towards my freedom and now I wanted to claim it
~ Sara Zarr
She knew I could tell with one glance, one look, one simple instant. It was her eyes. Despite the thick makeup, they were still dark-rimmed., haunted, and sad. Most of all though, they were familiar. The fact that we were in front of hundreds of strangers changed nothing at all. I'd spent a summer with those same eyes-scared, lost, confused-staring back at me. I would have known them anywhere.
~ Sarah Dessen