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Quotes About Summer

And Summer, dear Summer, hath years of June, With large white clouds, and cool showers at noon; And a beauty that grows to a weight like grief, Till a burst of tears is the heart's relief.
~ George MacDonald
And we had met at last in this same cave of greenery, while the summer night hung round us heavy with love, and the odours that crept through the silence from the sleeping woods were the only signs of an outer world that invaded our solitude.
~ George MacDonald
When we have no summer without, we must supply it from within. Those must have comfort in themselves who are sent to comfort others.
~ George MacDonald
It was a vast, luminous dream in which his whole life seemed to stretch out before him like a landscape on a summer evening after rain
~ George Orwell
There was a touch of prairie about the fellow. --hans vollman Yes. --roger bevins iii Like stepping into a summer barn late at night. --hans vollman Or a musty plains office, where some bright candle still burns. --roger bevins iii Vast. Windswept. New. Sad. --hans vollman Spacious. Curious. Doom-minded. Ambitious. --roger bevins iii Back slightly out. --hans vollman Right boot chafing. --roger bevins iii
~ George Saunders
Summer died under the weight of fallen leaves and autumn filled up the ruts in the road with rainwater like blood filling fresh clawmarks.
~ Geraldine McCaughrean
She had long blond hair and bright blue eyes, and her skin was deeply tanned.
~ Gertrude Chandler Warner
Maggie had sent up a large basket of sandwiches and salad and pink lemonade with ice in it.
~ Gertrude Chandler Warner
strange man came here last summer and he gave Mr. Moss ten dollars for an old quarter.
~ Gertrude Chandler Warner
They say he has made a fortune selling lobsters and renting houses to the summer people.
~ Gertrude Chandler Warner
then again, they might not! Here's something funny. A strange man came here last summer and he gave Mr. Moss ten dollars for an old quarter.
~ Gertrude Chandler Warner
An exciting summer began for the four Alden children with the bang of a door.
~ Gertrude Chandler Warner
Since becoming a pop star, I've experimented a lot more. I've gotten more creative with what I wear. My stylist is a bit more adventurous than I would normally be, but it's really worked, and the colours really work together. I think everyone should be a bit more confident: if it's a summer's day, wear some bright colours.
~ Olly Murs
From fifth grade on, I worked at our public library. The pay, a pittance, was almost superfluous. All through high school, I looked forward to summer as the time when I could work at the library four or five days a week. I was never a camp counselor, a lifeguard, a scooper of ice cream.
~ Julia Glass
I did my first apprenticeship when I was 15, then joined the union when I was 17. I worked every summer in high school and college.
~ Christopher Reeve
When I was a teenager, I worked at the Gap for a summer folding shirts. That was pretty mindless and soul-sucking.
~ Constance Wu
I will never have the willpower to completely swear off pizza or a good summer sale, but I'm working on realizing the difference between the occasional craving and the compulsion to mindlessly consume as a feeble means of self-medication.
~ Dan Levy
I did a theater program the summer of my junior year, and that's when I really fell in love with the craft of acting. It became more about the craft and less about being a working actor.
~ Lucas Hedges
The romantic notion of the clubhouse as a traveling fraternity of working-class heroes - the boys of summer - is perhaps the most potent in all of baseball.
~ David Grann
Late summer is perfect for classic mysteries - think of Raymond Chandler's hot Santa Anas and Agatha Christie's Mediterranean resorts - while big ambitious works of nonfiction are best approached in September and early October, when we still feel energetic and the grass no longer needs to be cut.
~ Michael Dirda
I did theater summer camps when I was a kid, and I enjoyed them, but they never felt quite right. But then there would always be a tiny improv workshop towards the end of camp, and I would always feel like I liked it so much better.
~ Aidy Bryant
God, when I was about nine or ten years old, my whole summers were spent playing tennis. I was there from when it opened till when it closed. They had to kick me off the courts, I loved it so much.
~ Douglas Henshall
Jayne Houdyshell and I - when I was 17 years old - did summer stock together at the Timber Lake Playhouse in Mt. Carroll, IL. She was the leading lady of the company, and I was an intern.
~ Joe Mantello
I'd spend every summer in Longview on my grandfather's farm. It was a tiny little town divided by a river, which was the segregation line: that side white, this side black. And meanwhile, I lived in Compton - basically, another whole world sealed into 10 square blocks. It's interesting how insular an environment can be.
~ Forest Whitaker