Quotes About Summer

the smell of resin filled the air. A thrush was singing somewhere. Late harebells were thick among the grass, and small blue butterflies moved over the white flowers of the blackberry. There was a hive of wild bees under the roof of the chapel; their humming filled the air, the sound of summer's end. Through

Did we bring a lunch?' asked Tacy. 'Yes,' said Betsy. 'It's under the seat. There are chicken sandwiches and hard-boiled eggs and potato salad and watermelon and chocolate cake and sweet pickles and sugar cookies and ice cream.' 'It ought to be plenty,' Tacy said.

She would happily eat a hot dog every night for the entire summer

You stood here and watched the storm with the greatest pride one can ever feel—because you are able to have summer flowers and half-naked women in your house on a night like this, in demonstration of your victory over that storm. And if it weren't for you, most of those who are here would be left helpless at the mercy of that wind in the middle of some such plain.

prodigal summer, the season of extravagant procreation. It could wear out everything in its path with its passionate excesses, but nothing alive with wings or a heart or a seed curled into itself in the ground could resist welcoming it back when it came.

Already? How can this be?" I would ask, shattered by the terrible truth that I needed a three-ring binder and some #2 pencils. It's not that school was a bad thing. Summer was just so much better.

One day we came home from some errands to find a grocery sack of them hanging on our mailbox. The perpetrator, of course, was nowhere in sight. "Wow," we all said—"what a good idea!" Garrison Keillor says July is the only time of year when country people lock our cars in the church parking lot, so people won't put squash on the front seat. I used to think that was a joke.

In summer a young rooster's fancy turns to…how can I say this delicately? The most ham-fisted attempts at courtship I've ever had to watch. (And yes, I'm including high school.)

carried a nosegay of summer flowers. Winston

Tyler rolls out of bed, sniffs the armpits of yesterday's T-shirt, tosses it aside, gets another out of the drawer. His dad sometimes asks him why he sets his alarm so early -- it's summer vacation, after all -- and Tyler can't seem to make him understand that every day is important, especially those filled with warmth and sunlight and no particular responsibilities. It's as if there's some little voice deep inside him, warning him not to waste a minute, not a single one, because time is short.

play all summer and then cram in the fall to bring in the harvest? The farm is a natural system. The price must be paid and the process followed. You always reap what you sow; there is no shortcut.

Between 1995 and 2005, there were on average 60.3 worldwide shark attacks each year, with a high of 79 and a low of 46. There were on average 5.9 fatalities per year, with a high of 11 and a low of 3. In other words, the headlines during the summer of 2001 might just as easily have read "Shark Attacks About Average This Year." But that probably wouldn't have sold many magazines.

I love New York on summer afternoons when everyone's away. There's something very sensuous about it - overripe, as if all sorts of funny fruits were going to fall into your hands.

Let now the chimneys blaze And cups o'erflow with wine... The summer hath his joys, And winter his delights; Though love and all his pleasures are but toys, They shorten tedious nights.

I love summertime more than anything else in the world. That is the only thing that gets me through the winter, knowing that summer is going to be there.

On my days off, I love denim cut off shorts with gladiator sandals and crop tops.

LOVE your taste in subject matter... perfect summer reading!

It must have been the summer of 1967, the Beatles were singing love is all you need. I held her hand as we walked through the arcades.

He was in love with life as an ant on a summer blade of grass.

I love summer. Because it means I can wear a bikini top and shorts, even just to go shopping.

Watermelon Watermelon owes its claim to fame as one of the world's healthiest foods to three facts: One, its high water content (about which more in a moment); two, its high

Strawberries:

Tenía que tomar la primera decisión. Llevar manga larga siempre, hasta en verano, o pasar de todo y dejar que el mundo las viera. También podía ponerse pulseras. Una docena de pulseras y abalorios.

Summer heat, the first early morning of it…step out and suddenly notice this: summer arrives, has arrived, is arriving. Birds grow less than leaves although they cheep, dip, arc.