Among the delights of Summer were picnics to the woods.
~By Georg Brandes ~
In earlier times, so many people sang much more. You know as a kid you'd go to some kind of religious training and or summer camp or whatever it was and you'd learn to sing a lot of songs.
~By Michael Tilson Thomas ~
Every summer, my grandparents would rent a house on Balboa Island. They had the house next to Bob Hope's. I've been going down there all my life, to that whole area.
~By Mike Love ~
By all these lovely tokens September days are here, With summer's best of weather And autumn's best of cheer.
~By Helen Hunt Jackson ~
I'm working on a snow scene right now, and it's summer. It's hot, and I will get chilly. I'll have to turn on the heat. My wife walks in, and it's 95 degrees in the studio. I know it's nutty, but it's a projection you have where you step into the painting.
~By Thomas Kinkade ~
I becan acting when River was doing this TV series and they needed two kids for the show, so they got me and my little sister, Summer, to do it. After that I did some really weird guest spots with orangutans and stuff.
~By Joaquin Phoenix ~
For me, football always meant that we came together as a family and, in the summer we played football outside.
~By Claudia Schiffer ~
I was thinking that we all learn by experience, but some of us have to go to summer school.
~By Peter De Vries ~
What is one to say about June, the time of perfect young summer, the fulfillment of the promise of the earlier months, and with as yet no sign to remind one that its fresh young beauty will ever fade.
~By Gertrude Jekyll ~
People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy.
~By Anton Chekhov ~
Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May; but at length the season of summer does come.
~By Thomas Carlyle ~
I did two or three plays every summer.
~By Dabney Coleman ~
Summer is a promissory note signed in June, its long days spent and gone before you know it, and due to be repaid next January.
~By Hal Borland ~
I was much entertained last summer with a tame bat, which would take flies out of a person's hand.
~By Gilbert White ~
Adventure Bay is a convenient and safe place for any number of ships to take in wood and water during the summer months: but in the winter, when the southerly winds are strong, the surf, on all parts of the shore, makes the landing exceedingly troublesome.
~By William Bligh ~
Whenever I was upset by something in the papers, Jack always told me to be more tolerant, like a horse flicking away flies in the summer.
~By Jackie Kennedy ~
One summer I remember, I got exposed to Chuck Berry and Buddy Holly and Buddy Holly was a very very big, made a very big impression on me. Because of a lot of things, you know, the way he looked and his charisma.
~By Eric Clapton ~
I started working for Bethlehem Steel when I was about 16 during the summers.
~By Richard Serra ~
This is real human drama, we're not creating some amusement park ride for the summer. Even though the movie is really exciting to watch, it's got a real pathos behind it.
~By John C. Reilly ~
We spent a month in Japan last year, a week in Istanbul for the United Nations, and nearly three months in my native Nova Scotia, where my two brothers have homes; and we'll go back there this summer.
~By Robert MacNeil ~
My brother Jim and I spent many wonderful summers working on dairy farms in Wisconsin owned by Mom's cousins, and as members of our local Boy Scout troop.
~By Peter Agre ~
In summer winter rain or sun, it's good to be on horseback.
~By Mike Oldfield ~
I know that if odour were visible, as colour is, I'd see the summer garden in rainbow clouds.
~By Robert Bridges ~
I had been doing summer stock every summer while I was in college. We did a showcase, like most good conservatories do - monologues and things that agents and casting directors come to see. From that I got an agent.
~By Randy Harrison ~
On the way from Chicago, I spent the summer of 1947 in Ottawa, helping to build the first of a series of econometric models for the Canadian government.
~By Lawrence R. Klein ~
Life is not divided into semesters. You don't get summers off and very few employers are interested in helping you find yourself.
~By Bill Gates ~
Now, I was the Summer Concert guy. I played every Summer concert there was.
~By John Sebastian ~
Some people plant in the spring and leave in the summer. If you're signed up for a season, see it through. You don't have to stay forever, but at least stay until you see it through.
~By Jim Rohn ~
I was posted to China in the summer of 1988, which was the greatest time ever, I think, to have been in China.
~By John Pomfret ~
It's the first time I have returned to my roots - like going back to be a trio. The fans really wanted me to go back on stage and do the Supremes music, so I went about trying to make it happen. We'll go on tour in the summer.
~By Diana Ross ~
Hospitals are closing across the country due to the burden of illegal immigration, college students find that summer jobs have dried up due to illegal immigration, and wages across the board are depressed by the overwhelming influx of cheap and illegal labor.
~By Elton Gallegly ~
I learned a valuable life lesson that summer. You should find something in life that you really enjoy and seriously consider making that your life's work.
~By Jim Evans ~
So I majored in Drama, did all the plays that were possible to do, skated through school in order to be in every production on stage or backstage in whatever capacity and I came to New York looking for work in the summers.
~By Linda Lavin ~
In the summer of 1965 I was invited to join Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio and returned to academic life as professor with the added responsibility of becoming also Department Chairman.
~By George Andrew Olah ~
Mr. Speaker, high natural gas prices and the summer spike in gasoline prices serve as a stark reminder that the path to energy independence is a long and arduous one.
~By Judy Biggert ~
We've been back since July, but I spent some time with the family in the south of France over the summer. We rented a house with another couple and took it easy.
~By Laura Innes ~
I had 500 kids at camp this past summer for example. We do nine weeks for kids and nine days for grown ups every summer. The adult camp is a lot of fun.
~By Wavy Gravy ~
Our children were mostly brought up and educated in the Churchill suburb east of Pittsburgh. Each summer, we took them back to England for an extended period.
~By John Pople ~
Tears of joy are like the summer rain drops pierced by sunbeams.
~By Hosea Ballou ~
The price of imported oil in the US doubled between summer 2003 and summer 2005, reducing consumers' purchasing power by more than 1 per cent of gross domestic product.
~By Martin Feldstein ~
My dad was a carpenter and I would work with him during the summer and umpire on the nights I wasn't playing.
~By Jim Evans ~
We were just covered in dirt the whole time. It was so hot - and that was in winter. I can not imagine what it's like in summer and how the people who actually live out there survive.
~By Toni Collette ~
Jimmy Carter began his planning in the early summer of 1976, Ronald Reagan a year prior. The Clinton Administration, elected in 1992, lingered in naming its team, and as a result, took almost a year to staff its ranks.
~By Richard V. Allen ~
I like acting for now. But after seeing Apollo 13, what I really want to do is to be an astronaut. I'm dying to go to a space camp next summer!
~By Natalie Portman ~
I love Paris in the summer, when it sizzles.
~By Cole Porter ~
There is a harmony in autumn, and a luster in its sky, which through the summer is not heard or seen, as if it could not be, as if it had not been!
~By Percy Bysshe Shelley ~
'Tis the last rose of summer Left blooming alone; All her lovely companions Are faded and gone.
~By Thomas More ~
The Recovery Act is working, but it's going to continue to work. It's not over. A lot's going to happen this summer. And even after the summer, there's more to come with the act.
~By Joe Biden ~
I am just through with a summer, and a summer is to me always a trying ordeal.
~By Maria Mitchell ~
Wet Hot American Summer so far is a financial disappointment and money was lost on it. But perhaps it will find its audience in video, cable, etc, maybe over the course of years.
~By David Wain ~
Violent crime is a solved problem - all they have to do is repeal the laws that keep those intelligent, capable, and responsible men and women from arming themselves, and violent crime evaporates like dry ice on a hot summer day.
~By L. Neil Smith ~
I came back out here from England and I was there for a while and it was beautiful and it is just great to see London going from Spring to Summer and Autumn.
~By Orlando Bloom ~
By then I was in Brooklyn and drank my way through that summer. I stopped when I got sick of that and got a job at the Strand bookstore, which was a little better than the tax job.
~By Robert Quine ~
Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.
~By Henry James ~
I've cut down on a lot of stuff this summer, just so I can hang out and be a normal kid for a while.
~By Ryan Sheckler ~
During the summer, Screen Gems launched the New Monkees, which miserably failed I understand. I never saw it.
~By Davy Jones ~
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.
~By Norm Dicks ~
Summer has filled her veins with light and her heart is washed with noon.
~By C. Day Lewis ~
There are so many scenarios here. We tried to prepare for the worst summer in 40 years and build assumptions based on that. We're preparing for the worst, but we're hoping for the best. And I've told people the end is in sight.
~By Gray Davis ~
I had a bat mitzvah, was confirmed, went to Jewish summer camp, I go to temple for the High Holy Days. I think, like most people in their early 20s, I kind of strayed away from it. I think once I have a family I'll be back into it.
~By Lizzy Caplan ~
Any pitcher who might throw at me should know I'm not giving up my day job or trying to get anyone else's job. I just can't think of anything cooler than being one of the boys of summer!
~By Garth Brooks ~
I love summer. Because it means I can wear a bikini top and shorts, even just to go shopping.
~By David Wain ~
The sweltering summer of the Negro's legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality.
~By Martin Luther King, Jr. ~
One night last summer, all the killers in my head assembled on a stage in Massachusetts to sing show tunes.
~By Sarah Vowell ~
Midwest kids got to summer camp. There is something very special about being away from your parents for the first time, sleeping under the stars, hiking and canoeing.
~By Jami Gertz ~
What I loved about 'Summer' was that they were these four bright kids with a wonderful future. In a way, she was the one with the brains, and then you have the beauty queen and the jock and the introvert.
~By Kevin Williamson ~
I think A Midsummer Night's Dream would be terrific because of the transformations that occur. Or The Tempest, things like that. Extraordinary larger than life or supernatural element.
~By Kenneth Branagh ~
That makes me think of the 2002 World Cup Final above all else. Nobody thought at the time that our team would get through to the Final against Brazil. We should remember that this summer.
~By Angela Merkel ~
It was a splendid summer morning and it seemed as if nothing could go wrong.
~By John Cheever ~
Spring and summer 1942 was probably the worst period of internal terror in Slovakia. It was also the time of mass deportation of Slovak Jews to the extermination camps in Poland.
~By Alexander Dubcek ~
My parents moved to Los Angeles when I was really young, but I spent every summer with my grandparents, and I'd stay with my grandfather on the farm in Longview. He was retired from the railroad, and he had a small farm with some cows and some pigs. I remember part of my youth was feeding hogs and plowing fields and stuff, so that's a part of me.
~By Forest Whitaker ~
Youth is in a grand flush, like the hot days of ending summer; and pleasant dreams thrall your spirit, like the smoky atmosphere that bathes the landscape of an August day.
~By Donald G. Mitchell ~
The soy-bean, in particular, has proved sufficiently resistant to cold in spring and to adverse weather during summer to warrant heavy planting, especially throughout the South.
~By David F. Houston ~
In fact, I was one of the few trusted people that Lucy allowed to play with their kids. I spent time at their summer home, rode horses at their ranch, and swam at their beach house. I even spent a Christmas with them at Palm Springs one year.
~By Keith Thibodeaux ~
After graduating in the summer of 1980, I knew I wanted my life to count.
~By Donna Rice ~
In fact, at Olympic National Park in my district, they 3 years ago had 130 summer employees they brought in for temporary work. This summer they have 25 because they cannot afford more.
~By Norm Dicks ~
There's not much to do in Atlanta, so the cast went to the gym together, went shopping together, and dinner was always a group thing. It's that whole summer-camp experience that making movies tends to be anyway.
~By Timothy Olyphant ~
If you can't stand the heat, don't go to Cancun in the summer.
~By Ben Stein ~
Oh, the summer night, Has a smile of light, And she sits on a sapphire throne.
~By Barry Cornwall ~
I attended the University of Louisville my freshman year, transferred to what was then Western Kentucky State Teachers College for my sophomore and junior years, and then graduated from the University of Louisville in the summer of 1961.
~By Sue Grafton ~
Integrity is so perishable in the summer months of success.
~By Vanessa Redgrave ~
I was lucky enough not to face any required summer reading lists until I went to college. So I still think of summer as the best time to read for fun.
~By Margaret Haddix ~
Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability.
~By Sam Keen ~
The summer of 1830 I... blasted the tunnel through the rock to take water from the dam above the falls for the mill... In 1831 we lowered the tunnel four feet, and built a new dam across the creek.
~By Ezra Cornell ~
In spring they lie flat at the first warmth, they ruin my summer and in autumn they smell of women.
~By Hugo Claus ~
I like summer. I like warmer weather and long days. I'm one of those silly people who still enjoy lying in the sun - my children are horrified!
~By Danielle Steel ~
This is such a special summer holiday for me. I haven't known myself so relaxed in years.
~By Kylie Minogue ~
For me, the summer will be pure gray - mother-of-pearl gray, very pale gray. To me, this is the big statement for summer. Then we have light blue, light turquoise, lots of pink.
~By Gianni Versace ~
I was an economics major in college, and every summer after school, I would drive my car from California, from Claremont men's college at the time, to New York. And I worked on Wall Street.
~By Henry Kravis ~
One swallow does not make a summer, but one skein of geese, cleaving the murk of March thaw, is the Spring.
~By Aldo Leopold ~
But a girl of seventeen is not always thinking of books, especially in the Oxford summer term.
~By Mary A. Ward ~
I kept having chills. This was in the middle of the summer and I was wearing a sheepskin jacket and I was chilling. I was shaking all over.
~By Dick York ~
In the summer we graduated we flipped out completely, drinking beer, cruising in our cars and beating up each other. It was a crazy summer. That's when I started to be interested in girls.
~By Ed O'Neill ~
Occasionally I have come across a last patch of snow on top of a mountain in late May or June. There's something very powerful about finding snow in summer.
~By Andy Goldsworthy ~
My daughter is a freshman in college and my son is - well, our daughter and our son - is a sophomore in college. So they come home on selected weekends, they come home on vacations and they're home in the summer, although they have jobs.
~By Erika Slezak ~
I spent many a summer early morning with the radio very low, half sleeping and half listening.
~By Frankie Valli ~
People take pictures of the Summer, just in case someone thought they had missed it, and to proved that it really existed.
~By Ray Davies ~
When I grew up there wasn't air-conditioning or anything of that nature, and this old car had a wall thickness of about ten inches. So we had a little warmer house in the winter and a little cooler in the summer.
~By Merle Haggard ~
I propose to fight it out on this line if it takes all summer.
~By Ulysses S. Grant ~
I'd studied dance in Chicago every summer end taught it all winter, and I was well-rounded. I wasn't worried about getting a job on Broadway. In fact, I got one the first week.
~By Gene Kelly ~
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