We were at a beach one summer, and I had a bathing suit on. My wife looked at me and said: 'Boy,… — Lou Holtz Copy Share Image
“Nothing comes as an accomplishment instantly. Success does not come overnight. Patience is the key! Grow up and be the tree; but… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
“In that latitude the temperature flirted with a hundred degrees for a few of the dog days, but to a child it… — John Updike Copy Share Image
Tell me about yourself." "Myself?" He looks confused. "Yes," I say, patting the mattress. "You know all there is to know," he… — Lauren DeStefano Copy Share Image
“It started to rain. Fat, heavy drops of summer rain - the kind that always struck her as vaguely lewd and debauched.… — Tessa Dare Copy Share Image
A kestrel can and does hover in the dead calm of summer days, when there is not the faintest breath of wind.… — Richard Jefferies Copy Share Image
Some say that we shall never know, and that to the gods we are like the flies that the boys kill on… — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
I remember one summer I played, like, with the granddaughter of this known Klan member. Like, all summer we caught cicadas. And… — Dee Rees Copy Share Image
“All those other summers and those other kisses and everything else we shared, my dad choosing some random lake in some random… — Nyrae Dawn Copy Share Image
I surfed from Baja California to San Francisco when there were only nine or 10 surfers on the entire Pacific Coast. I… — Jackie Coogan Copy Share Image
a cloud-congested caul that is alternately red, orange, vermilion, purple. Sometimes the clouds break apart in great, slow rafts, letting through beams… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I think the Winter Olympics are definitely on a smaller scale than the summer games, but with the inclusion of cool new… — Nick Goepper Copy Share Image
I found this really fantastic used record store in Japan, and I bought all these different records and different 45s, and one… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
The animal merely makes a bed, which he warms with his body in a sheltered place; but man, having discovered fire, boxes… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
What most people find festive-a weekend at a beach shack with friends, a boat trip down a river, a crackling bonfire on… — Jancee Dunn Copy Share Image
Overhead hung a summer sky furrowed with the rush of rockets; and from the east a late moon, pushing up beyond the… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
I'm sure many people who discover they are destined to be athletes before they know what kind, go through a period of… — Evonne Goolagong Cawley Copy Share Image
These are cynical times. Some of the romcoms I thought worked best in recent years were '500 Days of Summer,' 'Celeste and… — Ol Parker Copy Share Image
“On Saturday afternoons I used to go for a walk with my mother. From the dusk of the hallway, we stepped at… — Bruno Schulz Copy Share Image
Usually, when you win the championship, you party all summer and don't work out. But when I won, I mean, I had… — Paul Pierce Copy Share Image
I have a life, I have a wife. I have an adult son who I'm very close to, and friends. I go… — Don Winslow Copy Share Image
“LAST summer I happened to be crossing the plains of Iowa in a season of intense heat, and it was my good… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
I wear scarves all the time. Even in the summer, I wear scarves - even a thin one. My old vocal teacher… — Ravyn Lenae Copy Share Image
Yet nor the lays of birds nor the sweet smell Of different flowers in odour and in hue Could make me any… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Normally a summer league is a dry run for training camp, gives the guys an idea what training camp looks like, and… — Tom Thibodeau Copy Share Image
AND what is so rare as a day in June? Then, if ever, come perfect days; Then Heaven tries earth if it… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
Halloween is an ancient druidic holiday, one the Celtic peoples have celebrated for millennia. It is the crack between the last golden… — Jenny Colgan Copy Share Image
“With my arms wrapped around Rosebud, I dreamed of heather-topped hills and sleepy valleys and a pretty woodland stream where dragonflies danced… — Hazel Gaynor Copy Share Image
A third of summer sea ice in the Arctic is gone, the oceans are 30 percent more acidic, and since warm air… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
“I need to explain all this to Adam in private. I can't get McGillicuddy to explain it to him. Something will be… — Jennifer Echols Copy Share Image
Memorial Day, the reason for it, fewer and fewer people know. It's just the first real weekend of summer, three-day weekend and… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
And when you come back to Japan next summer, let's have that date or whatever you want to call it. We can… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
On a very personal level, I have fond memories of spending a lot of time in the Library of Congress working on… — Natasha Trethewey Copy Share Image
I'm happy when things are just kind of calm. I love going to the ocean. I love driving. I love going to… — Lana Del Rey Copy Share Image
“Forget Mount Shasta, my hometown, where the Rainbow Gatherers converge June through August to bask naked in the sun, live communally, and… — Emiko Jean Copy Share Image
There was a summer during which the whole South Shore of Oahu, you could see the bleached coral almost across all of… — Brian Schatz Copy Share Image
Each summer, for example, nitrogen and phosphate washing from farmlands in the Mississippi Valley enter the Gulf of Mexico, creating a massive… — Lester R. Brown Copy Share Image
“Dear Mrs. Winslow, How well I remember the summer of your honeymoon. It was a wonderful summer, so refreshingly pleasant in the… — V.C. Andrews Copy Share Image
In Moscow, dim and green under the summer rain, columns of armour were waiting in the side-roads off the long avenue from… — Neal Ascherson Copy Share Image
Growing up, it was about finding a way to entertain myself outdoors. We spent all the summers on the beach, camping with… — Stephen Colletti Copy Share Image
