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Summer Quotes by Annie Dillard
- Write about winter in the summer. Describe Norway as Ibsen did, from a desk in Italy; describe Dublin as James Joyce did, from a desk…
- Write about winter in the summer.
- Every spring he vowed to quit teaching school, and every summer he missed his pupils and searched for them on the streets.
- So the Midwest nourishes us [...] and presents us with the spectacle of a land and a people completed and certain. And so we run…
More Summer Quotes
- For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does… — Aristotle
- Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside… — Diane Ackerman
- I didn't go to school for a full year until I was 12. In the summer I was a wild child in… — Margaret Atwood
- Tears are the summer showers to the soul. — Alfred Austin
- On some summer days in New York City, the air hangs thickly visible, like the combined exhalations of eight million souls. Steam… — Diane Ackerman
- Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it. — Russell Baker
- Tears of joy are like the summer rain drops pierced by sunbeams. — Hosea Ballou
- The Indian Summer of life should be a little sunny and a little sad, like the season, and infinite in wealth and… — Henry Adams
- You know, when you get your first asparagus, or your first acorn squash, or your first really good tomato of the season,… — Mario Batali
- The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world's joy. — Henry Ward Beecher
- I have a total irreverence for anything connected with society except that which makes the roads safer, the beer stronger, the food… — Brendan Behan
- Other men wear white suits in summer and it doesn't seem to bother them. But my white suit seems to be a… — Robert Benchley