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Summer Quotes by Henry Ward Beecher
- The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world's joy.
- At the bottom of every leaf-stem is a cradle, and in it is an infant germ; the winds will rock it, the birds will sing…
- A man who cannot get angry is like a stream that cannot overflow, that is always turbid. Sometimes indignation is as good as a thunderstorm…
- Memory can glean, but can never renew. It brings us joys faint as is the perfume of the flowers, faded and dried, of the summer…
- There is a temperate zone in the mind, between luxurious indolence and exacting work; and it is to this region, just between laziness and labor,…
- The aster has not wasted spring and summer because it has not blossomed. It has been all the time preparing for what is to follow,…
- I know it is more agreeable to walk upon carpets than to lie upon dungeon floors, I know it is pleasant to have all the…
- A world without a Sabbath would be like a man without a smile, like summer without flowers, and like a homestead without a garden. It…
- By Labor the North has subdued Nature, changed a parsimonious soil to fertility, built dwellings for almost her whole population, raised the school-house, established the…
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