Summer Quotes
2247 Summer quotes by 1522 unique authors
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A little kid asks my dad why that man is chopping down the tree. Dad: He's not chopping it down. He's saving it. Those branches…
— Laurie Halse Anderson
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The fundamental truth: a baseball game is nothing but a great slow contraption for getting you to pay attention to the cadence of a summer…
— Michael Chabon
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Not the sun or summer alone, but every hour and season yields its tribute of delight.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The good die first, and they whose hearts are dry as summer dust, burn to the socket.
— William Wordsworth
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To deny that there was this dark side of life would be like pretending that the cold of winter was somehow only a temporary illusion,…
— David Guterson
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Oxford, in those days, was still a city of aquatint. In her spacious and quiet streets men walked and spoke as they had done in…
— Evelyn Waugh
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And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that…
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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No mockery in this world ever sounds to me so hollow as that of being told to cultivate happiness. What does such advice mean? Happiness…
— Charlotte Bronte
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Those bitter sorrows of childhood!-- when sorrow is all new and strange, when hope has not yet got wings to fly beyond the days and…
— George Eliot
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One summer morning at sunrise a long time ago I met a little girl with a book under her arm. I asked her why she…
— Tove Jansson
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But especially he loved to run in the dim twilight of the summer midnights, listening to the subdued and sleepy murmurs of the forest, reading…
— Jack London
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Buffy Anne Summers 1981-2001 Beloved sister Devoted Friend She saved the world A lot
— Joss Whedon
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The early summer sky was the color of cat vomit.
— Scott Westerfeld
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And so, perhaps, the truth winds somewhere between the road to Glastonbury, Isle of the Priests, and the road to Avalon, lost forever in the…
— Marion Zimmer Bradley
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Summer coming like a car from down the highway.
— Sherman Alexie
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After the satyrs filed in to dinner, the Hermes cabin brought up the rear. They were always the biggest cabin. Last summer it had been…
— Rick Riordan
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Mythologically speaking, if there's anything I hate worse than trios of old ladies, it's bulls. Last summer, I fought the Minotaur on top of Half-Blood…
— Rick Riordan
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He'd changed since the last summer. Instead of Bermuda shorts and a T-shirt, he wore a button-down shirt, khaki pants, and leather loafers. His sandy…
— Rick Riordan
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Wine talks; ask anyone. The oracle at the street corner; the uninvited guest at the wedding feast; the holy fool. It ventriloquizes. It has a…
— Joanne Harris
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The child had indeed shut up but all the questions that had accumulated on his tongue circulated in his mouth, moved through the passages of…
— Elif Safak
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In time, the hurt began to fade and it was easier to just let it go. At least I thought it was. But in every…
— Nicholas Sparks
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Can't stay long, Mother," he said. "I'm up front, the prefects have got two compartments to themselves-" "Oh, are you a prefect, Percy?" said one…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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Regular women carry pictures of their babies, their husbands, their summer houses. Fat ladies carry pictures of themselves at their skinniest.
— Jennifer Weiner
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Quite possibly there's nothing as fine as a big freight train starting across country in early summer, Hardesty thought. That's when you learn that the…
— Mark Helprin
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The girl with the long brown hair turned around. "Are you her boy friend?" she asked. Summer glanced from Crystal to Nate and back. Then…
— Brandon Mull
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