Summer Quote by Kevin Barry Download Open image ““It was one of those summers you're nostalgic for before it even passes”” — Kevin Barry ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Summer
“Was a time... Sure. And there was another fucking time the summers never seemed to end and you'd never paid for it in your… — Richard K. Morgan Copy Share Image
“It was one of those summers you’re nostalgic for even before it passes. Pale, bled skies. Thunderstorms in the night. Sour-smelling dawns. It brought… — Kevin Barry Copy Share Image
“How little did I know, that it would not only be the most memorable summer I've ever had, but it would be the summer… — Paige P. Horne Copy Share Image
“It occurred to me that I was going to have to make the most of this summer, really make it count, in case there… — Jenny Han Copy Share Image
“Summer was over, and we were no longer young, but there were great things before us.” — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
“Looking back after twenty years, I sometimes wonder if the events of that summer didn’t happen in some other dimension, a place where your… — Tim O'Brien Copy Share Image
“I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“One forgets all through the year how lovely spring really is and so it comes as a surprise every time.” — L.M. Montgomery Copy Share Image
“I find myself becoming increasingly nostalgic for the past, but after all I suppose that is the only thing one can be nostalgic about.” — James Rozoff Copy Share Image
Frazzled and delirious, as I've just finished a new book of stories. I feel like Moses staggering down the mountainside with the tablets of… — Kevin Barry Copy Share Image
Libraries are where we learn that we can live our lives through books. — Kevin Barry Copy Share Image
I think the language as spoken in Limerick and Cork has not really been written; 'City of Bohane' is a combination of the two.… — Kevin Barry Copy Share Image
It is nothing, to give one’s life for Ireland. I’m not the first and maybe I won’t be the last. What’s my life compared… — Kevin Barry Copy Share Image
I go into my workroom seven mornings a week. There will only be one or two mornings a week where it seems to be… — Kevin Barry Copy Share Image
I was a cub reporter on a local newspaper in Limerick city, and I used to cover the district court meetings. All of life… — Kevin Barry Copy Share Image
The fundamental human truth underpinning 'Ox Mountain Death Song' is that men so very often turn into their fathers. The way that everything gets… — Kevin Barry Copy Share Image
I think journalism is useful training for a writer in the way it takes the preciousness out of the pragmatic side of the craft. — Kevin Barry Copy Share Image
“And the view was suddenly clear to me. The world opened out to its grim beyonds and I realized that, at forty, one must learn the rigors of acceptance. Capitalize it: Acceptance. I needed to accept what was put before me--be it a watery grave in Ireland's only natural fjord, or a return to the city and its grayer intensities,… — Kevin Barry Copy Share
The short story is a very natural mode of storytelling; most stories can be told quickly. I always think of them as like a… — Kevin Barry Copy Share Image
I don't quite operate within the realist mode. I kind of push the stories out towards the cusp of believability - that's the area… — Kevin Barry Copy Share Image
“When the water covers the earth the sun will vanish the darkess and the cold will come.When the last dragon and the last Elf… — Silvana de Mari Copy Share Image
Ye youths and virgins, when your generous blood Has drunk the warmth of fifteen summers, now The loves invite; now to new rapture wakes… — John Armstrong Copy Share Image
Outside Buckingham Palace, the Royal Standard flies only when the reigning monarch is in residence. Sadly, there's no similar flag outside The Woods Jupiter,… — Steve Rushin Copy Share Image
ME AND SUMMER GUNNA BE MOVING IN TOGETHER HELL YA ITS GUNNA BE BOSS!!!!! — Jon Hawes Copy Share Image
“It was a queer, sultry summer, the summer they electrocuted the Rosenbergs, and I didn't know what I was doing in New York.” — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
"Summer Sisters" is probably my least autobiographical book. The whole idea started with rowing down the pond. And I heard an explosion. I don't… — Judy Blume Copy Share Image
The sun, a red wheel, was sinking slowly in the west. Besides being spectacularly beautiful, the early-summer sunset was exceedingly soft and gentle: black mulberry leaves turned as red as roses; pristine white acacia petals shed an enshrouding pale-green aura. Mild evening breezes made both the mulberry leaves and the acacia petals dance and whirl, filling the woods with a… — Mo Yan Copy Share
In summer, my Sundays are often taken up with cricket. I play with a bunch of other over-competitive and overenthusiastic guys who I have… — Ben Elliot Copy Share Image
Many public-school children seem to know only two dates—1492 and 4th of July; and as a rule they don't know what happened on either… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
All labours draw hame at even, And can to others say, "Thanks to the gracious God of heaven, Whilk sent this summer day." — Alexander Hume Copy Share Image
