1,629 Quotes About Summer

Kaip čionykščiai sako: dvylika mėnesių - žiema, o visa kita - vasara.

He'd been to Ghana once, when he was little, and all he remembered about that trip was heat and a man with no teeth his grandmother had haggled with at an open-air market. Africa didn't feel familiar to him, with too many differences--and it would be too far away from Dad. Too far away from his whole world.

Diana, meanwhile, reads every novel she can find that's set on the Cape, and describes for her father the pristine, golden beaches, sand dunes with cranberry bogs and poets' shacks hidden in their declivities. She conjures the taste of briny oysters and butter-drenched lobsters, fried clams eaten with salt water-pruned fingers, ice-cream cones devoured after a day in the sun.

Love needs new leaves every summer of life, as much as your elm-tree, and new branches to grow broader and wider, and new flowers to cover the ground.

On summer nights when the windows are open, you can listen in on people's lives—babies crying, kids laughing, radios blaring, mothers yelling, couples fighting. Funny thing is, the sounds are always the same. Even though different people come and go, the sounds stay the same. I like that. It makes me feel a part of something big, something never ending, like the stars.

When nighttime came, the rocking chairs creaked. Waves lulled the girl and her cottage to sleep.

Summer nights in the country are a hurly-burly of sounds.

Summer was our best season - everything good to eat, a thousand colors in a parched landscape.

It's just that I'd rather get to know you before I get to know your lips.