1,629 Quotes About Summer

  • Author Sarah Caldwell
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    Tanglewood [summer home of the Boston Symphony Orchestra] was a place where gods strode the earth.

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  • Author Stephen Chbosky
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    was very fun to be around. She liked movies, and her brother Frank made her tapes of this great music that she shared with us. But over the summer she had her braces taken off, and she got a little taller and prettier and grew breasts. Now, she acts a lot dumber in the hallways, especially when boys are around. And I think it's sad because Susan doesn't look as happy.

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  • Author Steve Carell
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    We always spend the summer together. My wife and kids, we always go back to Massachusetts and spend the summer there near where my wife and I both grew up. I wasn't willing to sacrifice the summer to go elsewhere.

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  • Author Thomas Campion
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    Let now the chimneys blaze And cups o’erflow with wine... The summer hath his joys, And winter his delights; Though love and all his pleasures are but toys, They shorten tedious nights.

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  • Author Thomas Chatterton
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    O, Winter! Put away thy snowy pride; O, Spring! Neglect the cowslip and the bell; O, Summer! Throw thy pears and plums aside; O, Autumn! Bid the grape with poison swell.

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  • Author Truman Capote
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    All human life has its seasons and cycles, and no one's personal chaos can be permanent. Winter, after all, gives way to spring and summer, though sometimes when branches stay dark and the earth cracks with ice, one thinks they will never come, that spring, and that summer, but they do, and always.

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  • Author Wilkie Collins
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    Yes! the books - the generous friends who met me without suspicion - the merciful masters who never used me ill! The only years of my life that I can look back on with something like pride... Early and late, through the long winter nights and the quiet summer days, I drank at the fountain of knowledge, and never wearied of the draught.

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  • Author Willa Cather
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    The summer moon hung full in the sky. For the time being it was the great fact of the world.

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  • Author Willa Cather
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    Youth, art, love, dreams, true-heartedness - why must they go out of the summer world into darkness?

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