Summer Quotes - page 5

I wanted to write in Kitchenese, the secret language of cooks, instantly recognizable to anyone who has ever dunked french fries for a summer job or suffered under the despotic rule of a tyrannical chef or boobish owner. (Anthony Bourdain)
Dancing in Tijuana when I was 13 - that was my "summer camp." How else do you think I could keep up with Fred Astaire when I was 19? View quote
Rita Hayworth
A soft Sea washed around the House A Sea of Summer Air And rose and fell the magic Planks That sailed without a care -- For Captain was the Butterfly For Helmsman was the Bee And an entire universe For the delighted crew. View quote
Emily Dickinson
Inebriate of Air am I And Debauchee of Dew Reeling through endless summer days From inns of Molten Blue. View quote
Emily Dickinson
To see the Summer Sky Is Poetry, though never in a Book it lie True Poems flee. View quote
Emily Dickinson
There is no price set on the lavish summer, And June may be had by the poorest comer. View quote
James Russell Lowell
Heed not the night; a summer lodge amid the wild is mine - 'Tis shadowed by the tulip-tree, 'tis mantled by the vine. View quote
William Cullen Bryant
The summer morn is bright and fresh, the birds are darting by, As if they loved to breast the breeze that sweeps the cool clear sky. View quote
William Cullen Bryant
Glorious are the woods in their latest gold and crimson, Yet our full-leaved willows are in the freshest green. Such a kindly autumn, so mercifully dealing With the growths of summer, I never yet have seen. View quote
William Cullen Bryant
The moon is at her full, and riding high, Floods the calm fields with light. The airs that hover in the summer sky Are all asleep tonight. View quote
William Cullen Bryant
Another longstanding foreign policy flaw is the degree to which special interests dictate the way in which the "national interest" as a whole is defined and pursued.... America's important historic relationship with Israel has often led foreign policy decision-makers to defer reflexively to Israeli security assessments, and to replicate Israeli tactics, which, as the war in Lebanon last summer demonstrated, can turn out to be counter-productive. (Samantha Power)
The good die first, And they whose hearts are dry as summer dust Burn to the socket. View quote
William Wordsworth
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 signs and sounds as a man may read a book, and seeking for the mysterious something that called -- called, waking or sleeping, at all times, for him to come. View quote
Jack London
From earliest childhood the boy was accustomed to feel that, for him, life was double. Winter and summer, town and country, law and liberty, were hostile, and the man who pretended they were not, was in his eyes a schoolmaster - that is, a man employed to tell lies to little boys. View quote
Henry Adams
But woman's grief is like a summer storm, Short as it violent is. View quote
Joanna Baillie
My Soul gave me good counsel, teaching me never to delight in praise or to be distressed by reproach. Before my Soul taught me, I doubted the value of my accomplishments until the passing days sent someone who would extol or disparage them. But now I know that trees blossom in the spring and give their fruits in the summer without any desire for accolades. And they scatter their leaves abroad in the fall and denude themselves in the winter without fear of reproof. View quote
Kahlil Gibran
After graduating in the summer of 1980, I knew I wanted my life to count. View quote
Donna Rice
My sister, who never understood most of the things I wanted her to, might have been able to understand what had happened to me in this summer of weddings and beginnings. And she was right. The first boy was always the hardest. page 40000. View quote
Sarah Dessen
So quiet and subtle is the beauty of December that escapes the notice of many people their whole lives through.. Colour gives way to form. every branch distinct, in a delicate tracery against the sky.. new vistas obscured all Summer by leafage, now open up. View quote
Flora Thompson
Every man makes his own summer. The season has no character of its own, unless one is a farmer with a professional concern for the weather. View quote
Robertson Davies
The presently existing global financial and monetary system will disintegrate during the near term. The collapse might occur this spring, or summer, or next autumn; it could come next year; it will almost certainly occur during President William Clinton's first term in office; it will occur soon. That collapse into disintegration is inevitable, because it could not be stopped now by anything but the politically improbable decision by leading governments to put the relevant financial and monetary institutions into bankruptcy reorganization. (Lyndon LaRouche)
Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it. View quote
Russell Baker
If you wish women to love you be original; I know a man who used to wear felt boots summer and winter & women fell in love with him. View quote
Anton Chekhov
Country acquaintances are charming only in the country and only in the summer. In the city in winter they lose half of their appeal. View quote
Anton Chekhov
It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade. View quote
Charles Dickens