S Quotes
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“Summer was always the worst season. Everyone always complained about winter, but winter was simple, you just didn't go outside. Summer always tried to sneak in where it was not wanted.”
Source: The Strangers
“Summer was here again. Summer, summer, summer. I loved and hated summers. Summers had a logic all their own and they always brought something out in me. Summer was supposed to be about freedom and youth and no school and possibilities and adventure and exploration. Summer was a book of hope. That's why I loved and hated summers. Because they made me want to believe.”
“Summer was made to give you a taste of what hell is like. Winter was made for landladies to charge high rents and keep cold radiators and make a fortune off of poor tenants.”
Source: The Early Simple Stories
“Summer was on the way; Jem and I awaited it with impatience. Summer was our best season: it was sleeping on the back screened porch in cots, or trying to sleep in the tree house; summer was everything good to eat; it was a thousand colors in a parched landscape; but most of all, summer was Dill.”
Source: To Kill a Mockingbird
“Summer was our best season - everything good to eat, a thousand colors in a parched landscape.”
Source: To Kill a Mockingbird
“Summer was our best season: it was sleeping on the back screened porch in cots, or trying to sleep in the treehouse; summer was everything good to eat; it was a thousand colors in a parched landscape; but most of all, summer was Dill.”
Source: To Kill a Mockingbird
“Summer was over in twenty minutes that day. Finished. At four o'clock in the afternoon the roses were quiet on their stems, full-blown, fulfilled; the water in the pool was warm; the leaves on the trees quiet, too, and green. The cat lay with his belly to the sun, steeped in heat.”
Source: Doublefields: Memories and Stories
“Summer weather, like being in love,is a philosopher's stone which turns our ordinary days to gold. But not the whole day ... For it is never the whole day, never all our life which is transformed in any happiness, but only the exquisite moments.”
Source: An English Year
“Summer, when apple blossoms bloom, roses rise, lilacs lie, dandelions are dandy, and daisies are doozies, a time when flies fly, bugs bug, bees be, swallows swallow, and ducks duck.”
Source: SUS: Short Unpredictable Stories
“Summer Wild…
a restless summer child, sunrise-sweet and sunset-wild,
kissed by light glimmer and running free in the wild air,
under the magic of fireflies and in the glow of bonfire flare,
feeling alive and chasing new horizons is why we're here,
so when the sunset unfolds into the night of our lives…
promise you'll meet me there.”
“Summer will end soon enough, and childhood as well.”
Source: George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons
“Summer would not last forever; he knew it and Ronia knew it. But now they began to live as if it would, and as far as possible they pushed away all painful thoughts of winter.”
Source: Ronia, the Robber's Daughter
“Summer summer summer! The soundless footsteps on the grass!”
Source: The Forsythe Saga
“Summer's lease hath all too short a date.”
“Summer's the same, autumn is even more extreme. Then winter is when you sort of condense all of your ideas. You process all these things and you try to look for new concepts. In that sense, your intuition is in hibernation. What you fill up is your imagination; you fill up your memories there.”
“Summer, after all, is a time when wonderful things can happen to quiet people.”
Source: Honey, Baby, Sweetheart
“summer, after all, is a time when wonderful things can happen to quiet people. for those few months, you’re not required to be who everyone thinks you are, and that cut-grass smell in the air and the chance to dive into the deep end of a pool give you a courage you don’t have the rest of the year. you can be grateful and easy, with no eyes on you, and no past. summer just opens the door and lets you out.”
“Summer, as my friend Coleridge waggishly writes, has set in with its usual severity.”
Source: The Life, Letters, and Writings of Charles Lamb
“Summer, summer, summertime time to sit back and unwind.”
“Summer, with its dog days, its vacations, its distractions, is over. We have had our holidays, our rest, our recreation. The fall season, with its new opportunities for effort, enterprise and achievement, is upon us. Let us rip off our coats and get down to business. We may have allowed pessimism to grip us during the summer months. We may even have allowed laziness to enter our bones. Now it is up to us to throw off both lassitude and pessimism. The time has come for action, for aggressiveness.”
“Summer-induced stupidity. That was the diagnosis.”
Source: Ocean of Secrets
“Summerhill children are allowed to go through their gangster period, and consequentially more furniture is destroyed.”
Source: Summerhill: A Radical Approach to Child Rearing
“Summers and winters are beautiful in their own ways; perspectives classify them as good and bad”
Source: Quantraz
“Summers are the best. And I figured summer was my best time for meeting someone, too, because in the summer people are looking for someone to snuggle up with for the winter. And because in the summer I could take off my shirt.”
Source: The Best Little Boy in the World Grows Up
“Summers end to soon just as childhood ends before we apprehend the effervescent of our youth.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“Summers, I dig fire breaks and set controlled burns. Winters, I stay with my parents and I work on their dude ranch."
"You're a firefighter half the time and a cowboy half the time?" I ask.
"You're half the Village people all by yourself."
"That'll look good on my resume, " he says.”
Source: Torch
“Summers in England are brutally hot. They are so scorching they are like winters in Florida.”
Source: Me and memes and memories
“Summers in Kallipolis
Winters in Thule
Autumns and Springs
In new lands with you -”
“Summers was simply a master explainer, able to deftly boil down the complexities of economic and financial, and to put them in terms the non-expert could understand. He was brilliant at cultivating a sense of control, even as events spun far beyond what could be managed with any certainty. He could will into being the confidence that eluded others, those less self-assured and, maybe sensibly, on humbler terms with the world.”
“Summers with Rene began with a cigarette in one side of her mouth and a squinting of her eyes as she thought . . . . Shortly, she would make her pronouncement and it would seem magical no matter how often the words were said. "It's a beach day," blessed the day. The rest was understood. No more needed to be said. I knew that she knew. She had the gift to read what would come from the skies as surely as my mother could see births and betrayals in the cards.”
Source: American Girl: Memories That Made Me
“Summerset wasn't even where he's supposed to be so I could insult him and start the ditching."
"I was home even earlier, and told him to go out with some of his friends."
"Corpses don't have friends, they have other corpses.”
Source: Brotherhood in Death
“Summerset, don't you ever sleep?" "It's Lieutenant Dallas. She's--" Roarke dropped his briefcase, grabbed Summerset by the lapels. "Has she been hurt? Where is she?" "A nightmare. She was screaming." Summerset lost his usual composure and dragged a hand over his hair. "She won't cooperate. I was about to call your doctor. I left her in her private suite." As Roarke pushed him aside, Summerset grabbed his arm. "Roarke, you should have told me what had been done to her." Roarke merely shook his head and kept going. "I'll take care of her.”
Source: J. D. Robb In Death Collection
“Summertime
And the livin' is easy,
Fish are jumpin', and the cotton is high.”
“Summertime! And summertime in my early twenties! And in love! No, better than that - secretly in love, coddling it up in myself. It's an odd feeling, coming rarely more than once in most of our lifetimes. In books, as often as not, they represent it as a sort of anguish but it wasn't so for me. Later perhaps, but not then.”
Source: A Month in the Country
“Summertime And the living is easy Fish are jumpin' And the cotton is high Oh, your daddy's rich And your mama's good lookin' So hush little baby now don't you cry One of these mornin's You're gonna rise up singin' Then you'll spread your wings And take to the sky But til that mornin' Ain't nothin' can harm you With your daddy And your mammy standin' by.”
“Summertime is a period for youthful explorations, a joyful time when we learn lessons without grand expectations or harsh consequences.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“Summertime is always the best of what might be.”
“Summertime. It was a song. It was a season. I wondered if that season would ever live inside of me.”
Source: Last Night I Sang to the Monster
“Summertime, oh, summertime, pattern of life indelible, the fade-proof lake, the woods unshatterable, the pasture with the sweetfern and the juniper forever and ever . . . the cottages with their innocent and tranquil design, their tiny docks with the flagpole and the American flag floating against the white clouds in the blue sky, the little paths over the roots of the trees leading from camp to camp. This was the American family at play, escaping the city heat.”
“Summertime, I think, is a collective unconscious. We all remember the notes that made up the song of the ice cream man; we all know what it feels like to brand our thighs on a playground slide that's heated up like a knife in a fire; we all have lain on our backs with our eyes closed and our hearts beating across the surface of our lids, hoping that this day will stretch just a little longer than the last one, when in fact it's all going in the other direction.”
“Summing it Up..."Where's a good place for dinner?" I asked. "There's the Brasserie Lipp on the Avenue St. Germaine," she said, "or La Coupole in Montmartre." "Not La Coupole," I said. "I've been there before. That's the place that's crowded and noisy and smells bad and everybody's rude as hell, isn't it?" "I think you just described France," she said.”
“Summit Brain is comparable to Long COVID.”
Source: Summit Brain
“Summit Brain’ was a term that Mauna Kea Observatory management teams would use to describe the forgetfulness and confusion that would develop in their workers when at very high altitudes.”
“Summit Lag occurs when a summit worker is kept in a permanent state of mal-acclimatization.”
Source: Toxic Altitude
“Summit meetings tend to be like panda matings. The expectations are always
high, and the results usually disappointing.”
“Summit of a mountain is not the upper end of that mountain because every mountain has a soul higher than his body!”
“Summit of the well is the bottom of the ground! Man who has climbed up from the very low thinks that he did climb up to the very top!”
“SUMMIT PLUMMET
Celeb's conquest of a mountain, then jumping off, too exhausted to descend
Kamil Ali”
Source: Profound Vers-A-Tales
“Summit working in professional astronomy is a strange world of hypoxia, altitude sickness, shift work disorder and toxic workplace exposures.”
“Summits [World Summit on the Information Society] are meant to help governments reach a global consensus on major issues which has proved elusive in established fora. They do so through the embarrassment associated with failing to sign a summit's final agreement.”