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“This was one of those perfect New England days in late summer where the spirit of autumn takes a first stealing flight, like a spy, through the ripening country-side, and, with feigned sympathy for those who droop with August heat, puts her cool cloak of bracing air about leaf and flower and human shoulders.”

“Decade after decade, artists came to paint the light of Provincetown, and comparisons were made to the lagoons of Venice and the marshes of Holland, but then the summer ended and most of the painters left, and the long dingy undergarment of the gray New England winter, gray as the spirit of my mood, came down to visit.”

Source: Tough Guys Don't Dance: A Novel

“I was born and raised in Nigeria. We lived in England when I was 3 and 4, and I would go to summer school every year in Switzerland.”

Years School Born Summer England Raised Nigeria Switzerland Born And Raised Summer School

Author:Toks Olagundoye

“I love England from head to toe. I love the weather, the people. I was there in the summer and it was nice. The people are so groovy.”

People Nice Summer England Weather Toes Groovy

Author:Otis Redding

“Why doesn't the United States take over the monarchy and unite with England? England does have important assets. Naturally the longer you wait, the more they will dwindle. At least you could use it for a summer resort instead of Maine.”

Doe Important States Use Waiting United United States Summer England Assets Resorts Monarchy Maine

Author:W. H. Auden

“I went to England when I was 13-years=old and then I went again when I was 14. When I went for the second time I felt like the first summer I was there it was a waste because I didn't exist yet.”

Years Firsts Felt Waste Summer England

Author:Pirjo Honkasalo

“Both the Beatles and The Rolling Stones broke on the music scene the summer I was in England. I can vividly remember hearing She Loves You in August 1963.”

I Can Remember Love You Scene Summer Stones England Hearing Broke Rolling August Rolling Stones

Author:Gordon Lightfoot

“In searching for further training we turned to England and Bernard Leach. We thought since we had responded to his book so strongly that this would be the sort of training that we would like to have. We saved money, during the summer went to Europe, and the first stop was to go to England, visit the Leach Pottery and ask Leach if he would take us on as apprentices.”

Ifs Firsts Book Would Be Asks Summer Training Europe England Saved Apprentice Pottery

Author:Warren MacKenzie

“We [with Alix MacKenzie] had decided we needed further training, and certainly Leach was the one we turned to. So we went to England this summer and we took examples of our work along with us and showed them to Bernard Leach and told him what we were trying to do. And of course he took one look at our work and he said - very quickly he said, "I'm sorry, we're full up," and this was his way of politely saying, you just don't make the cut.”

Way Trying Looks Said Courses Cutting Example Needed Summer Training Decided England Sorry I'm Sorry

Author:Warren MacKenzie

“Spring has many American faces. There are cities where it will come and go in a day and counties where it hangs around and never quite gets there. Summer is drawn blinds in Louisiana, long winds in Wyoming, shade of elms and maples in New England.”

Long Faces Cities Wind Summer Spring England Shade June Comes And Goes County Louisiana New England Maple Wyoming

Author:Archibald MacLeish

“I came back out here from England and I was there for a while and it was beautiful and it is just great to see London going from Spring to Summer and Autumn.”

Beautiful Summer Spring England London Autumn

Author:Orlando Bloom

“A thin grey fog hung over the city, and the streets were very cold; for summer was in England.”

Cities Streets Cold Summer England Hung Grey Fog

Book:The Light That Failed

Source: The Light That Failed

“The way to ensure summer in England is to have it framed and glazed in a comfortable room.”

Way Rooms Comfortable Summer England August Framed

Author:Horace Walpole

“We pretend to be a middle class, democratic nation, but in reality we love our blue bloods. ... We love the prep school manners, the aristocratic calm, the Skull and Bones mystery, the dappled lawns stretching before New England summer homes. How else can be explained the Bush vs. Kerry match-up that confronts us this year?”

“To this day, I fondly recall the challenges of building a fire, pitching a tent, climbing a New England mountain, canoeing on a lake. Camp songs still resonate inside me. Competition exists at Keewaydin, of course, but nobody fails summer camp, a nice respite from winters of fortune and misfortune at school.”

“Our children were mostly brought up and educated in the Churchill suburb east of Pittsburgh. Each summer, we took them back to England for an extended period.”

Children Periods Summer England Our Children East Educated Suburbs Pittsburgh

Author:John Pople