Summer Quotes

My parents moved to Los Angeles when I was really young, but I spent every summer with my grandparents, and I'd stay with my grandfather on the farm in Longview. He was retired from the railroad, and he had a small farm with some cows and some pigs. I remember part of my youth was feeding hogs and plowing fields and stuff, so that's a part of me.

The sweltering summer of the Negro's legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality.

But after the time there I'd had it with fashion again, so I left to go to architecture school in a summer course at Harvard, which didn't last very long.

I did my first apprenticeship when I was 15, then joined the union when I was 17. I worked every summer in high school and college.

Well, look at all of these summer blockbusters. You can't help but laugh a little, because you've already seen a lot of these movies 482 times.

Summer has filled her veins with light and her heart is washed with noon.

When I was four, we moved to the house on the west side of Chicago where I grew up. My earliest memories are of that first summer.

On the way from Chicago, I spent the summer of 1947 in Ottawa, helping to build the first of a series of econometric models for the Canadian government.

Game by game is how I judge myself. At the end of the season, yeah, I do look back and think about how many games I've been available for, how many goals I've scored, how I've contributed. But that's what the summer's for. For now, you just look to the next one.

Summer ends, and Autumn comes, and he who would have it otherwise would have high tide always and a full moon every night.

I tried, after I wrote 'Twilight,' to read 'The Historian,' because it was the big thing that summer. But I can't read other people's vampires. If it's too close, I get upset; if it's too far away, I get upset. It just makes me very neurotic.

But a girl of seventeen is not always thinking of books, especially in the Oxford summer term.

'RoboCop' was maybe the best summer of my entire life.

There are so many scenarios here. We tried to prepare for the worst summer in 40 years and build assumptions based on that. We're preparing for the worst, but we're hoping for the best. And I've told people the end is in sight.

I can't believe that I get to stand on the stages I stand on every summer, and get to sing the songs that I sing.

Some people plant in the spring and leave in the summer. If you're signed up for a season, see it through. You don't have to stay forever, but at least stay until you see it through.

We go old-school during the summer, like swimming or setting up lemonade stands. I try to teach my kids to make their own fun.

Summer movies are spectacles; that's what you pay 10 dollars to see. You want to get teased by effects sometimes. I think that will never stop.

Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.

Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May; but at length the season of summer does come.

I drove 3,500 miles this summer on our family holiday, we drove across 10 countries. I have driven across the United States four times. I love cars, I love being in cars, I think so do most people. I want to help and support those people who have that same kind of enthusiasm for driving that I have.

Obviously I'm very disappointed. I trained very hard this summer and felt in a good shape to play the U.S. Open.

Nothing is as easy to make as a promise this winter to do something next summer; this is how commencement speakers are caught.

In the winter I separate, in the summer I marry. It's been 15 years since I've been getting married every year.

It started last year, during the summer. I went to the doctor and they found out it was kidney stones, so they had surgery done to help get those out and to pass them... More just kept coming in. So I had all together before the last show... I had like five surgeries.

Our whole family assembles in Chicago at Christmas and usually in Aspen in the summer.

The summer of 1830 I... blasted the tunnel through the rock to take water from the dam above the falls for the mill... In 1831 we lowered the tunnel four feet, and built a new dam across the creek.

I am attached to the west coast of Scotland - it's gorgeous to look at and challenging. You have to contend with the possibility of being blown away or rained on. And in the summer months you can be eaten alive by midges.

Acting school was summer camp, and I needed concentration camp. I had so many different ideas swirling between culture and how to tie things together.

Instead of isolating our school and our many subjects from the every day world, we intend to plant it not merely in the French capital, but in what for next summer at least will be the focal point, the capital of the entire civilized world.