Friday, June 19, 2009

Summer Quotes...




Summer Quotes

"In summer, the song sings itself."
- William C. Williams
()

"Ah, summer - what power you have to make us suffer and like it."
- Russell Baker
()

"A perfect summer day is when the sun is shining, the breeze is blowing,
the birds are singing, and the lawn mower is broken."
- James Dent
()

"Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability."
- Sam Keen
()

"Dirty hands, iced tea, garden fragrances thick in the air and a blanket
of color before me, who could ask for more?"
- Bev Adams
()

"What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps me in a continual
state of inelegance."
- Jane Austen
()

"No bought potpourri is so pleasant as that made from ones own garden,
for the petals of the flowers one has gathered at home hold the sunshine
and memories of summer, and of past summers only the sunny days
should be remembered."
- Eleanor Sinclair-Rhode
()

"Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under the trees
on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of water, or watching
the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time."
- John Lubbock
()

"What a beautiful, sunny morning. It makes you happy to be alive,
doesn't it? We can't let the sun outshine us! We have to beam, too!"
- Takayuki Ikkaku
()

"Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always
been the two most beautiful words in the English language."
- Henry James
()

"Oh the summer night
Has a smile of light
And she sits on a sapphire throne."
- Barry Cornwall
()

"A single sunbeam is enough to drive away many shadows."
- St. Francis of Assisi
()

"Be like the flower, turn your face to the sun."
- Kahlil Gibran
()

"To believe in life is to believe there will always be someone who will
water the geraniums."
- Flavia


3 comments:

  1. These are nice...now all we need is a freakin' SUMMER to go with it!!! lol

    Love,
    Nancy
    http://nancyluvspix.blogspot.com/

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  2. These are the best quotes on summer indeed.

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