Top 1200 Summer Reading Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

Summer will end soon enough, and childhood as well.

My summer uniform is a dress. I also have a closet full of hats.

I equate peonies with love because they're the first blooms of summer.

That was a great time, the summer of '71 - I can't remember it, but I'll never forget it!

Everybody should have the right to wear flip-flops in summer.

My actual first summer internship was in the design department of Clinique.

It's hard not to fall in love with Seattle on a beautiful summer's day.

T is the summer prime, when the noiseless air in perfumed chalice lies.

I think that good writing is based on good reading. Maybe it's not about writing today, maybe it's about reading today. Maybe it's about finding the sort of book you would never read.

For most people, what is so painful about reading is that you read something and you don't have anybody to share it with. In part what the book club opens up is that people can read a book and then have someone else to talk about it with. Then they see that a book can lead to the pleasure of conversation, that the solitary act of reading can actually be a part of the path to communion and community.

One should learn from a book. Books have a lot to teach us. They have a lot of empathy to impart to us, but they should also be fun. This stuff is fun! You shouldn't pick up a book and say, "Oh my god, I'm gonna better myself by reading this." You may better yourself by reading this, but who cares? Just have fun.

That familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.

For anyone who is: just keep writing. Keep reading. If you are meant to be a writer, a storyteller, it'll work itself out. You just keep feeding it your energy, and giving it that crucial chance to work itself out. By reading and writing.

I would go on summer vacations visiting family all over the world.

Summer, after all, is a time when wonderful things can happen to quiet people.

I met her last summer on a moonlight boat trip.

Heaven, Kiwi thought, would be the reading room of a great library. But it would be private. Cozy. You wouldn't have to worry about some squeaky-shoed librarian turning the lights off on you or gauging your literacy by reading the names on your book spines, and there wouldn't be a single other patron. The whole place would hum with a library's peace, filtering softly over you like white bars of light.

I know not a better rule of reading the Scripture, than to read it through from beginning to end and when we have finished it once, to begin it again. We shall meet with many passages which we can make little improvement of, but not so many in the second reading as in the first, and fewer in the third than in the second: provided we pray to him who has the keys to open our understandings, and to anoint our eyes with His spiritual ointment.

Rugby may have many problems, but the gravest is undoubtedly that of the persistence of summer.

Summer has always been my favorite season. I feel happier.

Summer and the laugh of my daughter make me believe in god.

Summer movies are all about things blowing up and you going, 'Yeah!'

Hope smiled when your nativity was cast, Children of Summer!

He never gave up his search for the Door into Summer.

In the summer of '84, you just couldn't escape the Born in the USA record.

A man says a lot of things in summer he doesn't mean in winter.

Summer in the trees! “It is time to strangle several bad poets.

I literally do not understand how New Yorkers deal with summer.

I don't wear much make-up but when I do, I love pink for the summer.

I wrote the first draft of 'Plan B' the summer after I turned 21.

We played on a sandlot all summer. There was no little league back then.

'Red Hook Summer' is another chapter in my chronicles of Brooklyn.

We tried some experiments in mind reading which were not very successful. Think mind reading contrary to common sense, wise provision of the Bon Dieu that we cannot read each others minds, twould stop civilization and everybody would take to the woods. In fifty or hundred thousand centuries when mankind have become perfect by evolution then perhaps this sense could be developed with safety to the state.

Summer night-- even the stars are whispering to each other.

Winter is 100% my favourite time of year. I'm not a summer baby.

A lot of women in the summer nowadays are just a bunch of stuffed shorts.

As a child, I was lucky enough to spend each summer with my grandmother.

We have an obligation to read aloud to our children. To read them things they enjoy. To read to them stories we are already tired of. To do the voices, to make it interesting, and not to stop reading to them just because they learn to read to themselves. Use reading-aloud time as bonding time, as time when no phones are being checked, when the distractions of the world are put aside.

'Friday I'm in Love' sounds like the best possible summer song.

When I was on the set, I was not talking on the phone or reading anything else. I was just reading things, listening to music and watching things that had to do with the state of the scene. So it would be a constant, maintaining for the whole day that state. If I had an hour off for lunch, I would put on a movie or something that would help me stay in that area. And at the end of the day, I was like a zombie.

That's what I tell all the kids who come to my summer camps: 'You'll get a shot; it's about what you do with it.'

Humidity notwithstanding, summer seems to bring out the best of Cincinnati.

My father-in-law lives in Montana, and we would come here every summer.

Beneath the winter's snow lie germs of summer flowers.

August, the summer's last messenger of misery, is a hollow actor.

We shot 'Super Troopers' on the side of the road in the summer in Poughkeepsie.

Summer had come to sit on New York's face.

The other book that I worry no one reads anymore is James Joyce's Ulysses. It's not easy, but every page is wonderful and repays the effort. I started reading it in high school, but I wasn't really able to grasp it. Then I read it in college. I once spent six weeks in a graduate seminar reading it. It takes that long. That's the problem. No one reads that way anymore. People may spend a week with a book, but not six.

I shoot too many shots in the summer to worry about my shooting.

The news of my pregnancy spread like a forest fire in summer

The summer of 1943 at Exeter was as happy a time as I ever had in my life.

Comics have always helped people to read. A lot of people learned to read by reading the comics. And it's our livelihood, after all. If people don't know how to read, they're not reading our comics.

A breeze, a forgotten summer, a smile, all can fit into a storefront window.

The first time I did stand-up was the summer I was 17.

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

Rejoice as summer should...chase away sorrows by living.

At 4, I joined a summer rec team called the Sugar Bears.

I have a house in the Connecticut countryside where you'll always find me, summer or winter.

Spiders are always big in the autumn: they've had all summer to grow.

My American home is L.A., which is the ultimate city for 365 days of summer.