I am sad, like the hot dust on the streets
And the music of fresh fallen leaves
Caught in a sliding summer breeze.
I have looked upon all the universe has to hold of horror,and even the skies of spring and flowers of summer must ever afterward be poison to me.
Yes, my parents are strict about me having a childhood. I go ice skating and sledding, and swimming in the summer.
I grew up spending summer Saturdays at the local farmers' market, where my mom was a vendor. It fueled my passion for regional foods.
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.
Ensuring a safe and successful summer season for beachgoers and area businesses is a top priority for the State of New Hampshire.
Everyone has a budget, I don't care who you are. But they said if we are in a pennant race in the middle of the summer they are going to get some help with added payroll.
In 'Summer and Smoke,' I was supposed to be a plain-Jane wallflower, and instead, I had all these costumes. I looked like a Barbie doll.
I thought I would draw or paint or be an architect. I was always drawing portraits. My mom put me in art classes in the summer.
The winter is forbidden till December, And exits March the second on the dot. By order summer lingers through September In Camelot.
I remember spending one summer being utterly obsessed with trying to get the legendary unreachable 'Ice Key' from 'Banjo-Kazooie.'
I know that Brighton is famously a mixture of the seedy and the elegant, but in the summer of 2001 seediness swamped elegance hands down.
I feel like, sometimes, plus-size women get scared to show skin... but summer is the time that we can enjoy doing that.
When summer squash is freshly picked, all it needs is a little olive oil, salt, pepper, and maybe a hit of lemon juice.
Wafted up, The stealing cloud with soft grey blinds the sky And in its vapory mantle onward steps The summer shower.
Dancing in Tijuana when I was 13 — that was my 'summer camp.' How else do you think I could keep up with Fred Astaire when I was 19?
Memory can glean, but can never renew. It brings us joys faint as is the perfume of the flowers, faded and dried, of the summer that is gone.
Do you know what kills me? The cropped hats. The beanies that are rolled up past your ears, in the summer as well! There's no function to it.
Summer at the Hollis household is all about us getting together and enjoying the pool, and Fourth of July is probably one of my favorite holidays to do just that.
It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade.
Every summer, around late July and into August, I find myself in Europe, performing at any festival that will have me.
Summer is the time for squabbles. In winter, we must protect one another, keep each other warm, share our strengths.
We have been playing every summer on clay since I was five years old, so it is an easy surface for us in Belgium.
The heroes of our youth grow old - 'the boys of summer in their ruin', in Dylan Thomas's verse - yet we seem the same.
It's been a dream of mine to run my own summer camp. I went to one as a kid, and I put on productions, and got lots of confidence.
When I left the state of Maine for college, I met my first really rich friends, and I discovered summer could be a verb.
Communications is the number one major in America today. CNN had 25,000 applicants for five intern jobs this summer.
Suddenly, I was in a category with Barbara Striesand, Olivia Newton John, Donna Summer, Carley Simon - it was kind of neat for me.
From Cape Cod to Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts is home to some of the country's most sought-after summer refuges.
I try to come out every day in the summer and work my hardest because I know consistency will lead to success.
I actually liked the disolation of winter; it was the season when it was okay to be unhappy. If I were to ever kill myself, I thought it would be in the summer.
Or maybe watching you enjoy a carefree summer while you fell in love was what kept me out of the hospital in the first place.
'End of Summer' expands the way I want to express myself as a composer. It's a piece of visual music that has this narrative and conceptual dimension to it.
I felt like on one hand the clarity of thought was amazing, but on the other we went during Antarctic summer, so the sun didn't set the whole time we were there.
Ere, in the northern gale,
The summer tresses of the trees are gone,
The woods of Autumn, all around our vale,
Have put their glory on.
Bakers of bread rolls and pastry cooks will not buy grain before eleven o'clock in winter and noon in summer.
Between the summer of 2015 and spring 2016, Austria became one of the European countries most affected by the migration and refugee crisis.
My life is like the summer rose
That opens to the morning sky,
But ere the shades of evening close
Is scattered on the ground - to die.
It is a flaw In happiness to see beyond our bourn, - It forces us in summer skies to mourn, It spoils the singing of the nightingale.
In the long dusks of summer we walked the suburban streets through scents of maple and cut grass, waiting for something to happen.
With fashion, you go deep into a shoot for one day, but a movie lasts so much longer. It's literally like going to summer camp.
Nike Air Zooms are what I usually run in. In the kitchen, I wear a beaten-up pair of Converse All-Stars in winter and Keds in summer.
I love big summer dresses, and it sucks because I'm such a little person, so I always have to be very specific about which ones I put on.
When I'm not working, I weight train three times a week and swim and surf as much as I can - in the summer, you usually find me in the water.
I broke my wrist at summer camp playing a game called 'volleybat,' which was baseball but with a volleyball. It is as dangerous as it sounds.
I was much entertained last summer with a tame bat, which would take flies out of a person's hand.
This is a dream that I have been dreaming to live! From watching 'Double Dare' to hosting it! I am ready for a summer of slime and nose-picking.
Sometimes a lengthened period of prosperity melts away in a moment; just as the heat of summer flies before a day of tempest.
The romantic notion of the clubhouse as a traveling fraternity of working-class heroes - the boys of summer - is perhaps the most potent in all of baseball.
One summer vacation, I carried water to the town market to sell it, and I used some of the money I made to help a neighbour.
The olive grove of Academe, Plato's retirement, where the Attic bird Trills her thick-warbled notes the summer long.
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.
That's AAU ball. That's what you do: 'I want to get out there first and score.' You see it in games during the summer. There are not a lot of great blockouts going on.
Digital Chocolate has 60% of its developers in Finland where the sun never sets in the summer and there is nothing to do outside in the winter, so we are very productive!
Big swings in the wholesale price of electricity are not unusual in the summer, when high demand taxes generators' ability to supply power.
I have heard it said that winter, too, will pass, that spring is a sign that summer is due at last. See, all we have to do is hang on.
As a kid, I spent every summer bent over a stack of books, obsessively writing detailed reports on each one.
Patsy Ferran in Tennessee Williams' 'Summer and Smoke'-I thought that was just one of the most phenomenal performances I've seen from a young woman.
Queen is my all-time favorite band in history. I was an obsessive growing up after I discovered them at 10 at summer camp.
And pomp, and feast, and revelry,
With mask, and antique pageantry,
Such sights as youthful poets dream
On summer eves by haunted stream.
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