I played the British Open in 1937. It took a week to get there and a week to get home. I was the low American; finished fourth or fifth. And what it came down to was, I lost a good part of my summer, won $185, and spent $1,000 on boat fare alone.
If you can't stand the heat, don't go to Cancun in the summer.
You start seeing all of the athlete profiles on NBC, and whenever the Summer Olympics come up, I feel like I share the same experience with the Summer Olympians.
Oh, the summer night, Has a smile of light, And she sits on a sapphire throne.
Dandelion wine. The words were summer on the tongue. The wine was summer caught and stoppered. . . sealed away for opening on a January day with snow falling fast and the sun unseen for weeks.
I did get tired of hearing that criticism years ago. That is not a compliment. Being labeled a "beach read" is a put-down. So, I did deliberately set out to write a book, Camino Island, that would be very entertaining and compulsively readable and we published it on June 6 in time for summer vacation, hoping that people would buy it and take it to the beach.
Souldiers in peace are like chimneys in summer.
After graduating in the summer of 1980, I knew I wanted my life to count.
And as, when all the summer trees are seen So bright and green, The Holly leaes a sober hue display Less bright than they, But when the bare and wintry woods we see, What then so cheerful as the Holly-tree?
Summer is very precious.
Do you recall that night in June Upon the Danube River; We listened to the landler-tune, We watched the moonbeams quiver.
As I said, this was my sarcastic summer. It was only long after that I recognized sarcasm as the protest of people who are weak.
Midwest kids got to summer camp. There is something very special about being away from your parents for the first time, sleeping under the stars, hiking and canoeing.
In my early teen years, I wanted to become a vet. That was my plan. I worked as a veterinarian's assistant for a couple of summers.
Now the windows, blinded by the glare of the empty square, had fallen asleep. The balconies declared their emptiness to heaven; the open doorways smelt of coolness and wine.
Summer = yoga, snowcones, swimming & no makeup
What was it Catelyn Stark had called them, that night at Bitterbridge? The knights of summer. And now it was autumn and they were falling like leaves.
I have been to Turkey almost every summer holiday of my life and pretty much only on summer holidays, which makes me a very shallow Turk indeed.
In the other gardens And all up the vale, From the autumn bonfies See the smoke trail! Pleasant summer over And all the summer flowers, The red fire blazes, the grey smoke towers. Sing a song of seasons! Something bright in all, Flowers in the summer Fires in the fall!
What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.