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- Nov 07, 2020
Summer Quotes
The season that shapes memory more than any other.
These summer quotes trace a season of transitions and traditions — a formative break between school years, recurring visits that built friendships over time, and family trips to the islands filled with kayaking and beach days. Similar seasonal nostalgia shows up in Status lines about summer.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was 16 before I met another passionate collector. One summer, I visited England; a new friend took me calling on his dotty, brilliant old aunt. She occupied a quaint house in Kent. Its walls were lined with glass-fronted cases full of what? Ancient shoe buckles.
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the summer of 1966, I went to Mississippi to be in the heart of the civil-rights movement, helping people who had been thrown off the farms or taken off the welfare roles for registering to vote. While working there, I met the civil-rights lawyer I later married - we became an interracial couple.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have a love affair with tomatoes and corn. I remember them from my childhood. I only had them in the summer. They were extraordinary.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Tears are the summer showers to the soul.
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- Nov 07, 2020
My first summer in college, I interned for Arena Stage in D.C. and taught a disastrous class on standup comedy to middle schoolers at the Arena Stage camp. I had never taught anything before, and needless to say, I quickly lost control of the class.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Pleasure reading has long been an American ideal - generations of schoolchildren have headed home for the summer toting recreational reading lists. But try to pitch it to a group of non-readers, and they quickly become suspicious.
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I left the state of Maine for college, I met my first really rich friends, and I discovered summer could be a verb.
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the summer I wear shorts with a bright top and ankle boots or just sandals. I'll add a nice scarf, maybe a hat, some cool sunglasses. It's all about the accessories.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Big swings in the wholesale price of electricity are not unusual in the summer, when high demand taxes generators' ability to supply power.
- Nov 07, 2020
One swallow does not make a summer, but one skein of geese, cleaving the murk of March thaw, is the Spring.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I did years of summer stock. I sort of only wanted to be an actor. And then at 19, I was funny, and I had some of these bits that I did for friends, and I immediately could get on television.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.
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- Nov 07, 2020